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Austin American Statement | March 14, 2011 | Kirk Ladendorf Texas Instruments Inc. said Monday that one of its three semiconductor manufacturing operations in Japan suffered “substantial damage” from last week’s massive earthquake and that it will affect the company’s …

Research firm Integrasco has released a particularly interesting report summing up Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, based on social media buzz surrounding various announcements and devices. The firm monitored social media sites and mined them for data regarding key announcements …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.Things tend to be big at the Consumer Electronics Show, the …

Most people probably haven’t heard of the firm Imagination Technologies, but with the firm supplying the IP for around 80% of the world’s mobile graphics, you might want to sit up and pay attention.Imagination Technologies has long been the darling …

The Open Mobile Video Coalition created the OMVC Mobile DTV Forum and welcomed its first non-broadcast members. Dell, Harris, LG Electronics and Samsung Mobile are the charter members of the forum.Nuance Communications said its voice technology that powers the Ford …

Austin, Texas, is home to an eclectic assortment of musicians, an unofficial city slogan that challenges people to “Keep Austin Weird,” a local celebrity transvestite and one of the premier wireless research institutes in the world. This mix of laid …

Social games developer Zynga Inc. acquired Texas-based mobile game developer Newtoy Inc. Newtoy is best known for its ‘Games With Friends’ series of games, which includes Words With Friends, Chess With Friends and We Rule. Terms of the deal were …

ZTE Corp. signed framework agreements to purchase semiconductor components from five U.S. technology vendors. The deals are valued at $3 billion. The three-year purchase agreements are with Qualcomm Inc., Texas Instruments Inc., Freescale Semiconductor, Altera Corp. and Broadcom Corp.Bharti Airtel …

Intel Capital made a strategic investment in OpenFeint, a mobile social gaming network. The investment will be used to expand the company’s commitment to multi-platform mobile gaming for smartphones and tablets, said the network’s creator, Aurora Feint. The company expanded …

Mobile entertainment company PlayPhone Inc. launched its PlayPhone Social mobile social gaming platform. The company said the platform represents a strategic shift from the company’s mobile entertainment content offerings. The platform is a multiplayer, cross-platform product for mobile social gaming …

Texas Instruments Inc. said Brian Crutcher, worldwide manager of Embedded Processing and Custom businesses, has been elected a senior vice president. Crutcher will lead strategy, product development and delivery of the company’s portfolio of Embedded Processing and Custom products. He …

Qualcomm Inc. launched its second-annual international venture investment competition, which aims to identify and fund promising early-stage technology companies. The Qualcomm Ventures QPrize competition is open to entrepreneurs in North America, Europe, China, South Korea, Israel and India. A total …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. John Chen loves his iPhone. Like many of his colleagues …

Fibertech Networks entered a definitive agreement to be acquired by Court Square Capital Partners. Terms of the agreement call for Court Square to acquire the company from its original investors –Nautic Partners and Ridgemont Equity Partners. The transaction is expected …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. You have to hand it to firms like Intel Corp. …

Just months after Qualcomm Inc.’s (QCOM) Snapdragon processor began shipping in smart phones with a clocked speed of 1 GHz, the company is making plans to ship a new CPU core running at 1.5GHz in a matter of months.According to …

Editor’s Note: Following is a list of 10 top paid CEOs in the wireless industry in the United States. Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T Corp., is the top paid executive in the telecom space among U.S.-based public companies. Stephenson is …

Tyco Electronics (TEL) reached a deal to purchase ADC Telecommunications (ADCT) for $1.24 billion. Tyco will pay $12.75 per share for ADC. The deal boosts Tyco’s presence in the network-equipped products market.Synchronoss Technologies (SNCR), which provides on-demand transaction management software …

eAgency Mobile Solutions announced the availability of Application and Browser blocking, which is a new feature of its My Mobile Watchdog child safety device. The blocking service is a free and automatic enhancement for new and existing customers and allows …

Driven by an insatiable consumer demand for anything “i” related, and apparently overlooking some slight design flaws, Apple Inc. (AAPL) said it managed to sell more than 1.7 million iPhone 4 devices through its first three days of availability, becoming …