Apr 21, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
Thanks to the iPhone, Apple saw more than $3 billion in profit for the second quarter of 2010. But with iPad sales expected to reach 7.1 million for the year, expect those profits to increase....
Apr 13, 2010,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
Optimized for social networking, texting, and other popular data applications, Microsoft’s Kin 1 and Kin 2 target the youth market...
Mar 26, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
Alvarion’s BreezeMAX Extreme 5000 wireless broadband solution won the Security Industry Association’s Best in Public Safety Solutions Award at the 2010 New Product Showcase at ISC West in Las Vegas...
Mar 24, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
According to the CTIA, the wireless industry continues to enjoy growth while having a positive economic impact on the U.S. Wireless data service revenues increased 25.7% from the second half of 2008 to reach more than $22 billion for the second half of 2009...
Mar 22, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
ArrayComm and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. will collaborate to supply advanced remote radio head technology to the WiMAX market. Sumitomo Electric’s multi-antenna system integrates seamlessly with ArrayComm’s A-MAS multiple-antenna baseband processing software...
Mar 8, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
The worldwide market for touchscreen mobile devices will top 362.7 million units in 2010, which is a 96.8% increase over 2009’s total of 184.3 million units, according to Gartner Inc....
Mar 5, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
Trimble’s versatile and rugged Yuma tablet computer runs Microsoft Windows 7 Professional to bring full office capabilities to the field....
Feb 19, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
Shipments of consumer devices that can be powered or charged wirelessly will grow from 1.5 million in 2009 to almost 1 billion in 2019, as activity in the wireless power industry has increased significantly over the last two years and the market is poised for explosive growth. ...
Feb 12, 2010,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
Telab BV subjected the Heliax 2.0 FXL aluminum cable from Andrew Solutions to environmental testing, proving its durability in extreme temperatures. The cable also demonstrated superior crush resistance while surpassing or meeting Telab’s electrical performance specifications....
Feb 10, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
According to a study by Coda Research Consultancy, Wi-Fi enabled mobile handset penetration will grow at a 25% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2015, reaching 149 million units....
Feb 1, 2010,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
Cypress Semiconductor has demonstrated a tablet-sized capacitive touchscreen technology with unlimited finger-tracking capability. Based on the company’s TrueTouch solution for smaller portable electronics, the technology will power touchscreens...
Jan 29, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
E Ink Corp. and Texas Instruments will collaborate to combine E Ink’s Vizplex EPDs with TI technologies. As a result, the companies say, e-book manufacturers will have access to the world’s first PMIC for E Ink EPDs....
Jan 27, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
With all the functionality of notebooks and netbooks plus the latest crop of e-readers, Apple announced its long awaited iPad at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco today. Standard connectivity is via Wi-Fi, with 3G an option....
Jan 20, 2010
3 Scandinavia’s network speeds will quadruple from 21 Mbits/s to 84 Mbits/s, making it the world’s fastest 3G network, the company says. Ericsson will complement the upgrade by supplying and supporting a 900-MHz 3G network, the first in Sweden, to improve coverage....
Jan 19, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
Samsung Electronics has announced two high-density memory solutions for mobile devices. The company says that the new storage solutions, a 64-Gbyte moviNAND memory device and a 32-Gbyte micro secure digital (microSD) memory card, satisfy mobile handset designers’ requirements for advanced company high-density memory....