Oct 9, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
TI and VirtualLogix Inc. have collaborated to create the first control- and management-plane solution for the DSPs...
Oct 1, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
The complete and robust reference designs from picoChip deliver true IO/MIMO with uplink collaborative spatial multiplexing (CSM), a critical feature of mobile WiMAX...
Sep 26, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
The first Android-powered mobile phone, the T-Mobile G1 manufactured by HTC Corp., will use a chipset from Qualcomm Inc., a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA)....
Sep 25, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
Shipments of ultra-mobile devices (UMDs), like notebooks and mobile Internet devices (MIDs), will exceed 200 million in 2013, according to ABI Research...
Sep 25, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
Motorola’s USBw 100 WiMAX USB adapter comes in three versions to connect to WiMAX networks in each of the three bands approved for use around the world—2.3, 2.5, and 3.5 GHz...
Sep 25, 2008
Samsung Techwin and Alereon Inc. have teamed up to take those knotty wires out of digital camera connectivity...
Sep 24, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
A new family of analog- and digital-output microphones from Analog Devices Inc. employs microelectromechanical-systems (MEMS) technology to deliver a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 61 dB A-weighted....
Sep 23, 2008
Mobile Dev & Design makes a video visit Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc., at CTIA to talk with Cheryl Goodman Schwarzman, senior marketing manager. Schwarzman shows the latest designs using Qualcomm's mirasol displays, which are based on a reflective technology called interferometric modulation (IMOD), harnessing ambient light and requiring no backlighting, thereby consuming significantly less power—just one milliwatt, according to Goodman....
Sep 22, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
Hoping to save up to 2.5 billion liters of diesel fuel a year and cut annual carbon emissions by up to 6.3 million metric tonnes, the GSM Association (GSMA) has launched the Green Power for Mobile program...
Sep 22, 2008
The HMC5843 three-axis compass IC from Honeywell adds expanded direction awareness in consumer electronics by providing compass pointing and location features to be overlaid on GPS-enabled maps...
Sep 18, 2008
Sep 17, 2008
Lou Frenzel, Editor of the new Mobile Dev & Design, gives his report from CTIA show in San Francisco...
Sep 15, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
ABI Research projects that touch screen technology for mobile phones, MIDs, UMPCs, PNDs, and other handheld devices will pull in $5 billion globally in 2009. This figure comes after a 91% increase in shipments in 2007 of mobile devices with touch screen functionality....
Sep 15, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
According to ABI Research, the mobile Internet devices (MIDs) market encompassing “always-on” Web browsing, photography and video, navigation, games, social networking, and voice communications, is forecast to grow 167% over the next five years....
Sep 15, 2008
Mobile positioning performance that exceeds standard Assisted-GPS in unsynchronized GSM and W-CDMA networks...