Mar 30, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
With the current economic downturn, companies are taking a harder look at their telecom structures and costs with an eye at what benefits the next generation of technology might bring. Information Gatekeepers Inc. (IGI) is starting a series of reports examining “telecom business transformation” with “Is Google Going to Capture Telephony?”...
Mar 27, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
Openmoko Inc. will present its FreeRunner mobile phone platform during a session at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, scheduled for Tuesday, March 31 at 1:30 p.m. at the ESC Theater on the show floor. The company also will give FreeRunner mobile phones to five lucky session attendees....
Mar 18, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
4M Wireless is licensing its PS100 Long-Term Evolution (LTE) protocol stack software to an unnamed fabless semiconductor developing a 4G multimode baseband chip for LTE handsets and devices. The 4M Wireless LTE protocol stack is compatible with legacy 2G/3G protocol stacks as well as WiMAX stacks....
Mar 16, 2009
Symbian’s share of the global OS market decreased to 47.1% in the fourth quarter of 2008. Pressure from new platforms entering the consumer space, the continued decline of Nokia’s smart-phone sales, and the weakness of the Japanese mobile device market have negatively affected Symbian’s share. ...
Mar 11, 2009
Version 2.1 of the Red Five Labs Net60 .NET framework for Symbian is now available for download. According to the company, its WinForms user interface is much more stable than previous versions of the framework, with controls that look and feel more polished and faster....
Mar 4, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
While the telecom industry isn’t immune to the effects of the worldwide economic downturn, it will weather the storm better than other electronics sectors. In fact, iSuppli Corp. expects global unit growth for smart phones to reach 192.3 million units in 2009, up 11.1% over 2008’s 173.6 million total....
Feb 20, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
MySpace has launched a new, more integrated and optimized mobile Web site that extends the company’s global site redesign to its popular mobile destination...
Feb 18, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
A joint end-to-end solution aimed at femtocell, WiMAX, and LTE applications is designed to help users streamline their operations and optimize their investments in wireless broadband...
Feb 13, 2009,
MD&D News Satff
Relying on the VLX virtualization software from VirtualLogix Inc., ST-Ericsson has made available the Android mobile phone environment on a range of 2G and 3G cellular solutions using Linux on a single ARM926 processor...
Feb 12, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
The mi!Infra basestation software from mimoOn GmbH has been integrated onto Texas Instruments’ TMS320TCI648x processors for use in the upcoming femtocell and Long-Term Evolution (LTE) market...
Feb 6, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
Access to Broadcom’s BCM4325 drivers enables the Android ecosystem to support advanced wireless connectivity solutions...
Jan 27, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
Openmoko Inc., maker of the world’s first totally open mobile phone, has demonstrated several Linux distributions running on the company’s FreeRunner mobile hardware platform...
Jan 13, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
A joint technology solution from Zilog Inc. and tvCompass Inc. enables a mobile software solution to provide remote control capability on the Apple iPhone and other popular mobile smart phones...
Jan 9, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
Combing a traditional 12-key pad with a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, the HTC S743 smart phone brings the strength of Mobile Windows 6.1 to customers who prefer a more traditional user interface for multiple messaging functions, according to HTC Corp...
Dec 15, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
PenReader Touch allows users to write with their fingertips rather than a stylus...