Incremental Improvements Define The 2012 Mobile World Congress |
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Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
The usual players all showed up at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with lots of improved devices, but no real game-changing breakthroughs... |
Apple Previews iPhone OS 4
Apple’s iPhone OS 4 is now in previews, and the company has released a beta version to iPhone Developer Program members. The beta includes an updated SDK with more than 1500 new APIs and over 100 new features that will be available to iPhone and iPod touch users this summer...
Lenovo Licenses Spark For Skylight Smartbooks
Lenovo has licensed the Spark video decoder from Sorenson Media for its Skylight smartbooks, enabling the mobile devices to play the widest selection of videos available on the Internet...
RTOS Gets Optimized Java Support
IS2T SA and Green Hills Software have teamed up to provide IS2T’s Hard Real-Time MicroJvm virtual machines for embedded systems integrated for use with the Green Hills Integrity RTOS....
Symbian^3 Platform Now Available
The Symbian Foundation has unveiled the Symbian^3 platform, which is its first entirely open-source release following its transition to an open-source license earlier this month. The organization expects Symbian^3 to be feature complete by the end of the first quarter of 2010...
Symbian Platform Source Code Now Fully Available For Free
The Symbian Foundation has completed the open-source release of its source code for the Symbian platform, which the organization calls the world’s most widely used smart-phone platform....
Instant-On Operating System Targets Netbooks
DeviceVM’s Splashtop 2.0 provides instant access to a customizable launch dock that incorporates Web-based and local applications for netbooks. It allows consumers to rapidly access the Web and key software applications without booting their computer’s main operating system....
MIPS And Tensilica Team Up To Spur Development Of Android Devices
MIPS Technologies and Tensilica will work together to accelerate system-on-a-chip (SOC) design activity for mobile devices running Google’s Android operating system. The companies will display a demo of a MIPS32 processor core integrated with Tensilica’s HiFi 2 Audio digital signal processor (DSP) at the International CES in Las Vegas next month. ...
Mobile Metrics Solution Provides Real-Time Data On Mobile Broadband Usage
Compuware Vantage for Mobile provides a real-time view of a customer’s mobile data services experience. The solution will allow increased subscriber retention, higher data average revenue per unit (ARPU), optimization of network investments, and improved customer experience, the company says....
Droid Expected To Drive Android’s And Motorola’s Success
The Motorola Droid will drive the growth of the Android 2.0 operating system and help improve the company’s place in today’s smart-phone market. ...
Motorola Releases Android 2.0 Smart Phone
Motorola will release Droid, which it calls the first smart phone powered by Android 2.0, on November 6. According to the company, the upgraded operating system will provide access to the Internet at 3G speeds via the Verizon network or from any Wi-Fi hotspot....
31.8 Million Phones Will Use Android By 2013
Smart phones equipped with Android will reach 6.5 million units in 2009 and grow to 31.8 million units in 2013. Also, the CAGR for Android phones will be significantly higher than the overall CAGR for smart-phone shipments....
Windows Mobile Expected To Rise After 2009’s Drop
Usage of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile in smart phones will nearly triple from 2009 to 2013, according to iSuppli Corp. And while the operating system will slip from number two to number three in the market this year, iSuppli expects it to reclaim its second place position by 2012. ...
Symbian Foundation, CMCC Collaborate On Ecosystem Improvement
China Mobile Communications Corp. (CMCC) and the Symbian Foundation will collaborate on a series of initiatives to improve the mobile ecosystem in China while stimulating the market development for CMCC’s locally developed 3G network standard, TD-SCDMA. The first initiative will simplify Symbian Signed testing services for developers submitting applications to CMCC’s Mobile Market application store....
Symbian Foundation Previews Application-Publishing Program
The Symbian Foundation is now previewing Symbian Horizon, an application-publishing program scheduled for general availability in October 2009. With it, developers will receive assistance in building applications for Symbian devices and in placing those devices in the global stores that reach customers....
Acuity Mobile Plans To Present Harris Connect Mobile At CASE Summit 2009
Harris Connect Mobile (HCM), an advanced content delivery solution, will be developed by Acuity Mobile. Designed for the alumni association marketplace for Harris Connect, it is the first to use the Acuity Mobile v6 platform. It will appear for the first time at CASE Summit 2009, and will be released to membership groups as a world-class mobile communication platform, according to Acuity....
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