Mar 30, 2011,
Lou Frenzel, editor-in-chief
Next generation devices like 4G tablets and smartphones were the stars of the show at the 2011 CTIA Wireless conference....
Mar 17, 2011,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
Tablets like Apple’s iPad 2 and Motorola’s Xoom aren’t just computers. They’re mainly communications devices. Sure, they have a computer in them. But what doesn’t include an embedded controller or microcomputer or whatever you want to call it? ...
Mar 17, 2011,
Roberto Pieraccini, Chief Technology Officer, SpeechCycle
As mobile services grow more complex, so do smart-phone apps. We need a better way to understand how to use them and learn the extent of their capabilities. Semantic search can provide these abilities. ...
Mar 17, 2011,
Patrick Emmons, Adage Technologies
While consumers have taken the mobile app market by storm, savvy businesses can use them to their advantage too. They just need to determine what those apps need to accomplish before developing them. ...
Mar 14, 2011,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
The AT&T and Verizon editions of Apple’s iPhone 4 may look and operate the same. But crack them open, and you’ll find some key differences, particularly in their radios. ...
Feb 27, 2011,
Kyle Harper, Texas Instruments
Over the next few years, every mobile operator’s homogeneous topology of macro and compact basestations will need to be heavily fortified with a heterogeneous mix of smaller cell basestations to manage the imminent data deluge....
Feb 22, 2011,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
Microsoft and Nokia both have lots to lose unless they get back in the mobile game. So what do they do? They join forces. It isn’t a bad idea, and it could produce a real winner...
Feb 16, 2011,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
Bluetooth can be used in a wide range of serial I/O applications for monitoring or controlling external devices. For example, connectBlue AB’s OBI411 drop-in Bluetooth module lets you exchange data over a standard serial link for industrial applications...
Feb 14, 2011,
By Henri Tervonen, Sundar Vedantham, and Tareq Bustami, LSI Corp.
An asymmetric multicore architecture delivers a flexible alternative that’s primed to cope with the burgeoning data blizzard...
Feb 7, 2011,
Joseph Cozzarelli and Mahendra Singh, Anadigics
Everywhere you go, carriers are bragging about their 4G capabilities. But before your phone can access these next-generation networks, they will need a does of multimode functionality...
Jan 31, 2011,
By Doreet Oren, SanDisk
Increasing pressure to develop thinner, faster, and more reliable mobile devices has designers turning to SSD technology for solutions...
Jan 18, 2011,
Weighing the pros and cons of each approach can be tricky, but the end result should ultimately deliver reduced power consumption and satellite acquisition time.
Weighing the pros and cons of each approach can be tricky, but the end result should ultimately deliver reduced power consumption and satellite acquisition time...
Jan 10, 2011,
Tim Bennington-Davis, Veriwave
Benefits such as faster time-to-market, drastically lower costs, and sufficient test coverage lead suppliers to “get real” with their latest WLAN products...
Dec 27, 2010,
Eran Yaniv, CEO, Perfecto Mobile
As mobile technologies grow more complex, application developers need to keep four factors in mind: traditional testing’s inability to scale to meet market demands; the usefulness of emulators and simulators; the role of remote device access in the enterprise; and how automation is key in mobile testing...
Dec 20, 2010,
By Tony Tam, ANDA Networks
To stay ahead of the deepening curve of mobile-traffic demands, service providers need answers to monitor and handle the load in real time...