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Eyeing the business opportunities to be derived from shipments of over 500 million handset solutions a year from MediaTek, more chipset vendors are developing related IC parts to leverage MediaTek's handse    

Global sales of handsets topped 1.35-1.45 billion units in 2010, with smartphones reaching 270-280 million units for a penetration rate of 20%, according data released by market research firms. For 2011, sales    

Propelled by the unstoppable cell phone market, worldwide factory equipment revenue generated by the mobile communications industry will near the quarter-trillion-dollar mark by the end of 2010, according to ma    

Ignited by support from key wireless players Nokia and Google, global usage of near field communication (NFC) technology in cell phones is expected to begin an explosive growth phase starting 2011, paving the w    

In 2010, Nokia shipped the most handsets, Samsung Electronics posted the highest revenues and Apple was the most profitable, accounting for 40% of worldwide profit in the handset market, according to a report b    

10 million freaking smartphones. Who thought, when Samsung put that number forward as its 2010 Galaxy S sales goal two months ago, that it was actually going to happen? Well, with just over a week left in the c    

With rumors that Microsoft will announce a Windows operating system designed specifically for ARM-based platforms at CES 2011, plus the fact that Intel has been working aggressively on its Linux-based MeeGo sys    

Tablet PCs are expected to consume more than 10% of the NAND flash market in 2011, compared to the 5% it is estimated to reach in 2010, according to DRAMeXchange. Along with smartphones, the two segments will b    

Well, no surprises here -- the FCC just passed a set of limited net neutrality rules by a 3-2 vote. The three Democratic Commissioners, including FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, voted yes, while the two Republ    

We've been hoodwinked by trademark filing and domain registrations before (cough, BlackPad and SurfBook) so we wouldn't say this is anywhere near definite, but we just caught wind of a Sony Ericsson E