Blog » December 2010

Femtocell expanding into enterprise market, supply chain changing

With T-Mobile's launch of Femtocell services targeting enterprises in Britain, Femtocell is now not only a service for the consumer and household market. Along with the expansion of its market, Femtocell i    

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Samsung develops higher density LPDDR2 for smartphones and tablets

Samsung Electronics has developed a monolithic 4Gb, low-power DDR2 (LPDDR2) memory device built using 30nm-class process technology, according to the company. The chip will be used in high-end mobile applicatio    

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White-box handset makers gearing up smartphone and 3G handset production, MediaTek to benefit

White-box handset makers in China are gearing up their production of in-house designed smartphones and 3G handsets, a trend which will benefit Taiwan-based IC design house MediaTek. China's white-box hands    

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Cloud services, mobile computing, social networking to mature and coalesce in 2011, says IDC

Transformation has been a recurring theme in the annual IDC predictions over the past several years. During this time, a wave of disruptive technologies has emerged and evolved, forged by the pressures of a glo    

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Inventec to ship 1 million Nook Color e-book readers to Barnes & Noble by year-end 2010

Inventec is expected to ship over one million Nook Color touch-controlled e-book readers to Barnes & Noble by year-end 2010. The company is also expected to land orders for 6-7 million Palm WebOS-based tabl    

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iPad impact less on smartphones than on PCs, says HTC exec

The negative impact of iPad on smartphones appears to be much less than on PCs, according to vice president Jack Tong for HTC Asia, noting that HTC has been evaluating market conditions to decide whether to lau    

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Nielsen: Android makes huge gains in US smartphone marketshare, RIM takes a backseat, Apple leads in desirability

Nielsen's just released a report finding that 29.7 percent of mobile users in the United States now own a smartphone. Of that 29.7 percent (which you can see in the pie chart above), 27.9 percent of them h    

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