Monthly Archives: June, 2011

Intcomex, Inc. Announces Signing of Distribution Agreement with RIM, and the Incorporation of Its Mobile Phone Product Line

MarketWatch | June 21, 2011 | Press Release Intcomex, Inc. Announced the Signing of a Distribution Agreement with RIM and the Incorporation of Its...

Brazil May Mobile Phone Subscriptions Rise 1.16% On Month

Wall Street Journal | June 22, 2011 | Rogerio Jelmayer SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)–Brazil mobile phone subscriptions increased to 215 million in May, up 1.16%...

Weekly Roundup: Top stories from around the globe

SINGAPORE – RCR Wireless News Editor Sylvie Barak reports on top stories from around the globe, including the CommunicAsia2011 trade show; Global Foundries' decision...

Verifying MIMO Operation & Downlink Coverage for LTE & TD-LTE

MIMO brings new test challenges to technicians and engineers working on cellular base stations, especially with the new Remote Radio Heads (RRHs). How do...

CDMA World Forum: Devices bring 100,000 jobs to Chinese province

GUANGHZOU, China – More than 100 CDMA handset manufacturers have a presence in Guanghzou, China, contributing more than 100,000 jobs to the province, said...

Apple gets the green light to bid on Nortel’s patents

Antitrust regulators in the United States have given Apple Inc. (AAPL) the go-ahead to bid on Nortel Networks Corp.'s (NRTLQ) patent portfolio comprised of...

PayPal projects $3B in mobile payments this year

PayPal has revised its projected 2011 revenue for mobile payments for a third time this year to $3 billion. Earlier projections from the company...

Review: Can 4G replace traditional Internet services?

Fast Internet without wiring has become competitive and even less expensive than traditional cable and DSL offerings – but can it work for you?...

CommunicAsia2011: Singapore is DAS capital of the world, CEO says

SINGAPORE—This island nation may house the largest Distributed Antenna System in all of Asia, according to Consistel Founder and CEO Masoud Bassiri. The DAS...

Worst of the Week: Jet-lagged

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...

Worst of the Week: Jet-lagged

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...

iPad accounts for 97% of tablet usage in the US

It looks as if those reports announcing the end of the iPad era may have been a little premature after all. A study released yesterday by research firm comScore shows that Apple's best-selling iPad accounts for no less than 97.3% of tablet browsing in the US.

Marvell loses its BlackBerry contract

Chip firm Marvell has been dealt a significant blow after losing its lucrative BlackBerry contract to Texas Instruments.

Angry Birds cocktail tips up

Singapore may be home to the famous Singapore Sling cocktail, but when it comes to sling shots, no one does it better than Rovio's Angry Birds.

AT&T takes content delivery to the cloud

AT&T Inc. (T) is embracing the cloud one step further with a new content delivery network set to launch by late September. The...

Eshoo bill would force operators to diclose 4G speeds

Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) is aiming to do what the International Telecommunications Union has not: define 4G wireless communications. The representative has introduced legislation...

Nokia and Sony Ericsson written off within 18 months in new report

Two major handset makers have been given the proverbial kiss of death in an annual list of 10 companies not expected to last through...

DAS In Action: 'Green' buildings at odds with RF propogation

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Green building designs are good for the environment and benefit society, but they can wreak havoc on cellular signals, panelists agreed during an...

DAS In Action: ‘Green’ buildings at odds with RF propogation

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Green building designs are good for the environment and benefit society, but they can wreak havoc on cellular signals, panelists agreed during an...

DAS In Action: DAS firms need to respect utilities

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Distributed Antenna System (DAS) providers need to understand the safety and reliability concerns of utility companies if they want to avoid...

Tumblr overtakes WordPress as largest hosted blog platform

For many years the undisputed king of the blogging hill has been Wordpress. The platform is produced by software company Automattic, who also make comments system IntenseDebate and spam filter Akismet, and is available in one of two flavours.

Google TV update taking shape, apps in tow

At Google's recent developer conference, I/O 2011, the three big topics we were expecting were Android, Chrome and Google TV. The first two were dealt with in depth, however Google TV only got a passing mention. Google notified current owners than they would soon get an update to a Honeycomb-based version of the TV software, but that was about it.

Apple adds complaints to Samsung lawsuit

Samsung Electronics Co. (SSNLF) is in a little more trouble with Apple Inc. (AAPL) after having a patent complaint filed by Apple amended with...

Capital Markets: AdaptiveMobile acquires Sentry Wireless; Glympse receives funding; and more

CML Microsystems Plc , a mixed-signal semiconductor company headquartered close to London, England, has acquired the exclusive rights to the RALCWI low bit-rate vocoder...

Video: Emphasis on device quality and price at CommunicAsia

SINGAPORE — Here on the show floor at CommunicAsia, there's been a strong emphasis on quality in the wealth and breadth of phones and...
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