Yearly Archives: 2011

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...

Freescale releases new AMP series to combat data traffic

Freescale Semiconductor (FSL) recently announced a new generation multi-core platform called the Advanced Multiprocessing (AMP) series and is billing it as the chip-maker’s biggest...

Ford expands Sync AppLink to 10 vehicles in 2012

Ford Motor Co. (F) is expanding its Sync AppLink platform to 10 vehicles in 2012. The car maker tapped the 2012 Fusion, Fusion Hybrid,...

Isis taps Austin for test-bed launch early next year

It's still at least six months away but when Isis launches its mobile commerce platform in the first half of 2012, Austin will be...

Nokia regroups Navteq under location and commerce

Nearly four years after Nokia Corp. (NOK) paid $8.1 billion to acquire Navteq Corp., the struggling Finnish company is repositioning the business under the...

China Telecom open to new partners, distribution channels

GUANGHZOU, China – Transformation. The phrase was an overarching theme during a couple of events here as operators and equipment vendors evolve to meet...

Google properties rack up 1 billion visitors in May

Google may not be the media darling it once was, having lost mindshare to social upstarts such as Facebook and Twitter in recent years, but when it comes to raw traffic the search giant is still top of the pile. Research firm ComScore estimates that last month Google's family of web properties notched up one billion unique visitors.

Leap exec explores network sharing for smaller U.S. operators

GUANGHZOU, China – Network sharing among smaller U.S. operators could create a strong venture that would be able to compete against today's large incumbent...

Hands on with the new Huawei MediaPad

RCR Wireless got a rare hands-on with Huawei's 7-inch Android 3.2 Honeycomb MediaPad, running on Qualcomm’s dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor.

4G broadband now available from M1

AsiaOne | June 21, 2011 | Kenny Chee SINGAPOREANS can now enjoy faster online speeds on the go with fourth-generation (4G) mobile networks as compared...

ZTE Awarded Optical Vendor of the Year and IPTV Vendor of the Year by Frost & Sullivan

ZTE | June 16, 2011 | Press Release ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed...

ZTE Awarded Optical Vendor of the Year and IPTV Vendor of the Year by Frost & Sullivan

ZTE | June 16, 2011 | Press Release ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed...

Sprint expands M2M push with management hub

Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) has launched a centralized portal to enable customers to manage and control their machine-to-machine (M2M) devices and services. The Sprint...

Contracts: Alcatel-Lucent in Russia; Huawei with TDC; and more

Alcatel-LucentRussia: With State Corporation Russian Technologies to develop and manufacture Long Term Evolution (LTE) components customized for the Russian market. The companies will set...

Video is still wreaking havoc on carrier networks

Video generates anywhere from 40% to 60% of mobile data traffic on wireless networks today, according to a fresh mobile analytics report from Bytemobile...

Telematics Detroit 2011: Product demonstrations from the show floor

NOVI, Mich. — RCR Wireless News hit the show floor here at Telematics Detroit earlier this month to get a sense of where mobile...

CommunicAsia 2011: Singtel to launch 4G in Singapore later this year

Singaporean operator Singtel says it will be launching 4G across the island nation later this year, with plans to deploy 200 new base stations....

CommunicAsia 2011: Nokia Siemens Networks gives Liquid Radio a power boost

SINGAPORE – Nokia Siemens Networks says it has given its Liquid Radio architecture a boost by launching a higher power radio module for its...
- Advertisment -

Most Read