The global smartphone market is maturing, with growth rates projected to slow down this year as developed countries near smartphone saturation. In the United States and Western Europe, smartphone shipments are projected to rise less than 10% this year, according to the analysts at...
The telecommunications industry saw a few employment changes this week, including talent being welcomed to the management team at Multi-Tech Systems, a chief executive office appointment at FiberLight and a new chief financial officer at Inmarsat.
Samsung finally unpacked its long-awaited Galaxy S5 yesterday, launching a flagship that is perhaps the inverse of Apple's iPhone 5S in more ways than one. While Apple has stubbornly refused (so far) to enlarge the iPhone screen size, Samsung is boosting the display dimension...
Two leading makers of radio frequency solutions announced plans to merge operations in a deal expected to create a $2 billion powerhouse in the device RF space. RF Micro Devices (RFMD) and Triquint (TQNT) announced their merger yesterday at the Mobile World Congress 2014...
Softbank, majority owner of Sprint, is moving $3 billion in annual revenue into Brightstar, its other major American holding. Brighstar is a leading distributor of mobile devices and components, and last year Softbank agreed to buy 57% of Brightstar for $1.26 billion. Now Softbank...
HTC says it will challenge industry standards by launching HTC Advantage, a program that allows customers in the United States to receive bonus assets after a smartphone purchase.
Benefits of the HTC Advantage program will include one free cracked-screen replacement, a commitment to Android updates,...
Telecoms and government institutions frequently find their paths crossing one another, as a bevy of networking issues often requires the oversight or intervention of a federal institution. This week saw many such instances, ranging from federal officials investigating complaints lodged against one of the nation's largest telecoms to the U.S. government flexing its muscle on the use of Chinese equipment overseas.
Samsung hopes to steal the show on Monday with the launch of its newest flagship smartphone at Mobile World Congress on Feb. 24. The company plans an event called "Unpacked 5" for 8 p.m., at which it is expected to launch the Galaxy S5....
Motorola Mobility's red ink will soon be history, according to China's Lenovo Group, which recently agreed to buy the struggling smartphone maker from Google for $2.9 billion. Today the company's CEO told Bloomberg that it expects to achieve what Google could not, turning the...
Smartphones and tablets will not lead the connected devices market in growth this year, although both are expected to enjoy healthy increases in production rates. Tablet production will rise 25% this year, according to the researchers at IHS iSuppli, while mobile phone production will...
HTC says lower-cost offerings will reverse its sliding smartphone market share. The Taiwanese company that once ranked as one of the top five smartphone makers now has less than 2% of the market, and sales have been on the decline for more than two...
Apple and Google are usually archrivals, but they agree wholeheartedly that patent lawsuits can be a waste of time and money. The two Silicon Valley leaders are joining forces in asking the Supreme Court to consider the impact of frivolous lawsuits as the chief...
American consumers continue to buck the global trend, passing over popular Chinese brands in favor of handsets made by Apple and Motorola. The latest report from ComScore found that of the estimated 156 million Americans who own a smartphone, 41.8% own an iPhone. The...
Samsung Electronics America announced that beginning Feb. 13, U.S. customers will be able to purchase the Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 and the Tab Pro 10.1 and 8.4.
If you often find a group of friends or family members huddled around your tablet, you may have considered a projector tablet as an alternative for screening movies and slide shows. The concept also has obvious applications in a business or classroom environment, but...
Google is selling the Motorola Mobility handset business to China's Lenovo at a fraction of the price it paid for the company less than two years ago. But Google will keep most of Motorola's patents.
Lenovo will pay $2.91 billion for Motorola's mobile device...
Apple said yesterday that it sold 51 million iPhones and 26 million iPads during the fourth quarter of 2013, which is the company's first fiscal quarter. Quarterly revenue was a record $57.6 billion, while net income was flat versus the year-ago quarter at $13.1...
A new report from JDSU examines data use across more than 150 devices as well as generational technologies, and has found that "use of mobile data and consumer behavior is becoming more extreme."
“For the past three years we’ve seen explosive growth in mobile data...
