BROWSING: Devices

Annual smartphone sales to surpass the billion mark by 2016

In less than five years, smartphone sales are expected to rise above the billion mark for the year, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Sales are expected to more than triple from 302 million smartphones in 2010 to more than one billion...

Mobile devices propel Apple to record growth and profits

Mobile has become the absolute fabric of Apple Inc. (AAPL). The business has changed so dramatically thanks to the iPhone (and increasingly the iPad) that it barely resembles itself from even four years ago. During the just closed quarter, Apple sold 20.34 million iPhones and...

Mobile devices propel Apple to record growth and profits

Mobile has become the absolute fabric of Apple Inc. (AAPL). The business has changed so dramatically thanks to the iPhone (and increasingly the iPad) that it barely resembles itself from even four years ago.During the just closed quarter, Apple sold 20.34 million iPhones and...

Mobile Technology Inventions in Rural India: The Case for Building Business-Social Bridges

Hilmi Quraishi | Video via Vimeo Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow Hilmi Quraishi and Microsoft partner to exchange knowledge, scale Hilmi's mobile inventions, and demonstrate the power of collaboration between the private and citizen sectors

AT&T given initial exclusivity of HP TouchPad 4G

HP has given full exclusivity of its TouchPad tablet 4G to AT&T just in time for the back to school shopping spree, the company has revealed. The tab, which runs on a 1.5-GHz processor, boasts 32 GB of internal storage, integrated GPS and runs on...

Migrant workers main driver for mobile money

Migrant workers throughout Asia, who own cell phones but not necessarily bank accounts, are the main driver for mobile money in Asia according to Sybase’s director of business development Tarik Husain. Villagers who travel from villages and farming areas into the big cities to work...

Boosting network efficiency for smartphones

Ericsson | July 19, 2011 What are the network signaling system challenges facing operators as smartphone sales increase? Read the full article here via Ericsson

Regrouping of Nokia quarterly and full year 2010 and first quarter 2011 results

Nokia | July 19, 2011 | Press Release Espoo, Finland - Nokia today provided historical results for its Devices & Services business, regrouped for comparability purposes according to the new reporting format that reflects the operational structure that became effective on April 1, 2011. The historical...

Nokia basic phones more profitable than smartphones

Reuters | July 19, 2011 | Hans-Juergen Peters Reporting by Helsinki Newsroom - Nokia's basic phones generate much better operating profits than its smartphone lineup, the Finnish mobile phone company said on Tuesday when it unveiled regrouped past business results. Read the full article via Reuters

BlackBerry hopes to score with apps for Copa America

If you are a Brazilian or Argentinian soccer fan, you may be licking your wounds right now, what with both teams suffering humiliating defeat in Copa America – the American soccer cup - last weekend. However, if you are simply a soccer lover -...

Apple to re-launch 3GS as $350 pre-paid model?

For those who’ve long dreamed of an iPhone but just can’t afford the steep price, or don’t want to commit to a lengthy, restrictive contract, you may soon be in luck. Word on the silicon street is that a cheaper iPhone may be launching...

Apple and Android roundup: iPad 2 demand, software updates and ad markets

Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple Inc. (APPL) and its iPad 2 is still the most popular tablet around the globe, even after it’s been on the shelves for four months. In the last couple of weeks, Apple has finally chipped away at a vast backlog of...

Samsung and LG battle it out for iPad 3 screen production

Another day another iPad 3 rumor, and this latest one has Samsung and LG competing for main supplier of the high-res displays for Apple's next generation tablet according to Mac Rumors. With Apple and Samsung at each other’s legal throats, however, we wonder whether LG might...

Apple wins early patent battle against HTC

The smartphone war is being waged on many fronts. Of course there's the never-ending price war and battle for customers at the retail or carrier level, but smartphone makers are treading just as deep into the legal department. Patent disputes abound in the wireless...

Fairchild Semiconductor launches mobile speaker amplifiers

Fairchild Semiconductor today announced the availability of its long vaunted mobile speaker amplifier, the FAB1200 stereo as well as the FAB2200 audio subsystem with stereo Class-G headphone amplifier and 1.2W Class-D mono speaker amplifier. The little device features a charge pump which generates a negative supply voltage allowing...

2011 rugby world cup brought live to millions of fans via Ericsson’s Voyager II

Ericsson | July 18, 2011 | Press Release A potential 25 million rugby fans across Oceania, and many more around the world, will enjoy live high definition coverage of the 2011 Rugby World Cup from New Zealand, following the deployment of the Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) Voyager...

2011 rugby world cup brought live to millions of fans via Ericsson's Voyager II

Ericsson | July 18, 2011 | Press Release A potential 25 million rugby fans across Oceania, and many more around the world, will enjoy live high definition coverage of the 2011 Rugby World Cup from New Zealand, following the deployment of the Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) Voyager...

Taiwan's HTC shares tumble after Apple ruling

Reuters | July 18, 2011 | Jonathan Standing Shares in Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC tumbled as much as 6.5 percent on Monday after losing a preliminary ruling in a patent case with Apple Inc, with its announcement of a share buyback failing to stem the...

Taiwan’s HTC shares tumble after Apple ruling

Reuters | July 18, 2011 | Jonathan Standing Shares in Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC tumbled as much as 6.5 percent on Monday after losing a preliminary ruling in a patent case with Apple Inc, with its announcement of a share buyback failing to stem the...

Apple wins early patent battle against HTC

The smartphone war is being waged on many fronts. Of course there's the never-ending price war and battle for customers at the retail or carrier level, but smartphone makers are treading just as deep into the legal department. Patent disputes abound in the wireless...

NVIDIA to get head start as biggest quad core on the market

NVIDIA’s upcoming Kal El mobile processor may be the only 40nm quad core on the market according to sources in the know. According to Fudzilla, NVIDIA will be the only chip firm to attempt a quad core build on ARM’s A9 architecture, while the likes of...

Sony preps two oddly shaped tablets

CNN | July 15, 2011 | Mark Milian A tablet computer doesn't have to look like a flat rectangle. Read the full article here via CNN

HTC appoints president of global sales and marketing

DigiTimes | July 15, 2011 | Daniel Shen, Steve Shen HTC has appointed its incumbent president of North America and Latin America Jason Mackenzie to the newly-created position of president of global sales and marketing, effective immediately. Read the full article here via DigiTimes

Brazil counts 27.9 million mobile broadband users

Mobile broadband access is increasing in Brazil. At the end of first half of 2011, Brazil had counted 43.7 million broadband access connections, according to a just-released survey from the Brazilian Telecommunication Association Telebrasil. The major part of this total is registered as mobile...