Wireless

NEC has acquired an 85% stake of Global View, an Argentinean company that provides video surveillance services. Following closing of the transaction, Global View will operate as a subsidiary of …

In another sign that device makers and carriers are paying close attention to the lower end of the smartphone market, fabless chip designer MediaTek said it is tailoring its latest …

Nvidia (NVDA) could be the life of the processor party at this month’s Mobile World Congress event; the company has wowed the press with a splashy invitation to see “quad-core …

Network infrastructure semiconductor supplier Mindspeed Technologies said it has completed its previously announced $76.8 million acquisition of privately-held, U.K.-based Picochip. Picochip is a supplier of integrated system-on-chip solutions targeting small …

Micron Technologies named president and COO Mark Durcan as its new CEO following the death of former CEO Steve Appleton in a single-engine Lencair plane crash Friday. Appleton, an experienced …

Device makers spent more on chips for wireless products last year than on chips for computers or any other product. The latest research from IHS iSuppli shows semiconductor spending for …

The company established its India presence to cater to the Indian mobile user with technology to help overcome and disregard usage barriers and unfamiliarity of the mobile phone, it said in a statement.

2012 has already been a busy year for M&A at Intel. Last week the semiconductor giant inked a deal to acquire QLogic’s InfiniBand switch, chip, and adapter businesses, and 3 …

Shares of Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) continue to lose ground today, even though the Austin-based company beat Wall Street’s earnings forecast by a slight margin last week. One reason could …

Austin-based Wireless History Foundation said it will begin accepting nominations for the 2012 Wireless Hall of Fame through March 15. Nominations will be accepted in four categories: service provider; technology; …

2011 was another year of diversity for the mobile industry. With a raft of new smart devices, tablets, applications, services and new pricing plans, consumers and enterprises alike have had more choice than ever when making use of the mobile device.

Recently, a lot of people have been asking me: “Will small cells be the end of the macro network?” No way. Small cell growth will be explosive, to match the need for higher data capacity in mobile networks … but the macro layer is still the best way to handle about half of the anticipated traffic on future networks.

A report by research firm Deloitte has predicted that 500 million smartphones with a retail price of $100 or less will likely be in use worldwide in 2012.

6waves Lolapps is buying Dallas-based Escalation Studios for an undisclosed sum. 6waves claims to be the world’s second largest publisher of games on Facebook (behind Zynga), and with this acquisition …

Samsung Electronics says it plans to borrow roughly a billion dollars to fund operations at its chip-making facility in Austin. The Austin factory produces the A5 processor that powers Apple’s …

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has directed all telecom access service providers to update their subscribers about tariff plans.