It's a good time to be a niche chip maker and Cavium Networks is spring boarding off its recent major growth spurt by releasing a new line of embedded multi core processors – the OCTEON II CN68XX line - for the next generation of...
As rumors go, it doesn't get more shocking than the whisperings Wednesday night, that gadget maker Apple Inc. was mulling a move to buy British chip shop ARM Ltd., the logic designer for the microprocessors and microcontrollers used in most of today's cellphones and...
Not only is Apple Inc. falling short on iPad shipments due to hyped up demand decimating its supply, but it has now surfaced that the firm is having trouble getting hold of enough 9.7 inch touchscreens from its Asian suppliers.
Business news outlet, Bloomberg, quotes...
Intel Corp. pledged $3.5 million to help create jobs for college graduates in high-growth industry sectors, including wireless infrastructure. The company is leading a new group called The Invest in America Alliance, which aims to “further anchor the nation's competitiveness on the global stage....
NII Holdings Inc., which operates under the Nextel brand in Latin America, selected Nokia Siemens Networks to manage its network operations. The agreement covers network management in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru.Nuance Communications and Vesta Corp. announced a partnership to co-promote and...
In the last column I talked about setting the goals and defining mobile broadband. While we are still a ways away in defining what constitutes broadband, another key debate has emerged in the past few weeks and that is how do we go about...
The VisionMobile broadband is the network connectivity environment, where networks of different shapes and sizes collaborate to provide users unfettered access to the information they seek, the content they want to engage in, connect people in new and exciting ways, where time and distance...
When in past years Symbian Ltd. nervously eyed the nascent promise of mobile Linux, Symbian evangelists noted sharply that the rival, open-source platform would require considerable sweat equity or costly out-sourcing to ready it for market.That claim turned out to be true to an...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carriers--R.W. Baird lowered its estimates on Verizon Communications to $2.50 from $2.60 for 2009 on wireline margin pressure. The firm noted the company's wireless results...
No one can miss the dark clouds streaming overhead, but analysts say that without the expected growth in smartphone sales, those clouds might blot out the sun altogether. Handset sales, of course, drive chip sales, and most analysts have been revising their forecasts downward...
A handful of forces appear to be shaping a year to come that is likely to include numerous device launches featuring the fledgling Android operating system. Whether that will spell success for the license-free, Linux-based, open source OS is far from assured, though at...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--Morgan Stanley resumed coverage of Sprint Nextel with an underweight rating and a price target of $1. FBR Research resumed coverage of the carrier with...
Spansion Inc., a pure-play Flash memory vendor, has filed two patent-infringement lawsuits against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., one at the U.S. International Trade Commission, the other in a Delaware district court. Spansion seeks an exclusionary order from the ITC that would ban the import...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--Standard & Poor's revised its outlook on BT Group PLC, a subsidiary of British Telecommunications, to negative from stable following the company's report of...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--RBC Capital Markets lowered its price target on Verizon to $30 from $31 on in-line third-quarter financial results. R.W. Baird lowered its 2009 EPS estimate...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--Barclays Capital lowered its price target on Centennial Communications to $8 from $14 and cut its estimates to 37 cents from 45 cents for the...
Qualcomm Inc. last week won an appeal of an International Trade Commission ruling issued last year that banned the importation of 3G handsets containing a Qualcomm chip that the ITC found infringed on a battery-saving patent owned by Broadcom Corp.The decision is the latest...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
In what appears to be a potentially far-reaching case, Broadcom Corp. has asked a U.S. District Court to render a declaratory judgment that rival Qualcomm Inc.'s patent licensing practices amount to patent misuse. Further, Broadcom contended that Qualcomm's practices in the U.S. market render...
Broadcom Corp. has won what may be the final round in its patent infringement case it filed three years ago against Qualcomm Inc.In a ruling Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a unanimous jury verdict, from May 2007, that...
Like squabbling politicians, Broadcom Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. issued dueling press releases yesterday on a federal judge's ruling that Qualcomm had violated certain conditions of an injunction issued last year related to W-CDMA patents owned by Broadcom. Qualcomm said it would appeal the ruling.Two...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--RBC Capital Markets lowered its price target on Verizon to $37 from $43 on strong wireless results but mixed wireline. The firm raised its EPS...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--Standard & Poor's Ratings Services upgraded MetroPCS to B from B- with a stable outlook. "The upgrade reflects the company's improving financial leverage," said Standard...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--Standard & Poor's Ratings Services revised its outlook on Rogers Communications to positive from stable and affirmed its BBB- corporate credit rating on the company...
