BARCELONA, Spain — The GSMA's mWomen Programme is aiming to close the gender gap between men and women in developing countries by helping to develop sustainable business models that operators can use to help women become mobile-phone users.
Trina Dasgupta, program director for the program...
AUSTIN-David Ferrucci, lead researcher and principal investigator at IBM Corp. for the Watson/Jeopardy! project, is scheduled to speak at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival on March 14 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Austin.
Attendance is...
AUSTIN, Texas—South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival officials have confirmed that Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) is expected to speak at 9:30 a.m., Monday, March 14, at the Town Lake ballroom in the Radisson Hotel located at 111 East Cesar Chavez Street in downtown Austin.
Franken,...
BARCELONA, Spain—United Kingdom Trade and Investment (UKTI), a government agency that works with U.K.-based businesses to support domestic and international success, supported more than 100 companies at Mobile World Congress 2011. The coalition’s pavilion showcased some of the best technology of the United Kingdom...
AUSTIN-Freescale Semiconductor is preparing to announce advancements resulting in a new portfolio of wireless networking technologies that they say are currently unavailable in the market. An announcement and demonstration of this portfolio of wireless network/access technologies will be made at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona...
Google is “not happy” with current app sales in the Android marketplace according to Android platform manager Eric Chu speaking at the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco yesterday.
Samsung was showing off its 32nm chips at the Common Platform Technology Forum in Santa Clara this week and RCR managed to scoop some video footage of the little chip's awesome power.
RCR sat down with GlobalFoundries' head of technology communications Jason Gorss at the Common Platform Technology Forum in Santa Clara to get an overview of what smaller and smaller chips meant for smarter and smarter devices.
RCR sat down with GlobalFoundries' head of technology communications Jason Gorss at the Common Platform Technology Forum in Santa Clara to get an overview of what smaller and smaller chips meant for smarter and smarter devices.
RCR ran into Cadence at the Common Platform Technology Forum in Santa Clara this week and talked to the firm about its role in the collaborative manufacturing effort.
On the showfloor at the Common Platform Technology Forum in Santa Clara on Tuesday, RCR managed to track down Simon Segars, executive VP and general manager of ARM's physical IP division to talk us through the ins and outs of chip IP and design.
The devil is in the details, especially when it comes to working on a microscopic nanometer scale – that was the main message from executives from GlobalFoundries, Samsung and IBM on Tuesday at the Common Platform Technology Forum in Santa Clara.
Issues addressed include wireless collocation, expansion
DALLAS, Texas--The nationwide push to expand broadband access is forcing utilities to cooperate with wireless companies on collocating wireless equipment on utility poles. As such, leaders from both groups spent Friday at the Marriott Dallas City Center...
Mind Map will promote collaboration, investment
AUSTIN, Texas--The new year is an exciting one in Austin, as the phenomenal growth in mobile broadband is picking up the local economy as groups involved in the industry look to expand.
In an effort to spread the cheer, Steve...
Mobile chip maker Marvell had a particularly strong CES this time around, with the firm introducing a range of new products and technologies which it claims usher in the era of the true mobile lifestyle.
We may not have flying cars of the future just yet, but at CES 2011, German car maker Audi and graphics firm Nvidia went that little bit further towards making automobiles just a tad more tech-tastic.
San Jose based Networking firm Netgear was out in force at this year's CES show in Las Vegas, showing off a plethora of products it says will help push towards a fully internet enabled home, where content can move seamlessly from one device to another.
Everyone loves an underdog and that's why little British chip shop ARM has seen so much adulation, not only from its home crowd but from around the tech industry.
LAS VEGAS--Wednesday was a big day for Motorola Inc. at CES 2011, with the firm announcing a plethora of new devices, including new smart phones, and a Tegra 2 powered tablet made in partnership with Google Inc. and Verizon Wireless.
First up to be unveiled was...
Graphics maker NVIDIA announced on Wednesday that it would be working with mobile chipmaker ARM to build a non X86 CPU, on the same day that Microsoft announced its Windows software stack would now work on ARM chips.
The seventh Abacus International Conference 2010 held in Vietnam saw the unveiling of Abacus' Next Generation Point-Of-Sale (POS) system and mobile initiatives – Abacus Mobile, Abacus WebStart Mobile, Abacus VirtuallyThere mobile, and TripCase. The plans are to make these initiatives active globally. Nkihil Dhodapkar,...
Thailand’s TOT PCL is planning to hold an electronic auction for US$580.8 million worth of equipment and installation contracts for its 3G mobile phone network on Jan. 28.
According to Senior Executive Vice President Kamthon Waithayakul, TOT aims to sign contracts with the winners around...
Contests designed to promote Google's Android mobile software by offering prizes for new mobile applications appeared to disappear in 2010, but Taiwan held out with its second annual Android competition, called Mobile Hero.
The fact that Taiwan kept an Android competition...
BEIJING – December 13, 2010 – Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), through its Wireless Reach™ initiative, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council (OCAO), the Chinese Language and Cultural Education Foundation (CLCEF) and China Telecom’s Gansu Bureau Linxia...
