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Motorola Estimates 10.5M Mobile Devices Sold in Q4 2011

Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility has issued a statement regarding its preliminary results for the fourth quarter of the last year. The company hasn't yet finalized its financial results for the timeframe, but says that sales have been of around $3.4 billion, and that it registered profitability on a non...

7 January 2012
06:49 GMT

Video Calling Enjoys Increased Popularity

Video calling is one feature that most of the latest smartphones around the world have, but it is not available exclusively on these devices, and it appears that it benefits from increased popularity among users of all kind. In fact, video calling is most used on the PC area, and has only recently made it to mobil...

1 December 2011
13:51 GMT

ARM Makes the Mali-T658 GPU Official

Leading chip maker ARM has just announced the release of a new GPU for mobile devices, namely the Mali-T658, a silicone that promises far better performance capabilities that previous products from the company. According to the company, due to a doubling in the number of GPU cores, the new chip is capable of provi...

10 November 2011
17:41 GMT

Rumor Mill: Six New Devices Coming to T-Mobile in November

Wireless services provider T-Mobile is expected to bring to the market a number of no less than six new devices during the month of November, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest. For the time being, no specific details on what these new devices might be all about emerged, though some rumors on the po...

3 October 2011
09:49 GMT

HTC Trademarks New Names, Confirms 6-8 New Devices for 2011

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is gearing up for the release of a new range of handsets and mobile devices for the second half of 2011, and the company has already confirmed plans to make the move. While making the announcement regarding its financial results for the second quarter of the ongoing year,...

29 July 2011
11:00 GMT

Mozilla's OS for the Open Web to Compete with Mobile Platforms

Feeling that today's platforms impose too many boundaries for developers, Mozilla proposes a new approach with the building of an operating system for the open web, one that would enable the creation of apps equal or better than the native apps built for the iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone 7. The project...

26 July 2011
10:03 GMT

Mobile Phishing Attacks Use Fake WAP Pages

Security researchers from Symantec have spotted phishing attacks that target mobile users and make use fake WAP pages for popular services.Mobile phishing is not very widespread at the moment, but the number of attacks continues to grow due to the increased popularity of smartphones.Many companies offer a version of ...

7 July 2011
10:38 GMT

Leaked Qualcomm Roadmap Shows Quad-Core 2.5GHz CPUs

Chip maker Qualcomm is expected to start producing quad-core application processors for mobile devices in the near future, and a recently leaked roadmap from the company provides all of the necessary info we were hopping for on this. Although Nvidia promised the first quad-core application processor for smartphon...

6 July 2011
06:57 GMT

Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop Will Keynote Open Mobile Summit in London

Stephen Elop, Nokia's CEO, will keynote this year's Open Mobile Summit, set to kick off on Wednesday June 8th in London, which would bring together leaders from the mobile, internet and media industry.At the event, representatives of these companies are expected to discuss means that could help manufacture...

6 June 2011
16:01 GMT

Control Devices and Accessories via Android @ Home, Open Accessory

Among the new features that Google announced on Tuesday for users owning devices powered by their Android-based devices, we can count one that offers users the ability to control electronic systems at home, dubbed Android @ Home. In short, the new feature would offer users the possibility to remotely control conn...

11 May 2011
02:40 GMT

Sprint Intros New Tool to Protect Mobile Phones

On Monday, mobile phone carrier Sprint has announced the release of a new application meant to offers users the possibility to track down a lost device and protect their personal information on it, called the Total Equipment Protection App. According to the company, the new tool was released so that users would not ...

1 March 2011
13:11 GMT

Nvidia to Launch Tegra 3 with Increased Focus on Mobile

Dual-core phones might be this year's great thing, but that won't stop manufacturers and chip makers from rising the bar for the next generation devices, that's for sure.Some of the latest high-end mobile phones on the market today pack dual-core application processors from Nvidia, but they might soon...

20 January 2011
10:42 GMT

Clearwire's iSpot Delivers 4G for Apple's Devices

Today, leading provider of wireless broadband services Clearwire Corporation announced the launch of a new 4G-capable device on its airwaves, the CLEAR iSpot. According to the company, the new product comes as a personal hotspot with dedicated support for Apple's mobile devices, including the iPad, iPod touch a...

4 August 2010
06:24 GMT

webOS 2.0 This Year, Palm to Be a Sub-Brand, HP Says

According to HP's Jon Rubinstein, the company is determined to bring a major webOS release to the market before the end of the ongoing year. We're referring here to webOS 2.0, which should arrive in less than five months from now, at least this is what the former Palm CEO stated in a recent interview with ...

23 July 2010
06:51 GMT

Motorola Makes New Steps Towards Breaking in Two

Not too long ago, leading telecommunications company Motorola announced that it plans on separating its business in two, and unveiled additional details on the matter recently. According to the company, it filed an initial Form 10 Registration Statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The cur...

3 July 2010
05:48 GMT

Sharp Intros 3D Camera Module for Mobile Devices

Today, Sharp Corporation announced the development of a 3D camera module aimed at mobile devices. According to the company, the module is capable of capturing high-definition (720p*2) 3D video images. Sharp marks an industry first with this announcement, and says that samples of the module are expected to be shipped...

12 May 2010
06:09 GMT

Motorola Officially Plans to Spin Off in Early 2011

Motorola officially announced on Thursday that it planned to separate into two independent, publicly traded companies, and that the spin off was planned to be made in the first quarter of the next year. The two companies that will result from the separation will include the Mobile Devices and Home businesses on the ...

12 February 2010
03:04 GMT

Motorola Ships 12 Million Handsets in Q4 2009

Mobile phone maker Motorola announced today its financial results for the fourth quarter of the last year and for the entire year 2009, and posted sales of $1.8 billion for the mobile devices segment in the three months period ended December 31, 2009, marking a decrease of 22 percent when compared to the sale time f...

28 January 2010
11:13 GMT

Mobile Devices Market to Reach 2.25 Billion by 2014

The market of mobile devices is expected to experience an impressive growth over the following few years. During the ongoing year, ABI Research expects for a number of 1.2 billion mobile devices to be shipped, while the number is said to almost double by 2014, reaching a total of 2.25 billion. However, it should be ...

22 December 2009
14:51 GMT

Over One Billion Mobile Devices to Access the Web by 2013

The number of mobile Internet users is expected to grow significantly in the near future, from 450 million all around the world up to more than double by 2013, a recent report from IDC shows. According to IDC's Worldwide Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast (an IDC Database service), the increasing affordabil...

9 December 2009
06:48 GMT

Carriers to Sell 60% of Internet-Connected Mobile Devices by 2013

Wireless carriers have been already reported to plan seeking new ways of boosting their revenues, and it seems that selling a wider range of devices beside mobile phones is one of the solutions they might have found. According to a recent report from In-Stat, carriers are expected to become one of the most significa...

18 November 2009
14:01 GMT

Adobe Delivers Full Flash Player to Mobile Phones

As promised a few months ago, Adobe Systems Incorporated has launched today the Adobe Flash Player for mobile phones. The Adobe Flash Player 10.1 offers handset owners the possibility to view on their devices content created with the Adobe Flash Platform no matter where they are, the company stated. The browser-based...

5 October 2009
02:26 GMT

Nvidia to Deliver Tegra 2 Next Year

According to the latest news on the Web, Santa Clara-based graphics chip maker Nvidia is hard at work to release to the market the second iteration of its Tegra computer-on-a-chip next year. Moreover, it seems that the upcoming silicon solution will be capable of delivering almost two times the performance level offe...

2 July 2009
05:53 GMT

TV Broadcasts Coming Soon to Mobile Phones in US

Mobile devices like cell phones, GPS units, MP3 players, and in-car entertainment systems will be able to receive TV signals starting this year, TV stations in 22 U.S. cities announced on Thursday. Moreover, it seems that the broadcasts are bound to be free, providing users’ access to local news, traffic, and w...

10 January 2009
06:56 GMT

NVIDIA to Roll Out Tegra by Mid 2009

The latest reports on NVIDIA have it that the company plans to start shipping the new Tegra system-on-a-chip for mobile devices sometimes by the middle of 2009. Tegra is expected to be officially launched in the spring of next year, Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA's president and CEO, has revealed during a conferenc...

8 November 2008
04:04 GMT

Intel and STMicro Joint Venture Delayed for Lack of Cash

Numonyx, the Flash joint venture between Intel, Francisco Partners and STMicroelectronics has been rescheduled for March 28, 2008 due to the companies' facing "significant turmoil" in the financial markets.The decision has been confirmed by all the chip manufacturers involved in the Numonyx project. The origin...

27 December 2007
09:08 GMT

Samsung Announces A Single-Chip RFID Reader for Mobile Devices

Although several issues related to its security have been raised over the past few years, RFID remains one of the most promising short-distance communication technologies, which can be used for providing customers with a whole range of product or service information retrieved from RFID tags. And proving its interest ...

27 November 2007
13:41 GMT

Sharp Develops Highly-Innovative LCD with Touch Screen and Scanner Functions

The people from Sharp have always been in the forefront of technological research and development and the company's latest announcement proves this only very well. Thus, at IFA 2007, Sharp has unveiled a future LCD display that will most certainly change the way in which we perceive and use various mobile device...

3 September 2007
11:06 GMT

Panasonic Announces Hyper-advanced Bass Reproduction from Compact Speakers

Now this is really interesting: will our mobile phones sport subwoofers? I mean, subwoofers that really sound like most serious bass machines and not like crappy bass drivers in stupid audio gear sold by the ton? Panasonic says they will…Yesterday, in a fresh press release the Osaka crew announced that they are curre...

1 August 2007
05:18 GMT


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