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Android opens door to IC open source
Mobile World Congress this year has offered a storm of announcements and demonstrations surrounding Google's new Android mobile operating system. But the demonstrations of Android--a Linux-based, open mobile platform--sparked as many questions as answers.
Wireless entrepreneurs are 'connecting the unconnected'
Wireless entrepreneurs seek to "connect the unconnected."
Next-gen mobile phones strut their stuff in Barcelona
LG Electronics, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, and Nokia all unveiled new phones with touch screens.
Google Map: lessons learned from London's 1854 epidemic
A Google executive told the Mobile World Congress that mapping is an integral part of the company's mobile initiative.
Users' love affair with iPhone stumps Mobile World panel
A panel of experts at the Mobile World Congress used psychology, behaviorism, technology and a touch of mysticism to fathom users' fondness for Apple's iPhone experience, in hopes of helping mobile telcom companies to capture some of the iPhone magic.
NXP prioritizes its cellular strategy
Under its new wireless business unit management, NXP Semiconductors is hoping to bring clarity to the company's once sprawling wireless business strategy.
'Free voice' forecast for mobile Web, but no 'free lunch'
Talk may be cheap, but if Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son has his way, talk-- regardless of distance, length and the number of people in the conversation--will be free "because the mobile phone is becoming an Internet machine."
Audience hears winning news at Barcelona
Audience has won the coveted award for 'Most Innovative True Mobile Start-up' at the 2008 GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Awards at a ceremony held Tuesday (Feb. 12) during the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
Bad breath? Your phone can tell you!
NTT Docomo is promoting the notion that a cellphone can morph into just about anything.
Mobile execs tout cooperation but differ over WiMax, LTE
Cooperation emerged as the theme of Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers at the Mobile World Congress' keynote session.
Freescale opens MXC mobiles to Linux
Freescale Semiconductor has started supporting Linux on its cellular products and is demonstrating the capabilities of its cellular platform using the open source operating system at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
Nujira, Sumitomo link for greener PA's for 4G
Nujira Ltd , a start-up that has patented and developed efficient power amplifiers for wireless infrastructure, has sealed its first major OEM deal, and is working with Japan's Sumitomo Electric Industries (SEI) to develop power efficient RF power amplifiers for WiMAX and LTE basestations.
UK mobile operators to trial TDtv technology
Mobile operators Orange and T-Mobile are to trial a broadcast mobile TV service in London this year that will use existing cellular spectrum and use NextWave Wireless' TDtv technology.
Intel chip switches between Wi-Fi, WiMax networks
Along with Nokia, Intel is developing a technology with which a person could continue listening to Internet radio or watching online video without a disruption in service.
Analysis: Android prototypes struggle to compete with Nokia
Several technology suppliers, including ARM Ltd., Texas Instruments and Qualcomm, unveiled their own versions of Google's Android platform-based cellphones at the Mobile World Congress.
GSMA: 'Don't take candy from strangers in cyberspace'
The GSM Association, joining forces with EU governments and the International Telecommunication Union, announced a Mobile Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Content to forestall the wholesale migration of child pornography from the Internet to the fast-growing universe of mobile devices.
IMEC fields mobile SDR baseband processor platform
Despite the chip's speed, a patented power management approach means the SoC consumes only a few milliwatts in standby mode.
Media money moving to mobile--maybe
Nokia executive Pertti Kasanen, at the Mobile World Congress, predicts that media services that migrate from fixed-line devices such as PCs and TVs to mobile devices will shift revenue and profits proportionately.
Robert Redford pitches mobile phone as '4th screen' at confab
Film star Robert Redford will argue at a wireless conference that the mobile phone is the "fourth screen"--after theater, television and the iPod--extending the reach of movies to new audiences in the global community.
MWC demos A to Z--Here are a few to catch
Axis/Xilinx--Axis Network Technology is demonstrating Xilinx Digital Pre-Distortion (DPD) technology on the Axis Digital Radio platform at the Mobile World Congress.
Sequans notches $28 million investment, design wins
Participating in the new round of equity-based and convertible debt financing are telecom operator Swisscom and Reliance Technology Ventures, the venture capital arm of Reliance ADA Group of India.
Analysts gloomy on mobile infrastructure prospects
With most executives of companies supplying the global mobile equipment market ensconced in Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress, this week may not have been the best moment for Analysis (Cambridge, England) to tout two reports that suggest the future looks bleak for mobile equipment vendors.
OmniVision's CameraChip hits Barcelona
OmniVision today announced its OV3642, a single-chip, .25" 3-megapixel CameraChip sensor that for the first time embeds the company's TrueFocus technology in the same sensor.
Nokia, not Google, sees itself reshaping the Internet
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, president and CEO of Nokia, came to the Mobile World Congress to declare that Nokia will "reshape the Internet."
ARM offers software for use with graphics processors
Processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) has said that it has 2D vector graphics software available for licensing with its Mali55 and Mali200 graphics processors.
Audience voice processor mimics human hearing to improve mobile calls
Mobile handset manufacturers, faced with a dilemma of increased churn and customer dissatisfaction regarding the quality of mobile calls, now have an opportunity to do something major about it.
Samsung touts chip advances at Mobile Congress
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. will start sampling in May a mobile application processor that combines an ARM1176 processor core, clocked at up to 667MHz, and advanced hardware blocks for multimedia processing.
Motorola invests in WiMAX chip startup
Motorola's venture arm has made an equity investment in DesignArt Networks (Raanana, Israel), a supplier of silicon system-on-chip (SoC) designs for WiMAX radio access network infrastructure.
Full steam ahead for Web on mobiles
Practically everyone is racing at this year's Mobile World Congress to bring the full-blown Internet to the consumer's pocket, with Google with its Android platform, with ARM with its ARM11 and Cortex A8, and Opera Software with Opera Mobile 9.5.
Xilinx, Freescale demo DPD design for efficient PA's
Xilinx Inc. is demonstrating a digital pre-distortion (DPD) based reference design based on its Virtex range of FPGAs and XtremeDSPs that is optimized for Freescale Semiconductor's LDMOS power amplifiers at this week's World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
The companies say the deisgn could significantly reduce development time and both capital and operational expenditure of wireless infrastructure.
YouTube comes to mobiles
YouTube is coming to mobile handsets, as On2 Technologies rolls out a multi-format configurable hardware decoder, called Hantro 8190, which supports H.263, H.264, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VC-1, Sorenson Spark and VP6 video formats, along with up to 16MP JPEG still images.
Bluetooth SIG puts 802.11 on fast track for high-speed spec
The core specification for high speed operation is expected to be published to members in mid-2009, according to Michael Foley, executive director of the Bluetooth SIG.
MWC preview: LTE in the limelight
The buzz about next-generation mobile technologies has reached fever pitch in the run up to the mobile industry's biggest event of the year, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
SiRF targets GPhone with new multifunction platform
SiRF Technology Inc., often viewed by its competitors as a one-trick pony focused solely on GPS, has entered the competitive multimedia phone race, rolling out a new multifunction platform called SiRFprima.
LG phone highlights tactile user interface
The company's upcoming KF510 mobile phone is 10.9 mm thick and made out of metal and tempered glass.
Mobile TV heats up (again) with Broadcom's 65-nm SOC
The oft-hyped mobile TV market is re-emerging with a vengeance at the Mobile World Congress as Broadcom joins the fray with the industry's first single-chip DVB-T/DVB-H system-on-chip based on 65-nm CMOS process technology.
Commentary: Mobile congress ready to roll
The mobile communications industry is heading to Barcelona next week for the Mobile World Congress (MWC) though the cognoscenti and die-hards are still referring to the week-long wireless mecca as the 3GSM Congress.
PicoChip, MimoOn team for LTE ref design
picoChip has teamed with MimoOn (Duisburg, Germany), a start-up focusing on IP for MIMO technologies, for an end-to-end LTE reference design.
The companies plan to demonstrate the platform, which shares many commonalities with WiMAX designs, at next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
Companies team for sub $100 3G Linux phone
NXP Semiconductors has teamed with embedded Linux developer Purple Labs (Chambery, France) for a sub $100 3G reference mobile phone targeted at handset designers focusing on emerging and developing markets.
Motorola joins CSR's drive for an E-GPS forum
Motorola is the first company to join the CSR-led Enhanced GPS Forum that has just been established to encourage equipment makers and operators to work together to accelerate development of location technologies.
NXP powers ahead with programmable LTE modem
NXP Semiconductors (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) is set to demonstrate at next month's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a multi-mode, programmable LTE modem that will be the basis of a software defined radio system from the company.
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