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TI, Fulton power up for wireless power
Texas Instruments has started working with Fulton Innovation to accelerate the latter's development of wireless power solutions that can charge portable devices without traditional power cords.
RIM's Bold bests other phones' transfer times
We pitted five smartphones against each other to test their download speeds and get a feel for the user experience with movies, TV shows and audio CDs. For the second consecutive year, the BlackBerry Bold took the gold.
Firms to optimize Adobe Flash for ARM-based devices
Adobe Systems and ARM Holdings are expected to announce a partnership to optimize Adobe's Flash Player 10 for mobile phones, televisions, automotive platforms and mobile computing devices based on the ARM platform.
Could Nokia really buy chips from Qualcomm?
Qualcomm Inc. is hoping to win chipset business from mobile phone maker Nokia, now that the companies have at least partially settled some of their differences, it emerged at the chip maker's Analyst Day.
Teardown video: Nokia's N95 smartphone
Portelligent President David Carey tears down Nokia's N95 mobile phone on the Electronica show floor.
AMD hangs up on smart phone market
In its drive for profits, AMD will deliver a 65 nm chip set geared for small notebooks next year, but it will not pursue the class of so-called Mobile Internet Devices and smart phones Intel is going after with its current and future Atom CPUs.
Nokia predicts future of mobile phones
Nokia predicts the future of mobile phones with a concept design that demonstrates transparency, transformability and conformability.
Qualcomm Snapdragon platform boasts 30 device designs
Qualcomm' Snapdragon platform is gaining traction with more than 30 device designs in development and more than 15 leading device manufacturers opting in.
GPS chip specialist takes Imagination license
GPS chip specialist SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. has become the latest to take a license from Imagination Technologies Group plc (Kings Langley, England).
Telescopic nanotubes aim to combine virtues of SRAM, flash
Telescopic nanotubes could offer molecular-sized bit cells that are as fast as SRAM but nonvolatile like flash by harnessing concentric nanotubes that turn bits on and off by running current through the tubes to make the inner one stick out or stay inside the outer nanotube.
Researchers harvest energy from heart beat
A group of researchers have conducted a successful test of a tiny generator called the Self-Energizing Implantable Medical Microsystem that can use energy from a heartbeat to power an implanted device.
First Android phone BOM about $144, iSuppli says
The first wireless handset based on Google's Android mobile operating system carries a bill-of-materials cost of $143.89, according to an analysis conducted by market research firm iSuppli.
iPhone becomes top seller as handset sales fall
Apple's iPhone 3G became the top selling handset among adult consumers in the U.S. in the third quarter of 2008 amid a significant fall off in unit sales and revenue for that group, according to market watcher The NPD Group.
Is the U.S. falling behind in chip R&D?
Bell Labs' exit from semiconductor R&D could portend the decline of U.S. superiority in electronics, but major chip makers argue that universities and national labs will take up the slack.
Testing WiMAX, testing
WiMAX has become the poster child of the mobile Internet world, a world where anything and anybody can be connected from anywhere.
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