Wireless Oom

02/26/2010
EE Times
SAN JOSE, Calif. — You would think an x86 core would be a pretty hot item for a system-on-chip design. So why is no one biting on Intel Corp.’s offer last March to sell rights to an Atom core for SoCs made at TSMC?
Here’s some armchair speculation. Most of it comes down to one [...]

02/26/2010
Giga Om
Smartphones could be the most important diagnostic tool of this century as part of a revolution in digital wireless medical devices, according to Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist working at The Scripps Research Institute, speaking at the TedMed conference last year. In a video released earlier this week, Topol shows off patches communicating with [...]

02/22/2010
IDG News Service – San Francisco Bureau
The energy cost of home appliances like washing machines and refrigerators could drop if a new microcontroller announced by Arm on Monday lives up to expectations.
Arm released the Cortex M4 microcontroller, which will be deeply embedded into appliances and devices including washing machines, smart meters and audio devices [...]

02/19/2010
Financial Times – New York Bureau
CBS will begin selling some television shows for 99 cents per episode through Apple’s iTunes service, confirming an FT report that some TV networks had agreed to halve prices.
“There are certain shows that will be sold on Apple for 99 cents,” said Leslie Moonves, chief executive of CBS, adding that [...]

02/18/2010
Associated Press (AP)
n this Feb. 17, 2010 file photo, a man walks past a banner at the Mobile …
By Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Silicon Valley is looking like a winner in the tug-of-war with wireless carriers over who will control the new world of Internet-connected phones.
The tension between the largely U.S.-based [...]

02/19/2010
Light Reading
Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Mumbai: BHARTIARTL), India’s biggest operator, is set to overhaul its national transport infrastructure with the deployment of 40-Gbit/s DWDM equipment, an industry source tells Light Reading. (See India Ends 2009 on a Mobile High.)
The upgrade project, known as “Airtel Express,” is still in its initial stages, but the source says five [...]

02/18/2010
Telephony Online
Near-field communications, and mobile banking in general, get so much support from a wide swatch of players, but is support enough? Not yet. Without NFC-enabled mobile phones, it’s a market that will never see its potential realized. But we are getting closer.
At Mobile World Congress this week the GSM Association launched what they’re [...]

02/17/2010
Total Telecom Online
Release 10 of 3GPP specifications will include LTE Advanced.
Some operators and vendors may already have hijacked the term “4G” for their LTE and WiMAX services, but the specifications for “true” 4G services under the 3GPP umbrella will be published in March 2011 under Release 10, according to current targets.
Release 10 of the [...]

02/16/2010
Barron’s
Microsoft (MSFT) on Monday unveiled Windows Phone 7, the company’s much-anticipated new operating system software for mobile devices. The company launched the new software today in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress, the industry’s big trade show.
The company said manufacturing partners have started building devices based on the phones; the first devices based on Win [...]

02/10/2010
Light Reading
Don’t mention the “F” word to Ulf Ewaldsson, Ericsson AB (Nasdaq: ERIC)’s VP and head of radio products.
Or, if you do, brace yourself, because he has a lot to say about Femtocells, the upstart little home base stations.
First, Ewaldsson is sticking to Ericsson’s long-held company line that the market for 3G femtocells [...]