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03/24/2011
Investor’s Business Daily
Build a better mousetrap is the mantra of U.S. companies, colleges and legions of solo inventors. Now, the patent system underpinning that innovation engine is on track to get its first major overhaul in more than 50 years.
The Senate on March 8 passed the America Invents Act 95-5, after three similar attempts [...]

24/2011
ZDNet News
NVIDIA introduced the first dual core ARM chips and is now prepping quad core, while still preserving respectable battery life. Multiple cores are part of the answer to better battery life. See why.
Since early 2011, NVIDIA has been on a tear in the mobile market, jumping ahead of Qualcomm and Texas Instruments. NVIDIA’s [...]

24/2011
Electronics Weekly
According to SonyInsider, there will soon be another sighting of that rare beast the ARM-based netbook. Sony is going to launch one.
A couple of years ago it was widely expected that ARM-based netbooks would take over most of the netbook market. Some analysts went so far as to predict a 70% market share [...]

03/22/2011
Bloomberg News
Dan Hesse, chief executive officer of Sprint Nextel Corp.
Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) Chief Executive Officer Dan Hesse said the company plans to submit its concerns over AT&T Inc. (T)’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA to Congress, saying the deal hurts the wireless industry.
The combined entity would have “tremendous” power, Hesse said in an [...]

03/23/2011
DigiTimes – Online
HTC is expected to launch HTC Flyer, its first tablet PC equipped with a 7-inch touch screen and Android 2.3, in small volumes mainly in the US market in late March or early April 2011, according to Taiwan-based touch panel suppliers in the supply chain.
Optical film and touch panel module shipments for [...]

03/22/2011
Forbes – Online
When Steve Jobs misquoted a Samsung executive at the early March launch of the iPad 2, Samsung declined to comment on the slight. Instead, it rapidly redesigned its tablets to be even thinner than Apple’s widely-admired device. On Monday, when Samsung unveiled the new tablets at the CTIA Wireless trade show in Orlando, [...]

03/17/2011
Giga Om
Verizon’s first 4G handset, the HTC ThunderBolt, is available today and already the first real-world speed tests are coming in. Although there are relatively few LTE subscribers as compared to those on traditional 3G networks, the bandwidth numbers are impressive, both when using the phone for typical use and also as a connection for [...]

03/17/2011
Reuters
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson said on Thursday the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan would disrupt its supply chain and that it was looking at measures to compensate.
“Although the full impact of the current situation on our business will take additional time to assess, Sony Ericsson anticipates disruption to its [...]

03/17/2011
RCR Wireless
The big wireless players may not be making any fuss yet, but a group of smaller carriers, organizations and Dish Network Corp. have filed petitions with the Federal Communications Commission to block AT&T Mobility’s purchase of 700 MHz spectrum from Qualcomm Inc.
Cellular South Inc., the Rural Cellular Association and Dish Network each filed [...]

03/14/2011
TelecomAsia.net
China’s telecom ministry has stated that large-scale commercial deployment of LTE in the country will take between 3- 5 years.
This is the first time the ministry of industry and information technology (MIIT) has provided an official timeline for the country’s move to LTE.
Minister Miao Wei further told China Daily that significant rollouts were [...]