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08/09/2011
Giga Om
Looking earlier today at the continued loss of customers at (DTE:GR)T-Mobile, I pointed out that things might be different if the carrier had an (AAPL)iPhone to offer. Sascha Segan, an excellent writer who covers the mobile sector at PC Magazine, quickly tweeted that he thought I was placing too much emphasis on the iPhone [...]

08/09/2011
IDG News Service – New York Bureau
Advanced Micro Devices is not immediately chasing the market for smartphones as it does not align with the company’s strength in technologies like graphics, an executive said on Monday.
Smartphones are constrained on battery, pixels and screen space, and AMD has other areas it can focus on in order [...]

08/09/2011
Techradar.com
Qualcomm chatting all about the next generation
Qualcomm is claiming that its next generation of Snapdragon chips will bring greater power to phones than today’s gaming consoles.
S3 is the current top-of-the-range processor from the chip developer, with mysterious S4 ‘Krait’ devices set to be launched at the end of the year. Qualcomm has said that [...]

08/08/2011
PC Magazine
Smartphones, the hottest and highest-growth segment in consumer electronics, have become the latest playground in the patent arms race. While you’re at a store innocently trying to decide between a Samsung Galaxy S and an iPhone 4, there’s a war taking place among the makers of those fantastic little computers that fit into the [...]

/08/2011
Enderle Group
Qualcomm’s Android-ready hardware and patents may be the solution to the hit-or-miss quality of Android phones and Google’s ongoing intellectual property fiasco.
Google Android has been incredibly successful, but it has also been wrapped in a series of problems. A good deal of the problems come from Google’s attempt to tear down the software licensing [...]

08/08/2011
Light Reading
If it gets more money, Clearwire LLC (Nasdaq: CLWR) could be one of the first operators in the world to deploy Long Term Evolution Time Division Duplex (LTE TDD), so we thought it was a good time to remind you what this 4G technology is and how it is different from today’s Long Term [...]

08/05/2011
Giga Om
Clearwire’s shift to LTE is not just a move away from WiMAX, but it cements Clearwire’s shift in strategy from being a retail operator to a wholesale provider — a shift that has been coming for a while. In this week’s announcement Clearwire said that it would sell its LTE network not just to [...]

08/08/2011
Light Reading
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Korea: SEC) wants to be a player in the European LTE infrastructure market.
The Korean vendor’s opening gambit will be a trial of its LTE gear at a multinational European operator later this year, and it’s hoping to win its first LTE commercial contract in Europe in 2012, an ambition [...]

08/05/2011
Reuters – San Francisco Bureau
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Intel’s first cyber-security product co-developed with its McAfee unit will take advantage of features already built into its processors and will likely be available as an extra service to customers.
Renee James, head of Intel’s software division, would not discuss pricing for the service, expected out before [...]

08/05/2011
Business Insider – Online, The
Nobody ever said the road to the future wouldn’t be devoid of speedbumps.
Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia made a big splash in the mobile world at the beginning of this year when their Tegra 2 dual-core processors started showing up in Android smartphones and tablets from the likes of Asus, Motorola, [...]