10/19/2009
Financial Times – San Francisco Bureau
An ARM race is beginning to take shape in smartphones, as the latest models demand faster processors to deal with an expanding range of computing and multimedia activities on devices.
Marvell announced today it would overtake Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor with a new family of Armada processors, based on ARM [...]
10/19/2009
EE Times
Nokia Corp. has a fat target on its back and an increasingly tough task keeping rivals from hacking away at its market share eye each quarter as competition intensifies in the wireless handset equipment sector.
To accelerate what executives have termed the need for a “cultural” change at the company, Nokia on Friday (Oct. 16) [...]
10/19/2009
IDG News Service
IDG News Service – The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has upheld an earlier decision that favors Nokia in a patent case filed against it by wireless technology company InterDigital.
Nokia hasn’t infringed on patents belonging to InterDigital, a U.S. ITC judge ruled in August. InterDigital disagreed with the decision and called for [...]
10/19/2009
Wireless Week – Online
Jitterbug has some new competition today in the form of Consumer Cellular, which is offering two new phones by Doro and service targeting active seniors.
Whereas Jitterbug owner Great Call tapped Samsung for designing phones with big buttons for easy dialing, Portland, Ore.-based Consumer Cellular partnered with Doro, a Swedish company that [...]
10/19/2009
Gearlog
A group of top Internet execs, including the CEOs of Google, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, and eBay have sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski in support of net neutrality.
“America’s leadership in the technology space has been due, in large part, to the open Internet,” said the letter, dated Monday.
“We applaud your leadership [...]
10/19/2009
Wall Street Journal
Apple has shown few signs of being slowed down by the recession. That’s likely to continue when it reports fiscal fourth-quarter results on Monday.
The maker of iPods, iPhones and Macintosh computers is projected to post a 13% year-over-year earnings increase to $1.42 a share, according to Thomson Reuters, well above the top [...]
10/19/2009
TheStreet.com
DALLAS (TheStreet) — The semiconductor industry could get another boost when Texas Instruments(TXN Quote) reports its third-quarter results after market close, hot on the heels of Intel’s(INTC Quote) strong third-quarter numbers.
The company’s stock has risen more than 60% since March, and gained 45 cents or 1.97%, to reach $23.30, during early trading Monday.
Texas Instruments recently [...]
10/19/2009
Financial Times – San Francisco Bureau
Cisco is to overhaul one of its core products for the first time in five years in an attempt to show that it has not abandoned its heartland for flashier markets.
The networking equipment maker will on Monday announce it is releasing three new models of routers aimed at small- [...]
10/19/2009
Thomson Reuters
* Sprint to pay $24 per iPCS shares, assume $405 mln debt
* Companies to seek immediate halt of all pending lawsuits
* Sprint no longer needs to iDEN network in IPCS markets
NEW YORK, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N) plans to buy wireless affiliate iPCS Inc (IPCS.O) for about $426 million excluding [...]
10/19/2009
InfoSync World
It seems like Verizon Wireless might have a version of the iPhone for testing on its upcoming 4G network. Is the iPhone LTE on its way to the carrier for relase next year?
Given the iPhone’s huge sales success, both Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm have been eager to work with Apple on future models [...]
