11/02/2010
Telecoms.com
iPhone users generate more traffic than users of any other platform, according to Informa’s research
Smartphone use accounts for 65 per cent of all mobile cellular traffic worldwide, despite smartphone penetration running at just 13 per cent, according to research released today from Informa Telecoms & Media. Usage is set to increase exponentially over the next [...]
11/01/2010
New York Times
The standard TV remote control, lost so many times beneath sofa cushions, may soon be lost to history.
Good riddance, says Chris Lavoie, a radio producer living in Los Angeles. Taking advantage of advances in smartphones, Mr. Lavoie uses an app on his iPhone to control his Apple TV set-top box and search [...]
11/01/2010
Thomson Reuters – Helsinki
HELSINKI, Nov 1 (Reuters) – Google’s (GOOG.O) Android software platform rose to No. 2 spot globally on the booming smartphone market in the third quarter, research firm Canalys said on Monday.
Nokia’s (NOK1V.HE) Symbian continued to lead the market with a 37 percent share, while Android had 17 percent of the market. [...]
10/15/2010
EE Times Europe
The consultancy has said that baseband-integrated applications processors accounted for 28 percent of the total applications processors shipped to smartphones in 2007 and was up to 70 percent in unit terms in the first half of 2010.
The two different partitions cover two different market approaches: baseband-integrated applications processors serve a broad market [...]
10/05/2010
Giga Om
Although feature phones still outsell smartphones, a greater number of smartphone users accessed mobile content both in apps and browsers than consumers with feature phones, for the first time ever. ComScore’s latest study of handset users in the U.S. shows smartphone subscribers account for nearly 60 percent of people who downloaded and used an [...]
10/04/2010
PC Advisor – Online
Hardware and software enhancements could transform future smartphones into full-fledged gaming consoles or even weather stations, attendees at a processor conference said last week.
Beyond high-definition video, smartphones and tablets in the future might play 3D video and enable multiuser gaming in the cloud, attendees said at the Linley Tech Processor conference in [...]
09/27/2010
CNET News.com
Will small, powerful, connected-to-everything devices running on non-Intel silicon become the personal computer? The CEO of graphics-chip supplier Nvidia thinks so.
Nvidia CEO Huang speaking at an Nvidia conference this week.
The sentiment, voiced at the company’s annual conference this week by chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang, has been expressed before. And like any strong strategy statement [...]
Interesting…
09/23/2010
Thomson Reuters
Sept 23 (Reuters) – Facebook is working with mobile phone maker INQ Mobile Ltd to create two smartphone devices that may have a network tie up with AT&T Inc (T.N), Bloomberg said, citing three people familiar with the matter.
The smartphones would carry the popular social networking website’s services and were set to be unveiled [...]
Here is an interesting article re. how people use smartphones.
09/15/2010
New York Times
Advertisers take note: People who have phones with Android operating systems are more likely to open an advertisement inside an app than are iPhone users. That, at least, is what the Nielsen Company says in a new report that it released on Monday about [...]
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 [...]
