http://wirelessinnovator.com/ en-us Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:02:05 -0500 editor@technologyinnovator.com http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16608&sectionID=45 The NPD Group on Tuesday offered a picture of how tablets that are not Apple's iPad are faring in the market in the U.S., revealing that Hewlett-Packard's $99 fire sale... Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:44:50 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16607&sectionID=45 HP’s TouchPad fire-sale scored the company the second place in US tablet sales, market stats have shown, with the $99 webOS slate edging ahead of Samsung’s entire Galaxy Tab line-up.... Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:34:46 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16606&sectionID=45 U.S. tablet sales, excluding iPad sales, soared to more than 1.2 million units sold from January through October and brought in $415 million in revenue at retail, according to leading... Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:27:56 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16570&sectionID=52 Something big is cooking in portable TV in the US – possibly the equivalent of a Hulu (in that it is owned by content owners), but from a bunch of... Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:22:34 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16556&sectionID=45 After more than 30 years of domination by a single microarchitecture—Intel Corp.’s X86—the PC microprocessor (MPU) market finally is set for some real competition, with shipments of ARM processors set... Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:02:46 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16546&sectionID=7 Amazon’s Kindle Fire media tablet carries a BOM cost of $185.60, according to preliminary findings from the IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Service. When manufacturing services expenses are added, the cost... Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:45:36 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16569&sectionID=8 The world’s major WiFi chip makers go green at the mention of the name Quantenna. Not only has it already upset the established WiFi order of things by adopting the... Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:21:06 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16547&sectionID=45 Booming shipments of ultrabooks during the next four years will shake up various semiconductor markets, boosting the prospects for sensors as well as power and analog semiconductors, but decreasing the... Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:48:53 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16568&sectionID=7 In the week that the microprocessor turns 40, its inventor Intel is besieged by ARM-based rivals in the biggest growth market for the chips, mobile devices. Its highest hopes rest... Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:19:08 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16567&sectionID=8 The enthusiasm with which mobile operators have embraced data offload to Wi-Fi, as a way to ease the strain on their creaking 3G networks, often obscures the fact that what... Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:16:15 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16506&sectionID=45 HP Folio13 designed to bridge gap between professional and personal life HP today introduced its first business Ultrabook, which features a thin and light design, strong security options and a... Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:25:54 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16505&sectionID=45 HP has introduced redesigned HP ENVY notebooks PCs that exude power, performance, advanced technologies and precision craftsmanship. The new HP ENVY 15 and HP ENVY 17 deliver blistering performance and... Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:23:11 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16504&sectionID=45 Company launches two HP Pavilion dm4 notebooks, offering users powerful performance, enhanced audio HP today expanded its ultraportable consumer notebook PC portfolio with thin and light products that provide the... Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:20:26 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16551&sectionID=41 Driven by near-universal support among mobile network operators, the next-generation 4G wireless standard known as long term evolution (LTE) will enjoy stratospheric growth during the next few years, allowing the... Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:54:46 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16517&sectionID=41 The convoluted history of Carphone Warehouse, which rose from a UK garage to become Europe’s largest independent mobile phone retailer and a significant triple play service provider, has taken another... Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:43:34 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16516&sectionID=52 Beneath the fog of fluctuating exchange rates and some little local difficulties, the round of Q3 results confirm Latin America’s status as an emerging pay TV powerhouse with big aggregate... Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:41:19 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16515&sectionID=41 In the escalating smartphone patent wars, the main headlines have centered on the new mobile powerhouses, as they apply their huge software and web IPR arsenals to the handset world.... Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:38:24 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16514&sectionID=8 The victory of HTML5 as the dominant mobile platform became inevitable last year or even earlier, but still looked as though it would be a gradual process. However, its progress... Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:32:37 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16480&sectionID=45 Average DRAM content this year in notebook computers is projected to amount 4.0 gigabytes (GB) per device—a decline from the originally more optimistic forecast of 4.2GB. The new lower forecast... Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:27:27 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16481&sectionID=45 In a bid to stave off the rising competitive threat posed by media tablets, the mobile PC market is embracing the new ultrabook platform in a big way, with shipments... Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:29:01 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16376&sectionID=45 HP has announced the HP Slate 2 Tablet PC with expanded touch capabilities, enhanced multitasking performance and embedded security, providing added flexibility to mobile business users. The company also announced a... Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:48:28 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16579&sectionID=7 A steller performance from Samsung sees it become the world's number one vendor. Canalys has released its Q3 2011 country-level smart phone shipment estimates to clients, revealing that HTC has... Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:47:14 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16379&sectionID=41 Mobinil protects users against online threats, ensures service levels with HP TippingPoint security solutions. HP has announced that Mobinil, Egypt’s leading wireless service provider, has selected HP TippingPoint solutions to boost... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:55:25 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16580&sectionID=7 Analyst firm strengthens international presence with new smart phone and netpad analysis services for China. Canalys has announced the opening of its office in Shanghai, China, as well as new... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:48:47 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16485&sectionID=52 With little room left to maneuver in the tough TV system-on-chip (SoC) market central to the ambitious Google TV initiative, Google partner Intel Corp. is quietly reshuffling resources away from... Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:41:15 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16484&sectionID=7 Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in the third quarter managed to take the No. 1 position in the global smartphone market for the first time ever, setting the stage for a... Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:39:28 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16487&sectionID=7 On the outside, the iPhone 4S may have disappointed some with its perceived lack of new features. But on the inside, the latest member of the iPhone line includes a... Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:43:49 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16488&sectionID=7   Boosted by key design wins in Apple Inc. products like the iPad and iPhone, Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation in 2010 retained its position as the world’s largest supplier of silicon magnetic... Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:44:57 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16489&sectionID=7 Shipments of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) for use in smartphones is set for remarkable triple-digit growth this year, outpacing the expansion of the entire DRAM market by a factor... Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:46:07 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16490&sectionID=41 Despite booming growth in data revenue, margins for wireless operators have been squeezed as they have been slow to react to the paradigm shift wrought by the explosive rise of... Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:29:12 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16491&sectionID=7 While much of the coverage of Apple Inc.’s iPhone 4S announcement focused on the new device’s similarity to the iPhone 4, an IHS analysis of the product illustrates key changes... Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:30:22 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16493&sectionID=7   While many observers reacted with disappointment that Apple Inc. didn’t announce a high-end iPhone 5 model on Tuesday—the real letdown was the company’s failure to introduce a true low-end... Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:34:08 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16582&sectionID=12 Canalys has announced its updated worldwide mobile security forecast, estimating an average investment growth of 44.2% per year, reaching $759.8 million by the end of 2011 and turning into a... Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:52:16 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16494&sectionID=7 Defying some expectations that Apple today would introduce the iPhone 5—an entirely new model supporting 4G—the company instead rolled out the iPhone 4S, an incremental update of the existing iPhone... Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:35:11 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16495&sectionID=7 Apple in the second quarter became the world’s leading smartphone brand for the first time. The company’s smartphone sales increased by 9.1 percent during the second quarter, helping it to... Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:37:09 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16497&sectionID=7 An IHS analysis reveals Amazon’s business model for its new Kindle Fire tablet, with the company willing to settle for a razor-thin margin on sales of devices and digital content... Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:40:26 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16498&sectionID=45 Although the media tablet war has inflicted an early casualty on the mobile PC industry with the demise of the netbook, the overall notebook market will live to fight another... Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:50:31 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16583&sectionID=8 Canalys has announced that the total enterprise wireless LAN market, including access points and controllers, was worth $757 million in Q2 2011, with 1.6 million units shipped. This is a... Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:56:34 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16297&sectionID=52 Turkish WiFi video specialist AirTies Wireless Network hasn’t exactly dumped Broadcom as its main WiFichip supplier, but it has taken on arch-rival Quantenna. It has re-engineered many of its home... Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:28:14 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16296&sectionID=52 There are psychological reasons why, until now, none of us, none of the cognoscenti who dreamed that mobile broadcast TV could become a reality in Europe, who have since abandoned... Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:27:18 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16293&sectionID=7 News of Google’s $12.5bn acquisition of Motorola Mobility took the industry by storm. The search giant was known to be exploring major purchases to shore up its patents position against... Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:17:55 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16292&sectionID=7 If the Google-Motorola deal confirms one conclusion about the modern mobile industry, it is that power has convincingly shifted from hardware to software. Rivals who are sanguine about Motorola’s still... Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:13:58 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16575&sectionID=41 The Motorola Mobility acquisition puts Google Inc. in a stronger position in any potential patent dispute with Apple Inc. “From an intellectual property (IP) standpoint, the acquisition bolsters Google’s negotiating... Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:31:37 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16574&sectionID=8 In another sign of the technology industry’s fundamental shift away from PCs and toward mobile communications, the wireless segment is expected to overtake computers to become the world’s leading application... Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:30:03 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16572&sectionID=7 In another sign of the Internet’s transformative impact on the electronics industry, shipments of Internet-enabled consumer electronics devices will soar to exceed those of the traditional platform used for accessing... Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:27:40 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16252&sectionID=41 The mobile apps market for feature phones will almost double by 2016, hitting revenues of $1 billion, after being spurred on by the success of apps in the smartphone sector,... Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:28:50 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16249&sectionID=41 Operators that offer high-speed mobile broadband technology LTE are failing to deliver innovative pricing models, according to Ovum. In a new report*, the independent telecoms analyst firm claims that there... Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:24:51 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16565&sectionID=45 Seagate Technology LLC’s introduction of a super-slim hard disk drive (HDD) could help the HDD industry stave off the incursion of solid-state drives (SSDs) in the notebook personal computers (PCs)... Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:13:29 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16564&sectionID=7 Capitalizing on a 31 percent decline in shipments at longtime market leader Nokia Corp., Apple Inc. surged into the No. 1 position in the global smartphone market in the second... Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:12:07 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16563&sectionID=52 Despite the growth of on-demand video and recording technologies such as the digital video recorder (DVR), the vast bulk of consumer television viewing time is still expected to be devoted... Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:10:35 -0400