Intel's move on the wireless market may fail for the same reason that its X-Scale and ASIC ventures failed - because it's not putting its wireless parts on advanced processes.
Thanks to thinkdigit for this one - the ten best Android apps:
So RIM could go even more disastrously astray by delaying its Blackberry 10 to the end of 2012 and possibly beyond.
Broadcom will "close the gap" with Qualcomm in the baseband market within a couple of years, Broadcom CEO Scott McGregor tells the Wall Street Journal.
An exquisite torture is sitting through presentations about ubiquitous connectivity when you're beating your brains out trying to get a link.
The Jobs-Effect continues to flay Apple's rivals. In a week when Nokia got kicked out of the STOXX Europe 50 index of Europe's 50 biggest companies measured by market cap, RIM is facing calls for an auction of its patents and a break-up sale.
Qualcomm is to get some heavyweight competition with Samsung, Panasonic, Fujitsu and NEC getting together with operator NTT DoCoMo to develop LTE ICs for smartphones.
Qualcomm is doing something warm and fuzzy for a change. Next month it launches in the
An over-excited banker is not a pretty sight and there are plenty of them around with the M&A prospects now opening up in the mobile sector.
That anyone would buy Motorola's handset business for $12.5 billion is a massive tribute to Sanjay Jha.
First Nokia went potty, appointing its lawyer as CEO, then RIM went potty appointing a COO and a 'COO for products' then replacing the former with the latter and sacking 2,000 RIM-ers after missed profit forecasts and a 50% fall in the share price this year.
Interdigital, the patent troll which may become the subject of an Apple-Google bidding war, is looking for a bonza bonanza.
Since its birth in 2008, ST-Ericsson has been a profligate child, landing its parents with a $445 million debt set to grow to $900 million by the end of the year.
Further redundancies at ST-Ericsson will have the effect of "permanently compromising its viability" according to the French equivalent of the TUC - UNSA (National Union of Autonomous Workers).
The train crash called ST-Ericsson gets bloodier and weirder. Its latest round of restructuring - the fourth in less than three years - is blamed on "reduced demand for legacy products".
You don't expect the Italians to be organised but their up-coming spectrum auction is unsurpassed as an example of the Italian genius for chaos.
NFC is an opportunity for handset makers to make some big money. Apple, with its existing iTunes payment system, could clean up if it puts NFC technology in its phones and allows people to pay for goods with their iPhones, by-passing Visa, Mastercard, Amex and the like. Google, via Android phones, could do the same.
I suppose we've all known for some time that Icera was going nowhere, but it's still very bad news for the UK industry as a whole that it's been sold off to Nvidia for $367 million - barely $100 million more than the funding it raised.
Despite 15% revenue growth and 13% unit growth for smartphones in 2010, the smartphone IC business moves towards commoditisation and consolidation like Intel-Infineon; Broadcom-Beceem; Qualcomm-Atheros.
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