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Kevin Fitchard Mar 6, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Sensors and a low-speed link

Meet Sens’it, a gadget that lets you play with Sigfox’s IoT network

Consumer gadget enthusiasts might have fawned over the new Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge and the Huawei Watch at Mobile World Congress, but…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Mar 5, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- A doubling of bandwidth

Full duplex may be the next breakthrough in mobile networking

Stanford startup Kumu Networks didn’t receive much notice at Mobile World Congress this week as the giants of the mobile industry revealed…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Mar 3, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Two networks, one smartphone

Broadcom’s new Wi-Fi chip turns your phone into an IoT hub

At Mobile World Congress, Broadcom released a new chipset designed to bring Wi-Fi’s speediest technology, 802.11ac, into smartphones. What makes this particular…

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Mobile
Kevin Fitchard Mar 3, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- US policy on the world stage

FCC’s Wheeler makes net neutrality case before global carriers

Federal Communications Chairman Tom Wheeler said on Tuesday that he doesn’t put much credibility in claims that U.S. carriers would stop investing…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Mar 3, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- What the phone knows

A look at Zeroth, Qualcomm’s effort to put AI in your smartphone

What if your smartphone camera were smart enough to identify that the plate of clams and black beans appearing in its lens…

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Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Europe, Mobile, Technology
David Meyer Mar 3, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- New keyboard-free option

BlackBerry shows off affordable, touchscreen-only Leap handset

BlackBerry has launched a touchscreen-only smartphone — its first since the Z3 a year ago — called the Leap. It will be…

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Apple, Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Mar 2, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- An uneasy relationship

Zuckerberg’s Internet.org feels the love (and fear) from carriers

At Mobile World Congress on Monday Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg took the stage with three executives from carriers in developing countries to talk…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology, Work & Collaboration
Kevin Fitchard Mar 2, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- More tools for merchants

PayPal acquires Paydiant, puts NFC into its Here readers

PayPal is buying Paydiant, a startup that provides the mobile payments and loyalty technology used by many big-name retailers use in their…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Mar 2, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Software eats everything

Intel, Alcatel-Lucent unveil their cloud mobile network

A year after forming their wireless partnership, Intel and Franco-American network builder Alcatel-Lucent say they’re ready to start moving the mobile network…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Mar 2, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Biometrics meets sonar

Qualcomm has a fingerprint ID technology that uses ultrasound

Qualcomm has developed its own fingerprint sensor for smartphones with the aim of tapping the increasing demand for biometric security on phones.…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Mar 1, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Where Wi-Fi and 4G meet

Alcatel-Lucent’s new network concept mixes Wi-Fi and LTE

Like many network equipment makers at Mobile World Congress this week, Alcatel-Lucent is pushing the controversial idea of carriers setting up shop…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Mar 1, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- A turf war at 5 GHz

T-Mobile will launch LTE in the Wi-Fi airwaves in 2016

T-Mobile came up short compared to Verizon and AT&T in the last 4G spectrum auction, but it looks like it’s found another source…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Mar 1, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- We got payment options

Samsung Pay has all the tools it needs to surpass Apple Pay

A lot of the features in the new Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, like curved edges and glass-and-metal design, are examples of…

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Apple, Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Mar 1, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Bye bye plastic phones

Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge: A new look for Samsung and a new wallet

We were expecting a major reboot of the Galaxy S line, and that’s what Samsung gave us Sunday night at Mobile World…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Feb 26, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- No license, no problem

Qualcomm readies the first 4G chips to use the Wi-Fi airwaves

At Mobile World Congress next week, Qualcomm will unveil its first 4G silicon designed to tap the 5 GHz unlicensed airwaves used…

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Mobile
Kevin Fitchard Feb 26, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- ARM and Intel butt heads again

Can ARM processors move the mobile network into the cloud?

ARM is already powering our smartphones, and it’s seeing its processor architecture migrate into networks that supply those phones their connectivity, but…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Feb 25, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- The need for speed

SK Telecom uses fancy antennas to hit LTE speeds of 600 Mbps

SK Telecom just last month amped up its LTE network in Seoul to support blistering speeds of 300 Mbps, but the carrier…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Feb 25, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- How big is your baseband?

As 4G demand balloons, here come the “super” base stations

Mobile World Congress kicks off in a little more than a week, and while most of the tech world might be anticipating…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Feb 26, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

The U.S. Galaxy S5 will soon get a big speed boost thanks to carrier aggregation

When U.S. operators start bonding together their LTE networks later this year, the Galaxy S5 will be one of the first devices in the market that can tap into their increased network speeds.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Feb 25, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Software is eating the mobile network, too, as AT&T begins its journey into the cloud

AT&T is taking the first steps toward transforming its network into a data center. It's not touching the cellular network -- at least not yet -- but it will start virtualizing its mobile core and application infrastructure.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Feb 25, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

With a new set of voice APIs, Nexmo challenges Twilio head on

With voice, cloud-SMS provider Nexmo is moving in on its larger rival Twilio's turf. Meanwhile Twilio is growing its messaging business globally and targeting the enterprise.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Feb 24, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Europe: We don’t know what 5G is yet, but we’re damn sure going to lead the way with it

In what had to be the strangest event at Mobile World Congress, EU digital chief Neelie Kroes expounded on the need for 5G technologies that no one has actually defined yet.…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Feb 24, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Zuckerberg: The goal of Internet.org is to make basic mobile internet access free

At Mobile World Congress Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg argued that carriers need to start subsidizing baseline mobile data services in the developing world to encourage people to use the internet.…

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Mobile, Technology
David Meyer Feb 24, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Blackphone pricing and Deutsche Telekom security push bode well for mobile privacy

Good news for privacy fans: the Blackphone is pretty decently-priced if you take into account the extensive bundled security services, and Deutsche Telekom is making a real effort to put privacy-enhancing tools in its users' hands.…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology

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