Faster in-home Wi-Fi is only a year or two away, says Craig Barratt, president of Qualcomm Atheros, who said next generation Wi-Fi could deliver gigabit speeds making it better and faster. This is good because the technology is the work-horse of home networking.…
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Can Qualcomm Compete As Smartphones Become Computers?
Our mobile devices are getting smarter, faster and mimicking the functionality of a full-fledged PC. As the top wireless chipmaker, Qualcomm has long been the "Intel inside" for mobile phones. But can it compete against a host of new processors with better graphics and more performance?…
Read MoreMobile World Congress: Don't Call It a Phone Show
Over the last few years Mobile World Congress, the mobile phone industry trade show, has experienced a shift from being about mobile phones to being about always-on connectivity. Mobile broadband has changed the value of the mobile ecosystem and thus the players who care about it.…
Read MoreSqueezed Cell Networks Lead to Dealmaking
Today Pulsus and SpiderCloud, two startups making hardware for the mobile industry, scored investments. As users, application developers and carriers bump up against the technical constraints around mobile broadband's popularity, expect more and more hardware investments and dealmaking in the mobile semiconductor and equipment worlds.…
Read MoreDoes Location Need a Special Purpose Device?
A patent filed by Qualcomm suggests that location could be tied to a module that you could use with whatever device you want. That means location on your phone, iPod or netbook whenever you bother to insert the module. But apps makers are skeptical.…
Read MoreQualcomm Leapfrogs Intel With 28-Nano Chips
As part of Qualcomm's effort to gain an edge over Intel, the wireless chip giant plans to skip the current cutting-edge technology and go straight to making 28-nanometer chips. If done well, Qualcomm's chips will perform better and cost less, giving it an advantage.…
Read MoreMarvell to Make Future Phones Run Faster
Marvell Technology said today that it’s figured out a way to deliver the first-ever quad-core ARM-based application processor for cell phones and other mobile devices. More cores equals more performance -- Marvell says its quad-core ARM chips will deliver “gigahertz-plus” performance.…
Read MoreViva La Wi-Fi!
Wi-Fi was hot last year and it's only getting hotter in 2010 as the availability of personal hotspots such as the Mi-Fi and the rise of the Direct Wi-Fi standard mean that putting a Wi-Fi chip in anything makes the device more useful.…
Read MoreCan the Cloud Help Drive Mobile TV Adoption?
The mobile TV market has been a disappointment for years, but emerging efforts from cable companies and content providers to make entertainment available everywhere via the web may finally drive adoption. Will next year finally be the year for mobile television?…
Read MoreVid-Biz: Disney, Boyle, Rogers
Disney Creating New Content Licensing Technology; Keychest redefines ownership as access rights, not owning a physical object. (The Wall Street Journal) Susan…
Read MoreThe Daily Show‘s Stepchildren Now Include Escapist News Network and Newsish
[show=unskippable]Every icon has his or her imitators, and while The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart didn’t invent the concept of snarking at the…
Read MoreQualcomm Must Look Beyond CDMA as Regulators Lurk
Qualcomm (S qcom) may have to change its licensing agreements related to its chips in Japan after the country’s Fair Trade Commission…
Read MoreQualcomm Tries to Reposition FLO Network As a Mobile CDN
[qi:_newteevee] Qualcomm’s (s qcom) MediaFLO mobile television network hasn’t met the chipmaker’s expectations, according to COO Len Lauer, whom I spoke with…
Read MoreWith MediaFLO Disappointing, Qualcomm Wants to Become a Mobile CDN
Qualcomm’s (s qcom) MediaFLO mobile television network hasn’t met the chipmaker’s expectations, according to COO Len Lauer, who spoke with me at…
Read MoreAnalyst Finds 150 Million "Missing" Handsets
[qi:gigaom_icon_mobile] The Linley Group released a report last night in which it claims that about 150 million handsets are missing from the…
Read MoreVerizon, Qualcomm Call M2M Venture nPhase
[qi:gigaom_icon_iphone] Verizon (s vz) and Qualcomm (s qcom) said today that their new joint venture, which will provide access to Verizon’s network…
Read MoreAs TI Dumps Wireless, Mind the Gap
[qi:gigaom_icon_chip] Texas Instruments (s txn) last year said it would exit the wireless baseband business (it will still make custom radios for…
Read MoreIntel and Qualcomm Are Dueling With Dollars
Wireless dealmaking has remained a fairly bright spot during the recession, according to an overview of venture investment and M&A in the…
Read MoreGoogle Chrome OS & What It Means For Future of Computing
Google's Chrome OS may or may not make it, but the attempt shows how far the computer industry has come from a bulky PC chained to a desk by its power cord and Ethernet cable. The computer is evolving from those dinosaurs to a smaller, mobile model that is always connected to the web. The iPhone brought us apps that are lightweight so users don't get bogged down by smaller processors and slower wireless web connections on mobile devices. Google's Chrome OS attempts to keep that speed, while preserving a platform for Google to make money through advertising.…
Read MoreEurope Gets Handset Makers to Agree to Universal Charger
Nokia (s NOK), Motorola (s MOT), Research in Motion (s RIM), Apple (s aapl) (yes, even Apple) and six other cell phone…
Read MoreFriday Will Be FLO Day for Qualcomm
Qualcommm’s (QCOM) MediaFLO mobile television service has the potential to reach 40 percent more people once the DTV transition occurs on Friday.…
Read MoreAfter CDMA, Qualcomm Looks for New Money Machines
Qualcomm (s qcom) today announced the opening of a factory to make its mirasol displays, and a Wi-Fi chip designed for home…
Read MoreQualcomm Turns a Netbook Into a Smartbook
Qualcomm (s Qcom) isn’t going to cede the mobile computing market to Intel (s intc) and its success with netbooks, the CDMA…
Read MoreWeb Celebs Declare They Are Geeks!
It’s hard to hate too much on the Society for Geek Advancement. I’m not quite sure what or how serious the project…
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