Application processor market growing fast
December 9, 2008The worldwide market for application processors will grow to nearly $2 billion by 2012, fueled by strong demand for smartphones and other mobile devices, predicts The Linley Group.
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Archive for the 'mobility' Category
What’s up with near-field communication?
December 5, 2008Although Near Field Communication (NFC) offers significant benefits for mobile phones, only one NFC-enabled handset has reached market to date, reports market analyst ABI Research. So what’s NFC?
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Cellphones need to go green
December 3, 2008Less than 5 percent of the more than 1 billion mobile phones produced annually end up being recycled or disposed of in eco-friendly ways, reports ABI Research.
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Device-to-device communications takes off
November 19, 2008
The machine-to-machine (“M2M”) communications market will grow robustly over the next five years, with an estimated 95 million cellular M2M modules shipping in 2013, ABI Research predicts.
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Ubuntu-on-ARM to target handhelds
November 12, 2008
Canonical Ltd., commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux, says it’s porting Ubuntu to the ARM RISC processor architecture. Ubuntu on ARM will target netbooks and other emerging device categories requiring a “rich, always-connected, mobile computing experience, without compromising battery life.”
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