Research & Analysis
Alca-Lu appoints Subhash Bana as VP R&D for India
Alcatel-Lucent has announced the appointment of Subhash Bana as vice president R&D reporting to Vivek Mohan, managing director of Alcatel-Lucent India. In his new role, Subhash will be responsible for improving engineering performance across the carrier and applications software activities, including R&D service delivery, quality and innovation enhancing support to the Indian customers. He will [...]
Broadband services still a top spending priority: study
Consumers are unwilling to part with their broadband services at home even in the midst of the economic downturn, preferring to cut spending on things like dining out and leisure travel, according to a series of recent studies sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent. These findings were uncovered as part of a global study exploring the impact of [...]
Asia-Pacific region to account for 1/3 of mobile data traffic
Asia Pacific will account for one-third of all mobile data traffic by 2013, if Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) is to be believed. As per Cisco’s VNI forecast, the global mobile traffic was projected to increase 66 fold between 2008 and 2013 with a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 131 per cent. The global [...]
Picochip launches eight-user HSPA femtocell reference design
Picochip has announced the PC8219, a baseband solution for eight-user WCDMA femtocells designed to run on its PC202 processor chip. Two of Picochip’s lead customers are uderstood to be key development partners for the product. The company has informed that the PC8219 is a complete eight-user femtocell baseband implementation, which is compliant with 3GPP Release [...]
Samsung launches solar-powered touch phone
Samsung Electronics has unveiled a solar powered full-touch screen phone ‘Blue Earth’, alongside Samsung’s vision for environmental sustainability. Designed to symbolise a flat and rounded shiny pebble, Blue Earth is claimed to be the first solar-powered full-touch screen phone. By charging with the solar panel located on the back of the phone, users can generate [...]
Huawei, Intel develop WiMAX test lab
Huawei Technologies, a provider of next-generation telecommunications network solutions, together with Intel, announced the launch of a new WiMAX Interoperability Testing (IOT) laboratory in Beijing. The testing lab has been jointly designed and built by Huawei and Intel. Huawei believes the completion of the lab represents a milestone in the effort to improve the speed [...]
Tower, Triune Systems collaborate on power management platform
Tower Semiconductor, a specialty foundry, and Triune Systems, an IC design and test development provider, have announced an agreement to collaborate on developing a power management platform. Through this collaboration, the companies will jointly design and develop intellectual property (IP) for Tower’s 0.18-micron Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) process to deliver a family of low and high voltage [...]
Research and Markets offers report on ‘Wireless in Education’
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the ‘Wireless in Education: Vendor and Service Provider Opportunities’ report to their offering. This iDRD (Insight-based Data-Rich Deliverable) is part of the Education vertical market subscription. The 12-page insight takes a look at wireless trends and activities in both the K-12 and higher education segments in the [...]
Worldwide mobile phone market declines: IDC
IDC, a provider of market intelligence, advisory services, has informed that according to its Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 289.0m units, 12.6 per cent lower than the 330.8m units shipped during 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped a total of 1.18bn units worldwide, 3.5 per cent greater than the [...]
Microsoft, Brother sign patent cross-licensing deal
Microsoft and Brother Industries have signed a patent cross-licensing agreement to allow access to each company’s respective patent portfolio. The agreement encompasses a range of patents and is expected to further each company’s research and development (R&D) efforts. Through this agreement, Brother Industries will gain access to Microsoft’s patents for Brother’s current and future product [...]
