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Articles tagged with: Google and Qualcomm
Smart Phones Ring in Healthy Growth in 2009 Despite Mobile Meltdown
Although the outlook for the overall mobile handset market continues to dim, smart phones remain a bright spot with global unit growth as high as 11.1 percent in 2009, iSuppli is predicting. iSuppli's optimistic forecast for global smart phone unit shipments calls for 192.3 million units in 2009, up 11.1 percent from 173.6 million in 2008. A more pessimistic outlook calls for growth of only 6 percent this year, reaching 183.9 million units. more
Related Tags: android, orange, 3g, windows-mobile, microsoft, nokia, sim, social-networking, samsung, apple, isuppli, ict, huawei, wind, ovi, lg, rim, personal, symbian, smart, operating-system, windows, widgets, google-android, churn, os
Using Mobile Phones to Boost Health Care Provision
Three of the world's leading foundations involved in global health, technology and humanitarian assistance - the Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Foundation - have announced an agreement to form the Mobile Health (mHealth) Alliance, a partnership that will work to maximize the impact of mobile health, especially in the developing world. more
Related Tags: microsoft, nokia, cisco, cisco, rural, itu, vodafone, lte, mit, gsma, smart, vodafone-foundation, united-nations, mhealth, nokia,, health
Qualcomm Aiming at Intel's Market
Qualcomm is aiming to move into the territory dominated by the likes of Intel with its Snapdragon chipset platform which is aimed at the mini-laptops more commonly known as netbooks. However, Intel itself is also increasingly moving into the mobile device market, so Qualcomm faces both an opportunity and a risk. more
Related Tags: android, microsoft, intel, smartphone, wind, netbooks, snapdragon, asus, smart, windows, linux, chipset
Android OS Seen Working on Qualcomm Snapdragon Chipsets
Device Software Optimization firm, Wind River says that it has developed software code that will help enable support for the google backed, Android mobile software running on larger screen-sized mobile computing devices using Snapdragon chipsets from Qualcomm. more
Related Tags: android, wind, netbooks, snapdragon, chipsets, wind-river
Financial Crisis Hits Mobile Phone Sales as Q3 Shipment Growth Slows
The worldwide mobile phone industry felt the impact of the global financial crisis in the third quarter of 2008 (3Q08) as total handset shipments were down significantly over previous quarters. Mobile phone manufacturers shipped a total of 299.0 million handsets in 3Q08, up 3.2% from last year, and down -0.4% over 2Q08. The third quarter of the year has historically been a ramp-up quarter as manufacturers load their sales channels with handsets in preparation for the holiday season, producing year-over-year growth rates as high as 20% as a result. This year has not witnessed a similar ramp up, largely due to the current economic situation. more
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Hutchison Whampoa Launches Handset Subsidiary
Hutchison Whampoa has launched its own mobile phone subsidiary, INQ Mobile to develop phones for its 3G networks worldwide. The company aims to launch a range of low to mid-priced handsets based largely on free operating systems, likely to be either Linux or the google backed Android OS - and will be based on Qualcomm chips. more
Related Tags: android, social-networking, skype, voip, seven, facebook, hutchison, inq-mobile, linux, os, 3g-network
Motorola Reported to be Working on a "Google Phone"
It has been reported that Motorola is ramping up development of mobile phones based on the google backed Android Operating System. The company is understood to have 50 staff working on Android phones and is ramping up its team to 350 people. more
Related Tags: android, windows-mobile, microsoft, smartphone, motorola, smartphones, wind, verizon, gartner, symbian, mobile-linux, operating-system, windows, linux, os, fingerprints
Qualcomm Working on Google Android Phone
Qualcomm has confirmed that it is working on an iPhone rival platform which would be based on the google supported open-source Android operating system. Chief Operating Officer Sanjay Jha, speaking at an analysts presentation said that the company anticipates that a large number of Android phones would run on Qualcomm platforms. more
Related Tags: android, open-handset-alliance, htc, snapdragon
Nokia, Qualcomm Arguments Come to Head in Delaware Court
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Nokia and Qualcomm begin a key trial on Wednesday that could bring the long-running rivals closer towards a resolution, potentially determining the fate of hundreds of millions of dollars in royalty payments and setting the tone for how technology standards bodies are created. more
Related Tags: android, intel, european-commission, wcdma, wind, tim, patents, symbian, operating-system, leo, delaware, nokia,, option
Nokia CFO Sees Market-Share Gains in 2008
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Nokia should gain market share this year because of the areas in which it operates, according to Chief Financial Officer Rick Simonson. more
Related Tags: android, samsung, wcdma, smartphones, motorola, chief-financial-officer, motorola,, razr
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