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Articles tagged with: Intel and Abi Research
Despite the Naysayers WiMAX Subscriber Revenue Will Boom in 2009
Any reader who believed all the recent headlines would feel confident that the WiMAX market is being crushed by LTE. Nortel has left the WiMAX market and Alcatel-Lucent has "backed off" from WiMAX; and these developments supposedly dealt a blow to Clearwire, which had so far chosen neither as an infrastructure vendor. But that's not quite the whole story. more
Related Tags: base-station, samsung, wimax, mobile-wimax, motorola, clearwire, lte, wimax-forum, alcatel-lucent, nortel, base-stations, wimax,, wireless-broadband, motorola,
Ultra-Mobile Device Market Becoming Processor Battleground
The processor vendors supplying chips for UMDs (ultra-mobile devices) are playing a pivotal role in how this market is shaping up. X86-based processors are well entrenched in the PC world and ARM-based processors are well entrenched in the handset world. more
Related Tags: netbooks, compete, mobile-internet
New Devices Will Challenge Mobile Royalty Levels
..perceived value of the wireless component of a device, the current intellectual property licensing regime will also be pressured into change from the notion that declared essentiality in the ETSI standardization process is somewhat flawed. more
Related Tags: wcdma, cdma, patents, gsm, displays, etsi
Texas Instruments Tops Mobile Internet Device Platform Vendor Ranking
Texas Instruments has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Qualcomm and intel claimed the second and third spots in the company's new evaluation of worldwide MID platform vendors. more
Related Tags: semiconductor, texas-instruments, qualcomm, rsa, gps
82 Million Location-based Mobile Social Networking Subscriptions by 2013
Mobile location-based social networking is expected to become a key driver for the uptake of location-based services as it provides a unifying framework for a large set of applications such as friend finders, local search and geo-tagging. While many LBS applications will include features allowing the sharing of real-time experiences via fixed social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, fully-fledged mobile location-based social networking sites will also gain momentum with more than 82 million subscriptions expected by 2013. more
Related Tags: social-networking, edge, gps, lbs, pnds, in-car, nissan
Multi-Mode WiMAX-LTE Chips to Hit Markets in 2009
2009 will see the introduction of a new class of wireless communications chip that features dual-mode support for both WiMAX and LTE, according to ABI Research. The thrust of demand for such chips comes from those wireless device makers seeking to reduce the number of their SKUs; they will welcome the economies of scale that come from creating devices that support both 4G standards. more
Related Tags: wimax, vodafone, netbooks, lte, kddi, 4g, usb, dual-mode
Ultra-Mobile Device Market to be Worth $27 Billion by 2013
The fledgling market for ultra-mobile devices (UMDs) - a catch-all term that includes ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs), netbooks, and mobile Internet devices (MIDs) - is already complex, and will become more complicated as it grows. A few salient forecast numbers may serve to guide vendors and investors as they negotiate this tricky landscape. more
Related Tags: smartphone, smartphones, wind, netbooks, netbook, mobile-internet, windows, linux
Firefox Mobile Browser Nears Release as Microsoft Shuts Down
.. not be ready until the end of next year. Lilly commented that "we [Mozilla] want to make sure that the Web on mobile is more like the Web than what the mobile industry offers today, which is closed, separate networks and not a very good more
Related Tags: microsoft, mobile-internet, opera, java, web-browser, mozilla, firefox, display
Linux to Take Lion's Share of MID Market
The Mobile Internet Devices (MID) market is likely to be the first real example of a greenfield situation in which all mobile operating systems start on the same equal footing, without the baggage of previous histories such as existed in the smartphone market. The Linux OS, in the form of Moblin, LiMo and Maemo, looks ready to take the lion's share of the MID market and is set to capture unit volumes of 50 millions units per annum in 2013. more
Related Tags: windows-mobile, smartphones, wind, mobile-internet, linux, moblin, os
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