MediaTek CMO: Ecosystem building just as important as chip design
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Johan Lodenius, CMO at MediaTek, is on a mission to extend the influence of the Taiwanese firm beyond its chip designs. “A lot of what MediaTek does is about accelerating and reducing...
View ArticleGoogle on verge of MVNO launch – report
Google is set to unveil its MVNO service later today and charge customers for the amount of data they use, rather than sell data ‘buckets’, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). There is no...
View ArticleTurkey still linked to 5G ‘jump’
Reports from last week that Turkey’s president, Tayyip Erdogan, was urging the country to go straight to ‘5G’ and not bother with 4G have not gone away. A government minister, according to a local...
View ArticleCiena beefs up SDN/NFV platform with $400M Cyan deal
Network supplier Ciena announced a $400 million cash and stock deal to acquire software specialist Cyan, marking yet another move by traditional hardware vendors to shore up their NFV/SDN credentials...
View ArticleITU turns spotlight on 5G core networks
ITU, a UN agency for telecommunications, created a new focus group to look at standardisation requirements of wireline networks to support 5G RANs. The network study group is within the purview of...
View ArticleSpiderCloud chief plans virtualisation push in “coming months”
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Mike Gallagher, CEO of SpiderCloud, a small-cell specialist for the enterprise, told Mobile World Live that the company would shortly be making announcements related to virtualisation...
View ArticleBT boasts 50,000 consumer mobile subs
BT was sufficiently impressed with take-up of its recently-launched consumer mobile service, BT Mobile [1], to announce that its range of SIM-only offers had attracted over 50,000 customers in the...
View ArticleNvidia facing $125M charge on modem business exit
Nvidia said it is facing restructuring charges of $100 million to $125 million following its decision to wind-down Icera, its modem business, if it is unable to sell the unit. Earlier this week the...
View ArticleEricsson accuses Apple of wanting special treatment over patent royalties
Ericsson has taken its legal battle with Apple to Europe – filing lawsuits in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK – to ramp up pressure on the iPhone-maker to pay royalties, on standard-essential...
View ArticleGerman carmakers may need help in race for HERE – report
Car manufacturers Audi, BMW and Daimler, which reportedly clubbed together to make an indicative bid for HERE, Nokia’s digital mapping business, may need outside financial help if they are to fend off...
View ArticleEE LTE traffic now exceeds 3G; hits 10M 4G subs
EE, the UK’s largest mobile operator, said LTE traffic volumes now surpassed 3G, and that it was the first operator in Europe to amass more than 10 million 4G subscribers. Last month the company...
View ArticleVodafone finds nearly half of UK businesses have no plans for 4G
A survey of British businesses, commissioned by Vodafone UK, found nearly two-thirds do not have 4G, while 41 per cent said they had no plans to adopt the technology. Phil Mottram, enterprise director...
View ArticleTurkey postpones 4G auction in wake of President’s call for 5G
Turkey’s Ministry of Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communications announced that the country’s 4G auction will take place on 26 August, three months later than the Information and Communication...
View ArticleWicab chief says mobile can help blind people ‘see’
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Robert Beckman, CEO of medical firm Wicab, is looking to mobile and wireless technologies to improve the company’s first-generation ‘BrainPort V100’ device, which is designed to help...
View ArticleSamsung wins some ground in US patent dispute with Apple
A US appeals court in Washington DC ruled that around 40 per cent of the $930 million in damages that Samsung was ordered to pay Apple for patent infringements - which stemmed from a 2012 ruling -...
View ArticleHuawei launches “world’s lightest” OS for Internet of Things
Huawei unveiled its ‘Agile IoT’ solution, which includes 'LiteOS', an Internet of Things operating system (OS) that the Chinese supplier claims is the lightest of its kind anywhere in the world,...
View ArticleAlcaLu claims industry first with ‘carrier SDN’ platform; scores Asia win
Alcatel-Lucent unveiled a new network services platform (NSP) that utilises software-defined networking (SDN) at both the IP and optical layers – an industry first says the supplier – and which holds...
View ArticleNokia Networks boosts SON portfolio with Eden Rock buy
Nokia Networks, the infrastructure arm of Nokia, reached an agreement to buy US-based Eden Rock Communications, a specialist in multi-vendor self-organising networks (SON). According to Nokia, SON is...
View ArticleAvago confirms $37B Broadcom buy
Semiconductor company Avago Technologies is to acquire rival Broadcom in a $37 billion deal, in a move which the acquirer said will give it “the most diversified communications platform in the...
View ArticleEurope strikes 5G R&D deal with Japan
The European Union (EU) joined forces with Japan to work towards a “common understanding of 5G”, identify "new harmonised frequencies” for the next-generation technology, and cooperate on future 5G...
View ArticleNokia moves into the cloud with “disruptive” AirFrame product launch
Nokia today unveiled what it claimed is “the first offering that combines the benefits of cloud computing technologies with the stringent requirements of the core and radio in the telco world”, as the...
View ArticleIntel inks $17B Altera buy
Intel confirmed its anticipated acquisition of semiconductor company Altera, with a definitive agreement signed for an approximately $16.7 billion all-cash deal. In a statement, Brian Krzanich, CEO of...
View ArticleDocomo, EE and Nokia stress role of LTE on path to 5G
Nokia, EE and NTT Docomo see 5G as an evolution of 4G, with many of the proposed technology changes able to be deployed alongside existing technology implementations. Speaking at an event in London...
View ArticleOperators and vendors predict long life for 2G
LIVE FROM LTE WORLD SUMMIT 2015: Big name operators and vendors such as EE, KPN, Nokia, Orange and Vodafone this week agreed that 2G technology is likely to live on into a fruitful old-age alongside 4G...
View ArticleDocomo details phased approach to 5G launch; preps 5G+
LIVE FROM LTE WORLD SUMMIT 2015: Japanese operator NTT Docomo gave an update on its plans for its targeted 5G launch from 2020, which will be split into two phases – tagged 5G and 5G+. In order to meet...
View ArticleBlog: Are Apple, Google unfair internet gatekeepers?
The European Commission (EC) is putting its foot down, and some of the tech world's big hitters are in its crosshairs. Following a mid-term review of its Digital Single Market strategy, the commission...
View ArticleCTA, Trump push for tech skills training
LIVE FROM CES 2020, LAS VEGAS: Consumer Technology Association (CTA) CEO Gary Shapiro (pictured, left), urged tech companies to prioritise staff training to avoid hindering the pace of innovation....
View ArticleVodafone ups diversity efforts
Vodafone Group took steps towards increasing diversity in the technology sector by introducing an industry-wide initiative focused on addressing inequalities and unveiling a strategy to boost women’s...
View ArticleIFA Berlin to get fresh format
Organisers of consumer electronics show IFA Berlin pulled the plug on a physical event this year due to government measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 (coronavirus), but pledged the show will go on...
View ArticleNavigation app for the blind launches in the US
Waymap reportedly scored the US debut of a self-titled app designed to guide vision-impaired people through public transport systems three months after joining a Verizon start-up accelerator programme...
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