chicBuds is best known for its fashion oriented designs of mobile music accessories. A new addition to their girls side of the products is the Fauvette rechargeable speaker. The fashionable bird shaped speaker is available in 3 colors (blue, pink and black crystal) , is small enough to hold in your hand and charges from a…
At the Flash Memory Summit, Sandisk discussed their participation in the new consortium for HQME – High Quality Mobile Experience . The group was formed to discuss and standardize the QOE for the deliery and viewing of mobile content. The statistics are that 60% of the net capacity of mobile networks is used for mobile video…
June 29, 2011 – Santa Clara, CA – Glen Lurie, President of Emerging Devices at AT&T discussed the new connections for a digital life. Mr. Lurie is best known as the person who brought the iPhone to AT&T when the other carriers passed on the opportunity. Glen talked about the future where everything is connected…
May 10, 2011 – Las Vegas, NV – Smith Micro was showing their wireless connection manager product at Interop. Unlike other offerings which are targeted at either the end user level or the IT admin level, the Smith Micro product also supports telco and spectrum owners for private RF networks. Their device management suite is…
April 20, 2011 – San Jose, CA – At the Linley Group Mobile Processor Conference, the discussion was on the directions and types of processors being created for the mobile space. The mobile space has greatly changed from the time of voice communication era for basic cell phones with Laptops as the dominant mobile technologies….
For more than 20 years, flash memory has enabled the creation of new markets such as digital photography, digital music and portable high-capacity data storage. Now, flash-based solid state drive (SSD) technology is poised to drive significant changes in the mobile and PC computing industries (Fig. 1). Figure 1:Examples of new markets enabled by flash…
March 22, 2011 – Orlando, FL – At the International CTIA Wireless event, Smith Micro discussed the updates on their mobile connectivity management tools. This suite of products is designed for both major public wireless service providers (AT&T, Verizon, etc) as well as companies that have privatized wireless networks (UPS, Fedex, utilities, etc). Some of…
January 18, 2011, Common Platform Technology Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Jim Thompson, senior vice president of engineering at Qualcomm noted that mobile is now the biggest platform for communications in all of history. There are over 5 billion subscribers and over 1 billion of these people are on 3G networks. This number on 3G or 4G…
October 5, 2010, Billboard Mobile Entertainment Live, Moscone West, San Francisco—in a morning panel, some executives from major labels, touring business, and management companies got together to talk about the new generation of the music business. Bill Werde, editorial director of Billboard moderated the panel. Speakers included Justin Little, day-to-day manager at Zeitgeist Artist Management,…
October 5, 2010, Billboard Mobile Entertainment Live, Moscone West, San Francisco—in a morning keynote, Christy Wyatt, corporate vice president of software platforms at Motorola mobile devices said they changed the focus in an effort to regain market relevance. For the past few years, they’ve had over eight operating systems, which required a lot of effort…