Mobile backhaul equipment investments jumped a healthy 59% in 2008 to $3.7 billion worldwide, and Infonetics Research is forecasting another 60% jump in 2009 to $5.9 billion Full story...
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Bangladesh's Grameenphone witnessed a jolt in subscription growth in the last quarter of 2009 with start-up campaigns pushing the total number of subscriptions over the 23 million subscription base.
Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) has reported that its net profit for the quarter ended 31 December 2009 rose 24% to S$991 million, with its businesses in Singapore, Australia and regional mobile associates reporting improved performance.
A new study analyzing the impact of hand-held cell phone legislation on driving safety concludes that usage-ban laws had more of an impact in densely populated urban areas with a higher number of licensed drivers than in rural areas where there are fewer licensed drivers, Click here for more.
Texas Instruments has shown off the industry's first semiconductor chip to integrate WLAN 802.11n, GPS, FM transmit/receive and Bluetooth technologies into a single platform.
Mobile infrastructure market revenues are forecast to grow over the next 5 years and reach $42 billion in 2014, but will still be shy of the record revenues of over $43 billion reached in 2008 Click here for more.
According to The NPD Group feature phones are increasingly moving to new forms of input made popular by smartphones.
Just as the heartbeats of today's electronic devices depend on the ability to switch the flow of electricity in semiconductors on and off with lightning speed, the viability of the "spintronic" devices of the future -- technologies that manipulate both the flow and magnetic "spin" of electrons -- will require similarly precise control over semiconductor magnetism.
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