With feature-phones drawing more consumer attention helped along by high-profile products such as Apple's iPhone and the speculated gPhone from Google, chipmakers for 3G and 3.5G phones are seeing growing opportunities,...

With a vision of the potential of the mobile TV market, Sangwoo Han, CTO of South Korea-based Future Communications IC (FCI), a subsidiary of Silicon Motion Technology, recently visited Taiwan and spoke about the advancement...

Although the promotion of MediaFLO as a standard for mobile TV broadcasting by Qualcomm was lagging behind other technologies such as DVB-H and DMB in the beginning, commercial MediaFLO broadcasts have begun in the US and...

VoIP telephony is increasingly being adopted in use around the world and Wi-Fi handsets are playing an ever larger role in this sector. Milos Djokovic, CEO and president of Zi Corporation, a company that specializes in...

Mobile TV is a hot topic. Technology standards have been set, spectrum has been allocated and the content is there. However, the industry is fragmented, with different markets supporting different standards and spectrums...

Best known as a designer of Bluetooth chips, CSR also does WiFi, with its UniFi chip. The Cambridge, UK, based company has now added a multimedia applications processor (MAP) to the UniFi solution for a low-cost VoIP-enabled...

Competition for the global telecom network equipment market promises to be fierce in 2007, heating up by the official operations of Alcatel-Lucent starting December 2006, Ericsson's announcement to acquire Redback Networks...

A number of handset and IT product makers in Taiwan have ventured into the production of PDA phones in the past two years, either on an OEM basis or as own-brand products. E-Ten Information Systems, previously a leading...

Formerly a senior advisor to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and research director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) at the University of California at Berkeley,...

Almost three years after it debuted at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), wireless USB remains one of the most promising implementations of ultra wideband (UWB) short-range radio technology, but it is still waiting for its...

Graphics used in mobile applications are increasingly being found in a variety of devices, from handsets to GPS navigation devices to ultra-mobile PCs and are playing an increasingly important role in the functioning of...

Next year is shaping up to be the year when premium broadcast TV content will start becoming available on handsets on a widespread basis, though issues including frequency allocation, content, conditional access and digital...

The enormous success of the mobile phone as a "must have" consumer item has brought in its train a number of security issues, and notably the unlocking of the SIM Lock/IMEI. There's a lot of pressure on designers...

The development of 3G and HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) technologies still remains the current focus of the mobile communications industry, and chances are low that WiMAX will become a mainstream standard since it is...

Although sales of pre-N (pre-802.11n) products in the retail channel were slower than expected in the third quarter of this year, increasing demand for pre-N modules from notebooks and broadband CPE (consumer premises equipment)...

Finland based and a specialist in IP for mobile video, Hantro is a small company but one with international representation. The company is now poised to offer both hardware- and software-IP solutions for emerging markets...

Stan Shih, founder of the Acer Group, considers that BenQ's plan of separating its own-brand and manufacturing operations will help enhance the company's own-brand...

Texas Instruments (TI) has established itself as a leading provider of chips for mobile phones, but as mobile devices see an increasing convergence between communications and entertainment, TI is increasingly positioning...

Texas Instruments (TI) has established itself as a leading provider of chips for mobile phones, but as mobile devices see an increasing convergence between communications and entertainment, TI is increasingly positioning...

Rumors of an AMD acquisition of ATI had been swirling for some time. Certainly the rumor mill was at work prior to Computex in June. Reactions to the initial rumors were varied, ranging from financial incredulity, when...

Industry observers and analysts are always on the look-out for the next big thing. Many of them think that the next big thing could be in a very small form factor – digital TV on the mobile phone and possibly other...

Thanks to its frequent appearances on the stage of IDF (Intel Developer Forum) conferences, WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) technology is often considered as a wireless solution that mainly depends...

Taiwan-based Universal Scientific Industrial's (USI's) successful product diversification strategy and transition of industry focus allowed it to recover from a financial crisis in 1999, with the company's business scope...

The name Philips has long been associated with consumer electronics, but as the concept of the connected home has developed and begun to take on meaning, Philips Semiconductors has become one of the main suppliers of silicon...

Global Positioning System (GPS) technology now has a wide range of applications in consumer electronics, thanks to major reductions in the size of chipsets and improvements in signal reception, according to Michael Canning,...