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Smartphone Sales Leap Ahead of PCs for First Time Ever

Paul Lilly — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:25:20 +0000

Nobody in their right mind would dump their desktop or notebook PC for a smartphone, but plenty of people are willing to own both as they seek to stay connected and check email on the fly. Underscoring this point is fact that smartphone sales in 2011 skipped ahead of PC sales, and by a pretty wide margin, according to data released by Canalys. Canalys says vendors shipped 158.5 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2011, up 57 percent on the 101.2 million units shipped in the same quarter one year prior. [......]

The Trade Show Is Dead: Samsung Not Launching Galaxy S II Successor At MWC

Nathan Edwards — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:05:11 +0000

The Samsung Galaxy S II successor will not be in attendance at Mobile World Congress. The company issued a statement this morning indicating that the phone will get its own event, one that’s closer to its launch date. But don’t worry that much for MWC. [......]

Harvard Study Says Tablet PCs are a Pain in the Neck

Paul Lilly — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:18:50 +0000

Time flies when you're having fun, which would explain all the lost productivity to mobile apps like Angry Birds, Temple Run, and Kingdom Rush. [......]

Intel Planning Mobile SoC With Integrated 4G

Brad Chacos — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:23:17 +0000

Intel's move into the mobile market is less than two weeks old and already the company's looking to make waves. At CES, CEO Paul Otellini revealed that Intel's Atom Z2460 -- aka "Medfield" -- chips would be powering Motorola and Lenovo phones in the second half of the year [......]

Samsung Starts Producing Embedded Multi-Chip Memory for Smartphones in Bulk

Paul Lilly — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:53:10 +0000

Samsung late last night put the word out that it's started producing embedded multi-chip package (eMCP) memory for use in entry-level and mid-range smartphones. The new eMCP solutions are offered to manufacturers in a wide range of densities and utilize LPDDR2 (low power double-data-rate 2) DRAM made with 30nm class process technology and NAND flash memory using 20nm class technology, Samsung said. "As the need is growing for more advanced software and increased data storage in smartphones and tablets, mobile device makers are expected to introduce embedded memory solutions throughout 2012 that offer higher performance and density," said Myungho Kim , vice president of memory marketing, Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics[......]

Microsoft Rolls Out Windows Phone Update, Freaks Customers Out with Policy Change

Paul Lilly — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:05:09 +0000

Microsoft has begun rolling out a Windows Phone update intended to stomp out myriad bugs and glitches associated with the mobile OS platform, and that should be received as a good thing. So why are so many Windows Phone users freaking out and suddenly worrying about fragmentation similar to what exists on Android? It has to do with a change in Microsoft's transparency policy[......]

Turtle Beach Unveils New Headsets, Teases Spike TV Announcement

Paul Lilly — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:06:59 +0000

Aesop tried to teach us that slow and steady wins the race and he used a turtle to drive the point home. That's cute, but out here in the real world, companies are blitzing the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with pre-show announcements quick as can be, and that includes Turtle Beach, which unveiled a bunch of new products spanning wireless, mobile, and Dolby Surround Sound technologies. [......]

Lenovo Introduces ThinkPad Hybrid Laptop and 1TB Ultrabook for Business Users

Paul Lilly — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:50:08 +0000

The folks over at Lenovo have been busy unwrapping a bunch of new notebook models for its business customers, and two of the more interesting units are the new ThinkPad X1 Hybrid and ThinkPad T430u Ultrabook. Both will be demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week before shipping off to retail later this year[......]

LG To Debut Second Intel-Powered Smartphone At CES 2012

Paul Lilly — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:13:56 +0000

"If at first you don’t succeed, try try again." It looks like LG and Intel have taken that old adage to heart, if a new report is to be believed. The Korea Times reports that LG will debut an Intel-powered smartphone at CES 2012, but the bigger question is whether or not the device will ever make it to market. LG and Intel’s first mobile partnership yielded an Android smartphone running on Intel’s Moorestown chipset for CES 2011 , but the device was ultimately scrapped. [......]

2011—we gained net neutrality, met Aaron Barr, and bid farewell to Righthaven

Justin Kerr — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:40:00 +0000

Legislators, regulators, and litigators aren't known for snap decisions, so tech policy stories tend to drag on… and on. But they do come to a resolution eventually, and some of this year's most important stories wound their way to a more-or-less satisfying conclusion. [......]