| Apple, Nordic extend support to Bluetooth
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2011-06-23 |
| Apple and Nordic Semiconductor join the board of directors of the Bluetooth SIG and will be looked upon for participation and guidance on platform development and ultra-low power sensor silicon for Bluetooth |
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| Zoosh mobile payment contends with NFC
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2011-06-22 |
| Naratte Inc.'s Zoosh mobile payment technology is positioned as an alternative to NFC, particularly for enabling via a mobile app existing systems that do not support NFC. |
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| Neul details 'white-space' radio network
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2011-06-17 |
| Neul Ltd reveals some more details of its first white-space radio network called Neulnet and the standard behind that Neul has dubbed Weightless. |
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| Nordic to award Bluetooth design-to-product aid
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2011-06-16 |
| Nordic announces aid to all three finalists of the Bluetooth Innovation World Cup to start developing products based on their winning Bluetooth low energy product design ideas |
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| Auto semiconductor market surges by 15% in 2011
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2011-06-15 |
| Communications, safety and telematics, and green initiatives contribute 15 per cent rise in automobile semiconductor market in 2011, according to market research firm IC Insights. |
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| Renesas Mobile CEO eyes LTE market
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2011-05-31 |
| Renesas Mobile's CEO shares his ambition to turn the company into a credible competitor against Qualcomm armed with a proven and trusted LTE protocol stack gained from Nokia. |
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| Android to get unified, USB support
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2011-05-13 |
| Google Inc. plans to pull together separate versions of its Android environment and extend the software to support USB, according to its agenda at its annual developers' conference. |
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| 2011 Wi-Fi Direct-enabled shipments touch 17.3 crore
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2011-04-28 |
| Wi-Fi Direct is expected to have a break out year in 2011 with 17.3 crore shipments expected to be led by desktop and notebook PCs, digital TVs, and mobile phones. |
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| 94 crore GPS-enabled handsets to ship in 2015
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2011-04-26 |
| Berg Insight forecasts a 28.8 per cent compound annual growth rate in GPS-enabled handsets with shipments expected to touch 94 crore units in 2015. |
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| Atheros lines up embedded Wi-Fi, powerline chips
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2011-04-25 |
| Atheros is lining up its first series of low-power, embedded Wi-Fi chips and a software developer's kit for its upcoming powerline chip based on the HomePlug Green PHY specification. |
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| Bluetooth spec delays make way for rival technologies
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2011-03-28 |
| Bluetooth Low Energy is expected to make its way into 46.7 crore health care and personal fitness devices by 2016, however spec delays have opened up the market for rival technologies |
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| Bluetooth low energy brings revolutionary opportunities
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2011-03-21 |
| Bluetooth has had 10 years of development, unparalleled experience that the industry is now able to bring to bear on Bluetooth low energy and help it find a home in a wide range of new applications |
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| Smartphones poised to drive semiconductor revenues
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2011-03-14 |
| In 2015, the mobile phone semiconductor component revenue will exceed Rs.3.64 lakh crore ($80 billion), a compound annual growth rate of 10.8 per cent, with smart phones driving growth over the next five years. |
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| Ford introduces Sync voice control system
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2011-03-10 |
| Ford's Sync voice control system tailored for the European market brings significant computing power into vehicles offering features such as CE connectivity and Wi-Fi hotspot. |
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| AT4 wireless labs provide NFC Forum certification
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2011-03-10 |
| AT4 wireless laboratories in Taiwan, U.S. and Spain introduce the Rider NFC test system to provide NFC Forum certification to NFC devices. |
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| TI brings ZigBee into Android phones, tablets
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2011-03-09 |
| Texas Instruments' Android 2.2 software development platform eases the integration of the ZigBee and ZigBee RF4CE protocol stacks to directly connect mobile devices to CE and smart home apps. |
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| LED backlighting thrusts digital TV growth
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2011-03-01 |
| IHS iSuppli forecasts a 16.5 per cent growth in the worldwide DTV semiconductor market in 2011 with revenues of Rs.71,092.56 crore ($15.5 billion) attributed mainly to the LED backlighting segment. |
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| Wi-Fi boosts WLAN chipset market
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2011-02-24 |
| Wi-Fi is becoming a must-have feature in electronic devices ranging from TVs to cameras to car entertainment systems, and it's pushing shipments of WLAN chipsets to double in 2011, says IHS iSuppli. |
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| Bluetooth up against body area network technology
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2011-02-24 |
| Body area network (BAN) technology rivals Bluetooth Low Energy across a wide range of medical and consumer applications |
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| Android phone gets solar-charged
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2011-02-23 |
| China-based Umeox unveiled a solar-powered Android cell phone called Apollo at the Mobile World Congress. |
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| Medical, industrial apps spur Bluetooth growth
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2011-02-23 |
| Bluetooth-enabled devices in this segment will see a CAGR of about 85 per cent between 2009 and 2014 and this growth will be driven by Bluetooth Low Energy, reports In-Stat |
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| Broadcom-ARM licence deal threatens MIPS
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2011-02-18 |
| Analysts believe Broadcom will still use MIPS for processor cores in other products and ARM for its mobile application and video processors. |
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| TI, ANT pack health connection into mobile phone
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2011-02-18 |
| ANT Wireless and Texas Instruments present the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc smart phone that can natively communicate with the ultra-low-power (ULP) ANT+ network of health and fitness devices. |
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| BMW's navigation soln enhances real-time traffic info
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2011-02-14 |
| BMW is set to launch its next generation of traffic information system featured in its ConnectedDrive communications platform that will provide significantly improved real-time traffic information (RTTI). |
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| RF4CE gains industry support
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2011-02-11 |
| IMS Research forecasts that more than 25 crore RF4CE ICs will be shipped in 2015 driven by strong industry support for RF4CE in future remote-control products. |
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| Ubiquisys creates personal femtocell
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2011-02-02 |
| Ubiquisys has claimed the world's first attocell—a personal femtocell that is intended for people traveling abroad, allowing them to make and receive mobile calls the way they do in their home country. |
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| CSR licenses ARM cores for auto navigation equipment
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2011-01-31 |
| CSR licenses ARM's Cortex-A5 and A9 cores for automotive navigation and location-aware consumer equipment use in countries such as Brazil, Russia, India and China. |
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| Sony adopts ARM Cortex-A9 for NGP game console
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2011-01-31 |
| Sony plans to launch its next-generation portable entertainment system (codenamed NGP) adopting ARM's four-core Cortex-A9 processor and Imagination Technologies' PowerVR SGX543MP4+ graphics core. |
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| Silicon Image focuses on CE connectivity co-processor
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2011-01-28 |
| Silicon Image's Martino focuses on a connectivity co-processor that addresses multiple connectivity standards such as HDMI, MHL, Ethernet, USB to Bluetooth and other wireless standards for CE devices |
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| Qualcomm bags Atheros
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2011-01-10 |
| The acquisition will let Qualcomm integrate full connectivity features into its SnapDragon processors, including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS |
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