Broadcom working on netbook device?
US chip shop Broadcom is thought to be following rivals Qualcomm and Intel into the netbook or Mobile Internet Devices (MID) space, after it licensed ARM’s Cortex A9 multicore processor this week.
Mobile operator Orange got behind the Nokia-Intel founded Linux initiative MeeGo on Wednesday, anticipating the creation of a new channel for the delivery of consumer multimedia services.
As Las Vegas gadget show CES wound up at the end of last week, Intel announced that it too would be going after a slice of the app store action.
US chip shop Broadcom is thought to be following rivals Qualcomm and Intel into the netbook or Mobile Internet Devices (MID) space, after it licensed ARM’s Cortex A9 multicore processor this week.
It’s looking more and more like Intel has designs on the mobile handset space, with the chip giant this week demonstrating a version of its Linux-based Moblin platform for handsets.
Finnish mobile handset vendor Nokia confirmed expectations Monday with the launch of its first netbook product, the Booklet 3G.
During the 1980s an inferno of socio-political debate threatened to raze the great institution of big-haired power balladry to its very foundations. On one side, shaking her hips super-fast to add urgency to her cause was Tina Turner. An avowed individualist and staunch believer in self-determination, Turner’s rallying cry - “We don’t need another hero” - thundered around the steamy-windowed corridors of power.
Obviously not content with letting Qualcomm corner the market on vague sounding ultra mobile device niches, Nokia has hooked up with Intel to “define a new mobile platform beyond today’s smartphones, notebooks and netbooks”.
Despite the rollout of HSPA networks gathering pace around the world, with the top-end of the HSPA range (without MIMO) offering peak downlink rates of 14.4Mbps, it does not unduly concern Siavash Alamouti, CTO of Intel’s Mobile Wireless Group.
US chip shop Intel stepped up its game in the mobile space on Friday, announcing the acquisition of mobile and embedded devices software firm Wind River for $884m.
Japan may be home to a high amount of cellular internet users - 87 per cent of the country’s 106 cellphone users go online - but that does not faze Takeshi Tanaka, president of UQ Communications, which is gearing up to launch commercial mobile WiMAX services on 1st July 2009.