New York — Texas Instruments (TXN) has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Qualcomm (QCOM) and Intel Corporation (INTC) claimed the second and third spots in the company’s new evaluation of worldwide MID platform vendors. ”Certain MID vendors can work with ARM directly if they are used

A British doctor volunteering in DR Congo used text message instructions from a colleague to perform a life-saving amputation on a boy. The BBC reports. ... The 16-year-old boy had been bitten by a hippo, his left arm had been ripped off and was badly infected and gangrenous. Vascular surgeon David Nott knew he needed to perform a forequarter amputation, which requires the surgeon to remove the co...

The mobile broadband industry in the US received a big shot in the arm with Monday’s announcement that Clearwire completed their transaction with Sprint Nextel to combine their next generation wireless Internet businesses

Rating: Consumer unfamiliarity with smartphones is holding mobile internet back Despite the prevalence of new, easy to use smartphones, the mobile internet just hasn’t taken off the way it had been hoped. People still find it to awkward to really take advantage of internet access on mobile devices. Yahoo’s mobile arm, Connected Life, believes that consumer ...

The kind folks at Nokia's PR arm have provided us with a trial N96 device for a first hand look. See below for a description of some of the top selling points of this device, a few short comings, and a details intro video that drags on for about 11 minutes

Nowadays, almost every PC has some sort of dual-core processor: some have a virtualized solution like Hyperthreading, while others employ two physical cores. Unfortunately, ARM processors have been single-core only so far…a fact which is said to change in the near future. According to the Symbian Foundation, Symbian is well posed for these upcoming processors due

A very unfortunate decision for largest mobile manufacturer, Nokia. The Finn company has decided to cease sales in Japan, due to very tiny part amount of market share. The only arm that will stay is the luxurious Vertu. It is part of Nokia step on overcoming global economic downturn. Japan is the fourth largest market in ...

Found under: Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Nvidia, Tegra, Nvidia Tegra, Pocket PC, Smartphones, GSMA, The GPU maker giant Nvidia is stepping into the mobile market in a whole new way that may give ARM and Intel a run for their money next year. Slow news day today as everyone may already gather but that aint stopping me from scouring the web for something worthwhile to drop ...

Remember laptops that come with dual switchable graphic chips? Well, the same strategy could be adopted for the CPUs of laptops, as laptop makers mull ways to stretch battery life to make their devices stand out. One possibility would be to create a hybrid netbook that comes with both Intel CPU and ARM-based processors in a single device. The idea is that the more energy efficient A...

T-Mobile's G1 handset manufactured by HTC was used to show how Flash would work with the Android web viewing experience at the Adobe MAX conference according to MobileTopSoft. Adobe had promised to bring Flash 10 to ARM-powered devices by late next year. In the meantime, you can download FlashLite 3.1 to run with Opera 9.5 on your mobile handsets to hold you over. Comments