November 11, 2011 Siri, the natural language assistant for iPhone 4S users, has taken on a Web assistant, a free online guide for answering the many questions about her sassy personality. Read more

November 2, 2011 Thanks to the new Z-Wave Alliance member Fibaro, intelligent homes can now be achieved with millimetre-sized components. The company manufactures the smallest flush-mounted home automation modules for built-in boxes available on the market: the Fibaro wall inserts can be used to convert any series of switches into switches or dimmers controlled wirelessly by Z-Wave technology without the need for the complex installation of components or the replacement of expensive switches. Read more

October 17, 2011 Apple's latest iPhone—the iPhone 4S—may share many similarities to the iPhone 4, but it also features several notable upgrades, including a major upgrade to the applications processor, the use of a higher-resolution and more advanced camera module and the addition of a new cellular radio that makes the iPhone 4S a true "world phone," according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. Read more

August 30, 2011 By 2016, smartphones with touchscreens will account for 97 percent of all smartphone volume, up from 75 percent in 2010, according to market research firm ABI Research Inc. Read more

June 15, 2011 Apple Inc., will pay a one-time lump sum and ongoing royalties of undisclosed amounts in a patent licensing agreement with Nokia Inc., that settles all patent litigation between the two companies, Nokia said Tuesday (June 14). Read more

April 6, 2011 Oscium has selected Cypress Semiconductor's PSoC 3 programmable system-on-chip for its revolutionary iMSO-104 mixed signal oscilloscope for iPod touch, iPhone and iPad. The PSoC 3 device in the iMSO-104 seamlessly manages the two-way communication between the oscilloscope and any iOS device via Apple's proprietary dock connector, and also processes the incoming analog and digital signals. Read more

February 10, 2011 STMicroelectronics NV retained its position as the No. 1 supplier of micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) chips in 2010, while TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. cracked the top 10 among MEMS chip vendors for the first time, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. Read more

January 27, 2011 With the iPhone 4 paving the way, global demand for microelectromechanical system (MEMS) devices in cell phones will rise robustly during the coming years, helping the total MEMS market to expand in healthy measure at least through 2014, according to new IHS iSuppli research. Read more

January 26, 2011 Ubiquisys claims to offer the world's first attocell - a personal femtocell. Designed primarily for people travelling abroad, it enables mobile calls to be made and received as though in their home country. Read more

January 26, 2011 Apple is in discussions with retailers and contract manufacturers about supporting mobile payments on future iOS devices such as the iPhone5, according to one analyst. The company is one of several expected to deliver secure transaction services on mobile devices in 2011, according to a report in the January issue of EE Times Confidential. Read more

January 12, 2011 iMovee Corp., has launched Mobeo, an advanced wireless pocket streamer that enables broadcast mobile TV on any WiFi enabled device, smartphone or tablet. Mobeo brings “Telefusion” to smartphones and tablets by combining Live Broadcast TV, live streaming TV/VOD and Social Media networks. Read more

January 6, 2011 AT&T is accelerating its plans to roll out LTE services and Android-based smartphones. The news comes in the wake of archrival Verizon turning on LTE services in early December, and rumors Verizon will offer a next-generation Apple iPhone soon. Read more

January 5, 2011 IPWireless has announced the launch of an Integrated Mobile Broadcast (IMB) accessory made for the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPad. The IMB accessory, which relieves network congestion by offloading 3G mobile data such as high quality video, is a small low-power device that plugs into a device's docking connector and allows an array of mobile applications to access multimedia content that will be delivered over a mobile operator's IMB content delivery network. Read more

December 15, 2010 Shipments of MEMS microphones are set to grow nearly 58 percent in 2010, thanks largely to their inclusion in Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4, according to market research firm iSuppli Corp. Read more

November 2, 2010 Smartphone users are generating two-thirds of total mobile cellular traffic worldwide despite the fact that only 13 percent of mobile subscribers use smartphones, according to the latest research from Informa Telecoms & Media. And as these smartphone users spend more time on the Internet, the traffic that each one generates — their average traffic per user (ATPU) — will increase by a staggering 700 percent over the next five years. Read more

September 22, 2010 Express Logic's RTOS has been selected by Leadcore, a fundamental technology provider based in China. Leadcore has licensed the RTOS for its user equipment solutions for 3G wireless mobile devices, using ThreadX as the single RTOS in the latest models of smart phones developed and manufactured by its downstream business partners LG, ZTE, and  Yulong in China. Read more

September 16, 2010 Qnective AG, Zurich is set to launch a practical solution called Qtalk secure, which will enable encrypted and therefore highly secure communication for telephone calls, chats, data transfers and SMS. Read more

September 14, 2010 Qualcomm has no immediate plans to bring near field communications (NFC) into its semiconductor offering for makers of mobile handsets. Even though Qualcomm has engineers working on NFC it is not offering its own silicon and steers handset makers to work with third-party suppliers of NFC chipsets. Read more

July 27, 2010 A total of 74 percent of smartphone-with-Wi-Fi owners would be interested in an application that uses Wi-Fi to improve indoor 3G coverage at home or in the office, according to a YouGov online omnibus survey of nearly 2,200 respondents in the United Kingdom. Read more

July 19, 2010 Apple Inc. should have listened to its experts. It didn't. Read more

June 28, 2010 Some users are experiencing cellular reception problems with the Apple iPhone 4 that one analyst said could be due to Apple's novel use of the smartphone's frame as an antenna. Apple acknowledged the problem in a statement advising users on how to hold the phone. Read more

June 3, 2010 PicoChip has enhanced its picoXcell™ platform to address the need to support large numbers of smartphones on a femtocell. New smartSignaling™ features within the company's PC3x3 devices now enable up to 400 'always on' users on a femtocell with additional benefits such as longer handset battery life. Read more

May 27, 2010 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium 2010 — Agilent Technologies has made available an iPhone application for design engineers — the Microwave Calculator. Read more

March 17, 2010 Annual smartphone shipments to Asia are expected to more than quadruple between now and 2015, giving Asia 29 percent of smartphone shipments during 2015. Overall shipments of smartphones are forecast to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 25.9 percent between now and 2015. This trend illustrates the increasing development of cellular markets in Asia and foreshadows the importance of the region for the future, according to a new study from IMS Research. Read more

March 16, 2010 Smartphone sales surged 25 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009 compared to sales in the previous quarter with Apple, Nokia and Research in Motion all riding the wave. The rise represents a particularly sharp rebound from generally depressed sales last year, said an analyst from ABI Research. Read more

March 9, 2010 Despite increases in mobile data traffic, carriers will keep a lid on capital equipment spending over the next two years. Nevertheless, systems and semiconductor companies have a handful of opportunities for growth in the sector, according to analysts from Barclays Capital. Capital equipment spending in Europe will be flat through 2011. But U.S. carriers will continue planned increases in spending as they take the lead in rolling out 4G wireless services, Barclays analysts said. Read more