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Silicon Image’s UltraGig 6400 is industry’s first single-chip, ultra-low power 60GHz WirelessHD mobile transmitter for smartphones and tablets

December 12, 2012 by Dusan Belic - Leave a Comment

Silicon Image announced the UltraGig 6400, a complete WirelessHD transmitter for mobile devices that integrates a 60GHz RF transceiver, baseband processor and embedded antenna array into a single IC package. Specifically designed for smartphones and tablets, the solution enables robust high-definition wireless video connectivity between portable devices and large displays to deliver a cable quality…

Contact lenses with LCD screens promise new kind of communication

December 11, 2012 by Dusan Belic - 1 Comment

Researchers at Belgium’s Ghent University have managed to produce a spherically curved LCD unit that may find its way into a contact lens. The super-thin LCD is made to handle projected images using wireless connectivity, promising to potentially usher new frontiers in communications, while at the same time making Google glasses look like they’re made…

AT&T expands LTE in four new locations

December 10, 2012 by Charles West - Leave a Comment

AT&T is trying to end the year strong by expanding its 4G LTE network to as many locations as possible. The Death Star lit up four new areas with some high-speed goodness. These places are Wilkes-Barre, Penn., Nashua, N.H., Grand Rapids, Mich and Auburn-Opelika, Ala. All four can be added to the long and impressive list of locales the…

British government expects to raise 3.5 billion GBP from 4G auction

December 8, 2012 by Dusan Belic - 3 Comments

The UK Treasury hopes to raise as much as 3.5 billion GBP from the auction of 4G spectrum licenses early next year, chancellor George Osborne said in his autumn budget statement. British telecom regulator Ofcom put a 1.3 billion GBP reserve price on the 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands last month, adding that companies wanting to…

Juniper scales back NFC growth to $110 billion in transactions by 2017; iPhone 5’s lack of NFC to blame

December 7, 2012 by Dusan Belic - 1 Comment

Juniper Research revised its forecasts for the global NFC market, significantly scaling back growth estimates for the North American and Western European markets, blaming the lack of NFC support in iPhone 5 for this. The new forecast says that by 2017, the proportion of NFC-enabled smartphones will be only marginally below previous estimates, but the…

LG’s first chips to be unveiled at CES

December 4, 2012 by Dusan Belic - 1 Comment

It was back in April 2011 when we told you that LG is working on its own ARM-based chips. The results of those plans may be unveiled at the upcoming CES in Las Vegas when we expect to see the first devices that use LG’s own chips. From what we’ve understood, the upcoming LG H13…

SFR launches France’s first LTE service in Lyon

December 4, 2012 by Dusan Belic - Leave a Comment

SFR has become the first French operator to commercially launch LTE services with its network going live for consumers and businesses in Lyon. The rollout comes after summer tests which included some 400 SFR clients in the city. Montpellier will be the second city to have the network on December 18, with Lille, Marseille, Strasbourg…

Apple working on its own wireless charging technology

December 4, 2012 by Dusan Belic - 3 Comments

Wireless charging technology is already here but it’s everything but widely used, though we gotta give it to Google and LG for integrating it in the Nexus 4. However, this wireless charging still requires dedicated docking stations that are on their end connected to the power plug with a cable. While that’s not generally a…

AT&T LTE lights up in three new locations

December 3, 2012 by Charles West - Leave a Comment

If you live in Albuquerque, N.M., Reading, Penn., and Salt Lake City we have great news for you. AT&T this morning announced that it has flipped the LTE switch in those areas I’ve named. The second largest wireless provider in the United States is moving at a rapid pace with deploying its 4G LTE across the nation.…

SMS turns twenty-years-old today

December 3, 2012 by Kelly Hodgkins - Leave a Comment

SMS technology turns twenty today. The messaging service is wildly popular among mobile phone subscribers worldwide, but it wasn’t always the go-to service for communication. The idea for SMS was conceived in 1984, but the service didn’t go live until 1992. It remained obscure until 1999, when it finally took off. The idea for SMS…

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