02/02/2012, During its Analyst day, AMD’s CEO Rory Read said that his company would “leverage its PC chips technology” to enter the tablet market. He also said that AMD would stay away from smartphones at the moment, because it is a [...]
02/01/2012, Qualcomm has just announced record revenues for the first quarter of 2012 (Q1 2012), which is no small feat given that the company is already flying high. For comparison, the revenues of $4.68B are up 14% from last quarter, and [...]
01/30/2012, At the Taipei International Book Fair, Qualcomm has announced that Kobee has selected the Mirasol display technology for their Jin Yong Reader (the reader has been named after Jin Young, a popular author in China ). The tablet features a [...]
01/30/2012, The folks over at Engadget took a look at the Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon S4 processor when they roamed the showfloors at CES 2012 in Las Vegas, and someone else from Engadget came up with an outing of the processor using [...]
01/27/2012, Who would have thought that a company like Qualcomm would actually own a game studio? And here I was, under my comfortable coconut shell, thinking that processors were the staple of Qualcomm’s products. Mobile gamers could be familiar with the [...]
01/12/2012, [CES 2012] I would suppose that the presence of a Star Trek Tricorder in our universe might actually mean doctors could end up less relevant, although specialists and surgeons would still be in demand. Having said that, there is a [...]
01/10/2012, [CES 2012] Qualcomm’s mirasol display has been announced quite a while ago but we have yet to see it in products this side of the world, however that may all change soon. Today Qualcomm MEMS Technologies and The Shanghai Nutshell [...]
01/05/2012, Remember the Tegra Zone competitor that Qualcomm announced in November last year? It’s been awhile since we’ve heard about it, but it looks like Snapdragon GameCommand is about to go live. According to a press release issued today, the Qualcomm [...]
12/15/2011, Qualcomm has just announced the support of GLONASS, a global positioning system developed and operated by the Russian government. GLONASS is a network of 24 satellites that basically perform the same job than the American GPS system. However, Qualcomm can [...]
12/06/2011, Microsoft’s Windows 8 platform is expected to be both a desktop software and a mobile platform for tablet as well, and if Digitimes’ latest piece of rumor is to be believed, it seems that we can expect a variety of [...]
11/21/2011, We’ve previously heard rumors about HTC’s upcoming quad-core devices, but it looks like the company will have a lot more of those in store for us. According to DigiTimes’ industry sources, HTC will focus on producing quad-core tablets and smartphones [...]
11/16/2011, NVIDIA has the Tegra Zone, for selling Tegra-optimized games, and now it looks like Qualcomm is taking the same route with its latest app. Called Snapdragon GameCommand, the app will let users of Snapdragon Android phones quickly and easily look [...]
11/15/2011, I have gone through a few Android-powered smartphones from the HTC Desire to the HTC Desire S, Sony Ericsson Live Walkman, Sony Ericsson Arc S, and now, the HTC Sensation, and have found one common denominator (no, if you answered [...]
11/10/2011, Folks living in London as well as its vicinity might be interested to know that the first Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging (WEVC) trial will be happening soon, thanks to Qualcomm as well as the corporation’s co-operation with the UK Government. [...]