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ARM and Wearables – Cheap is cheerful.

          Small, lean and cheap is the way forward for wearables. ARM has announced a new platform for wearables called mBed that is designed to run...

ST Ericsson – No Life in the Old Cat

          ST Ericsson is being quietly put to sleep after further failures. Ericsson is following Broadcom and Renesas into the void by announcing the closure of...

Project Ara – The Holy Grail

          A great quest likely to be sunk by the 2 E’s. A modular mobile phone has been a dream of the mobile phone industry for...

Qualcomm vs. Ericsson – No sweat.

          Ericsson represents very little threat to Qualcomm or MediaTek. Ericsson’s handset radio chipset business is emerging from the ashes of two failed joint ventures to...

Apple vs. Qualcomm – Black magic

          Apple is likely to stay away from the black art of cellular radio. News articles and recent hires by Apple suggest that Apple may be...

CES 2014 – Big show in little Vegas

          CES has highlighted how difficult 2014 will be for some. CES 2014 is almost over but three important trends have clearly emerged: First: Android commoditisation...

Vertical industry – Monkey business

          Qualcomm and MediaTek have at least one hurrah left. In the latest twist, Samsung and Corning have tidied up the shareholding around the j.v. Samsung...

Wireless Charging – Usual muddle

          From a muddle of three standards one should emerge. Wireless charging is a great accessory to have but high cost and standard fragmentation are so...

NFC – A step closer

          The biometric craze is here but the place to invest is NFC I have long believed that there are two barriers to the take-off of...

Leap Motion – Desk draw candy

          Leap Motion has huge potential but this version is no more than a toy. The delayed Leap Motion controller is finally in the wild but...