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John Glossner
Sandbridge Technologies CTO & EVP. A fabless semiconductor company building SDR baseband processors.

April 2011

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Nokia announces plans to transfer Symbian software activities to Accenture; Accenture to provide future smartphone ecosystem services to Nokia

April 27, 2011

Nokia CorporationStock exchange releaseApril 27, 2011 at 11.15 (CET +1) Espoo, Finland and New York, US - Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced plans for a strategic collaboration in which Nokia would outsource its Symbian softwar...

ZTE and P1 Successfully Demonstrate Revolutionary Technology

April 25, 2011

ZTE has successfully demonstrated the ability for WiMAX and TD-LTE to co-exist on the same network, making ZTE the first company in the industry to successfully test this revolutionary technology.

Nokia market share dips below 30% in Q1

April 21, 2011

Revenues up, pre-tax profit down Nokia's global mobile phone market share significantly fell below 30 per cent for the first time in 10 years during the company's first quarter, when it announced a new pact with Microsoft.…

First White Spaces AP Gives Grandma the Internet

April 20, 2011

alphadogg writes "A Houston restaurant worker is the first user of a prototype wireless access point using low-frequency signals in the so-called White Spaces between unused UHF digital TV signals. The access point was set up in the home of a grandmoth...

Verizon Wireless 4G LTE USB Modem 551L

April 14, 2011

The Verizon Wireless 4G LTE USB Modem 551L is capable of blazing fast speeds on Verizon's 4G LTE network.

First LTE Mobile Devices Acheve GCF Certification

April 12, 2011

“The first device certifications for LTE, as for any new mobile technology, are a significant milestone,“ said Adriana Nugter, Operations Manager of GCF. “Reducing acceptance testing overheads for manufacturers and operators alike, the extension ...

LTE chip startup raises $26 million

April 11, 2011

Mobile communications fabless chip company Altair Semiconductor Ltd. has raised $26 million in a venture capital round led by Jerusalem Venture Partners.

Intel designs smartphone, says report

April 11, 2011

Intel has designed a cellular handset that could be manufactured by China's ZTE, according to a report by the Bloomberg news service that cites two anonymous sources.

Wireless Innovation Forum Announces Extension for SDR'11-WInnComm Request for …

April 9, 2011

WirelessInnovation.org) announced today the extension of their Request for Abstracts for the 2011 Wireless Innovation Forum Conference on Communications Technologies and Software Defined Radio (SDR'11-WInnComm) to April 19. Held November 29 to Dece...

LTE Vrs WiMAX: It’s a Wrap!

April 8, 2011

Packet One Networks in Malaysia, one of the pioneer WiMAX operators, says it intends to migrate to LTE TDD by the year-end, reports Light Reading. According to The Star newspaper, P1 currently has more than 280,000 users, but now intends to migrate to ...

ARM licenses CPUs, GPUs to Shanghai firm

April 8, 2011

Shanghai InfoTM Micro-electronics has licensed a series of intellectual property cores from ARM Holdings plc, including the ARM11 processor core, Cortex-A5 and Cortex-A9 processor cores as well as the Mali300 and Mali400 graphics processor cores.

Analyzing multithreaded applications—Identifying performance bottlenecks on multicore systems

April 8, 2011

Here's a step by step method for identifying and analyzing bottlenecks in multithreaded applications on multicore systems.

Nokia Confirms Symbian Is No Longer Open Source

April 8, 2011

theweatherelectric noted an article on the H. From the article "Nokia has confirmed that it has closed the source code for the Symbian smartphone operating system. It says that despite it describing its new model for Symbian smartphone operating system...

ZTE to deliever world's first LTE TDD/FDD dual-mode infrastructure equipment …

April 7, 2011

The delivered base stations will be based on ZTE's Uni-RAN SDR technology, which enables Hi3G to support all viable mobile standards and frequency bands, housing both the upgraded 3G network and the two versions of LTE: TDD and FDD. ...See all stor...

TI to buy National Semi for $6.5 billion

April 7, 2011

Texas Instruments said it signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire National Semiconductor. for $6.5 billion in cash.

Spectrum Signal Processing's SDR-4000 Selected by Larsen and …

April 7, 2011

Spectrum Signal Processing's SDR-4000 Selected by Larsen and Toubro for Software ... "The SDR-4000 has the advanced signal processing technology required to ...green.tmcnet.com/news/2011/04/04/5421238.htm

Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot SCH-LC11 (Verizon Wireless)

April 7, 2011

The Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot SCH-LC11 for Verizon Wirless isn't perfect, but it's probably faster than your home Internet connection, so it's our Editors' Choice.