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Article | 7/03/2013 Mobile World Congress from an iOS perspective
Apple doesn't do trade shows these days, not even the world's largest mobile trade show. But that's no reason to overlook last week's Mobile World Con...
Article | 28/02/2013 Reporter's Notebook: MWC trades castles for putting greens
The Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barcelona closed its doors on Thursday, with a sudden rain shower sending the last attendees scurrying off to ...
Article | 28/02/2013 Searching for Windows at Mobile World Congress
Here are a few of the Windows products we noticed while wandering around Barcelona this week
Article | 28/02/2013 Mobile carriers, vendors eager to virtualize networks
There has to be a sea change in how mobile operators build their networks and implement new services, and virtualization will make it possible, carrie...
Article | 28/02/2013 Five smartphone and tablet trends from Barcelona
This year's MWC may have been lacking in high-end smartphone launches, but the "W" stands for "world" and lower-cost models shown this week are needed...
Article | 28/02/2013 ARM CEO hopeful for Windows RT
Microsoft's new version of Windows written for ARM processors may not be an unqualified success, but ARM's CEO Warren East said the software maker wil...
Article | 28/02/2013 TD-LTE goes mainstream with a new performance promise
A version of LTE that could give consumers more mobile bandwidth for downloading content or apps is moving from the margins to the mainstream at Mobil...
Article | 28/02/2013 General Dynamics eyes government-level security on smartphones
General Dynamics is looking to bring U.S. government-level security to consumer smartphones, allowing organizations to benefit from the type of strong...
Article | 27/02/2013 ARM's battery-saving technology debuts in tablet, smartphone prototypes
ARM is promising close to 70 percent processor power savings with a new chip design called Big.Little, and mobile devices on display at the Mobile Wor...
Article | 27/02/2013 Regulator calls for phone makers to come clean on radio quality
A top European regulator wants operators and vendors to work together on a grading system that tells consumers how good the antennas in their smartpho...
Article | 27/02/2013 Cost of LTE smartphones dropping surprisingly fast, analyst says
Products from several smartphone vendors and processors from the likes of Nvidia are helping drive down the cost of LTE-enabled devices.
Article | 27/02/2013 Sony releases Firefox OS software for developers
Sony Mobile will provide an experimental version of the Firefox OS on one of its smartphones so that advanced developers can try it out and start work...
Article | 27/02/2013 Intel takes on ARM in low-cost Android tablet market
One of the first low-cost Android tablets with an Intel x86 processor was announced at Mobile World Congress, setting the stage for a long battle betw...
Article | 27/02/2013 Nokia Siemens to tackle overload with base-station smarts
Nokia Siemens Networks says it can prevent LTE base stations from getting overloaded while extra capacity in nearby cells goes to waste, even if the c...
Article | 27/02/2013 Engineers deconstruct smartphones to find new uses
Smartphones, it seems, can do anything.