http://mobilebroadbandnews.com Featuring WiMAX, HSPA, 3G, WiBro, LTE, UMB, 4G, and Mobile TV technologies Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:07:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Sinead Carew (Reuters) Qualcomm Inc, seeking to cut costs in the face of slowing demand for cell phones, has stopped developing a next-generation wireless technology called Ultra Mobile Broadband and is making small-scale layoffs. The wireless chip maker will instead put its resources into a rival high-speed technology called Long Term ... http://mobilebroadbandnews.com/2008/11/13/qualcomm-halts-umb-project-sees-no-major-job-cuts/ Novatel Wireless Inc. announced the continued evolution of its USB product line with the introduction of the Ovation MC760 Micro Modem. The MC760 is the world's smallest EV-DO Rev. A USB modem, weighing less than an ounce and measuring just over two inches long. The MC760 supports all computing ... http://mobilebroadbandnews.com/2008/11/12/novatel-wireless-launches-ovation-mc760-micro-modem-for-ev-do/ by Jeff Orr, Editor Mobile Broadband News HTC announced the dual-radio GSM/WiMAX T8290 handheld, dubbed "MAX 4G", today. Rumors and photos surfaced last month of an HTC Windows Mobile device with a Russian user interface and claims of WiMAX support. Russian operator Scartel and HTC Corporation today announced the dual protocol handset ... http://mobilebroadbandnews.com/2008/11/12/htc-announces-t8290-max-4g-gsmwimax-handset-for-scartel-yota-russia/ Icomera AB announced that its Moovbox technology has been selected to provide real-time communications for a trial of live CCTV on London buses to improve public safety. 21st Century CCTV, a division of TG21 plc, has equipped twenty-one double-decker buses in North London with the technology, which allows live images ... http://mobilebroadbandnews.com/2008/11/12/icomera-trials-live-cctv-on-london-buses/ According to research firm The NPD Group, Apple's iPhone 3G surpassed the top-ranked Motorola RAZR as the leading handset purchased by adult consumers (NPD does not currently track corporate/enterprise handset purchases) in the U.S. in the third quarter (Q3) of 2008. RAZR had been ranked by NPD as the top-selling ... http://mobilebroadbandnews.com/2008/11/10/iphone-3g-leads-us-consumer-mobile-phone-purchases-in-q32008-finds-npd-group/ According to research from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of machines connected to mobile networks in Europe will grow by 34.2% in 2008 and reach 14.1 million at the year-end. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32.9%, the number of connections is projected to reach ... http://mobilebroadbandnews.com/2008/11/06/141-million-machines-connected-to-europes-mobile-networks-this-year-says-berg-insight/ JLM Pacific Epoch reports that Chinese telecom equipment provider ZTE plans to build a research and development team for LTE and 4G projects with over 2,000 employees. The company has partnered with 4G researchers including those housed at Tsinghua University, Southeast University and Beijing Jiaotong University, said Hu Jian, chief ... http://mobilebroadbandnews.com/2008/11/06/zte-to-build-lte-team/ Motorola, Inc. announced it has completed the industry’s first over-the-air Long-Term Evolution (LTE) data sessions in the 700 MHz spectrum using its LTE Radio Access Test Network and LTE eNode-B platform with a prototype LTE device. This testing milestone, achieved in Motorola labs and at an outdoor location in central ... http://mobilebroadbandnews.com/2008/11/06/motorola-demonstrates-lte-over-the-air-in-700-mhz-spectrum/ Casio unveiled its 5.2M camera phone, model 830CA, featuring face detection and auto-focus functions, which will be available in Japan at the end of November via SoftBank. The handset incorporates a 3" display with 240x427 resolution, supports HSDPA, 1-Seg and a global roaming service. Color options include white, black, orange and ... http://mobilebroadbandnews.com/2008/11/06/casio-unveils-830ca-camera-phone-in-japan/ Huawei said that they will provide LTE/SAE infrastructure to mobile operators based on multi-standard base stations and their first commercial LTE/SAE network is expected to be ready by June 2009. "The rapid development and benefits of wireless technology has seen mobile broadband evolve from UMTS / HSPA / HSPA+ to LTE ... http://mobilebroadbandnews.com/2008/11/05/huawei-predicts-june-2009-for-first-commercial-lte-infrastructure/