BARCELONA, Spain–In a trade show dominated by phones and PCs using ARM-based processors, Intel Chief Executive took the stage to tout his own x86 chips. Intel, of course, grew to power on the basis of its x86 chip family, including Pentium, Xeon, and now Core and Atom processors. Today’s smartphones, though, use ARM-based chips from …
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BARCELONA, Spain–Google today unveiled Movie Studio, a new application for the upcoming Honeycomb era of Android tablets that lets people edit videos. The software, which Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt announced during a speech here at Mobile World Congress, is designed to expand on a phone’s abilities to capture imagery. With it, people can combine still images and videos to …
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China Mobile CEO Wang Jianzhou cautions against carriers becoming "dumb pipes," WAC is central to that effort. Stephen Shankland/CNET Nokia and Microsoft want to create a “third ecosystem” to rival the mobile phone realms built by Apple and Google–but carriers have an even broader alternative of their own. Last year at the Mobile World Congress show, a group of them …
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BARCELONA–Apple gets plenty of praise for advancing mobile browsers with its iPhone’s version of Safari, but an audience greeted its performance with some laughter as Microsoft compared it to an upcoming version of IE9 for Windows Phone 7. Joe Belfiore, a Microsoft corporate vice president, showed off the browser here at the Mobile World Congress show during a keynote speech …
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BARCELONA, Spain–Research in Motion plans to release two more BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in the second half of 2011, one with LTE and one with HSPA+ networking technology, the company announced at the Mobile World Congress here today. RIM already had announced a Wi-Fi-only tablet and one using the WiMax wireless networking technology. LTE and HSPA+, though, are much more broadly …
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