BARCELONA, Spain–H.264 is today’s leader when it comes to mainstream video encoding technologies, but it …

BARCELONA, Spain–Stephen Sneeden, product marketing manager for Sony Mobile, told CNET Asia in an interview here at Mobile World Congress that he predicts the company will likely only release quad-core Sony smartphones in early 2013. He does, however, state that this is just his assumption–the company will make the official announcements when it’s ready. “We’re going to join quad-core when …

BARCELONA, Spain–These days you’ll be hard-pressed to find people who remember when personal computers were luxury items that few could afford. Now smartphones are increasingly headed in the same direction, continuing to become cheaper and more ubiquitous for everyone, not just for the global elite. The mass market in question goes well beyond the budget-conscious living in developed markets, and …