The Oxygen of Digital Life
It’s Different This Time The development of wireless standards is driven by uses, and the need to talk, text and surf has inspired successive generations of wireless services to provide…
Insight Constellations, Part Four
The New PC: Sticks and Chips As the CCS Insight Predictions for 2016 and Beyond event approaches, we’ve been looking back at some recurring themes from Daily Insights in the…
X12 LTE Modem Underlines Qualcomm’s Connectivity Leadership
Chipmaker Debuts 600 Mbps LTE Downloads It won’t have escaped anyone’s attention in the mobile industry that Qualcomm has suffered a challenging 12 months. The company has been buffeted by…
LTE Broadcast: One to Watch
We’ve Been Here Before, But This Time It’s Different The mobile industry has a mixed track record when it comes to hailing new technologies. Mobile video harbours a particularly dark…
Photo Opportunity
Snapdragon Supports Faster, Better Pictures The best camera is the one you have with you. One long-term vision of smartphone makers has been to replicate the quality and imaging flexibility…
Enabling a Hacking Culture
Compact, Single-Board Computers Are Making It Big It might not look like a computer, but a device from Californian start-up Next Thing Co. could become part of the next big…
Keeping It Together
Calls for Qualcomm’s Break-up Are Misguided Qualcomm reported mixed quarterly results yesterday, with revenue of $6.9 billion up 8% year-on-year but down sequentially from $7.1 billion. Operating income was $1.2…
IBM Moves IoT Centre Stage
Data Collection and Analysis Is Big Business Yesterday, IBM announced the formation of a centralised Internet of things (IoT) business unit within the company. The entity will receive $3 billion…
The Tech You Might Have Missed
My Top Six Picks from Mobile World Congress The CCS Insight team prides itself on going the extra mile to find the tech demos typically missed by day trippers visiting…
History of the World
Mobile World Congress Has Branched out with Connections Mobile World Congress, being held this week in Barcelona, has evolved since its inauguration as the GSM World Congress in 1987. Back…