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Mallinson: Innovation, competition and choice flourishing with mobile standard patents
Theories of harm arising from recent disputes with standards-essential patents (SEPs) are poorly substantiated and contradicted by market facts and figures.
Wireless in the third quarter of 2012
How did the wireless industry perform in the third quarter of 2012? Check here throughout the second-quarter earnings report season for full earnings reports from the wireless industry's carriers, handset makers, equipment suppliers and others.
Texas Instruments turns investment away from wireless
Texas Instruments is shifting its chip business away from smartphones and tablets to more industrial segments such as the automotive. The company has faced increasing competition from companies like Qualcomm and has also lost ground to smartphone makers such as Apple and Samsung, which have been developing their own chips.
Rumor Mill: iPhone 5 will support global LTE bands, China's TD-SCDMA
Apple's next iPhone, expected to be announced on Wednesday, will support multiple LTE bands for worldwide service and possibly China's TD-SCDMA 3G standard, according to various reports.
Intel's mobile chipset deals with ZTE, Motorola start to materialize
Intel's long-running quest to break into the mobile market is finally starting to pay dividends in the form of actual devices from big-name smartphone players, including ZTE and soon, Google's Motorola Mobility unit.
Report: Apple, Qualcomm failed in $1B bids to invest in TSMC for chipsets
Apple and Qualcomm were each spurned in bids valued at more than $1 billion to invest in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. as part of an effort to get exclusive access to smartphone chipsets, according to a Bloomberg report.
LG unwraps quad-core, LTE Optimus G 'superphone'
LG Electronics officially took the wraps off its latest high-end smartphone, the quad-core Optimus G, which it said will lay the foundation for all of its premier smartphones going forward.
Qualcomm snaps up small cell firm DesignArt Networks
Qualcomm put the rumors to rest and confirmed that it bought Israeli small cell firm DesignArt Networks. The chipset giant hopes to use the acquisition to bolster its position as a key provider of chipset and network architecture products for heterogeneous networks, or HetNets, which rely in part on small cells.
Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung spearhead indoor navigation alliance
Twenty-two companies including Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics and Sony Mobile have joined forces to create the In-Location Alliance, an effort to improve and expand indoor positioning and related mobile services.
Rumor mill: Qualcomm buying Israeli small cell player
Qualcomm is positioning itself for a small cell play with the planned acquisition of DesignArt Networks, according to an Israeli newspaper, which said Qualcomm is expected to pay $120 million-140 million for the startup.

