Strategy Analytics: Nokia tops global handset shipments, Apple sees quarterly surge

Fresh off the publication of its latest tablet report, Strategy Analytics has come out with a new batch of statistics on the global mobile market. In a report published yesterday, the research firm crowned Apple as the world’s largest smartphone [...]

Snapdragon-toting Sony smartphones to get extra global positioning help from The Other GPS

Frustrated by the performance of GPS on your current Sony Ericsson phone? Well, if you’ve got the latest software and a device carrying Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S2 or S3 processor, you’re in luck. Alongside bright new darlings like the Xperia S [...]

Global Chips Sales Down 2.4 Percent, Floods Partially to Blame

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is just now getting around to publishing data for chip sales in the month of November 2011, and on the surface they're not particularly flattering. According to SIA, worldwide chip sales two months ago totaled [...]

HTC Fireball and LG Spectrum may bring global awesomeness to Verizon’s LTE lineup

Separately, the HTC Fireball and LG Spectrum have made their appearances in Verizon’s internal system before. But together, in the screenshot above, they’re actually much more than just a couple silly names — they’re responsible for ushering in the beginning [...]

NTT DoCoMo, KDDI and Softbank found consortium to support global NFC standards in Japan

Mobile payments are nothing new to the people of Japan, who’ve used NTT DoCoMo’s Osaifu-Keitai as the de facto standard for years. Based on Sony’s FeliCa smart card, the system is incompatible with the NFC Type A and B technologies [...]

NASA shows first global image taken from new satellite; Captain Planet approves

From breaking the ice on Jupiter’s moon Europa to going Captain Ahab on comets, NASA’s been quite busy formulating all sorts of “strategery” for future projects lately. But just because the space agency has to pay Russians to hitch a [...]