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China Mobile preps for iPhone with TD-LTE service

by Steven Sande (Mar 1st, 2013)

The wait for an iPhone may finally be over this year for customers on the China Mobile TD-LTE network, reports Patently Apple. China Mobile confirmed at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week that it will be running tests of its TD-LTE network in more than 100 cities in China, which will ...

AMD hires Apple, Qualcomm chip experts

by Steven Sande (Jan 22nd, 2013)

Chipmakers hiring key employees from competitors is like the changing of the seasons -- inevitable. Today's news, courtesy of our sister site Engadget, is that AMD has hired a pair of senior engineers to help it "move beyond the PC." The demise of the PC as a major moneymaker has become ...

Daily Update for January 3, 2013

by Steven Sande (Jan 3rd, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Qualcomm tried to get Apple to put a radio in the Newton

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 3rd, 2013)

Steve Jobs will be forever known for his moving introduction of Apple's first phone in 2007, but history may have been different had Apple worked more closely with Qualcomm in the '90s. According to a report in Venture Beat, Qualcomm courted Apple and tried to get the company to put a cellular ...

Daily Update for August 29, 2012

by Steven Sande (Aug 29th, 2012)

Apple, Qualcomm tried to purchase exclusive access to TSMC chip production

by Steven Sande (Aug 29th, 2012)

Bloomberg is reporting that both Apple and Qualcomm were turned down by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in attempts by the two companies to invest cash and gain exclusive access to smartphone chips. Each company proposed investing more than US$1 billion in order to have TSMC ...

Korea's SK Telecom, KT in talks with Apple about LTE service

by Steven Sande (Aug 15th, 2012)

In what could be yet another hint that the next iPhone will support 4G LTE, officials with two Korean cellular operators -- SK Telecom and KT -- told the Korea Times that their respective companies are in talks with Apple to have the new phone support the 1.8 GHz network frequency. SK Telecom ...

Qualcomm, Intel provide source code in patent battle

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 6th, 2012)

Apple has some unusual bedfellows, Intel and Qualcomm, in a patent infringement case that it's fighting with Samsung in Australia. According to a Bloomberg report, Intel and Qualcomm agreed to provide the Australian court with source code that'll prove Apple isn't infringing on patents held by ...

WSJ: Apple prepping thinner, lighter iPhone 5

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 6th, 2011)

The Wall Street chimed in with its insider information on the rumored iPhone 5. According to the report, Apple's next generation iPhone will be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4. It also may include an 8-megapixel camera, which is a nice boost from the 5-megapixel shooter on the current ...

Credit Suisse initiates AAPL coverage on up and down day

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 17th, 2011)

AAPL shares got slapped silly before market open this morning after a JMP Securities analyst initiated a rare downgrade on AAPL stock yesterday. The downgrade was due to assumed problems with Apple's ability to manage the supply chain for its iOS devices in the wake of the disaster in Japan. ...

iFixit: Verizon iPhone using dual-mode chip

by Michael Rose (Feb 8th, 2011)

A lot of the anticipation and/or naysaying about the Verizon iPhone has focused on CDMA, the somewhat less travel-friendly and slower network standard that Verizon uses. GSM covers a lot more countries, including all of Europe, and in the US the AT&T data speeds are testing noticeably faster -- ...

Zibri spots more Qualcomm evidence in iTunes

by Michael Rose (Jan 22nd, 2011)

The evidence of a shift in Apple's wireless chipset choices for upcoming iDevices is growing stronger. First there was Engadget's strongly sourced report indicating that Qualcomm (the key innovator/inventor in the CDMA space) was going to take over the radio component sourcing for both the iPhone 5 ...

Qualcomm's Eudora goes free and open source

by Laurie A. Duncan (Oct 11th, 2006)

Qualcomm announced today that in 2007 they will begin releasing their esteemed email client, Eudora, as an open source and free application. The new version will be based on the same platform as Mozilla's Thunderbird and the final commercial versions of Eudora for both Windows (7.1) and Mac (6.2.4), ...