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Five good reasons for wireless charging

Yves Legrand — Wed, 30 May 2012 16:14:45 +0000

By Yves Legrand – The global wireless charging market is projected to grow an astonishing 1500% in just 5 years, reaching $7.161 billion in 2017 from $456.86 million in 2011, according to a recent Wireless Charging Market research report. Even the U.S. Army wants to arm its troops with wireless charging everywhere. The research is out. The use cases exist. So, [...]

Thanks, but no thanks, A4WP!

Yves Legrand — Mon, 21 May 2012 16:15:38 +0000

By Yves Legrand – Within a week, both Samsung and LG announced that their new flagship Android-based smartphones, the Samsung Galaxy S3 and the LG Optimus LTE2, will include the wireless charging feature. Japanese operators and handset makers already adopted wireless charging for new smartphones used in Japan, and we can add Korea as the [...]

CEOs speak out on the future of smart mobile devices

Glen Burchers — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:49:40 +0000

By Glen Burchers “My three year old daughter has been playing with her iPad too much. When she walks in front of the TV, she tries to interact with it by pushing on the screen. The new generation is expecting new user experience across their different devices. People should not worry about where their content, [...]

Degrees of freedom vs. axes

Mike Stanley — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:56:37 +0000

By Michael Stanley – No, the title does not refer to the forces of good versus those of evil. Nor am I referring to my stance when chopping firewood with an axe. Instead, let’s see if we can straighten out some of the terminology that you’ll hear when people start to talk about sensors. Even [...]

The mobile revolution is over, the evolution has just begun

Robert Thompson — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:09:22 +0000

By Robert Thompson — With approximately 500 million smart phones, 60 million tablets and 25 million eReaders shipping in 2011, the mobile revolution swept into full force. So what’s next? Well, there’s still a long way to go, as Eric Schmidt suggested in his keynote at Mobile World Congress, only one billion of the world’s [...]