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Category: Mobile

Mobile

  • Intersil Re-emerges

    When you’re musing over Silicon Valley comings and goings over a beer, it’s not unreasonable to hear the question, “Whatever happened to [place company name…

  • On the Scene: Project Ara

    The race hasn’t yet begun. In fact, we’re not even on the starting block, but the rule book for this race – the race to…

  • Clearer Phone Conversations

    I recall the few times I was able, for some reason, to take advantage of noise-cancelling headphones on an airplane. Once on your ears, when…

  • And the Kits Keep Coming

    Not long ago I noted the sudden appearance of various reference designs and platforms and kits intended to take some of the friction out of the process…

  • UV Index Sensor

    Have you been out in the sun too long? OK, yeah, not really the right time of year to ask that question north of the…

  • The Case for Zigbee

    Not long ago I did a piece on wireless technologies. It was stimulated by the fact that BlueTooth Low Energy (BT-LE) seems to be on…

  • New Intersil RGB Sensor

    Intersil has announced a new RGB sensor, and they’ve laid out some of the things that it’s good for. But let’s back up a sec…

  • What Might Make an Accelerometer More Robust?

    Last month STMicroelectronics announced a new accelerometer “engineered to withstand stresses of modern mobile life.” They see those stresses arising from increasingly thinner phones and…

  • Net Neutrality Takes a Hit

    Imagine that a private company creates a public toll road. This actually happens, so it’s not a crazy idea. In exchange for building and maintaining…

  • Gesture Oops

    Someone I know got a new phone recently. It had gesture recognition capabilities. (No, I’m not going to name names. Partly because I don’t know.)…