Alaa Adas's Page

Intel yesterday unveiled its new 'Moorestown' platform - scheduled for commercial release in the 2009-2010 period - and confirmed its intention to be a major silicon player in the emerging Mobile Internet Device (MID) market. In a statement, Intel's senior VP and general manager of its Ultra Mobility Group, Anand Chandrasekher, claimed that Moorestown will use more than ten times less idle power compared to first-generation MID platforms using the Intel Atom processor. He added that Moorestown w… Continue

Nokia is looking to China for future mobile growth following last week's news that the world's largest handset vendor suffered a 30 percent slide in Q3 profit together with falls in sales and market share. Reuters reports the Finnish vendor still expects fast growth in China - the world's largest mobile market - because of its low market penetration (45 percent). "There is still a lot of penetration to go in the China market before it's saturated," Nokia CFO Rick Simonson told reporters today, a… Continue

Hewlett-Packard (HP) today confirmed recent speculation it is moving into the consumer market, unveiling two new smartphones and a distribution agreement with Vodafone in Europe. The HP iPAQ Voice Messenger and the iPAQ Data Messenger will be available in the UK exclusively from Vodafone from next month, with other European countries to be announced. Both devices run over Vodafone's HSPA networks and use Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. The iPAQ Voice Messenger will retail for £333,… Continue

The French government yesterday unveiled its 'Digital Plan,' comprising 154 measures covering Internet access, mobile telephony and broadcasting that aims to provide all French citizens with access to broadband services. The plan included an announcement that 72MHz of UHF spectrum freed up by the switchover to digital television will be allocated to the provision of mobile broadband services. Industry association the GSMA was quick to applaud the government's decision, stating that the move to a… Continue

Symbian CEO Nigel Clifford used this morning's opening keynote address at the Symbian Smartphone show in London to call on developers from across the computing and software world to focus on the new Symbian Foundation platform. "The eco-system is now bigger than Symbian," Clifford said. He described the Symbian Foundation as being aimed at attracting developers who had previously been put off from developing for the mobile industry due to complex terms and conditions and licensing issues. "We us… Continue