Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled 455.6 million units in the third quarter of 2013, an increase of 5.7% from the same period last year.
With a total base of 211.6 million smartphone units shipped during the quarter, Android accounted for 81% of all smartphone shipments, marking the first time that Android topped 80 percent in its short history.
Mobile semiconductor giant Qualcomm is muscling its way into the set-top box (STB) chip business, a move likely to shake up the market?s competitive landscape.
Mobile semiconductor giant Qualcomm is muscling its way into the set-top box (STB) chip business, a move likely to shake up the market?s competitive landscape, according to research firm IHS.
Gartner predicts that the top three most sought-after cloud services moving forward will remain email security, Web security services, and identity and access management (IAM).
As it has done so often before, Apple is triggering a new technology boom, with its integration of a fingerprint sensor on the iPhone 5s inspiring a wave of imitators that will drive the market for fingerprint-enabled smartphones to soar in the coming years.
The global market for Bluetooth Smart integrated circuits (IC) that enable low-power wireless pairing of devices is set for remarkable growth in the next five years, with shipments expected to rise nearly tenfold during the period.
Apple?s weaker shipment performance in the third quarter was primarily due to a shift in the company?s product release cycle. The company changed from a two-pronged launch approach in 2012 ? with tablet launches in the spring and the fall ? to a single fall release in 2013.
Vendors shipped a total of 258.4 million smartphones in 3Q13, establishing a new record for units shipped in a single quarter by more than 9.0%. The previous high was 237.0 million units shipped in the second quarter of 2013.
