At the same time, another function of wireless phones — computing at power low enough to work on small batteries — is becoming attractive for other devices, including tablet computers and the computer servers in data centers, Mr. Jacobs said.
This is bad news for a company that relies on mobile phones, computing tablets and related gadgets for around half its dwindling sales.RadioShack isn't alone in its woes, although it was by far the hardest hit this holiday season.
In the future, handset OEMs will buy "package solutions", consisting of application processors (e.g. Apple's A4, which give mobile phones computing power for handling software and applications), integrated connectivity chipsets (GPS, Wi-Fi, FM, Bluetooth, NFC), and multifunction radios all from one vendor.
It has also fretted about the effects on a larger screen on battery life (though a larger screen should mean longer battery life, because proportionally more of the phone can be devoted to the battery while the chips to provide the phone and computing functionality don't change in size).
But Schmidt's departure has been prompted by the growing conflicts between the two companies' product portfolios of mobile phone and computing operating systems, and web browsers – and by questions about whether the head of one of the most powerful companies in the world should have such close association with a company many might see as a potential rival.
Along with Wi-Fi in homes and offices this has made it feasible to add to the phones' own computing power that of data-centres far away.
The race between Apple and Google (and Qualcomm) has turned today's mobile phones into computing powerhouses, and the chips inside them have made it possible to do difficult tasks on mobile, such as editing videos and playing video games.
With Google expanding its mobile-phone and computing businesses, antitrust regulators have started an inquiry into directorships that straddle both companies.Rupert Murdoch said he expected that all of his websites would charge users for access within a year, despite his previous commitment that only some sites would experiment with such charges.
I think Apple will change the world of Internet, mobile phones and computing.
The usage of energy spread to define phone duration provides an alternate scheme for computing phone duration, not tied strictly to automatic recognition-based phone boundary definitions.
