Nov 25, 2008,
By Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
We will see some downturn in the wireless industry, but it may be less of a hit (with lower growth instead of a loss) than other electronic sectors...
Nov 20, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
SkyTel and its acquirer, Velocita Wireless, have completed their merger and are now participating in the machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless communication space under the SkyTel name...
Nov 20, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
By using GSM or UMTS networks, Atmel’s AT90M family of secure microcontrollers for machine-to-machine modules offers wireless connectivity to a range of equipment that communicates without human intervention...
Nov 17, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
AT&T Inc. and HTC Corp. have released the HTC FUZE smartphone, which provides users with QWERTY keyboard functionality with HTC’s TouchFLO 3D touch-screen interface...
Nov 17, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
The 6th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) theme is “Empowering the Connected Consumer,” and will host over 400 engineers, researchers, product design specialists, and industry executives...
Nov 11, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
Based on Google’s Android mobile operating system, the T-Mobile G1 smart phone required a bit of design innovation—and $143.89 in bill-of-materials (BOM) costs...
Nov 11, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
According to picoChip, the LTE World Summit for Nov. 17-20 at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in London will include the industry’s first LTE reference design demonstration...
Nov 10, 2008,
MD&D Staff
A highly isolated, fully matched multichip module (MCM), the AWB7220 power amplifier from Anadigics, is the first in the company’s new line of products targeted at the 3G and 4G femtocell markets...
Nov 10, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
Zing, a next-generation wireless service provider based in Detroit, Mich., will use Aperto’s PacketMAX solution for a multistate WiMAX network...
Nov 10, 2008,
By Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
If you haven’t been to any of the wireless conferences hosted by Avren Events, you have a couple of dates to add to your calendar...
Oct 28, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
Qualcomm has granted Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (Foxlink) a worldwide patent license to develop, manufacture, and sell module and modem cards implementing the cdma2000, WCDMA, and/or TD-SCDMA standards...
Oct 21, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
NTT DOCOMO Inc., Renesas Technology Corp., Fujitsu Ltd., and Sharp Corp. are jointly developing a single-chip large-scale integration (LSI) device, and a platform incorporating it, to support the HSUPA/HSDPA/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE (2G) mobile telephone standards...
Oct 17, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
At WiMAX World 2008, Altair Semiconductor showed off its low-power WiMAX chipset for mobile solutions...
Oct 14, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
Sprint Nextel and XOHM have launched the nation’s first Mobile WiMAX network in Baltimore, but these 4G capabilities couldn’t have gone online without Beceem Communications and its BCS200 chipset...
Oct 13, 2008,
MD&D News Staff
The expected availability of chipsets that combine FM, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS in 2009 will open GSM handsets to navigation and popular location-based services...