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C4 Advanced Solutions (C4AS), a wholly own-ed subsidiary of the Emirates Advanced Investments group, and EADS Defence & Security (DS) have created a joint venture company in Abu Dhabi to develop and market high-tech solutions in the field of defence and security applications. This joint venture company will open...

North African operator, Wana, has selected Cambridge Broadband Networks’ VectaStar Next Generation point-to-multipoint microwave backhaul solution to increase the performance of its backhaul network and support the introduction of mobile broadband services in Morocco. The backhaul solution provides operators with investment protection by enabling them to build cost-effective backhaul...

Thales Alenia Space España has won a €3.8 M contract from the Directorate of Technical and Quality Management of the European Space Agency (ESA) for the development and qualification of an avionics kit to provide Launcher Telemetry Acquisition via Satellite (LTAS). This kit will be used on future missions...

The current global economic slump will be felt broadly across all semiconductor end-use market segments, reports In-Stat. This slump is unlike the 2001 downturn that was demand-driven and more strongly felt in some segments than in others. “The automotive segment is expected to experience a 22.7 percent revenue decline...

Any reader who believed all the recent headlines would feel confident that the WiMAX market is being crushed by LTE. Nortel has left the WiMAX market and Alcatel-Lucent has “backed off” from WiMAX; these developments supposedly dealt a blow to Clearwire, which had so far chosen neither as an...

No one can deny that green and clean agendas are rising to the surface in the mobile communications market. ABI Research forecasts that in 2009 over 800,000 base stations will utilize alternative energy solutions such as wind or solar energy, and that nearly 70 million mobile devices will be...

US consumer spending on Subscription-TV, Broadband and Mobile Services will be “about the same” for most consumers, but about 15 percent intend to cut back. As a result, In-Stat estimates that consumer spending across these three segments could see nearly a $5 B decrease during the next 12 months....

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Cobham, announced that it has sold M/A-COM Technology Solutions (MTS) to John Ocampo for $30 M in cash, $30 M in senior loan notes secured on the MTS assets and $30 M dependent on future revenue in the period 2010 to 2012. The loan notes carry a rate of...

The first of the vital European receiver systems that will become part of the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) project in the Atacama Desert in Chile have been shipped to South America from the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, UK, where they...