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The GSMA has produced a European Mobile Manifesto that sets out how the mobile industry will help achieve key European Union objectives to boost economic performance, improve efficiencies, protect consumers and increase the use of green technology. To do this, the mobile industry has undertaken to work more closely...

EADS Defence & Security (DS) has delivered the first five SIR (Regimental Information System) command systems to the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA), which will equip the new generation of VBCI armoured vehicles. This delivery results from three years of development work conducted in close collaboration with the DGA...

The programme for the ARMMS RF & Microwave Society Conference that will be held on Monday 23 November and Tuesday 24 November at the Rockingham Forest Hotel, Northamptonshire, UK, has been announced. The ARMMS RF & Microwave Society is an independent professional society comprised of individuals with an interest...

Ultra Electronics Command & Control Systems (UECCS) has delivered a coastal surveillance system solution to Raytheon Anschuetz GmbH and passed site acceptance tests with the end-user in Romania. UECCS’s system is the main component that Raytheon Anschuetz integrates into its offering and its delivery gives Romania the capability to...

The Strategy Analytics RF & Wireless Component service predicts slower growth ahead for CMOS silicon-on-sapphire RF switches in the report, “Peregrine Shipment Milestone Reflects Softer Handset Demand, RF Architecture Shifts.” CMOS silicon-on-sapphire RF switches are used in antenna switch modules for cellular handsets. In September 2009, Peregrine Semiconductor announced...

The BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), which make up 42 percent of the world’s population, will have 139 million broadband connections at the end of 2009, according to a report recently published by Strategy Analytics. By 2013, the number will exceed 300 million. DSL will continue to...

Growing interest and investment in and funding for improved building energy management will help fuel demand for products and applications using IEEE 802.15.4 semiconductors. Over the next five years, 802.15.4 chipset shipments will underpin a host of wireless sensor networks (WSN) across home, building and industrial building automation, as...

ANSYS Inc. , an innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, announced its Ansoft Academic Product bundle. The portfolio is designed for teaching and academic research related specifically to radio frequency (RF) microwave, signal integrity (SI) and electromechanical systems engineering. The bundling concept offers...

The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that it has awarded grants to fund broadband mapping and planning activities in Alabama, Idaho, Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming under NTIA’s State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program. The program, funded by the American Recovery and...

Hittite Microwave Corp. , a supplier of complete MMIC-based solutions for communication and military markets, has launched a new family of 20 Gbps Clocked Comparators that offer a unique combination of low propagation delay for low input overdrive while minimizing propagation dispersion and power dissipation. The HMC874LC3C, HMC875LC3C and...