Articles by MWJ Staff

The Lockheed Martin team developing the next generation Global Positioning System (GPS) spacecraft, known as GPS III, has successfully completed on-schedule an Integrated Baseline Review (IBR) with the US Air Force, an important program milestone that precedes the Preliminary Design Review. GPS III will improve position, navigation and timing...

Honeywell announced it is developing a family of business aviation radars, IntuVue, that offers flight crews the ability to detect and avoid previously unforeseen turbulence, windshears and dangerous storm activity so they can make more informed route decisions, thereby increasing passenger comfort and safety while decreasing weather-related costs due...

RFID stakeholders worldwide are being urged to participate in the European Commission-funded CASAGRAS project by joining its Global Forum at www.rfidglobal.eu. In order to obtain the widest possible input of opinions and ideas, anyone with an interest in RFID and its applications is being urged to join the free...

StoLPaN, the pan-European consortium driving adoption of Near Field Communication (NFC), has announced details of the first public trial of NFC that will integrate this emerging contactless technology in the Dolomite skiing resorts of North East Italy. Tourists visiting selected hotels will be provided with NFC-enabled mobile phones and...

Thales Alenia Space España has been chosen to supply the X-band communication subsystems and the S-band telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C) transponders for the first three Sentinel observation satellites in the European Space Agency’s Kopernikus programme, which was formerly known as Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES). The...

The last phase of a WiMAX project at Promonte, the prime GSM mobile service provider in Montenegro, has been completed by Comarch. The project introduces global activity taken within Telenor Group’s ‘Internet to the people’, taking advantage of the combination of the latest technologies like 3GHSPA, WiMAX and WiFi....

NTT DOCOMO Inc., Renesas Technology Corp., Fujitsu Ltd. and Sharp Corp. have announced a plan to jointly develop the SH-Mobile G4 single-chip LSI device, and a platform incorporating it, to support the HS PA1/HSDPA2/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE (2G) mobile telephony standards. Development of the platform is targeted for completion by...

2009 will see the introduction of a new class of wireless communications chip that features dual-mode support for both WiMAX and LTE, according to ABI Research. The thrust of demand for such chips comes from those wireless device makers seeking to reduce the number of their SKUs; they will...

After a fantastic 2007 for worldwide base station shipments, results for this year look pretty weak, reports In-Stat. In 2007, many new 3G networks were rolled out around the world and GSM subscriber growth was occurring at a fast clip, driven by millions of new subscribers in India, Africa...

After a long wait, the first stage of what will become the “wireless home office” is arriving. Some home office ultra-wideband (UWB) products are now hitting retailers’ shelves and more are expected by the end of the year. These are mainly in the wireless USB category, the first major...