Articles by MWJ Staff

In a contract worth £100 M, the UK Ministry of Defence has selected the Advanced Radar Target Indication Situational Awareness and Navigation (ARTISAN) 3D radar to provide the next generation of medium range radars (MRR) for the majority of the current Royal Navy (RN) surface fleet and for the...

Nokia and Qualcomm have entered into a new agreement covering various standards, including GSM, EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA, HSDPA, OFDM, WiMAX, LTE and other technologies. Under the terms of the new 15-year agreement, Nokia has been granted a license under all Qualcomm’s patents for use in Nokia’s mobile devices and...

RF & Wireless Technologies: Know it All Newnes, an imprint of Elsevier 846 pages; $55.95, £29.99 ISBN: 978-0-7506-8581-8 Few areas of technology are as dynamic and fast-growing as RF and wireless. Recent years have seen myriad new technologies and devices introduced, with many more on the way. Keeping fully...

The “smart metering” that communicates electric, gas or water usage data over a network to the providing utility is making inroads in some markets, but a further evolution of these technologies into “Home Area Networks” (HAN) will allow utilities greater management efficiencies while providing customers with choices about their...

Microwave and millimeter-wave high power vacuum electron devices (VED) represent a modern technological continuation of one of the original and basic building blocks of RF electronics technology. Based on original vacuum tube principles that date from the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, these present-day incarnations couple modern...

China’s GPS phone market grew rapidly in 2007, and GPS phones, along with music and camera phones, are the brightest spots in the nation’s mobile phone market overall, reports In-Stat. A number of major handset manufacturers have entered the GPS phone market, although cautiously and with a limited number...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has transferred all activities involved in the operation and exploitation of the European share of the International Space Station (ISS) to Astrium as prime industrial contractor. The two parties have concluded a service agreement to this effect for a fixed price of €278 M,...

A major new £35 M EADS Defence and Security (DS) Centre has been opened in Newport, Wales, underlining the company’s commitment to a high-tech knowledge-based economy in the UK. As a result, 400 high-calibre employees now have an environment that truly reflects the leading-edge nature of the projects they...

The GSM Association (GSMA), the global trade body for the mobile industry, and the Next Generation Mobile Network (NGMN) Alliance, the group focused on the evolution to the next generation of mobile networks, have agreed to cooperate to help steer the development of mobile broadband communications to give customers...

Wavecom S.A. has expanded its Centers of Excellence (CoE) program to include four new Centers across the globe, bringing the total to six. The companies hosting these new CoEs are: ConnectM, based in Bangalore, India, which provides end-to-end solutions, analytics, and business intelligence to the transportation, industrial, utilities and...