Articles by Richard Mumford, International Editor

The UK is set to benefit from a new generation of wireless services and improved mobile broadband coverage under new government plans to revolutionise the countryís digital infrastructure. The programme of measures for radio spectrum modernisation will allow mobile operators to deliver the latest technologies to consumers and extend...

The largest research project in Europe to research and develop highly integrated electronic system-in-package solutions has been launched. Working together on the Efficient Silicon Multi-Chip System-in-Package Integration (ESiP) project are 40 microelectronics companies and research institutions from a total of nine European countries, with the aim of making miniaturized...

The Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance and the TM Forum have signed a co-operation agreement to work together on optimized management systems and operations of the next generation of mobile networks. The co-operation between the two organizations will facilitate the delivery of solutions that directly address the operator...

Seven leading players in the Near Field Communication (NFC) ecosystem, Ericsson, Gemalto, NXP, Oberthur Technologies, STMicroelectronics, Venyon (a company in the Giesecke & Devrient Group) and ViVOtech, have joined forces to form the MIFARE4Mobile™ Industry Group. MIFARE4Mobile is a technology, which has been developed by NXP and is used...

ETSI's newly-published European Standard for Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) has been declared a European 'Community Specification' as a consequence of being listed in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU). It is the first standard from a European Standards Organisation to be listed as a Community Specification...

ThalesRaytheonSystems (TRS) has been awarded a contract by NATO's Active Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence (ALTBMD) Program Office to provide the alliance commanders with real-time interim ballistic missile defence capabilities for deployed forces by the end of 2010. The company will deliver the Air Command and Control System (ACCS)...

A range of specialist plastic electronics businesses in the UK are to benefit from a total of £8.4 M investment in research and development into new technology that will lead to the creation of a range of new products. Thirteen projects, involving more than 30 industrial and academic partners,...

A group of 15 leading telecommunications service providers, component and infrastructure vendors, and academic institutions have launched Energy Aware Radio and Network Technologies (EARTH), a consortium whose goal is to achieve a 50 percent reduction in the energy consumption of 4G mobile wireless communication networks within the next two-and-a-half...

ETSI and NGMN have announced the creation of the ETSI Industry Specification Group on Open Radio equipment Interface (ISG ORI) that will specify an open interoperable interface for radio equipment in distributed mobile cellular base stations--GSM, UMTS and LTE. ISG ORI is a direct result of requirement work undertaken...

Thirteen leading UK universities have joined with British Design Innovation (BDI)—the trade organisation for leading industrial design, service design and innovation consultancies—to form a national University Design Industry Partnership Scheme (UDIPS), in a bid to create world-changing innovations, products and processes. The scheme underscores the value private sector industrial...