Articles by David Vye

NI Week: Hotter than Austin in August


Microwave professionals with only a passing knowledge of National Instruments may not be aware of this, but NI likes to do things big - big investments in their R&D ($200M/year); big visions of a whole new approach toward engineering innovation and productivity for their customers and a big user conference to share this vision with the world.

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Executive Profile: Fanny Mlinarsky

At next week’s NI Week in Austin Texas, Executive Fanny Mlinarsky, the founder of Massachusetts-based OctoScope, will present her company’s solution for Over-the-Air wireless testing. Ms. Mlinarsky, who speaks English, French and Russian and holds five patents, brings a powerful combination of in-depth technical knowledge and business acumen to...
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NI Week: Austin in August

In August, National Instruments hosts NIWeek, an event which focuses on graphical system design. This conference attracts more than 3,000 of the world's brightest engineers, educators, and scientists and features interactive technical sessions, targeted summits, hands-on workshops, and exhibitions on the latest developments for design, control, automation, manufacturing, and test. Keynote presentations and demonstrations will highlight how engineers and scientists can use NI graphical system design products such as Labview to enhance their productivity.

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AT&T, T-Mobile Merger Comes Under Congressional Fire

Last week, the Senate’s leading Democrat on antitrust issues called on regulators to block AT&T’s $39 billion bid for rival T-Mobile, saying the merger would lead to less competition and higher prices for consumers.

Last week, the Senate’s leading Democrat on antitrust issues called on regulators to block AT&T’s $39 billion bid for rival T-Mobile, saying the merger would lead to less competition and higher prices for consumers. But AT&T's plans to invest $8 Billion in next generation infrastructure could provide 96,000 new jobs according to the communication workers association.

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July 2011 - Executive Interview

Chuck Davo, Owner and CEO at MECA Electronics, Inc. talks about his company’s products and engineering expertise, current trends for RF/Microwave components in both the commercial and military markets and the company’s 50 year history.
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David Fudge, VP Engineering & Projects, Luton, SELEX Galileo (a Finmeccanica Company) will participate as a panelist at the 2nd annual EuMW Defence and Security Executive Forum organized by Microwave Journal and EuMA. This special event within European Microwave Week is part of the 2011 EuMW Defence and Security forum and features morning and afternoon sessions addressing Safety, Security and Defence issues.
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The Community Message Board on LinkedIn

In the LinkedIn RF & Microwave Community , one member announced that he was looking for an RF PCB Test Fixture (like Anritsu 3680-20) that enables substrates thicknesses up to 5 mm. In the second week of July, responses to this inquiry made him one of the group’s leading...
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3G Femtocells Now Outnumber Conventional 3G Basestations Globally

Operator deployments grow 60% in last quarter to 31 including eight of the top 10 global mobile operator groups
Informa Telecoms & Media issued its latest femtocell market status report which revealed that there are now in excess of 2.3 million 3G femtocells globally compared to 1.6 million 3G macrocells, highlighting the growing popularity of the technology. There are now 31 commercial femtocell services worldwide which represents over...
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IMS 2011: Too Big to Fail

General impressions of the IMS 2011 Exhibition
The expression “too big to fail” may have a lot of negative connotations when it comes to bailing-out institutions responsible for the global financial crisis, but when it comes to describing the annual International Microwave Symposium and its exhibition, the size of this event is all that matters. “Big”...
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US Air Force Awards Integral Systems

Win Represents $1.7 Million for CCS-C Contract Modification. Integral Systems Provides USAF SMC with Commercial Off-the-Shelf Satellite Telemetry and Command Processing Solution to Provide Blue Force Situational Awareness to JSpOC
Integral Systems, Inc., announced that the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has awarded the Company a $1.7 million contract modification to its Command and Control System-Consolidated (CCS-C) contract. The contract modification establishes a new contract line to extend Integral Systems’ integration of the Blue...
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