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On 6 December Thales announced that it has opened a second manufacturing facility in the US to support its growing military communications operations. Located in Germantown, MA, this new facility is in close proximity to the company's Clarksburg headquarters, which includes a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant that was opened in...

Summitek Instruments has announced a licensing agreement with Willtek Communications , a provider of test and measurement solutions to the wireless industry. Summitek Instruments, a manufacturer of software products designed to automate spectrum management as well as S-parameter measurements, has signed an agreement to license the OASIS Spectrum Monitoring...

On 1 December Avago Technologies started operations as the world's largest privately held independent semiconductor company. Its creation follows the completion of the acquisition of Agilent Technologies Inc. 's Semiconductor Products Group by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Silver Lake Partners in a $2.66 B transaction, which...

Alcatel has been awarded a new GSM mobile network expansion and modernization contract by Paktel Ltd. , the Pakistani incumbent owned by Millicom International Cellular (MIC). The multi-million Euro contract will be executed over three phases covering the four provinces of the country, building a network with around 1,400...

The EADS SPACE group of companies has acquired Dutch Space BV , the largest space company in The Netherlands and a leading international space industry supplier. This transaction confirms EADS' leading role in the European space business as it now integrates space industry in five European countries. Dutch Space,...

Summitek Instruments Inc. , a manufacturer of software products designed to automate spectrum management as well as S-parameter measurements, announced a new partnership agreement with TestMart Inc. TestMart, a marketplace operator and service provider for the test and measurement industry, will provide government marketplace services to better serve Summitek's...

Royal Philips Electronics of The Netherlands and NEC Corp. of Japan have signed a binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form a joint venture in enterprise communications, by NEC taking a majority share in Philips' Business Communications unit (PBC). The new company will be named NEC Philips Unified Solutions...

EMS Technologies Inc. announced the closing of the sale of its Space & Technology/Montreal division to MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), Vancouver, BC, Canada. EMS originally announced the signing of a definitive agreement for the sale on Oct. 31. During the past month, the two companies have worked...

WiQuest Communications , a fabless semiconductor company developing complete ultrawideband (UWB) solutions, announced the availability of its WQST110 and WQST101 chipset, the industry's first commercially-available, high performance silicon delivering wireless communication speeds up to one gigabit-per-second. Based on the WiMedia UWB physical layer (PHY) and media access controller (MAC)...

Cascade Microtech has developed WinCal 2006™ with new software tools to address the many testing challenges brought on by the increase in the volume of complex, high speed semiconductors that are designed for use in mobile communications products such as cell phones, PDAs and laptop computers. Compounding the multi-gigabit...