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Responding to increased demand from commercial satellite operators and government organisations, QinetiQ is launching a European satellite interference geolocation service. This service will assist in the fight against malicious or accidental disruption to satellite communications services. Hosted in the UK and operating on a 24/7 basis the service will...

STMicroelectronics and Nanotron Technologies GmbH have announced a definitive, non-exclusive agreement under which the two companies will jointly develop complete solutions for the Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) market. These solutions offering robust communication, precision ranging and high accuracy positioning will operate on emerging low data rate (LDR) networks...

Low labor costs and a fast-growing domestic market will spur China’s consumer electronics manufacturing industry to more than double by 2010, reports In-Stat. The industry will grow from $71.5 B in 2006 to $167 B by 2010, the high-tech market research firm says. China’s mature supply chain, a skilled...

Wi-Fi and active radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies are locked in a long battle to capture the burgeoning market in healthcare asset tracking, according to a new study by ABI Research. With less than five percent of North American healthcare facilities currently equipped with asset-management systems, this market, says...

Survey data collected from US customers in the past year reveals how the growth potential of global wireless markets is being seriously underestimated. Aside from the US, markets with a high percentage of prepaid services also contribute to this misjudgment. The term that has caused the most confusion is...

Industry News Symmetricom Inc ., a leader in precise time and frequency products and services, announced the acquisition of Timing Solutions Corp ., a privately held company based in Boulder, CO, that provides high performance time and frequency products and services for government, aerospace and military markets. Under the...

RF Micro Devices Inc. , a leader in the design and manufacture of high performance radio systems and solutions for applications that drive mobile communications, announced a collaboration with MediaTek Inc. , a leader in consumer and communications IC solutions, to create Bluetooth® enabled EDGE and GPRS mobile phone...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp., received orders totaling $2.4 M in support of ongoing Movement Tracking System Program activities. The orders were received on the company's Movement Tracking System, or MTS, contract with the US Army. The orders are primarily for the...

Building on its well-established European Automated Test Equipment (ATE) business, Aeroflex announced it will begin selling into the US ATE market, starting with the 5800 series multi-configuration, multi-function PCB test system. Launched in November 2005 in Europe, the 5800 series has proven itself as a flexible solution that meets...

Following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between leading global defence and aerospace company BAE Systems and Hellenic Aerospace Industry (HAI), the largest defence and aerospace manufacturers in Greece, HAI will become involved in the manufacture, further development and marketing of one of the world’s most advanced...