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In a drive to build upon its ongoing environmental initiatives, CommScope Inc. is expanding its cable reel recycling program to customers of Andrew Wireless Solutions , the company’s division that is a global leader in communications systems and products. The Andrew Reel Recycling Program is an effort to reduce...

Herley Industries Inc. announced that its Herley Lancaster division has received contract awards totaling approximately $1 M from a major US defense contractor for the manufacture of complex Integrated Microwave Assemblies (IMA) for US Air Force jet fighters. Myron Levy, Herley's chairman and CEO, commented, "Herley has provided electronic...

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, execution on the Near Field Communication (NFC) opportunity in mobile handsets is likely to remain largely limited to the trial phase in 2008, despite support from all quarters of the industry. The shortfall is attributed to the slow ecosystem build-out, a...

RF Micro Devices (RFMD®), a global leader in the design and manufacture of high performance radio frequency systems and solutions, announced the release of its new 5 GHz SZP-5026Z high linearity amplifier designed specifically for use in WLAN and WiMAX consumer premises equipment (CPE), access point and base transceiver...

Auriga Measurement Systems LLC announced that over the past several months it has been awarded research and development contracts by Army’s CECOM and Navy’s SPAWAR and NAVAIR departments; this is the company’s second win with NAVAIR. The ARMY SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) award is for a high-powered multi-component...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the release of the latest version of its RFIC simulation software, GoldenGate. This release represents an expansion in RFIC simulation coverage for wireless communications products, with 5x transient simulation speed improvements and new mixed-signal simulation capabilities, resulting in shorter product development times. “RFIC designers have...

NXP and STMicroelectronics have agreed to combine key wireless operations to form a joint venture company with strong relationships with all major handset manufacturers. The combined venture will be created from successful businesses that together generated $3 B in revenue in 2007 and will own thousands of important communication...

At a ceremony in Beijing that was attended by the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, and the Swedish Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, Ericsson signed GSM expansion framework agreements with China's two largest mobile operators, China Mobile and China Unicom , valued at about $1.3 B and $140 M, respectively. The...

The quality management system at BAE Systems , Hillend, Dunfermline, UK, has been accredited with Aerospace Standard AS9100 – the highest standard required by the aerospace and defense industry. The operations at Hillend currently provide electronic assemblies and circuits for leading defense programs. The approval follows a successful eight-day...

Vector Fields has published a video exploring the potential of a radical new type of tool for optimizing electromagnetic equipment designs. The video illustrates a process that makes auto optimization possible, and within practical timescales for almost any scale of problem, even if a user specifies several or even...