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Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, has received a $9.6 M order for the Harris RF-310M-HH, a new handheld tactical radio designed to simplify and improve secure communications interoperability for US and allied forces in combat. Harris is supplying RF-310M-HH multiband, multi-mission, software-defined radios under the...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Indra three contracts worth a total of €5.4 M to design a future radar system for the surveillance of objects close to the Earth as well as the development of its working prototype. The company will also determine its location and develop...

The global significance of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications was demonstrated by the first meeting outside Europe of the M2M technical committee of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). The meeting of the committee, which defines the operation of future M2M communications and the efficient integration onto wireless networks, was held...

Thales Australia has begun the construction of a new research and development centre in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, aimed at shaping the future of Air Traffic Management (ATM). The Centre for Advanced Studies in ATM (CASIA) will be at the forefront of the company’s work on new ATM offerings for...

ip.access has signed a femtocell technology development agreement with Qualcomm Inc. that will enable ip.access to develop W-CDMA residential and enterprise femtocell products using Qualcomm’s Femtocell Station Modem™ (FSM™) chipset platform. The company is also a licensee of Qualcomm’s femtocell patent licensing program. Femtocells are low power access points...

ABI Research anticipates that the sensor-driven user interface (UI) will be an emergent theme in the next wave of mobile UI innovation, turning objects, locations and people into networked, interactive elements. By 2013, 85 percent of smartphones will ship with GPS, over 50 percent will ship with accelerometers and...

The Cellular Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication market has been a challenging place for cellular embedded module vendors over the past 18 months. 2007 was this market’s last “good year”: 2008 saw both shipment volumes and revenue decrease. In 2009, the cellular M2M module market grew somewhat in terms of unit...

It's hard to believe that it's already November, but here in New England the leaves have turned and there's frost in the mornings, so winter must soon be approaching. This change in seasons coincides with the annual budgeting and planning process for many of you, as you determine where...

DragonWave Inc. , a supplier of packet microwave radio systems for mobile and access networks, announced that Choice Communications LLC has selected DragonWave to provide high-capacity, cost-effective, next generation wireless backhaul for its converged mobile services network in the US Virgin Islands (USVI). “Our selection of DragonWave backhaul services...

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has welcomed the approval by the European Parliament of the Report on the Future of European Standardization prepared by IMCO, the Parliament's Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee. The report was approved by the European Parliament plenary in Strasbourg in October and contributes...