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The sales of new devices with integrated mobile broadband connectivity, together with external USB modems, will top 100 million in 2010, as mobile broadband makes major inroads into the mass market, stimulated by new devices such as the Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad and more aggressive tariffs from mobile...

Linx Technologies Inc. , a provider of easily applied, cost-effective wireless solutions, announced its acquisition of Apex Wireless Inc. in a transaction with undisclosed terms. Based in Boulder, CO, Apex Wireless has provided RF product development, contract design and wireless consulting services since 1985. Apex specializes in high performance,...

Mobile contactless payments and a wealth of other applications enabled by Near Field Communication (NFC) are coming to mobile handsets over the next 12 months, but not in the format originally envisioned. A lack of commercially available NFC-embedded handsets combined with the rise of mobile handsets with microSD slots...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD) announced the company has added high power Integrated Passive Component (IPC) technology to RFMD's foundry services portfolio and will begin providing IPC technology to customers of its Foundry Services business unit in June of this year. RFMD's IPC technology is complementary to its GaN...

ABI Research has been tracking cities and population coverage for 4G for the past year. At the end of 2009 there were more than 170 802.16e carriers across 65 countries, covering 480 million people. That number is projected to cross the 1 billion mark by 4Q-2012. USB dongles have...

The Wi-Fi Alliance and the Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig Alliance) announced a cooperation agreement for multi-gigabit wireless networking. The Wi-Fi Alliance and the WiGig Alliance will share technology specifications for the development of a next-generation Wi-Fi Alliance certification program supporting Wi-Fi® operation in the 60 GHz frequency band. This...

The President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Professor Christopher Snowden, and Chief Executive, Nigel Fine, have visited India to forge and further relations with India’s premiere engineering institution and strengthen the IET's presence in South Asia. At the first ever meeting of the IET’s South Asia...

NEC Corp. is participating in Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. ’s (SingTel) field trials of LTE. Together with its regional partners, SingTel is Asia’s largest multi-market mobile operator, serving more than 285 million mobile customers in eight markets. The LTE field trial is scheduled to be carried out by SingTel and...

In collaboration with the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S), IEEE.tv will produce and deliver coverage of the 2010 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS), to be held May 23-28 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA. Video coverage of select Microwave Week events and activities will...