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As part of the company’s exhibition at this week’s 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV, Cambridge Consultants announced a “Whitespace TV” technology demonstration. “Whitespace TV” will showcase Cambridge Consultants’ novel cognitive radio technology by enabling wireless television streaming to many different television sets over whitespace frequencies....

Shipments of mobile broadband-enabled consumer electronics are forecast to increase 55-fold between 2008 and 2014. This market – which includes eBook readers, mobile digital cameras and camcorders, personal media players (PMP), personal navigation devices (PND), and mobile gaming devices – will see total shipments reach 58 million in 2014....

The Z-Wave Alliance , an open consortium of global companies dedicated to building home control products based on Z-Wave wireless technology, announced that there are five Z-Wave-based iPhone apps available for download in the Apple App Store from Homemanageables, HomeSeer, iControl Networks, Schlage and Xanboo. “Mobile home control is...

Ubiquitous electricity has served as the foundation for numerous technological innovations in the modern world, but the electrical grid itself is based on decades-old technology and has suffered from low levels of investment for many years. Now, however, governments and industry leaders are coming together with new found urgency...

Crane Co. , a diversified manufacturer of highly engineered industrial products, and Merrimac Industries Inc. , a leader in the design and manufacture of RF microwave components, assemblies and micro-multifunction modules (MMFM®), announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Merrimac by Crane. Crane will...

A research project to strengthen German competiveness by developing processes and verification methods for more flexible and secure automated manufacturing has been launched by leading German companies. The SANITAS (“Enabling safer systems by a new collaborative verification methodology across the entire value chain”) project includes nine partners – research...

In preparation for the start of extra-high-speed LTE mobile services, NTT DOCOMO Inc. is deploying new W-CDMA base stations equipped with newly developed remote radio equipment (RRE) units to provide both existing W-CDMA and forthcoming LTE service. The RRE-equipped base stations will account for about half of the initial...

Every year, ABI Research conducts a comprehensive survey of companies currently using, deploying, or piloting/evaluating RFID. This year more than 115 qualified organizations from across the world responded to ABI Research’s annual RFID end-user survey. Nearly half (49 percent) of those respondents currently using, deploying, evaluating, or piloting RFID...

Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig), the organization advancing the adoption and widespread use of 60 GHz wireless technology worldwide, announced the completion of its unified wireless specification. The WiGig specification enables high performance wireless display and audio and provides data transfer rates more than 10 times faster than today’s wireless...