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Visible Assets Inc. announced that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has approved RuBee®, a long-wavelength, packet-based, magnetic transceiver protocol, as a new international standard designated IEEE 1902.1. Visible Assets and Seiko Epson Corp. sponsored creation of the standard and the workgroup and are responsible for its...

The recently launched Oasis® Universal Cable & Adapter Kit has been designed to meet the needs of field installers and engineers that repair and maintain RF and microwave systems in the most challenging conditions, from extreme heat to extreme cold. MegaPhase invested years of development perfecting the tools and...

Communications & Power Industries Inc. (CPI) has received an approximately $13 M follow-on award from General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies to support Increment One of the US Army's Warfighter Information Network Tactical (WIN-T) program. With this latest contract, CPI has received more than $26 M in total awards from General...

VXI Technology Inc. announced that it has changed its name to VTI Instruments Corp. to more completely represent the applications and markets that it serves. “While we continue to be the leading supplier of VXIbus products, our development efforts focus on several industry standards that each have a long...

CSR and SiRF entered into a conditional agreement under which SiRF will merge with CSR, increasing the scale of CSR in the high-growth GPS technology market and strengthening CSR's position as a global leader in both Bluetooth and GPS. SiRF is a market leader in GPS semiconductors with strong...

STMicroelectronics has purchased NXP Semiconductors' 20 percent stake in ST-NXP Wireless. This follows on from the announcement on 20 August 2008 made jointly by STMicroelectronics and Ericsson Mobile Platforms of an agreement to merge Ericsson Mobile Platforms and ST-NXP Wireless into a 50/50 joint venture. STMicroelectronics indicated at that...

ARABSAT has signed contracts with a consortium headed by Astrium and Thales Alenia Space to build and deliver two new satellites, Arabsat 5C and Arabsat 6B, into orbit. Astrium, the leading partner, will supply the Eurostar E3000 platforms and integrate the satellites. Thales Alenia Space will design and build...

TDC Mobile A/S , Denmark’s largest mobile operator, and NEC are working together for the potential roll-out of the NEC Femtocell solution in late 2009. The scope of engagement includes a user trial involving several Femtocell Access Points deployed in consumer locations and connected to TDC’s commercial core network...

Scalable Network Technologies Inc. (SNT), a leader in wireless network evaluation, announced the release of its new UMTS Library for the company’s software products, QualNet® and EXata®. QualNet and EXata are modeling and simulation/emulation software tools for predicting wireless and mixed platform network and network device performance in both...

Beceem Communications , a provider of mobile WiMAX chips, announced that its high performance chipset is helping to power devices for use with the new Clear™ 4G mobile WiMAX service, offered by Clearwire in Portland, OR. With Clear, consumers and businesses can access the Internet wirelessly, at true broadband...