The Source on Design and Technology for the Wireless and RF Engineer
Cyberattack Suspect to Be Sent Home to Netherlands
April 29, 2013 11:12 am | by CIARAN GILES, Associated Press HAROLD HECKLE, Associated Press | News | CommentsA Dutch citizen arrested in Spain on suspicion of launching what authorities have called the biggest cyberattack in Internet history is expected to be handed over to the Netherlands within 10 days, a Spanish court official said Monday. The suspect — identified only by his initials S.K. — was questioned Saturday in the National Court...
SoftBank Allows Sprint to Conduct Talks with Dish
April 29, 2013 11:10 am | by Associated Press | News | CommentsSprint Nextel says SoftBank is allowing it to seek more information from Dish Network related to its rival bid for the third-largest U.S. cellphone company.Overland Park, Kan.-based Sprint has agreed to sell 70 percent of itself to Japan's Softbank Corp.
HotSpot Episode 10: Numi, The King of Toilets
April 29, 2013 10:34 am | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsThis week on WDD’s HotSpot, Kohler announces their feature-packed toilet, Numi; Zivix’s JamStik is a compact portable practice/learning guitar mad for the mobile generation; another interesting app for mobile devices is Touch Bionic’s iLimb...
Silicon Labs’ Single-Chip Digital Radio Receivers
April 29, 2013 10:25 am | by WDD Staff | Product Releases | CommentsSilicon Labs [NASDAQ: SLAB] has introduced a single-die antenna-input-to-audio-output digital radio receiver solution developed for the global portable and consumer electronics markets. Leveraging software-defined radio technology, the new monolithic Si468x receiver ICs bring FM, HD Radio...
IAR Announces RX111 Microcontroller Support
April 29, 2013 10:23 am | by WDD Staff | Product Releases | CommentsIAR Systems has announced full support for the newly introduced RX111 microcontrollers. As a result of IAR Systems’ strategic alliance with Renesas, immediate support for the group is available in the world-leading C/C++ development tool suite IAR Embedded Workbench.
IQD’s Next Gen VCXOs
April 29, 2013 10:22 am | by WDD Staff | Product Releases | CommentsIQD’s new IQXV-40 series Voltage Controlled Crystal Oscillator (VCXO) launching at Design West 2013 satisfies market demand for smaller package styles and low jitter. Measuring just 3.2 x 2.5 mm and housed in a hermetically sealed package with a grounded metal lid...
Cypress TrueTouch Touchscreen Solution
April 29, 2013 10:21 am | by WDD Staff | Product Releases | CommentsCypress Semiconductor Corp. [Nasdaq: CY] has announced that its TrueTouch Gen4 controllers enable the “Magic Touch” feature in the new Ascend Mate smartphone from HUAWEI, which boasts a touchscreens at 6.1”. Magic Touch feature...
RACO Wireless Announces M2M Solutions Agreement with Rogers Communications
April 28, 2013 6:47 pm | by RACO Wireless | News | CommentsRACO Wireless has announced that it has entered into a carrier agreement with Rogers Communications, Canada’s largest wireless communication services provider. The agreement will allow customers of RACO Wireless the ability to deploy M2M solutions in Canada through its award-winning platform, the Omega Management Suite.
RFMW Ltd. and RFCI Announce Worldwide Distribution Agreement
April 28, 2013 6:40 pm | by RFMW Ltd. | News | CommentsRFMW Ltd. and RF Circulator Isolator, Inc. (RFCI) has announced a worldwide distribution agreement effective April 3, 2013. RFCI acquired the Circulator and Isolator product line from RFMD upon RFMD’s exit of the business. RFMW Ltd...
Kymeta First to Successfully Demonstrate Ka-band Satellite Link Using Flat-Panel Metamaterials MSA-T Antenna
April 28, 2013 6:38 pm | by Kymeta | News | CommentsKymeta has announced that it successfully closed a link with a Ka-band DTH satellite transporting high definition TV signals.The connection used an aperture size of 15 by 17 inches and was about one centimeter thick. The antenna was powered...
Custom Software Development Company Utilizes DeviceHive
April 28, 2013 6:04 pm | by DataArt | News | CommentsDataArt has announced its collaboration with MMB Networks, a wireless engineering firm with expertise in ZigBee technology, to create a ZigBee Smart Energy gateway for utility customers. DeviceHive, DataArt’s open-source cloud-based Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication framework, bundled with MMB Networks’.
Skyworks Supports Samsung’s GALAXY S 4 Smartphone Platforms
April 28, 2013 5:53 pm | by Skyworks Solutions, Inc. | News | CommentsSkyworks Solutions, Inc. [NASDAQ: SWKS], an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, has announced it is supporting Samsung’s GALAXY S 4 smartphone platforms with multiple high-performance analog and front-end solutions.
ioBridge Releases Wireless Sensor and Control Network Platform for Professional Internet of Things and M2M Applications
April 28, 2013 5:47 pm | by ioBridge, Inc. | News | CommentsioBridge, Inc. has released its wireless sensor and control network platform for Internet of Things and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications. New products include the ioBridge Gamma PRO Web Gateway and Wireless Endpoints.
Elliptic Technologies Launches Hardware Enforced End-to-End Protection for Premium Content Sharing with its tVault DTCP+ Compliant Solutions
April 28, 2013 5:44 pm | by Elliptic Technologies | News | CommentsElliptic Technologies, a leading provider of field-proven embedded security and content protection solutions, today introduced tVault DTCP-IP, the latest addition to its family of highly robust and complete Digital Transmission Content Protection over Internet ...
802.11ac Standards and MIMO Technology to Drive Global RF Test Equipment Market
April 28, 2013 5:40 pm | by Frost & Sullivan | News | CommentsThe deployment of progressively more complex telecommunication techniques, including 802.11ac, together with the adoption of advanced multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) technologies will fuel the global radio frequency (RF) testing market.
