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Applied Wave Research Inc. (AWR ® ) announced that in order to better serve the company's rapidly expanding Japanese customer base, it has opened a dedicated sales, marketing and support center in Japan, and has appointed Michiyoshi Endo as managing director. A graduate of the Tohoku Institute of Technology...

The RF to Light 100 dropped 1% last week, YTD +12% at 2412. Level 3 Communications agreed to acquire Broadwing. Fairchild swung into a 3Q06 profit but warned that 4Q may be below expectations - stock dropped 16%. Motorola reported weaker wireless infrastructure sales - stock dropped 10%. Microwave...

Ericsson and T-Mobile Czech Republic have signed a framework agreement for the supply of the company’s Mini-Link microwave transmission solution to provide a platform for flexible, scalable and cost-effective wireless transmission. The microwave transmission solution will enable the operator to offer Czech consumers a wide range of services and...

Proving that the fantasy of Sci-Fi can sometimes be closer to reality than one might imagine, Raytheon has produced the Silent Guardian™ protection system that projects a beam of microwave energy at a frequency of 94 GHz up to a range of 250 m to repel individuals or crowds...

The founder members of the Standard Mobile Imaging Architecture (SMIA) forum, Nokia and STMicroelectronics , have selected RFI Global Services as the first fully qualified SMIA Approved Laboratory to independently test compliance of camera modules. As a result, RFI has launched its handset camera module test services to the...

Spectrum Control , a designer and manufacturer of electronic control products and systems, has announced the acquisition of JDK/USA , a company based in Grass Valley, CA that designs and manufactures high precision co-molded plastic potentiometers and assemblies. It is envisaged that this new line of rotary and linear...

A Development Test Mode for the WiMAX 802.16e protocol conformance test solution has been released by Aeroflex and AT4 Wireless (formerly known as CETECOM Spain) on behalf of the WiMAX Forum. The availability of the Development Test Mode gives first-line WiMAX equipment manufacturers, chipset developers and protocol stack developers...

Auriga Measurement Systems LLC announced the addition of Ted Lewis as director of global sales. Lewis has over 20 years of experience of growing sales and building strong customer relations. Previous to Auriga, Lewis was self-employed as a consultant providing specialized services in the development of sales and customer-centered...

Alcatel and Runcom Technologies Ltd. have announced that commercial ready products will be available for early adopters of universal WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e-2005) technology. Enhancing Alcatel's Open Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) Policy, the two companies actively collaborate in different areas such as the development of end to end solutions including...

Agilent Technologies Inc. and AT4 Wireless (formerly known as CETECOM Spain) announced that Agilent's Measurement Systems Division and Wireless Business Unit have won a contract valued at more than US$1 M jointly with AT4 Wireless for fixed and mobile WiMAX conformance test and regulatory test systems with Telecom Technology...