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Initially focusing on radar technologies, Lockheed Martin has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Poland’s leading defence electronics company, Przemyslowy Instytut Telekomunikacji (PIT), to pursue industrial cooperation related to missile defence. The MoU outlines the areas of cooperation between the two companies, agrees on ways to exchange proprietary...

In collaboration with Nokia, TELESTET has brought commercial 3G services to Greece with the launch of the country’s first WCDMA network. It will initially operate in the greater Athens, Thessaloniki, Patra and Irakleion areas with other major cities to follow shortly. The launched WCDMA 3G network uses equipment provided...

In what is the company’s first acquisition of a controlling stake in an Asian semiconductor company, Infineon Technologies has signed an agreement to acquire ADMtek Inc., a fabless, integrated circuit design company based in Hsinchu, Taiwan, for around €80 M. The new company will focus on developing broadband customer...

In order to enhance and accelerate synergy between its business and R&D to further new business creation, NEC Corp. is consolidating its R&D operations. Previously divided between corporate and business line divisions the newly created business line R&D unit will operate from the company’s Tokyo headquarters. The unit will...

The China Mobile Communication Corp. (CMCC) has selected Motorola’s Global Telecom Solutions Sector (GTSS) to expand its GSM communications network and improve data services for users in Beijing and 13 important provinces of China. The contract, worth around US$510 M, will prepare CMCC for the coming evolution to 3G...

If 2003 was the year the market awakened to supply chain-based RFID, 2004 will surely be the year it readies for school. The two mandates for 2005, set by Wal-Mart and the US Department of Defense (DoD), pushed RFID into the public eye, and moved it from company science...

The emergence of new standards will result in a dynamic rate of growth for Fixed Wireless Broadband (FWB), reports In-Stat/MDR. Traditionally, a lack of standards has hampered the development of FWB systems, as the proprietary nature of FWB technology kept the cost high, and limited interoperability between different vendors....

As consumer awareness of global position systems (GPS) increases, so has product innovation and total market revenue. While roughly half of the market today consists of sales of automotive and asset tracking equipment, these segments will still continue to grow at rates faster than that of the broader market...

Microwave Solid State Circuit Design Second Edition Inder Bahl and Prakash Bhartia Wiley-Interscience 906 pages; $140 ISBN: 0-471-20755-1 This is the second edition of a book that was published almost fifteen years ago. In this revision, emphasis was placed on retaining and expanding topics of current and future interest...

With the ability to sense and measure rotational motion becoming a critical component for several automotive and military applications, revenues of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) gyros will grow from $279 M in 2002 to $396 M in 2007, reports In-Stat/MDR. The high tech market research firm finds that, with MEMS...