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The Boeing Phantom Ray unmanned airborne system (UAS) successfully completed its first flight April 27 at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, CA. The 17-minute flight took place following a series of high speed taxi tests in March that validated ground guidance, navigation and control...
Harris Corp. has introduced KnightHawk™ 3G — a ruggedized, highly mobile tactical base station that enables warfighters on the move to maintain 3G cellular services in locations with limited or no cellular connectivity. Jointly developed by Harris and Battlefield Telecommunications Systems (BTS™), KnightHawk 3G is a customizable cellular Network-in-a-Box...
The strength of the UK Space Industry, which is worth an estimated £7.5 B, has been doubly enhanced with the publication by the UK’s Space Leadership Council of the National Space Technology Strategy for the UK and the opening by the International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC). The National Space...
The European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation has informed the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) and the European Science Foundation (ESF) of its decision to allocate an additional €30 M to COST. COST implements networking activities for researchers, contributing to the European Research Area (ERA) goals...
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have announced the creation of a partnership in the burgeoning field of intelligent transport systems (ITS) and the instigation of a new Joint Task Force for ITS Communications. The involvement of international standards bodies is seen as...
The Next Generation Mobile Network (NGMN) Alliance has joined 3GPP as a Market Representation Partner. With its high level representation from the world’s leading operators and manufacturers, NGMN will support 3GPP to ensure that mobile broadband services continue to meet the expectations of end users. The Partnership Agreement was...
Even while the handset portion of the compound semiconductor market remains the largest revenue producer, Strategy Analytics sees that leading device suppliers are diversifying their portfolios by developing additional products for infrastructure, broadband and military applications. The recently published Strategy Analytics GaAs and Compound Semiconductor Technologies Service viewpoint, “Compound...
Around the world, operators are starting to move out of 4G trials and switching to commercial services. With 4G, there will not be the generous allocation of spectrum to which the 3G licensees were lucky enough to have access. The re-farming of spectrum and its reallocation from alternative applications...
Total handsets sold to end-users globally will reach 1.46 billion in 2011, while smartphone sales will account for 27 percent of total handset sell-through. Driven by demand for inexpensive Android models, this figure will almost double to 53 percent in 2015, according to Pyramid Research’s quarterly smartphone forecast. Offered...
In 2011, the world’s annual data traffic volume will total almost 8,000 petabytes. That will grow at a CAGR of 50 percent over the following years, exceeding 60,000 petabytes in 2016 – over seven times more than in 2011. The year-on-year growth will be the fastest in 2012 (58...