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Leading M2M analyst and consulting firm Beecham Research Ltd. has been awarded a €200,000 contract by the European Space Agency to conduct an intensive study of the worldwide market for Satellite M2M. The company will act as prime contractor for the study and will be aided by its subcontract...

The Board of the NGMN Alliance has endorsed the proposal to seek establishment of an ETSI Industry Specification Group (ISG)—Open Radio Equipment Interface (ORI)—to further develop and maintain the specifications for open interfaces between Remote Equipment Control (REC) and Radio Equipment (RE). The objective of the open interface specifications...

Strategy Analytics forecasts global automotive Bluetooth to grow from 7.6 M units in 2008 to 54.7 M units in 2016, representing a CAGR of 28 percent over the forecast period. The Strategy Analytics Automotive Multimedia and Communications Service (AMCS) report, “Automotive Bluetooth: Profile Strategy Key to Infotainment Success,” details...

There is no doubt that 2009 was a bad financial year, and there were fears at its beginning that the wireless infrastructure market would see a severe downturn. Estimates for contraction ranged as high as 10 to 12 percent. However, in a just-released study, ABI Research finds that the...

December 2009 saw the first commercial launch of LTE networks, with TeliaSonera the first service provider in the world to offer the service in Stockholm and Oslo. 2010 promises to see the commercial launch of several LTE networks, including large operators such as Verizon Wireless in the United States...

Qualcomm, MediaTek, Infineon and Broadcom increased their share in cellular basebands in 2009 despite an overall decline in the market, as described in “Rapid Changes in the Baseband Market Lead to Rising Fortunes for a Chosen Few,” from the Strategy Analytics RF & Wireless Component market research service. This...

RAYSPAN® Corp., the world’s only provider of metamaterial and advanced RF air interface solutions for wireless communications, announced the availability of RAYSPAN MTM-E™ solutions for long-term evolution (LTE). MTM-E is the only antenna solution that can support six or more bands operating from 698 to 960 MHz in the...

Industry News Crane Co. , a diversified manufacturer of highly engineered industrial products, announced the successful completion of its tender offer for Merrimac Industries Inc. Crane has accepted 2,796,642 validly tendered Merrimac shares, including 23,162 shares tendered under the tender offer’s guaranteed delivery procedures. The tendered shares, excluding those...

Welcome and greetings from the entire IEEE IMS2010 Steering Committee. We look forward to seeing you in Anaheim, CA, during Microwave Week, May 23-28. As you make your plans to attend, there are several things that one should consider about IMS2010. Microwave Week provides multiple opportunities to learn, meet...

Welcome to the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, which will take place in Anaheim, CA, May 23-25, 2010 ( www.RFIC2010.org ). Our Symposium, held in conjunction with the IEEE MTTS International Microwave Symposium (IMS), opens Microwave Week 2010, the largest worldwide RF/microwave meeting of the year. The...