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Nokia and Thai operator Advanced Info Service Public Co. Ltd. (AIS) have signed a contract valued at $100 M for the expansion of the operator's GSM/EDGE network, resulting in nationwide coverage for both GSM and EDGE. Nokia will modernize AIS's network infrastructure and support the company in providing innovative...

Triton Services Inc. , Electron Technology Division, Easton, PA, has been awarded a contract for the development of a new Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA) for a shipboard tracking radar. The value of the contract awarded by a European defense contractor exceeds $1 M for the development and the...

Credence Systems Corp. , a provider of test solutions from design-to-production for the worldwide semiconductor industry, announced that it has entered into separate privately negotiated agreements with certain holders of its outstanding 1.50 percent Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2008 (the "Outstanding Notes") under which such holders have agreed to...

RF Micro Devices Inc. , a global leader in the design and manufacture of high performance radio systems and solutions for applications that drive mobile communications, announced the official opening of its new customer support center in Shanghai, China. The new facility underscores RFMD's growing presence in Greater China...

To meet the demand for testing Bluetooth V2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) designs, RFI Global Services has expanded its Bluetooth EDR test capacity by taking delivery of significant upgrades to its existing Bluetooth test platforms and an additional EDR RF tester. EDR RF qualification testing will soon become...

STMicroelectronics has expanded its Innovation and Systems Integration Center (CIIS), which is based in Grenoble, Switzerland. The center, dedicated to system-on-chip solutions, is located in the heart of the Polygone Scientifique, the Grenoble scientific cluster, and will offer two new facilities covering a total area of 13,000 m 2...

Applied Wave Research Inc. (AWR ® ) and DuPont Microcircuit Materials , part of DuPont Electronic Technologies, announced the availability of a process design kit (PDK) that enables radio frequency (RF), microwave and millimeter-wave designers to access the DuPont™ GreenTape™ low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) technology within AWR's Microwave...

Antenova Ltd. has acquired the RF design engineering team from a US-based developer of advanced RF power amplifiers for mobile handsets. The team will be housed in a new Design and Support Center in the Chicago area in the first quarter of 2007 and will complement the company’s North...

M/A-COM , a business unit of Tyco Electronics and a provider of wireless radio frequency (RF), microwave and millimeter-wave components, announced that the company has joined the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA ® ), a non-profit mutual benefit corporation to develop and promote specifications for the transport of digital...

Agilent Technologies has won a European-wide bid to supply the German Federal Armed Forces with more than 1,500 digital storage oscilloscopes (DSO). The 6000 series oscilloscopes will be delivered by the end of the year and will be used by engineers and technicians to test electrical equipment at the...