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Tyco Electronics and Versatile Systems Inc. announced the expansion of the SyncSeer™ system capabilities by adding M/A-COM RFID components to the SyncSeer system. The SyncSeer system is an intelligent, technology infrastructure and information management system comprised of hardware and software for companies in the entertainment, retail, health care, government...

The role of Taiwanese handset makers is becoming increasingly significant in the global handset industry. Cooperation with handset original design manufacturers (ODM) has become an integral part of the handset strategies of some big original equipment manufacturers (OEM) such as Motorola and Sony Ericsson, especially in the low-end handset...

Ray Almgren, National Instruments vice president of product marketing and academic relations, addressed a worldwide community of engineering educators October 12 at the American Society for Engineering Education’s (ASEE) fifth annual Global Colloquium on Engineering Education in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The colloquium brings engineering educators across the globe...

Centerline Technologies announces the appointment of Robert Naugler to the position of operations manager. In this capacity, Naugler is responsible for the day to day operation of Centerline Technologies’ lapping, polishing and dicing operations. His responsibilities also include the supervision of quality, production and statistical process control. He will...

Published October 25, 2006 From: Shi Bo, IZR Science Park Dear Harlan, How can you accurately measure noise figure on-chip using probes? Dear Shi, There are a number of commercially available probes and noise figure test sets that can be used to make measurements. However, the absolute noise figure...

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...