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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...

Spectrum Control , a designer and manufacturer of electronic control products and systems, has announced the acquisition of JDK/USA , a company based in Grass Valley, CA that designs and manufactures high precision co-molded plastic potentiometers and assemblies. It is envisaged that this new line of rotary and linear...

A Development Test Mode for the WiMAX 802.16e protocol conformance test solution has been released by Aeroflex and AT4 Wireless (formerly known as CETECOM Spain) on behalf of the WiMAX Forum. The availability of the Development Test Mode gives first-line WiMAX equipment manufacturers, chipset developers and protocol stack developers...

Auriga Measurement Systems LLC announced the addition of Ted Lewis as director of global sales. Lewis has over 20 years of experience of growing sales and building strong customer relations. Previous to Auriga, Lewis was self-employed as a consultant providing specialized services in the development of sales and customer-centered...

Alcatel and Runcom Technologies Ltd. have announced that commercial ready products will be available for early adopters of universal WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e-2005) technology. Enhancing Alcatel's Open Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) Policy, the two companies actively collaborate in different areas such as the development of end to end solutions including...

Agilent Technologies Inc. and AT4 Wireless (formerly known as CETECOM Spain) announced that Agilent's Measurement Systems Division and Wireless Business Unit have won a contract valued at more than US$1 M jointly with AT4 Wireless for fixed and mobile WiMAX conformance test and regulatory test systems with Telecom Technology...

At first glance, China Unicom looks to be in an enviable position. It is one of only two mobile operators – the other, of course, being China Mobile – that covers the world’s largest cell phone market. In August, there were 437.5 million cell phone users in China and...

Following a recommendation by the Foreign Investment Review Board, Australian Treasurer Peter Costello has approved the application by Thales Australia Holdings to acquire the remaining 50 percent of the shares in ADI Group Holdings Pty Ltd. from Transfield Holdings. Thales and Transfield bought ADI in a joint venture from...

The RF to Light 100 rose 3% last week, YTD +14% at 2421. There is a growing feeling among investors that the bull market has caught a second wind. Oil, earnings and speculation fueled the equity markets while US economic growth indicators didn't change. Fading chance of US rate...

Coaxial open-circuit standards are found in many of today’s commercially available vector network analyzer (VNA) calibration kits. 1,2 They are most commonly used as standards in calibration schemes such as short-open-load-through (SOLT). In this capacity, they are assumed to have known characteristics, that is, they are assumed to provide...