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Following a two-day meeting of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ruling Council the Ministers responsible for space in the ESA’s 17 Member States and Canada formulated a coherent plan for discovery and competitiveness for Europe in space. They accordingly endorsed the continuation of a set of ongoing programmes and...

As a result of research undertaken in conjunction with QinetiQ, Intel Corp. has announced development of a new, ultra-fast, yet very low power prototype transistor using new materials that could form the basis of its microprocessors and other logic products beginning in the second half of the next decade....

Avago Technologies has begun operations as the world’s largest privately held independent semiconductor company. Its creation follows the completion of the acquisition of Agilent Technologies Inc.’s Semiconductor Products Group by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Silver Lake Partners in a $2.66 B transaction. Its heritage of technical...

In what is a major step forward for the Galileo European satellite radio navigation project, the future Galileo Concessionaire has agreed upon the locations of the various facilities under its responsibility that are required for the successful deployment of the programme. Under the agreement the Headquarters of the Galileo...

Chipcon, a designer of short-range, low power wireless transceiver devices, has been acquired by Texas Instruments (TI) Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $200 M. At the time of going to press the transaction was expected to be completed during January 2006. Under the agreement Chipcon, which employs...

The Enhanced Wireless Consortium indicated last month that its proposals for the draft 802.11n standard are now substantially aligned with the work of the IEEE’s working group. This is good news for most of the stakeholders in the process. ABI Research has reported on this process before, most notably...

Alcatel announced it has signed a subcontract with M/A-COM Inc., a leader in critical communications technologies, to equip the State of New York with an advanced public safety communications network to enhance communications interoperability among public safety first responders. The Statewide Wireless Network, for which M/A-COM will act as...

Wireless mesh networking looks set to achieve a stellar growth rate by the end of the decade, but most of the growth will be in market segments not served by existing infrastructures. According to a new study from ABI Research, the increase will mostly come from deployment by alternative...

Near Field Communications (NFC) applications will transform consumer commerce, connectivity and content consumption, beginning with trials through 2006 and volume deployments into 2007, according to a new study from ABI Research. NFC, a short-range contactless communication protocol, enables easy-to-use, secure Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity between devices. It provides high...

Phaselock Techniques, Third Edition Floyd M. Gardner Wiley-Interscience • 447 pages; $84.95 ISBN: 0-471-43063-3 The first edition of this book was published in 1966 and the second in 1979. Phaselock was an unimaginably exotic subject in 1966, with limited applications and few practitioners. Now phaselocking is a mature subject....