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The Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (HHI) of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft , Germany, has announced a wide-ranging partnership with ARC International that expands Fraunhofer's use of configurable processors to further the development and commercialization of consumer products based on Digital Video Broadcast-handheld (DVB-H) technology. The Digital Video Broadcasting Project is an industry-led consortium of...

Taconic , Petersburgh, NY, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the site of its new manufacturing facility in Cheonan, Korea. The company could not have asked for a nicer day as company CEO Andrew Russell kicked off events with sincere congratulations to everyone involved. Awards for outstanding performance were then handed out...

EMS Wireless , a division of EMS Technologies Inc., announced that it has shipped more than $80 M in orders for its products from January through the first week of December 2005. That represents almost double the orders shipped during all of 2004. "This is the first time in...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that it has completed the divestiture of its semiconductor products business to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Silver Lake Partners for $2.66 B, subject to various closing-related adjustments. The divestiture is one in a series of actions Agilent announced on August 15, 2005,...

Alcatel Alenia Space has signed a €147 contract with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) to supply 25 antennas for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) project. The project is aimed at setting up an array of radio telescopes to study the origins of galaxies and the formation of stars...

Saab has signed an agreement to acquire Aerospace Monitoring and Systems (Pty) Ltd. (AMS) in South Africa. AMS focuses on proprietary aircraft monitoring and recording systems for the global aerospace and defense market. The company is based in Midrand, has a turn over of 58M Rand and employs 75...

On 7 December 2005 Queen's University Belfast (QUB) announced the inception of a world-class microwave and millimeter-wave research facility within its new Research Institute in Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT). The facility will have access to state-of-the-art test and measurement equipment, valued at over $1 million and supplied...

On 6 December Thales announced that it has opened a second manufacturing facility in the US to support its growing military communications operations. Located in Germantown, MA, this new facility is in close proximity to the company's Clarksburg headquarters, which includes a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant that was opened in...

Summitek Instruments has announced a licensing agreement with Willtek Communications , a provider of test and measurement solutions to the wireless industry. Summitek Instruments, a manufacturer of software products designed to automate spectrum management as well as S-parameter measurements, has signed an agreement to license the OASIS Spectrum Monitoring...

On 1 December Avago Technologies started 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, which...