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Despite the hype around the decline of PNDs and the rise of smartphone applications, there is a long-term future for dedicated GPS devices. Total GPS device revenues are forecast to grow from $6.5 billion in 2011 to over $8 billion in 2017. With the exception of PNDs, all device categories grew in 2011, including cycling computers, golf caddies, and recreational devices.

EMSCAN will showcase the world's largest real-time antenna pattern measurement tool in Amsterdam at  EuMW 2012.

Identive Group Inc. and NXP Semiconductors N.V. are providing innovative near field communication (NFC) payment tags to Yeldi Softcom Pvt Ltd to support the launch of its ‘ara eTap’ cashless payment application in India.

Discusses the present state-of-the-art in S-Band amplifier design for multi-kW SSPAs

Discusses how ICs built on a silicon-on-sapphire technology process with integrated power-management functions can enable smaller, low-power RF applications

The French National RFID Centre (CNRFID), the national organization dedicated to RFID solutions deployment, and NRFLab, a company specialized in testing active and passive RF components, announced their collaboration and ability to offer neutral testingof ultra-high frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and early comparisons of different EPC tag-compliant options.

Tahoe RF Semiconductor announces that it has licensed the latest GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) technology from Stanford University for the development of their next generation low-power, low-cost universal GNSS IC. The technology employs unique RF subsampling techniques that enable the receiver to support all the GNSS bands and be implemented on a single RF CMOS IC Technology

Tahoe RF Semiconductor has achieved another first pass success with the delivery of a highly integrated specialty GPS Receiver IC with exceptional performance in a small 76-pin molded plastic QFN package.

Melissa Cortez, with sales and marketing at MegaPhase, discusses how mobile apps are changing the way we conduct business

Companies, governments, and industries are increasingly turning to RFID as they look to modernize their operations, becoming more efficient and enabling quicker, more convenient service. The traditional uses of RFID for the identification of animals, people, and within the automotive sector are continuing to grow and are projected to increase by $2.8 billion from 2012 to 2017. However, ABI Research’s new RFID Market Tracker found that modernizing RFID applications will grow twice as fast with annual revenues derived from these jumping by $4.5 billion in the same timeframe.