Articles by MWJ Staff

RFID Design Principles Harvey Lehpamer This cutting-edge book serves as a comprehensive introduction to RFID, offering you a detailed understanding of design essentials and applications, and providing a thorough overview of management issues. By comparing RFID with WLAN and Bluetooth, this practical resource shows you how RFID technology can...

Fueled both by consumer demand for entertainment and communication as well as governmental regulatory and economic incentives, companies at all levels of the broadband services and infrastructure value chain are developing new technologies and enabling new services that will continue to push the US broadband market forward over the...

Free MIMO Poster This full-color poster from Agilent, “Ten Things You Should Know about MIMO,” presents MIMO operation and test methodologies, using specific examples to high-light the impact on the radio system or associated test. Visit www.agilent.com/find/mimo-forward to order a copy. Agilent Technologies Inc., Santa Clara, CA (800) 829-4444,...

The US Army awarded Raytheon Co. and Boeing a $125 M contract for the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) program. The contract funds a 27- month technology development program to develop and fire three prototype missiles with fully integrated tri-mode seekers. “There is an urgent warfighter need to field this...

Lockheed Martin announced the successful delivery of a space communications system that will bring more accurate and timely decision-making information to the US Air Force Space Commanders. This upgrade to the Combatant Commanders Integrated Command and Control System (CCIC2S) communications processing system enhances space message delivery reliability to and...

Northrop Grumman Corp. has completed integrating all electronics units of the payload module for the third Advanced Extremely High frequency (EHF) military communications satellite. The company is under contract to provide three communications payloads to advanced EHF prime contractor Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale, CA. The Advanced EHF system will provide...

Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, introduced the first tactical satellite terminals with the capability of transmission/reception of TOP SECRET global wideband data communications. These new terminals are designed to military standards for operation in harsh environments. The new Harris RF-7800B Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN)...

UK-based fabless semiconductor company Lime Microsystems has joined the Femto Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide. The Forum promotes the adoption of femtocell technologies through open standards, market education and ecosystem development. The working groups’ mission is to ensure the rapid and effective...

The GSMA has launched the Green Power for Mobile programme with the goal of helping the mobile industry use renewable energy sources to power 118,000 new and existing off-grid base stations in developing countries by 2012. Achieving that target would save up to 2.5 billion litres of diesel per...

The UK Ministry of Defence has sold the remainder of its shares in international aerospace and defence group QinetiQ. Over 124 million shares were sold at a price of £2.06 each, completing the final stage of the company’s privatisation, raising £257.3 M for the UK taxpayer. In February 2006,...