Richard Mumford, European Editor

EADS is to supply the German army with software valued at €23 M for its modern army command and control information system (FüInfoSys Heer), a system designed to equip the army with a comprehensive range of highly mobile battlefield and command-post facilities over the next few years. This is...

Infineon has founded a regional company in Bucharest — Infineon Technologies Romania GesmbH — with a Development Centre specialising in power semiconductors with analogue and digital functions (power mixed signal) being set up in the Romanian capital. In particular, this will enable the company to better serve the growing...

QinetiQ and its partners AMS and Roke Manor Research have begun work on the Advanced Radar Technology Integrated System Test-bed (ARTIST). This £8.1 M UK contract is to build a research demonstrator system and assess techniques to support the next generation of maritime multifunction radar (MFR). The 44-month programme...

Smiths Group plc is expanding the range of technologies offered by its Detection division, with the acquisition of Farran Technology Ltd. The company, which is based in Cork, Republic of Ireland, is owned by its local founders, its management and two Irish venture capital funds. Smiths is acquiring the...

Alcatel and Intel Corp. have announced that both companies have expanded their strategic alliance on WiMAX, entering into a new joint development agreement. Both companies have committed to work closely together to expedite the delivery of end-to-end residential, nomadic and ultimately mobile WiMAX solutions based on the IEEE 802.16e...

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore is set to expand its R&D efforts by establishing a new research laboratory with Thales Technology Centre Singapore and Thales Research & Technology (France). Known as Thales@NTU, the laboratory will harness science and technology to develop dual-use technologies that are applicable to both...

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore is set to expand its R&D efforts by establishing a new research laboratory with Thales Technology Centre Singapore and Thales Research & Technology (France). Known as Thales@NTU, the laboratory will harness science and technology to develop dual-use technologies that are applicable to both...

In response to the growing Asian market, 7 layers, an international engineering group for the wireless communications industry, is establishing a new test and service centre in South Korea. The new laboratory will open at the beginning of May 2005 and will be located in Kangnam-Gu, Seoul, under the...

Under new European rules, Elcoteq Network Corp.’s board of directors is proposing that the company be converted into a European Company (Societas Europaea, SE). The move by the manufacturer of electronics for communications technology is in response to the Act on the European Company, which came into force in...

Motorola has announced that it has begun deployment of its CDMA2000 1X solution on a 2 GHz network for KDDI, a carrier for 3G cellular phone services in Japan. The new packet-based 2 GHz network will allow the carrier to leverage additional bandwidth while offering the opportunity to provide...