MMIC Solutions raises £2.5 million in Round A
Module and subsystem startup MMIC Solutions Ltd (Ledbury, England) has raised £2.7 million in a first round of VC financing to extend its development of receivers and modules for millimeter wave applications.
RadioFrame readies 2nd gen femtocell chip
Femtocell processor and basestation specialist RadioFrame Networks is readying a version of its OmniRadio processor that will be targeted at the LTE and WiMAX femtocells sector.
Mergers, protests signal tighter US defense market
A new wave of defense
industry mergers and the increasing propensity of companies to
protest contract losses signal the post-9/11 surge in U.S.
defense spending is finally coming to an end.
Mobile phones more important than wallets -survey
More than one-third of workers
would choose their mobile phone over their wallet, keys, laptop
or digital music player if they had to leave the house for 24
hours and could take only one item, a new survey has found.
Jazz Semi targets Israeli wireless companies
Pure-play foundry Jazz Semiconductor (Newport Beach, Calif.) is trying to convince wireless companies from Israel to use its foundry services, according to Michael Rome, senior sales manager for Europe at Jazz.
Cellular backhaul startup raises $20 million
Cellular backhaul startup Celtro Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel) has raised $20 million from Kreos Capital (formerly European Venture Partners, EVP), Genesis Partners, Roh Management and Cedar.
Intel a winner in Swedish 2.6GHz auction
Intel was one of the main winners in the second European 2.6GHz spectrum auction, in Sweden, which raised SEK 2.1 billion (about $350 million) after a grueling 112 rounds of bidding over 16 days.
Avago claims first RF chip-scale packaging solution
Wafer-level chip-scale packaging squeezes radio frequency (RF) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) into world's smallest package.
FCC Plans Digital Television Transition Test In September
Broadcasters in Wilmington, N.C., will shut off their analog signals on Sept. 8 to see what -- if any -- problems are created by the shift to digital.
Platform tests digital TV STBs
During the upcoming ANGA Cable trade show, the Institute for Broadcasting Technology (Munich, Germany) will showcase a test platform for various digital TV standards. With the platform, the institute intends to offer a professional quality assurance tool for network operators and manufacturers of receivers.
German OHB to bid for Galileo satellite contract
Aerospace company vendor OHB Technology AG (Bremen, Germany) has aired its intention to bid for the assignment of all remaining 26 Galileo navigation satellites. In the meantime, the first operational Galileo satellite Giove-B has started to transmit signals.
Cablevision adds subscribers, to spend on wireless
Cablevision Systems Corp
posted Thursday an unexpected rise in cable
subscribers in the first quarter, and outlined a $350 million
plan to build a high-speed wireless Internet network.
Newcomer delivers innovative FETs for less-visible, fragmented market
New RF FET structure promises major improvements for L-band users
Freescale unveils $61,000 "Green Technology" design challenge
Freescale Semiconductor has set June 6th as the deadline for entries to its European design challenge, which this year is targeted at projects that encourage innovation in environmental design and offers incentives to encourage designers to "go green."
Nokia says to sell 35 million GPS phones in 2008
Nokia Oyj, the world's top cellphone maker, expects to sell 35 million Global Positioning System (GPS) equipped phones this year, its chief executive said on Thursday.
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