With news that AWA has entered administration, the Australian electronics industry is mourning the demise of one of Australia’s most iconic brands and a company that has spent more than 100 years as part of the Australian technology ...
Tags: Radio, electronics industry, cross-continent communications
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched a wideband frequency doubler for point-to-point radios ...
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IBM has built on their previous graphene research and developed what is being reported as the best graphene-based integrated circuit (IC) built to date, with 10 000 times better performance than previously reported efforts. This ...
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By Thomas Sullivan Associate Principal Kitch Attorneys and Counselors This Opinion piece appears in the Feb. 10 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. When technology and regulation develop along parallel ...
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Grace's $249 Encore accesses Internet radio stations and subscription services, streams music from a networked computer, and plays music stored on a USB drive. Related grace Grace Digital Adds First Bluetooth Home-Audio Products grace Grace ...
A new San Francisco-based start-up, Artemis Networks, announced today that it plans to commercialize its "pCell" technology, a novel wireless transmission scheme that could eliminate network congestion and provide faster, more reliable data ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, 5G, 4G
As the plane carrying your correspondent from Hong Kong to Singapore started its descent to the Changi airport, the world's fifth busiest, it started flying circles. Shortly afterwards, the captain explained that multiple aircrafts were on ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
The phrase "An army marches on its stomach," often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, underscores the importance of logistics in the military. And in the 21st century, keeping up the supply of diesel fuel is one of the most challenging ...
Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn,MA,USA says that is has captured high-reliability(hi-rel)and commercial-off-the-shelf(COTS)sockets with several aerospace and defense suppliers such as Cobham,EADS,Herley and ...
Tags: Skyworks, digital attenuators, PIN diode voltage, RFID
'Smart' Contact Lenses Would Measure Sugar Levels in Diabetics Google is working on smart contact lenses that would measure sugar (glucose) levels in the tears of people with diabetes. If successful, the contacts would offer diabetics a ...
For decades, futurists have been predicting the era of the "smart" home, where you don't need to be home to lock your doors, dim your lights or adjust your thermostats. But except for the homes of the wealthy and a few hobbyists, the smart ...
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At CES last week, we ventured deep inside Suitable Technologies booth to a secret room to meet their latest telepresence robot platform. It's called the Beam+, and while it does just about everything that the original Beam can do, this new ...
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iBiquity Digital teamed up with Brent Cobb, the country singer-songwriter newcomer, in the latest promotional partnership between the HD Radio developer and an emerging artist. As part of Cobb's January-April tour, iBiquity will work with ...
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The big trends this year were an increased focus on cooperation and hand-offs between networks, an increased focus on privacy and security, and questions about how to make money from it all. Download Podcast Subscribe to Podcast ...
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John Lewis publishes its five-week trading update, revealing that the retailer saw both bricks and clicks break records. For the five weeks to 28 December 2013, total sales were £734m, 7.2 per cent up compared with last year, 6.9 ...
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