Broadcom thinks it can make NFC a common smartphone feature by offering it in a chip with other wireless technologies, even if making payments with the technology doesn’t catch on for years. On Tuesday, the communications chip ...
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Multichannel time-synchronised mesh networks based on 802.15.4 radios address many of the challenges involved in designing wireless sensor networks, write Lance Doherty, Jonathan Simon and Thomas Watteyne from Linear Technology While both ...
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The National Communications Commission(NCC),Executive Yuan,recently announced it will put up 270 megahertz of bandwidth for 4G license auctions,which are estimated to take place in 2013. License winners are required to build network on ...
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The Weightless wireless standard has this week won the backing by a number of UK companies to try and establish it as the way forward for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. ARM, Vodafone-owned Cable and Wireless Worldwide (C&WW) and ...
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IMS Research projects that the market for lighting control devices in commercial buildings will double from 2010 to 2017, with shipments of devices increasing from 29.6 million to 61.6 million. Most of these components will be connected ...
IMS Research projects that 2013 will be a big year for the emergence of Radio Frequency (RF)-embedded light bulbs, with several large manufacturers planning to release new products using a range of wireless technologies. According to IMS ...
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TriQuint adds ex-AT&T 3G network developer as independent director RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has expanded its board of directors by adding Roderick Nelson ...
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Chip designer ARM has been revealing more details about the mission of the forum that it is putting together to help drive standardisation for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, also known as "the internet of things". The forum, ...
Tags: ARM, M2M, NTT Docomo, Telstra, NFC
The Wi-Fi Direct Services specification that the Wi-Fi Alliance plans to finish next year should help to extend the use of Wi-Fi Direct beyond proprietary implementations,the organization says. The emerging specification,in the early ...
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Lighting accounts for about 25%of the commercial building sector's energy use.Lighting controls offer significant potential for reducing that energy use,and new technologies that have emerged in recent years have enabled a wide range of ...
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