Virtual- and augmented-reality headsets will be the size of regular glasses in the near future, according to Qualcomm. Qualcomm senior vice president Raj Talluri made the claim during a keynote at the company’s 5G summit, attended ...
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At the ANGA COM 2015 Exhibition & Congress for Broadband, Cable and Satellite in Cologne, Germany (9-11 June), Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has introduced the ARA2031 reverse-path amplifier, which delivers optimized performance for ...
Tags: DOCSIS 3.1, CPE Devices
Sales of optical splitters, fiber sensors set for significant growth 27 Feb 2014 FTTH deployment dominates the PLC splitter market, while military and aerospace still taking lion’s share of sensors. The FTTH market is a great ...
Tags: Optical Splitters, Fiber Sensors
At the 2014 International CES, NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI) is demonstrating a wireless smart lighting network designed for ease of installation in the home. The demo includes an energy harvesting switch (battery-less, no wires) ...
Tags: Wireless Lighting, Lights
Appliances are becoming part of the family, weighing in with insights while helping with chores from cooking to doing laundry. Home networks that allowed household items such as lamps, thermostats and locks get "smart" with Internet ...
Tags: LG, Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Smart equipment
Microsoft is shutting down on Sept. 30 its MSN TV service that allowed users to browse the Web from their TVs, as there are now new ways to access the Internet including mobile phones, tablets and its own Xbox console. The Redmond, ...
Tags: Microsoft, MSN TV, web service
April 2, 2013 - Small- and medium-sized telephone companies that have upgraded their networks to all-fiber are reporting operational cost savings averaging 20% annually, according to a study commissioned by the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) ...
Tags: fiber, fiber broadband
Westell Technologies, a provider of telecommunications equipment for wireline, wireless and home networks, has acquired Kentrox, a player in intelligent site management solutions. The transaction closed on April 1, 2013. "Kentrox is a ...
A quartet of low-cost but feature-packed gadgets to make life that little bit more exciting. ASUS MEMOPAD ($199) ASUS's new ultra-cheap yet feature-packed 7-inch Android tablet has a 1024x600 pixel, 10-point multi-touch LED-backlit ...
Tags: Android tablet, home networks, SMART Camera
GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA is shipping production volumes of its AWL9581 front-end integrated circuit (FEIC) for a new 802.11ac router manufactured by a Japan ...
Tags: GaAs, AWL9581 FEIC, Anadigics
UNTIL recently, you had to lay category 6 ethernet cable to achieve lightning gigabit speeds across a home network. The new 802.11ac standard for home WiFi aims to offer gigabit speeds across your home network wirelessly without cabling. ...
Tags: cable, home network, WiFi
Cisco Systems' sale of its home networking business to Belkin International marks the end of a 10-year odyssey through the world of consumer products, but the company plans to keep reaching consumers through their carriers and cable ...
Cisco is investigating a reported vulnerability in Linksys firmware that would allow a hacker to gain full control of the wireless router. Security vendor DefenseCode discovered the flaw and reported it to Cisco "months ago." Because ...
Tags: Cisco, firmware, wireless router, network security
A reported vulnerability in Linksys firmware that would allow a hacker to gain full control of the wireless router has led Cisco to launch an investigation, the firm said on Tuesday. Security vendor DefenseCode discovered the flaw and ...
Tags: vulnerability, Linksys firmware, wireless router, Cisco
New 802.11ac routers launching at International CES promise users gigabit-speeds and better performance when streaming video. Since last year's CES, 802.11ac -- which is the latest in IEEE's family of WLAN standards -- has gone from a new ...
Tags: 802.11ac routers, CES, streaming video