LET'S call it bragging rights. That's what shelling out $40,000 gets you when you buy Samsung's slick new S9 85-inch television. It's the latest set on the Australian market to offer so-called "ultra-high definition" picture quality, ...
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Electronic component distributor Richardson RFPD Inc (an Arrow Electronics Company) of LaFox, IL, USA has announced availability and full design support capabilities for a new evaluation kit for a 5W gallium nitride monolithic microwave ...
Mobile users in North America are hanging up and using email, text or social networking at a rapid pace, according to a survey by PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Postpaid subscribers, who pay a regular bill for mobile service at the end of each ...
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Google is acquiring iProvo, a fiber-optic network owned by the city of Provo, Utah, as part of a plan to introduce its high-speed broadband network called Google Fiber there. As part of the acquisition, Google will upgrade the network to ...
Tags: Google, Gigabit-Speed Fiber
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--Sensity Systems Inc. today announced the world's first Light Sensory Network (LSN): a new class of digital sensor network that takes advantage of LED lighting conversions to help light owners enhance energy efficiency ...
Tags: LED luminaires, LED, lighting
A Sony-backed ISP in Japan has launched a 2Gbps Internet service, which it said is the world's fastest for home use. So-net Entertainment began offering its "Nuro" fiber-based service on Monday to homes, apartments, and small businesses ...
Tags: Sony ISP, Home Internet
The open-source RF design initiative, dubbed Myriad, has the support of US-based distributor Richardson RFPD. Richardson RFPD will begin stocking and selling the Myriad-RF-1 board to customers around the world via its website immediately. ...
Ericsson last week announced that it had acquired Microsoft’s Mediaroom TV solution business, which, the firm claims, holds a 25 percent market share over the IPTV and multi-screen market. The deal is expected to be finalised during ...
Tags: Ericsson, IPTV Market, Mediaroom Acquisition
GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says that its AWL9581 front-end integrated circuit (FEIC) is being used in the latest WiFi module of Murata Manufacturing Company Ltd ...
Tags: Murata, Front-End IC, WiFi Module
Rural telecom and broadband providers in the U.S. face big challenges in connecting their most remote customers, as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission transitions away from old telephone subsidies, a group of providers told ...
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Google Fiber with gigabit speeds will be coming to homes in Austin, Texas, by mid-2014, Google announced today. And in what could become a fierce competition over connectivity, AT&T also announced today that it is prepared to build its ...
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Australians are falling further in love with faster internet, with more users downloading more data than ever before. Figures published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show record downloads in the last three months of 2012, with ...
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Qolsys delivers the industry's most advanced, connected home control platform supporting life safety, residential security, home control, energy management and more. Partnered with best-in-class technology providers, including Google's ...
Broadband Technology 2000 has signed a rep and distribution deal with US start-up GreenVITY, which develops powerline comms (PLC) to Zigbee and Zigbee to PLC bridge ICs. The chips conform to the HomePlug Green PHY specification supporting ...
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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