Cisco Systems posted higher revenue and profit in its fiscal second quarter as Chairman and CEO John Chambers reiterated the company's ambitious goal to become the biggest company in IT. For the quarter ended Jan. 26, Cisco posted revenue ...
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Alcatel-Lucent reported a fourth-quarter loss of $1.81 billion and revenue declined by 1.3%, and that it has started hunting for a new CEO. Current CEO Ben Verwaayen will step down as soon as a replacement is found, and will not seek ...
Internet use fell in U.S. homes but soared inside the Superdome during this year's Super Bowl. AT&T's mobile network in the Superdome got a workout, carrying 388GB of data over the course of the game, up more than 80 percent from the ...
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Broadcom has unveiled its smallest ever 4G LTE-Advanced smartphone wireless modem. The race is on to amongst chip suppliers to take the initiative for the generation of super mobiles which will come after this year's LTE smartphones. The ...
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Nujira says the first 4G LTE smartphones to use its power efficient RF technology will be on the market next year. “In the past it was an aspiration to get envelope-tracking (ET) technology designed into volume handsets, now we know ...
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Rohde & Schwarz has introduced a fading simulation module for its CMW500 wideband radio communication tester, making it possible for smartphone or chipset manufacturers to carry out standard-compliant MIMO performance tests during LTE ...
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has unveiled five new LTE Tx/Rx switches for smartphones and tablets. The SKY13414-485LF, SKY13415-485LF, ...
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AT&T* announced today that the AT&T Unite is available for $0.99 with a two year agreement. The 4G LTE mobile hotspot from Sierra Wireless can be purchased through all AT&T channels beginning February 8. Powered by the nation's largest 4G ...
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Mobile phone operator Three UK has confirmed that it will not charge a premium for its LTE high-speed mobile network. Three's announcement contrasts sharply with the payment plans offered by Everything Everywhere's (EE) Orange and T-Mobile ...
With the rollout of a global mobile standard like 4G LTE there are 20 or more frequency bands and operators have found themselves struggling with RF front end circuit technologies not up to the task, writes Jeremy Hendy, v-p sales and ...
For its fiscal third-quarter 2013 (ended 29 December 2012), radio-frequency component and compound semiconductor firm RF Micro Devices, of Greensboro, NC, USA has reported significantly improved financial results.Revenue was $271.2m, up ...
ASN1C is an all-in-one development solution targeted at product developers working with standards based on Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1). Many standards bodies use ASN.1 to define interoperable protocols, in a variety of industries ...
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ZTE and China Mobile have successfully tested carrier aggregation, and achieved peak download speed of 223Mbps in the Chinese operator's LTE TDD network. Carrier aggregation is one of the technologies that will be used to increase ...
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Computer-on-Modules (COMs) show the way to faster Freescale QorIQ processor-based design without need for costly and time-consuming full-custom design, writes Gerhard Szczuka, product manager for Computer-on-Modules at Kontron Europe. The ...
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Aeroflex says its E500 LTE test system is the first capacity tester to successfully hand over data services between TDD and FDD networks. According to the test firm, network operators around the world are already commissioning dual ...
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