The Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Alliance and the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) have established a joint working group with the goal of advancing WiGig DisplayPort video standard certification. The group aims to address ...
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched a broadband diplexer, designed specifically for CATV ...
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Sony is expected to reveal its vision of the future of home entertainment today by providing a glimpse at a new-generation PlayStation console that streams games, films, music and more. "Sony needs a big hit with this game console," ...
Given that millions of consumers choose to use prepaid wireless plans for their phones, is it that much of a stretch to think the prepaid model will work for home Internet access? That's what Comcast is trying to figure out with its new ...
Liberty AV Solutions and Perfect Path have jointly announced details of a distribution partnership that will add the Perfect Path line of locking high-speed HDMI cables to Liberty's extensive product catalogue. A trademarked brand of the ...
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BMW has been forced to recall about 750,000 vehicles around the world over a defect with the cars’ battery cable connectors that can cause the engine to stall. The recall – the second-largest in the German car maker’s ...
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Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced that in January of the current year its subsidiary Xuanhua Steel exported 1,292 mt of 500 MPa high-strength rebar to Ecuador, marking the first time Xuanhua ...
German automobile manufacturer BMW has recalled about 750,000 vehicles in the US, Japan, Canada and South Africa due to an electrical breakdown problem. The recall affects 504,545 vehicles in the US, 100,000 units in Japan, 50,000 cars in ...
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U.S. broadband providers deliver nearly the residential broadband speeds they advertise, with a handful of large providers exceeding the promised service, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said in a new report. On average, U.S. ...
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. ...
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Structured Materials Industries Inc(SMI) of Piscataway, NJ, USA, which provides chemical vapor deposition (CVD) systems, components, materials, and process development services, has announced three updated products for process control ...
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The new edition of Megger’s comprehensive and informative Electrical Test Instruments catalogue, which includes products primarily intended for use by electrical contractors, is now available and features new products that include ...
Blazingly fast WiFi at home is becoming possible with new ac routers that emulate the speeds achieved by fast category 6 Ethernet cable installed in a dwelling. Modem routers such as Netgear's D6300 and the R6300 router-only model seek to ...
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Lowara UK is offering an innovative function to rid domestic water systems of troublesome air pockets within pump housing, with the Air Purge function of its new Lowara Ecocirc domestic circulator. The Ecocirc, which reduces electricity ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has appointed Carl Burrow to the newly created position of corporate VP, worldwide ...
Tags: Peregrine SOS, RFICs, semiconductor and electronic design automation