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Philips to Deploy Smart Streetlights in the City of San Jose for Pilot Project
Dec 11, 2015Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting and the City of San Jose officially announced a project to pilot 50 Philips SmartPoles, which bring together energy efficient LED lighting and fully integrated 4G LTE wireless technology by ...
Tags: Philips, Smart Streetlights, LED luminaires
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TriQuint's Spatium Technology Achieves Unprecedented Levels of Ka-Band Solid-State Power
Mar 12, 2014RF front-end component maker TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA says that its Spatium technology achieves unprecedented levels of Ka-band solid-state power, bandwidth and efficiency, providing greater broadband capacity and ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
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Intel Is Expecting Its Next Atom Tablet Chip,Code-Named Cherry Trail,to Be in Devices
Mar 5, 2014Intel is expecting its next Atom tablet chip, code-named Cherry Trail, to be in devices by the end of this year, the company said this week. A detailed update on Cherry Trail may be provided around the middle of this year, likely around ...
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RF Micro Devices Reported Record Revenue of $310.7m
Oct 24, 2013For its fiscal second-quarter 2014 (ended 28 September 2013), RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has reported record revenue of $310.7m, up 6% on $293m last quarter and 48.2% on $209.7m a year ago. The growth is attributed ...
Tags: RFMD, Electrical, Electronics
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The Demand for Improved Telecom Connectivity in Canada's North Is Real
Aug 12, 2013The demand for improved telecom connectivity in Canada's North is real, says a new Conference Board of Canada report, and "the interest in the issue has never been greater". Published by the Centre for the North, "Mapping the Long-Term ...
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FCC Has Taken a Major Step Toward Helping More Airlines Offer in-Cabin Wireless Broadband
May 13, 2013The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has taken a major step toward helping more airlines offer in-cabin wireless broadband, with the agency voting Thursday to explore using new spectrum for air-to-ground broadband service. The FCC ...
Tags: FCC, Computer Products
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Hewlett-Packard in The Next Few Days Will Ship The $169 Slate 7
Apr 27, 2013Hewlett-Packard in the next few days will ship the $169 Slate 7, the company's first product for the consumer tablet market since the spectacular failure of the WebOS-based TouchPad in 2011. Buyers will be able to order Slate 7 by the end ...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard, Tablet
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Etisalat and Alcatel-Lucent Signed a Joint Agreement to Extend Etisalat's LTE
Feb 27, 2013Etisalat and Alcatel-Lucent today signed a joint agreement to extend Etisalat’s long-term evolution (LTE) coverage across its footprint, including a new partnership in Sri Lanka. By deploying Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio ...
Tags: Etisalat, Alcatel-Lucent, LTE coverage
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Broadband Connectivity Has The Potential to Transform Education
Feb 26, 2013Broadband connectivity has the potential to transform education by giving teachers and students access to learning resources and technologies that will allow them to improve their skills in the context of a globalized economy, according to ...
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HP Has Announced The Availability of Its Latest Pavilion Laptop with Google's Chrome OS
Feb 6, 2013IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard has announced the availability of its latest Pavilion laptop with Google's Chrome OS as the PC maker tries to improve laptop sales by offering an alternative to the Windows OS. The Pavilion 14 Chromebook ...
Tags: HP, Windows laptops, Windows OS
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Welsh Government Has Invested 39m Into Faster Broadband Services for Schools
Jan 16, 2013The Welsh government has invested 39m into faster broadband services for schools, the First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones has announced. The investment comes from a new "Learning In Digital Wales Grant" that aims to help students to ...
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First Tests of EE's 4G Network Showed Less Than Half of Manchester City Centre Was Covered
Dec 27, 2012The first tests of EE's 4G network showed less than half of Manchester city centre was covered by the high-speed mobile network and 4G connections were inconsistent. Only 42.2% of test locations had 4G access, while outside Manchester ...
Tags: Network, 4G Network, Coverage, Computer Products
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Access to Broadband Service in Remote Regions Was a Key Issue at The CTO Meeting
Dec 26, 2012With more than 70 percent of Africa's population living in rural areas, access to broadband service in remote regions was a key issue at the recently concluded Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization (CTO) meeting in Sierra Leone. In ...
Tags: CTO, Public, Private Sector Balance, Africa, ICT Development
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Business Reaction to DCMS Announcement Could Hold Back Broadband Roll-out
Dec 24, 2012Business reaction to DCMS announcement Local government reaction to DCMS announcement Consultation could hold back broadband roll-out The broadband industry has said goodbye to Jeremy Hunt as he takes Andrew Lansley's old job as secretary ...
Tags: DCMS, broadband industry, cabinet reshuffle
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Norfolk County Council Signed Contract with BT to Bring Better Broadband Connectivity
Dec 22, 2012Norfolk County Council has signed a contract with BT to bring better broadband connectivity to the rural area. The project is being funded by £15m from the council, matched by a further £15m from central government as part ...
Tags: broadband connectivity, rural area, superfast broadband, rfast broadband