Research & Analysis
Irish Govt, Alca-Lu renew collaboration on technology development
Tanaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Mary Coughlan TD, and Dr Jeong Kim, President of Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent, have announced the expansion of Bell Labs in Ireland as part of a visit to the Bell Labs Research Centre in Blanchardstown, Dublin.
The programme is supported by the Irish Government through [...]
Acacia acquires rights to patents for information portal software technology
Acacia Research has announced that a subsidiary has acquired the rights to patents for information portal software technology.
The patented technology generally relates to customisable user interfaces presenting information from a variety of sources and can be used in public, private enterprise, and consumer portals.
Paul Ryan, Acacia Chairman and CEO, said the company will continue to [...]
Alca-Lu appoints Subhash Bana as VP R&D for India
Alcatel-Lucent has announced the appointment of Subhash Bana as vice president R&D reporting to Vivek Mohan, managing director of Alcatel-Lucent India.
In his new role, Subhash will be responsible for improving engineering performance across the carrier and applications software activities, including R&D service delivery, quality and innovation enhancing support to the Indian customers.
He will also liaise [...]
Broadband services still a top spending priority: study
Consumers are unwilling to part with their broadband services at home even in the midst of the economic downturn, preferring to cut spending on things like dining out and leisure travel, according to a series of recent studies sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent.
These findings were uncovered as part of a global study exploring the impact of the [...]
Asia-Pacific region to account for 1/3 of mobile data traffic
Asia Pacific will account for one-third of all mobile data traffic by 2013, if Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) is to be believed.
As per Cisco’s VNI forecast, the global mobile traffic was projected to increase 66 fold between 2008 and 2013 with a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 131 per cent.
The global mobile traffic [...]
Picochip launches eight-user HSPA femtocell reference design
Picochip has announced the PC8219, a baseband solution for eight-user WCDMA femtocells designed to run on its PC202 processor chip. Two of Picochip’s lead customers are uderstood to be key development partners for the product.
The company has informed that the PC8219 is a complete eight-user femtocell baseband implementation, which is compliant with 3GPP Release 6 [...]
Samsung launches solar-powered touch phone
Samsung Electronics has unveiled a solar powered full-touch screen phone ‘Blue Earth’, alongside Samsung’s vision for environmental sustainability.
Designed to symbolise a flat and rounded shiny pebble, Blue Earth is claimed to be the first solar-powered full-touch screen phone.
By charging with the solar panel located on the back of the phone, users can generate electronic power [...]
Huawei, Intel develop WiMAX test lab
Huawei Technologies, a provider of next-generation telecommunications network solutions, together with Intel, announced the launch of a new WiMAX Interoperability Testing (IOT) laboratory in Beijing.
The testing lab has been jointly designed and built by Huawei and Intel. Huawei believes the completion of the lab represents a milestone in the effort to improve the speed of [...]
Tower, Triune Systems collaborate on power management platform
Tower Semiconductor, a specialty foundry, and Triune Systems, an IC design and test development provider, have announced an agreement to collaborate on developing a power management platform.
Through this collaboration, the companies will jointly design and develop intellectual property (IP) for Tower’s 0.18-micron Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) process to deliver a family of low and high voltage power [...]
Research and Markets offers report on ‘Wireless in Education’
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the ‘Wireless in Education: Vendor and Service Provider Opportunities’ report to their offering.
This iDRD (Insight-based Data-Rich Deliverable) is part of the Education vertical market subscription.
The 12-page insight takes a look at wireless trends and activities in both the K-12 and higher education segments in the US.
Forecasts include [...]
