John Glossner
2G/3G Patent IP Ownership
Interesting charts on who owns what 2G/3G IP and what they collect in royalties for that IP.
The same report states that Apple pays significantly less royalty for the iPhone. It is suspected to be in the 5.5% range.
Spectral Efficiency
There are no easy or inexpensive solutions to increasing wireless capacity. Like Moore’s Law in semiconductors, Wireless has its own rule of thumb governing the number of bits that can be transmitted over a given amount of wireless spectrum. Mobile phone pioneer Martin Cooper has posited that the number of “conversations” that can be simultaneously [...]
Handset industry recovers from a trough, but who would benefit going forward?
During its 3Q09 results release, Nokia raised its 2009 global handset shipment forecast from -10% to -7% yoy. Goldman Sachs believes this signals that the worst is over for the global handset market; although this seemed to be widely expected by the market, handsetrelated stocks reacted positively post Nokia results (23% /55% share price appreciation for [...]
The Future of Content Without Walls
“Even as the landscape evolves, the market for portable electronics is growing unabated,” said Noah Elkin, eMarketer senior analyst and author of the new report, “Always-On Devices and Networks: New Opportunities to Reach Consumers.”
Marketing, Not Ads, Fuels Social Spending Growth
“In 2010 and beyond, a substantial portion of marketers’ expenses will go toward creating and maintaining a fan page, managing promotions or public relations outreach within a social network, and measuring the impact of a social network presence on brand health and sales,” wrote eMarketer senior analyst Debra Aho Williamson in the report, “Social Network [...]
German Forces Trust in Thales for Software Defined Radio
Thales Deutschland has been awarded contracts to develop VHF/UHF radio module and national waveforms SEM and IdZ for the German Software Defined Radio programme, SVFuA.
Stuttgart / Pforzheim, 16 December 2009 – SVFuA is the German Software Defined Radio (SDR) programme that will bring next generation radio technology to the Bundeswehr, the German Federal Armed Forces. [...]
Microtune Introduces Breakthrough Receiver Chip Delivering Superior Performance, Cost and Sizeto Worldwide Digital TV Market
New RF-to-Baseband IC Delivers Uncompromised TV Receiver Performanceat Compelling Price Point New Chip Enables Manufacturers to Deploy a Smaller, Higher-Performance and More Cost-Effective Receiver in Global Designs for the Next Generation of Thinner, Lighter, Multi-Functional TVs
PLANO, Texas, Dec 10, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Microtune(R), Inc. (NASDAQ: TUNE) [...]
ONR Awards $9.5M SDR Contract to Raytheon
The award is to Conduct a base study effort in FY 2010 on the development of an open architecture software defined radio system.
Further information is available here.
US Leads in Scientific Publications but China is catching up
From Thomson Reuters:
China’s research output has increased dramatically since 1999 while most output increased to upwards of 112,000 papers nations remained fairly stable. During the same period the USA increased by 2008 —with the nation more than doubling its output from 265,000 to 340,000 publications per year, an increase of its output since 2004 alone. [...]
Altera Announces New Cyclone III LS FPGAs
Altera Ships Lowest Power FPGAs With Security Features Including Anti-Tamper, Design-Security and Design-Separation Capabilities
San Jose, Calif., June 29, 2009—Expanding its leadership position in low-power solutions, Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced a new low-power FPGA family with security features. The new Altera® Cyclone® III LS FPGAs offer the highest logic, memory, and DSP density per [...]
AT&T/TerreStar Ready Satphone Service
Daily Wireless reports that AT&T Mobility will resell satellite service and phones from TerreStar Networks, by the end of this year. TerreStar is scheduled to launch its first monster satellite on July 1st. It uses satellite/cellular handsets designed to be about the same size as a conventional smartphone.
Using licensed 2GHz radio spectrum, it will [...]
Huawei to deploy Europe’s first GSM/UMTS converged network
China Knowledge reports Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, a major telecom equipment vendor in China, announced on Friday that it has won a contract from Finland’s TeliaSonera AB to deploy Europe’s first GSM/UMTS converged network based on Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology.
Under the contract, Huawei will deploy its SingleRAN solution which will allow TeliaSonera to simultaneously [...]
Intermec Introduces the Industry’s Most Advanced Rugged 3G Mobile Computers
The product page says: The CN50 is built on a unique multiprocessor architecture with dedicated ARM and DSP processors to deliver robust application processing with nearly instantaneous response, all at the lowest levels of power consumption. The standard battery is suitable for uninterrupted full shift use in most applications. For extreme-duty applications, the extended-life battery [...]
Tensilica Announces New High-Performance ConnX DSP Family for LTE and 4G SOC Designs
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – June 22, 2009 – Tensilica, Inc. today introduced a new family of high-performance DSPs (digital signal processors) IP (intellectual property) cores – the ConnX DSP family – that include standard cores, click-box configurable options or a starting point for customized Xtensa LX DPUs (dataplane processor units) for SOC (system-on-chip) [...]
Texas Instruments collaborates with Continuous Computing and mimoOn for HSPA and LTE femtocells
Integration of third parties’ software with TI DSPs offers femtocell OEMs reduced costs and faster time to market
Femtocells World Summit, LONDON (June 23, 2009) – Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) announced today the selection of Continuous Computing®, a leader in wireless protocol software, and mimoOn GmbH, a leader in software defined [...]
Hong Kong’s Next G wins major award
Hong Kong: CSL Limited (CSL), Hong Kong’s leading mobile operator, and ZTE, a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, have been awarded the prestigious National Mobile Services Award for Wireless Network Infrastructure at the GTB Innovation Awards from Global Telecoms Business in London.
“ZTE has been working together with CSL to achieve the [...]
A Software Defined Radio for Emergency Applications
Available now for licensing???…
Description of Invention:
To date, many of the approaches to software-defined radio have primarily focused on baseband features, leaving RF subsystems intact. Some current technologies combine many radio-unique baseband and RF features to realize a multifunctional radio. Such an approach is costly and inefficient in terms of power utilization and weight. Realizing [...]
UC San Diego Researchers Succeed in Rapid Port of FM3TR Waveform to Spectrum’s Multi-Purpose Radio Under JPEO JTRS Support
Waveform Code and Documentation to be Available in the JTRS Open Information Repository
BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – June 18, 2009) – Spectrum Signal Processing by Vecima (”Spectrum”) (TSX:VCM), an advanced custom radio provider, announced today that the Future Multiband Multiwaveform Modular Tactical Radio (FM3TR) waveform has been successfully ported to Spectrum’s flexCommTM SDR-4000 software reconfigurable transceiver. [...]
Commentary: Vista Rage
By John Glossner on June 18, 2009
I have finally begun the liberating experience of converting from Microsoft Windows-based installations to Linux. My final straw was constantly watching my CPU peg on an IBM X61s core duo 1.8GHz laptop with 4GB of physical memory. I can honestly say my user experience is worse on this machine than the 1983 IBM PC I [...]
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