'Wireless' Category Archive

Common Criteria Protection Profile for (U)SIM Java Cards

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Trusted Labs has developed a Common Criteria Protection Profile for open (U)SIM Java(tm) cards designed to host third-party security-sensitive applications, in a joint effort with other companies including French mobile operators Bouygues Telecom, Orange and SFR. The Protection Profile will soon be available for application providers and platform developers.
Common Criteria Protection Profiles specify the security […]

IMEC Flexible Air Interface Baseband Platform for Software Defined Radio

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Tuesday, April 1, 2008

IMEC has completed design and tape-out of a flexible-air-interface (FLAI) baseband platform for software-defined radios (SDR). IMEC's solution is an ideal basis to support upcoming generations of mobile devices featuring 802.11n, 802.16e, mobile TV, and 3GPP-LTE communication standards. The system-on-chip (SoC) platform and its patented components with their programming environment will be licensed to industry […]

ArcSoft PowerMobia

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Monday, March 31, 2008

ArcSoft, Inc. recently launched ArcSoft PowerMobia Mobile Multimedia Total Solution. ArcSoft PowerMobia is a software-based multimedia turn-key solution tailored for mobile platforms including Windows Mobile, Symbian S60, Symbian UIQ, Linux, BREW, TI OMAPV1030, TI OMAP 2430, NXP Nexperia, TI LoCosto(tm) Platform and others. It packs both powerful media enabling technologies and cool applications that are […]

Ericsson U380 Mobile Platform

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools, Wireless on Monday, March 31, 2008

Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) recetnly announced the U380 mobile platform, which delivers a true mobile Internet experience. The U380 is an integrated and verified one-chip HSPA platform, supporting all major Open Operating Systems (OS) on the market, and the first product based on the Open OS collaboration with Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN). The U380 platform is […]

AuthenTec AES1711 Fingerprint Sensor

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Wednesday, March 26, 2008

The AES1711, from AuthenTec (NASDAQ:AUTH), is a very low power fingerprint sensor for the wireless market. The new AES1711 offers an expanded input/output voltage range (1.8V to 3.3V) and consumes 88% less power in finger detect mode than earlier models, while continuing to provide the small form factor packaging required for today's mobile phones, GPS […]

Royalty Free Dot Micro-Wireless Platform

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Axcess International Inc. (OTCBB:AXSI) recently opened its new Dot(tm) micro-wireless technology to developers for building applications that enable wireless communications from all things in the enterprise. Dots are ultra small, battery powered wireless computers embedded into or attached to things such as ID cards, assets and vehicles enabling them to be automatically identified, located, counted […]

NXP GNS7560 Assisted-GPS Chip

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Tuesday, March 25, 2008

NXP's GNS7560 is a single-chip, Assisted-GPS (A-GPS) solution, designed for use in both mobile phones and standalone personal navigation devices (PNDs). Built on an advanced architecture, NXP's GNS7560 is the industry's smallest, lowest power, lowest system cost GPS solution. The standalone GNS7560 A-GPS solution is sampling now.
NXP has also integrated this best-in-class GPS technology into […]

Azingo Open Mobile Linux Solution

Posted by Ken Cheung in RTOS, Wireless on Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Azingo (formerly Celunite) recetnly announced an open mobile Linux solution for mobile phones and advanced mobile devices. The solution is based on the Samsung application processor S3C2442 and Azingo Mobile, Azingo's comprehensive mobile Linux platform software. The combined Azingo-Samsung offering enables handset manufacturers to fully exploit the latest user interface and web-enabled application innovations, while […]

OpenKODE 1.0 Royalty Free Specification

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Monday, March 17, 2008

The Khronos(tm) Group recently released the final OpenKODE(tm) 1.0 specification, which is a royalty-free, cross-platform open standard that bundles a set of native APIs to provide increased source portability for rich media and graphics applications. Khronos also released a full conformance test suite for OpenKODE 1.0 to enable conformant implementations to use the OpenKODE trademark.
Mobile […]

Passive Matrix Replaces Active OLED Displays

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Wednesday, March 12, 2008

SmartXtend technology, from Dialog Semiconductor Plc (FWB: DLG), enables the use of passive matrix OLED displays rather than LCD or active matrix OLEDs in the main displays of many mobile devices — particularly those offering W-QVGA and QVGA resolution. Passive matrix OLEDs are available at a much lower cost compared to active matrix OLEDs while […]

NXP Nexperia PNX4902 for Ultra Low Cost Handsets

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Tuesday, March 4, 2008

The PNX4902 is NXP Semiconductors' latest Nexperia single chip solution for Ultra Low-Cost (ULC) handsets. This solution enables a new generation of high-quality, feature-packed cellphones at an ultra-low cost point. The Nexperia Single Chip PNX4902 ULC solution for GSM/GPRS solution, with enhanced multimedia and connectivity, will be sampling in Q1 2008 and will enter mass […]

NEC, Kineto Support Iu-over-IP Femtocell Architecture

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Monday, March 3, 2008

NEC Corporation (NEC) and Kineto Wireless have teamed together to enable the mobile industry to quickly define a standard for supporting the deployment of femtocells. Their joint proposal, based on the existing 3GPP GAN (Generic Access Network) standard, has been contributed to the 3GPP standards body as part of a femtocell study currently in progress.
While […]

Holst Centre Researches Organic RFID Tag

Posted by Ken Cheung in Research, Wireless on Thursday, February 28, 2008

The Holst Centre recently presented a plastic 64-bit inductively-coupled passive RFID tag operating at 13.56MHz. With a record 780bit/s data readout of 64 bits over 10cm, the device approaches item-level tagging requirements. The tag generates a 5-fold higher bit rate compared to state-of-the-art plastic RFID systems. The achievement paves the way for low-cost high-volume RFID […]

Q4 2007 Global Handset Market Share

Posted by Ken Cheung in Research, Wireless on Thursday, February 21, 2008

According to Strategy Analytics' Q4 2007 Global Handset Market Share Update report, global mobile phone shipments in 2007 grew 12% year-over-year to reach 1.12 billion units (compared to 1.00 billion in 2006). Strategy Analytics forecasts slower growth of 10%, for 1.24 billion units worldwide in 2008. Nokia had a strong fourth quarter in 2007 and […]

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