'Wireless' Category Archive

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 [...]

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