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Airlines join opposition to LightSquared project

February 9, 2012 1:30 PM
Thomas Hendricks, SVP of airline trade group Airlines for America, said in written testimony to a US House hearing that LightSquared would have “ruinous effects” on aviation navigation systems because of signal interference and added. Full Story at Rethink Wireless.


Samsung Cuts LTE Cost in Half

February 9, 2012 1:28 PM
The Galaxy Nexus sports a new version of the LTE baseband chip.  The new chip is estimated at nearly half the cost of the prior chip’s $23 price tag.  This type of cost reduction is an important milestone in securing the rapid migration to LTE throughout the world. Full Story at ABI.


OpenStax

February 9, 2012 1:26 PM
Rice University, which has been pushing alternative distribution mechanisms for scholarly publications for years, has announced a new initiative, by which they hope to publish free, high-quality textbooks in core subjects like physics and biology via a non-profit publisher called OpenStax College. It’s the polar opposite of Apple’s iBooks textbooks, which, while they too help [...]


MIT Mints a Valuable New Form of Academic Currency

February 6, 2012 1:50 PM
If they prove they’ve learned the materi­al, MITx will, for a small fee, give them a credential certifying as much. MITx is the next big step in the open-educational-resources movement that MIT helped start in 2001, when it began putting its course lecture notes, videos, and exams online, where anyone in the world could use them [...]

Apple’s Mobile Share

February 4, 2012 11:46 AM
Apple reached 75% of profit share, nearly 40% of revenue share and 9% of units share. Two great posts from Asymco here and here.


White Space Show Down

February 4, 2012 11:38 AM
Sen. John Kerry urged the Internet community on Tuesday to rally to push Congress to free up more unlicensed spectrum for Wi-Fi and other new wireless technologies. Full story at dailywireless.org


North Carolina Officially Launches the First Commercial TV White Spaces Network

January 26, 2012 5:35 PM
Spectrum Bridge Enables Wilmington / New Hanover County and the Wireless Industry to Launch First FCC-Approved Smart City Using TVWS. Full Story at Market Watch.

Altair chipset finishes LTE Band Class 14 testing

January 26, 2012 5:32 PM
The FourGee-3100/6200 LTE chipset supports both FDD and TDD variants on a single semiconductor and software platform in any 3GPP frequency band between 700 MHz and 2700 MHz. It implements a high-performance MIMO receive architecture and is based on a proprietary software-defined radio processor, offering performance that exceeds conventional communications DSP cores, yet consumes a [...]

Tensilica’s ConnX Baseband Engine DSP Core Successfully Deployed by NXP Semiconductors

January 26, 2012 5:29 PM
NXP to Also Use Tensilica’s ConnX in Global Intelligent Traffic System Field Trials. Full Story at Market Watch.

LTE report

January 24, 2012 12:20 PM
The Global Mobile Suppliers Association reports that there are now 269 LTE-enabled user devices, manufactured by 57 companies. It’s a six-fold jump in six months. The GSMA also noted the number of LTE-enabled tablets has doubled in the past six months. Full Story at DailyWireless.org


Maxim acquires LTE chip firm

January 24, 2012 12:11 PM
Genasic was founded by Ashok Dhuna who served as CEO. Dhuna was previously vice president of RF engineering at Sequans and prior to that he was chief technology officer and founder of Synad Technologies Ltd., a fabless wireless LAN chipmaker sold to STMicroelectronics in 2003. Full Story at EE Times.

Recent College Graduate Unemployment Rates

January 22, 2012 12:04 AM
Engineering major with three relevant internships in the engineering field? Ding. Ding. We have a winner. Job. Full Story at the Washington Post

LightSquared accuses government of ‘rigged’ interference tests

January 18, 2012 11:25 PM
The unanimous conclusion of the group was that the LightSquared planned system did interfere with many GPS receivers, and an analysis by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it would also interfere with several aircraft systems. Read Full Story at The Register


Genachowski Lobbies for Unlicensed White Spaces at CES

January 12, 2012 9:25 PM
said the FCC’s unlicensed spectrum use generates about $30 billion worth of economic value every year. The FCC hopes to utilize auction off the now freed up television spectrum, which could be worth an estimated $25 billion. Full Story at Daily Wireless.

It’s going to be a White (Space) winter after all

December 28, 2011 4:15 PM
The FCC has, as expected, granted the first database to Florida-based Spectrum Bridge, who recently completed a set of trials intended to prove the company had the capacity, and the capability, to run such a thing. Those trials didn’t go perfectly, and the FCC expects Spectrum Bridge to address the remaining issues ahead of the [...]
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