The Kaufman Foundation published a 24 page report on the characteristics of entrepreneurs titles The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur: Family Background and Motivation. In it they profile the backgrounds, histories and beliefs of entrepreneurs. After a survey of 549 entrepreneurs from diverse industries including: aerospace and defense, computer and electronics, health care, and services, they found:
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September 2009 Archives
Innovative architecture turns laptop PCs into globetrotting TVs
SAN FRANCISCO and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 22, 2009 – Get ready to get global with HDTV on a PC. Reference designs and samples for CrestaTech’s new programmable broadband technology are now available, enabling PC manufacturers to pop in one universal chip and support all analog TV and digital [...]
Innovative use of GPUs for signal processing enables broader range of PC platforms to receive global over-the-air digital TV
Sunnyvale, CA. - September 29th, 2009: Mirics today announces it has developed a global broadcast TV solution for NVIDIA® GPUs (graphics processing units). By leveraging the massively parallel NVIDIA CUDA™ architecture for the Mirics FlexiTV™ [...]
Military & Aerospace Electronics’ reports the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) plan to upgrade military radio communications by injecting software defined radio (SDR) technology into land, sea, and airborne RF transceivers is taking a hit with news that the U.S. Navy and Air Force are seeking to cancel their JTRS [...]
Tata Elxsi Ltd, part of India’s Tata Group, and Full Spectrum Inc, headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, have team up to expand the market for Full Spectrum’s FullMAX broadband wireless system for smart grid communications.
The FullMAX system is an enhanced and extended version of worldwide Mobile WiMAX (802.16e-2005) standard designed for mission critical communications. The FullMAX [...]
Telephony online reports that while the big vendors are looking to get out of the WiMax business, one vendor start-up is looking for a way in. Mountain View, Calif.,-based PureWave Networks next week plans to make its public debut in the WiMax scene, releasing a line of low-power compact mobile WiMax base stations.
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PureWave’s Quantum base stations [...]
Nottingham Scientific Ltd (NSL) teamed up with De Montfort University (DMU) in a joint project to research and develop innovative receivers, which will be able to pick up signals from all Global Navigation Satellites at all frequencies.
Another unique feature of the receiver is that it uses the software defined radio technology which can track satellite signals [...]
ROCHESTER, NY, September 14, 2009 — Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, today is delivering its 100,000th Falcon III® AN/PRC-152(C), a multiband handheld radio that is providing improved secure real-time communication between deployed forces at all levels during combat and crisis.
The software-defined AN/PRC-152(C) is the most widely deployed JTRS-approved radio. Currently in [...]
GateHouse initiates a program to prototype a Software Defined Radio implementation of a BGAN waveform. The program is supported by Inmarsat.
The aim of the program is to further SDR research and development in the context of supporting multiple communication standards on the same user terminal, and reducing the complexity of the required hardware. In addition, [...]
Here is a prediction of mobile data growth by Cisco.
An article in Fortune suggest this will be driven by Smartphone growth including iPhones.
