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John Glossner
Sandbridge Technologies CTO & EVP. A fabless semiconductor company building SDR baseband processors.

March 2012

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Red Hat is first $1B Open Source Company

March 29, 2012

Red Hat announced $1.13 billion in annual revenue, up 25 percent from a year ago. This officially marks the first time a company that makes 100% of its living from open source products topped the billion-dollar mark. Full Story at Business Insider.

XMOS Turns Software Into Hardware

March 29, 2012

They use an internal multithreaded microprocessor to “fake” the functions of programmable logic. In other words, the processor – entirely under software control – wiggles the chip’s I/O pins in whatever way you define. And you define those functions entirely with C code. There’s no schematic, no logic-design software, no drag-and-drop peripheral manipulation. It’s just [...]

Nokia to refuse licensing SIM patents if ETSI chooses Apple design

March 29, 2012

Finnish handset maker Nokia has said that it will elect not to license essential SIM-related patents to a new nano-SIM standard if the European Telecommunications Standards Institute chooses Apple’s design over its own. Full story at Apple Insider

Open Source Framework for Commercial Baseband Software Project Call for Contributions

March 28, 2012

The Wireless Innovation Forum (SDR Forum version 2.0), a non-profit organization dedicated to driving the future of radio communications and systems worldwide, announced today a Call for Contributions for the previously announced project focused on reducing cost and time to market in deploying 3G and 4G, “3G+” systems, including: Fixed WiMAX™ (802.16d), Mobile WiMAX (802.16e), [...]

The Future of Mobile

March 22, 2012

Compliments of Business Insider.

Cellular and Wi-Fi bodies work on common roaming

March 22, 2012

The Small Cells Forum unveiled an initiative to bring standards efforts within the 3GPP, Wi-Fi Alliance and others closer together. Now there are signs of cooperation at the operator level, with the GSM Association announcing a deal with the main body of WLan providers, the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA). Full Story at Rethink Wireless

Huawei claims 30Gbps ‘Beyond LTE’

March 22, 2012

More than 20 times the speeds of current 4G networks. It achieves this using a combination of advanced techniques including antenna structure and MIMO arrays, plus changes to the RF architecture and intermediate frequency algorithms. Full Story at Rethink Wireless

The Startup Ecosystem

March 8, 2012

Great pic of the startup ecosystem. Hat tip to Josh Brown.

Wireless breakthrough: one frequency, multiple signals

March 4, 2012

The technique is based on adding orbital angular momentum to the signal-carrying mix, essentially twisting the directed signal in a way that offsets multiple signals in the same frequency. Full story at The Register.