| DriveCam's monitoring systems reduce driving risks
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2008-05-15 |
| DriveCam's pattern recognition systems detect risks in driving, reduce vehicle damage, workers' compensation and personal injury costs. |
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| Galileo satellite sends first signals to Earth
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2008-05-13 |
| Giove-B, the test satellite for Europe's Galileo system, has sent its first navigation signals back to Earth, marking what the European Space Agency called 'a historic step,' showing that Galileo can work alongside the GPS system of the United States |
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| ARM to trump Intel in MID design-ins
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2008-05-09 |
| ARM rather than Intel is expected to win out in the short term amongst designers of MIDs in a market that is expected to build towards annual sales of 69 million units, exceeding $17 billion by 2014. |
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| NXP, Siemens co-develop GPS/GSM-based toll system
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2008-05-08 |
| NXP and Siemens Mobility have partnered to develop NXP's new Automotive Telematics On Board Unit Platform into the 'single-chip on-board unit' system based on GPS for use in private vehicles |
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| RFMD restructures, veers away from wireless systems
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2008-05-08 |
| RFMD is reducing its investments in wireless systems, including cellular transceivers and GPS solutions, to focus on core IC component opportunities, including cellular front ends and other components |
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| Designing DSP-based digital DC/DC power supply (Part 2)
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2008-05-05 |
| The conclusion of a two-part series on methods of digital controller design, discusses the second approach known as direct digital design. |
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| Analysts debate prospects of MEMS accelerometers in cellphones
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2008-05-05 |
| Industry analysts are divided over how quickly motion-sensing MEMS devices, such as accelerometers, will see volume uptake in cellphones, despite the rapid penetration of MEMS-based silicon microphones and RF switches into the handsets. |
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| Partition and package to miniaturize handsets
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2008-05-01 |
| Designers are turning to system-in-package, 3D IC stacking and wafer-level packaging to enable the acute miniaturization found in handsets, particularly for RF functions. |
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| Neonode IR touchscreen technology gets Japan patent
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2008-04-28 |
| Swedish mobile communication company Neonode has announced that its optical touchscreen technology, zForce, has been granted a patent by the Japan Patent and Trademark Office. |
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| Report: GPS sector to become $1B market in 2012
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2008-04-22 |
| GPS unit sales will hit $1 billion in 2012, according to the 2008 Semiconductor Applications Report from Future Horizons |
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| ST, NXP fuse wireless biz into new JV firm
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2008-04-14 |
| NXP and ST have agreed to merge their wireless operations to form a joint venture company. |
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| Is Infineon the baseband supplier for 3G iPhone?
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2008-04-11 |
| Reports suggest the code in the latest iPhone beta SDK includes a line that makes reference to the Infineon SGOLD3H chipset, also known as the PMB8878. |
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| EU readies second Galileo satellite
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2008-04-11 |
| The European Commission announced that the second satellite for its Galileo navigation projected will be launched from Kazakhstan on Apr. 27. |
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| Mobile location-based services to hit $13.3B by 2013
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2008-04-10 |
| Global revenues of mobile location-based services will hit $13.3 billion by 2013, up from an estimated $515 million in 2007, reported ABI Research. |
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| Ericsson wins in HSPA expansion deal in Taiwan
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2008-04-08 |
| Ericsson has signed a high-speed packet access (HSPA) network expansion contract with Taiwanese operator Far EasTone Telecommunications. |
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| Low-cost devices drive Asia navigation market
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2008-04-08 |
| Lower-priced PNDs and GPS-enabled handsets will help boost the Asian navigation market with total shipments expected to hit 185 million in 2012, according to ABI Research |
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| Battery charger chips get crafty
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2008-04-01 |
| Battery life is arguably the most important feature in many of today's high-volume portable electronic products. While much of the portable electronics industry has migrated to the Li-ion battery, drawn by its high capacity, small size, light weight and durability, no similar consensus has been reached about the battery charger IC. |
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| South Korea police wants GPS on all phones
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2008-03-31 |
| Due to recent criminal events, the South Korea National Police Agency announced plans to install GPS on all cellphones nationwide while introducing RFID tags |
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| Touchy-feely for Moto's mobile TV device
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2008-03-31 |
| Motorola last week introduced a mobile TV device with a touchscreen user interface and navigation capabilities. |
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| Wolfson audio chips not in Apple's next iPods?
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2008-03-31 |
| Wolfson Microelectronics is believed to have lost out in its bid to supply Apple's next-generation iPods with audio chips. |
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| Simplifying movable-headlamp motor control
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2008-03-18 |
| Using LIN-enabled smart micro-stepper motor drivers lets designers perform intelligent system partitioning and simplifies complex multi-axis real-time programming. |
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| Altera's automotive aspirations
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2008-03-17 |
| Altera Corp. is entering the automotive electronics space in a big way. Robert Blake, VP of the automotive and consumer business unit, spoke with EE Times Asia about their automotive solutions. |
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| NI: Path leads to parallel for test and measurement
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2008-03-14 |
| Actions, computing and instructions occurring simultaneously are increasingly common requirements in today's world, as evidenced by the unstoppable migration from single-core to multicore processors in PCs. This new paradigm—the Parallel Shift—brings a huge challenge to test engineers: the marriage of parallelism with computing, and in related applications of measurement and control. |
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| Acer acquires smart handheld device maker
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2008-03-13 |
| Acer has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire E-TEN, a designer and manufacturer of smart handheld devices. |
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| Garmin embeds ST processors in navigation products
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2008-03-13 |
| STMicroelectronics' Cartesio automotive-grade application processor SoC with embedded GPS will be implemented inside several products from Garmin, including the company's new n?vi 205 navigation system |
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| India manufacturing gets boost from NXP
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2008-03-11 |
| NXP Semiconductors India targets to boost the Indian manufacturing ecosystem for wireless handsets and is looking into alternative markets for its semiconductors. |
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| Maximize multiband handset performance
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2008-03-03 |
| Cellphones have moved rapidly from dual-band to tri-band to even quad-band. Also, cellphones need to handle various signals for peripheral radios such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS. Ultimately, it is the RF switch that must be capable of switching up to nine paths of high-power RF signals with low insertion loss, high isolation and exceptional linearity to realize the necessary multiband performance |
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| GPS goes beyond navigation to video games
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2008-02-28 |
| By combining GPS and a digital compass with accelerometers, HP Lab's Mediascape platform lets gamers 'become a mouse and a gamepad,' said Patrick Goddi, a senior researcher at HP Labs |
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| Apple, Google, Nokia spark shift in carrier market
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2008-02-19 |
| Apple's iPhone, Google's Android OS platform and Nokia's Maps 2.0 GPS technology may have just taken the reigns out of the hands of cellular network operators on services, applications, device definitions and most of all—prices |
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| Optimism stirs in mobile TV market
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2008-02-19 |
| Calling 2007 'a rock-bottom year' for mobile TV, DiBcom CEO Yannick Levy said he is hoping that things will start to get a little better this year. |
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