Mobile Phones To Monitor User’s Health

Broadcom announces a Bluetooth system on a chip that enables wireless devices to connect to sensors to track fitness indicators.

IRVINE, CA /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadcom Corp., a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, announced that it has extended its portfolio of Bluetooth system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions to enable mobile phones (and other devices) to wirelessly track and monitor health and fitness indicators. Broadcom's implementation of the Bluetooth Health Devices Profile (HDP) helps expand the Bluetooth ecosystem to include very-low-power health and fitness sensors, enabled by Bluetooth.

RFMD(R) Commences Volume Production of WCDMA/HSPA+ Power Amplifiers for Smartphones and 3G Devices

RF720x Product Family Mates With Leading 3G Reference Designs from Qualcomm And Other Leading Open Market Chipset Suppliers

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb 15, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- RF Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: RFMD), a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, today announced it has commenced high-volume production of its RF720x WCDMA/HSPA+ power amplifiers (PAs). RFMD's RF720x product family is comprised of seven high performance PAs designed for smartphones and 3G devices implementing mode-specific, band-specific front end architectures. The RF720x product family accommodates all major WCDMA/HSPA+ bands and band combinations and is optimized to mate with reference designs from Qualcomm as well as other leading open market 3G chipset suppliers.

Intelsat 16 Launch Successful; Offers Expanded Capacity for DTH Services in Latin America

Luxembourg, 11 February 2010

Intelsat S.A., the world’s leading provider of fixed satellite services, announced today that International Launch Services (ILS) successfully launched the Intelsat 16 satellite (IS-16). The Proton Breeze M vehicle lifted off from Kazahkstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome at 7:39 p.m. ET yesterday, 11 February, followed by spacecraft separation and signal acquisition over nine hours later at approximately 5:14 a.m. ET this morning.

Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall

By SAM DILLON

Published: February 12, 2010

In an Arizona district, the “Internet Bus” has made students more productive and less rambunctious.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/education/12bus.html

Cisco Unveils the Cisco ASR 5000 -> Cisco News

Cisco Unveils the Cisco ASR 5000 -> Cisco News

SAN JOSE, CA, Feb. 9, 2010 – Cisco today announced it has expanded the ASR Series platforms with the introduction of the Cisco ASR 5000 as a result of the Starent acquisition.  The addition of the ASR 5000 gives Cisco a comprehensive end-to-endInternet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture and offers mobile operators a platform specifically designed to accommodate the rapid growth of mobile Internet traffic and mobile multimedia applications.

With its Sicore camera system, Siemens is setting new standards in automatic number plate recognition

Erlangen, Germany, 2010-Feb-04

Sicore is the new-generation ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) camera system designed by Siemens Mobility to read number plates automatically, thus ensuring positive identification of motor vehicles. Sicore caters to a wide range of application in the areas of parking space monitoring and security, vehicle speed and journey time measurement, as well as toll collection. Its implementation, however, is always subject to the data privacy laws of each individual country.

NASA, GM Take Giant Leap in Robotic Technology

Robonaut is evolving.

NASA and General Motors are working together to accelerate development of the next generation of robots and related technologies for use in the automotive and aerospace industries.

Engineers and scientists from NASA and GM worked together through a Space Act Agreement at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston to build a new humanoid robot capable of working side by side with people. Using leading edge control, sensor and vision technologies, future robots could assist astronauts during hazardous space missions and help GM build safer cars and plants. 

Gadgetwise: App of the Week: Free Calls, if You Don’t Mind Ads

By By ROY FURCHGOTT

Published: February 2, 2010

iCall lets you make free calls from your iPhone.

http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/we-have-all-long-known-how-t/

Russian Finance Minister Reveals Plan to Lift Technology

By ANDREW E. KRAMER

Published: February 4, 2010

The government will order ministries to use an increasing percentage of their budgets to buy products that qualify as “innovative.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/business/global/04ruble.html

RF Micro Devices(R) and Nujira Partner to Create the World's Most Efficient Broadband Power Amplifier

Single PA Platform Transmits Over 700 - 1000MHz With >50% Efficiency

CAMBRIDGE, U.K., and GREENSBORO, N.C., Feb 3, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX News Network) -- Nujira and RF Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq:RFMD), a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, today announced that they will be demonstrating the world's most efficient broadband power amplifier (PA) design for 4G base stations at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, February 2010. The design integrates the new RFMD RFG1M family of high performance gallium nitride (GaN) amplifiers with Nujira's Coolteq.h envelope tracking power modulators.

Motorola Media Center - Press Releases - Motorola DEVOUR Brings MOTOBLUR To Verizon Wireless’ 3G Data Network

Motorola Media Center - Press Releases - Motorola DEVOUR Brings MOTOBLUR To Verizon Wireless’ 3G Data Network

NASA Awards $50 Million to Commercial Spaceship Builders

By Tariq Malik SPACE.com Managing Editorposted: 02 February 2010 02:21 pm ET

NASA on Tuesday unveiled awards totaling $50 million to support the commercial spaceflight efforts of five American companies, one day after announcing a new plan to use privately built spaceships to launch astronauts to space instead of government vehicles.

NASA chief Charles Bolden announced the winners of the space agency's commercial crew development competition to encourage progress in privately built spacecraft during a morning briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

"Ladies and gentlemen, these are the faces of the new frontier. The vanguard," said Bolden. "We will certainly be adding to this group in the near future."

Intelligence Chief Says Cyberattack Threat Is Growing

By MARK MAZZETTI

Published: February 2, 2010

WASHINGTON — The threat of a crippling attack on computer and telecommunications networks is growing, America’s top intelligence official told lawmakers on Tuesday, as an increasingly sophisticated group of enemies has “severely threatened” the sometimes fragile systems undergirding the country’s information systems.

Motorola Media Center - Press Releases - Motorola Signs Multimillion Dollar Network Expansion Order with Zain Nigeria

February 02, 2010

Latest project to improve coverage and the quality of voice and data services in rural Nigeria

LAGOS, Nigeria – February 2, 2010 – The Home & Networks Mobility business of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced the signing of a multimillion dollar order with Zain Nigeria to expand the coverage, capacity and service quality of the operator’s existing GSM network.