RFID Growth Strong Despite Mountains to Climb
Jul 26, 2005
By Mark E. Hazen, EWT Editor In the July 12 issue of Emerging Wireless Technology, our Top Story focused on the strong growth that is predicted for RFID technology markets. Many prominent researchers support this...
WiFi Manager 4 Targets Small Businesses
Jul 12, 2005
AdventNet Inc. recently released a small business edition of its Wireless Network Management System, the WiFi Manager 4, specifically addressing the management needs of small and home-based businesses with less than 10 access points. The new edition offers: auto-discovery, continuous monitoring, automated alerting, centralized configuration, firmware maintenance and reporting. It includes all functionalities available in the professional edition of WiFi Manager but limited to 10 access points....
Security-Enhanced, Bluetooth-Enabled, Wearable Smart Card Reader
Jul 12, 2005
Research In Motion has announced the BlackBerry Smart Card Reader, a lightweight, wearable smart card reader that enables controlled access to BlackBerry devices using Bluetooth technology and advanced AES-256 encryption. The BlackBerry Smart Card Reader is scheduled for Beta release in July 2005....
CSR Brings Bluetooth to Stereo Headphones, Offering Twice the Battery Life
Jul 12, 2005
CSR recently announced its BlueCore silicon is now inside iPod compatible stereo headphones from three companies: iTech, WiGear and Airlogic. All three companies now use BlueCore for Bluetooth stereo headphones (and plug-in adaptors) that have been designed to work with Apple's iPod as well as other MP3 players....
IDVelocity Releases RFID Accelerator Solution That Extends Beyond Compliancy
Jul 12, 2005
IDVelocity, LLC, a supplier of RFID infrastructure and process management software, has released ComplianceNow, the latest in a series of application accelerators targeted at fast implementation of RFID business processes with quick return on investment....
Wavesat Introduces Smallest Package for WiMAX Chip
Jul 12, 2005
Wavesat, a developer of WiMAX silicon, introduces a 208-pin BGA (ball grid array) package option for its Evolutive WiMAX DM256 family of products, the smallest package currently available for 802.16-2004-compliant chips....
ZigBee Alliance Developers' Conference for Hands-on ZigBee Product Development
Jul 12, 2005
The ZigBee Alliance, an association of companies working together to enable wirelessly networked monitoring and control products based on an open global standard, recently announced the inaugural ZigBee Developers' Conference to provide developers with a hands-on opportunity to incorporate ZigBee technology into products and attend workshops on four ZigBee-compliant platforms....
AWR, Astra Microelectronics ink partnership
Jul 1, 2005
Applied Wave Research Inc. (AWR), a supplier of high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) tools, has announced a technology and marketing agreement...
High-speed serial pulse data generator is unprecedented
Jul 1, 2005
Agilent Technologies Inc. has unwrapped what it claims is the industry's first high-speed, serial pulse data generator with stimulus capability up to...
Software radio to tap diverse opportunities
Jul 1, 2005
Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director Since the mid to late 1980s, software-defined radios (SDRs) have been making progress, especially in the military sector. The Department of Defense's...
Bringing long-range UHF RFID tags into mainstream supply chain applications
Jul 1, 2005
By Rob Glidden and John Schroeter The availability of inexpensive CMOS technologies that perform well at ultra-high frequencies has created new opportunities for automated material handling within supply chain management that will, in hindsight, be viewed as revolutionary....
Implementing ZigBee wireless mesh networking
Jul 1, 2005
By Tim Cutler ZigBee offers unique advantages for wireless applications. But with a technology this new, realizing a successful ZigBee implementation requires understanding its architecture and operation, assessing design options at the chip and module level, and weighing practical considerations relative to specific application needs....
RF CMOS scales to 13 GHz
Jul 1, 2005
Peregrine Semiconductor has refined its UltraCMOS process technology to extend the reach of CMOS to 13 GHz. This frequency performance breaks speed barriers...
Fourth-generation high-speed DACs push performance envelope
Jul 1, 2005
Introduced nearly a decade ago, Analog Devices Inc.'s high-speed TxDAC family has added fourth-generation members with improved performance and pin compatibility...
Products
Jul 1, 2005
Active Components SPDT GaAs RFIC switches NEC's California Eastern Laboratories has introduced three single-pole double-throw (SPDT) gallium arsenide...
