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12/21/2010
Report Explains Cognitive Radio’s Place In Future Buildouts
Earlier today, the Washington, D.C.-based Wireless Innovation Forum approved the report Quantifying the Benefits of Cognitive Radio that presents the results of an extensive survey performed by the group’s Cognitive Radio Work Group (CRWG) on open and public Cognitive Radio (CR) literature. The intent of the report is to summarize the “hard numbers” required to […]
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12/21/2010
EC Okays News Corp. Purchase Of BSkyB
The European Commission (EC) gave the final nod to the proposed acquisition of British and Irish pay-TV operator BSkyB by U.S.-based News Corporation, ruling the deal would not chill competition in the European Economic Area. However, the decision does not stand in the way of the U.K. continuing to look into whether the proposed transaction […]
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12/21/2010
1 Million Apple TVs Sold By End Of This Week
Sales of its new Apple TV device will top 1 million units later this week, Apple says, with a price point of $99. According to the house that Jobs built, iTunes users now are renting and purchasing more than 400,000 TV episodes and more than 150,000 movies per day. And with the addition of the […]
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12/21/2010
Wireless Providers Set To Cash In On Smart Grids
Colo.-based Pike Research forecasts that, while private networks will continue to represent the majority of the smart-grid communications market, the revenue opportunity for service providers could rise from $2.2 billion in 2009 to $4.9 billion by 2016, with much of this growth benefiting wireless operators, which could see a six-fold increase in smart-grid revenues during […]
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12/21/2010
GigOptix White Paper Details Modulator’s Success
According to a new white paper available from electro-optic components supplier GigOptix Inc., the company’s LX8401 40Gb/s Thin Film Polymer on Silicon (TFPS) MZ modulator “has shown exceptional Spurious Free Dynamic Range (SFDR) and Third Order Inter-modulation (IM3) performance of up to 108 dB SFDR as measured by Linear Photonics LLC.” The white paper details […]
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12/21/2010
In the States
Sprint and Clearwire flipped the switch on 4G services in Denver and Bridgeport, CT. — Cablevision is providing free