Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today reported revenues of $1.21 billion for the first fiscal quarter ended Jan. 31, 2010, 4 percent above one year ago. First quarter GAAP net income was $79 million, or $0.22 per diluted share. Last year's first quarter GAAP net income was $64 million, or $0.18 per share.

Agilent Technologies has announced its ongoing commitment to LTE and other emerging 4G solutions. Agilent LTE test solutions include design simulation software with connected solutions for in-depth simulation; cross-domain test capabilities for digital to RF architectures (DigRF v4); base station (eNodeB) test; real-time eNodeB testing; and, signal generation and analysis solutions for early module test including FDD, TD-LTE and MIMO.

Agilent Technologies announced it will demonstrate with Silicon Hive B.V. completely flexible digital radio-frequency processing for UMTS. The demonstration will be at the 2010 Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 15-19, hospitality suite 3.1HS115. The demonstration will feature Agilent's vector signal generator and signal analyzer with Silicon Hive's HiveFlex CSP2500-based programmable digital RF processing for UMTS.

Agilent Technologies announced the appointments of Robert Schueren as vice president and general manager, Genomics; and John Fjeldsted, Ph.D., as general manager, Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry.

Agilent Technologies announced it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its network solutions business to JDSU who will pay Agilent $165 million in cash. Subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approval, the transaction is expected to be final in the June calendar quarter 2010.

Agilent Technologies announced that ASMedia Technology Inc., a Taiwanese IC design house, has selected the Agilent USB 3.0 test solution for in-house certification of SuperSpeed USB 3.0 devices. Agilent's comprehensive solution ensures compliance with the USB 3.0 standard. The Agilent USB 3.0 test solution is designed to reduce development costs, provide accurate test results, and simplify measurement processes for test engineers in the consumer...

Agilent Technologies announced it has added capabilities to its Signaling Analyzer Real Time (SART) for LTE. These enhancements allow wireless carriers and network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) to analyze an LTE-enabled tenfold plus increase in network traffic without sacrificing real-time-to-results. The SART 6.60 will be demonstrated at the 2010 Mobile World Congress, Hall 8, Stand A77, Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 15-19.

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced it will introduce and demonstrate a phone solution extension for its LTE Drive Test portfolio at the 2010 Mobile World Congress, Hall 8, Stand A77, Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 15-19. The phone solution extension will expand the coverage monitoring capability of Agilent's industry-leading Drive Test Receiver to include comprehensive interactive LTE network-performance testing.

Agilent Technologies announced that its Scanning Microwave Microscopy Mode (SMM Mode) has been named one of 10 2009 Prism Award winners by judges from SPIE and the advisory board of Laurin Publishing's Photonics Spectra magazine.

Linden LLC, a Chicago-based healthcare private equity firm, today announced it has acquired Hycor Biomedical Inc. from Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A). Hycor develops, manufactures and markets in vitro diagnostic products for the global allergy, autoimmune and urinalysis markets. Agilent acquired Hycor through its acquisition of Stratagene in 2007. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it will showcase its communications test and measurement solutions for LTE, TD-LTE, 3GPP W-CDMA, HSPA+, E-EDGE (EDGE Evolution), UMA/GAN, WiMAX™, and femtocells at the 2010 Mobile World Congress, Hall 8, Stand A77, Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 15-19. Agilent's test and measurement solutions enable engineers in R&D, manufacturing, installation and maintenance to develop and deliver innovative product...

Agilent Technologies announced a collaboration with CMC Microsystems that will benefit academic institutions across Canada. Under the terms of the collaboration, students, teachers and researchers at Canadian Universities and Colleges may obtain the company's suite of Agilent EEsof EDA software, at preferred rates from CMC Microsystems. The collaboration provides students, teachers and researchers with access to industry-leading electronic desig...

Agilent Technologies announced a second data channel option and a new analysis option for SER/FER for its J-BERT N4903B high-performance serial BERT. The new options significantly simplify receiver tolerance testing of USB 3.0 and SATA devices.

Agilent introduced the N9923A FieldFox RF Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) -- the world's most accurate handheld VNA. The FieldFox RF VNA provides the best measurement stability in the industry, 0.01 dB/degree Celsius, and offers the world's first integrated QuickCal calibration capability available in a handheld VNA. QuickCal enables consistent measurement results and confidence in the data while eliminating the need to carry a calibration kit int...

This product demonstration discusses FPGA design & verification for an LTE baseband PHY, using the W1461 Agilent SystemVue design software and its associated W1910 and W1912 Baseband Libraries for the 3GPP LTE standard.

This video illustrates how different traces from different metallization layers are created along with their corresponding metal-to-metal vias that are automatically inserted between the different layers with a single push of the period or comma key.

Agilent Technologies introduced its PCIe3.0 test solutions and the new Agilent Digital Test Console. The Digital Test Console is the industry's only complete and integrated x1 through x16 protocol analyzer and exerciser solution for the PCI Express 3.0 specification, currently under development within the PCI-SIG®. The Digital Test Console offers the industry's largest capture buffer and fastest download interface, with multiple non-intrusive pr...

Agilent Technologies, Inc. and Galderma R&D today announced that Galderma has adopted the Agilent Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) to automate scientific data management at its main R&D center, the largest facility of its type devoted to dermatological research and development.

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced its support for IBIS-AMI (Algorithmic Modeling Interface) -- a modeling standard for SerDes transceivers created to enable fast, statistically significant analysis of high-speed serial links. Agilent's work in support of this standard is expected to yield the commercial release of a new version of Advanced Design System, ADS 2010, which will allow signal integrity designers to integrate IBIS-AMI models in...

Agilent Technologies today introduced the Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR) application software option for the Agilent E5071C ENA network analyzer. The combined E5071C and TDR application software make the ideal one-box solution for high-speed serial interconnect analysis. The E5071C with the TDR option includes three breakthrough features; simple and intuitive operation, fast and accurate measurements, and lower cost of ownership. The one-box sol...