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Agilent Technologies' SMM Mode Wins R&D 100 Award
Agilent Technologies has announced that its Scanning Microwave Microscopy Mode (SMM Mode) for use with its 5420 and 5600 atomic force microscopes (AFM) has been named an R&D 100 Award winner. Recipients of these prestigious awards are selected by an independent judging panel and the editors of R&D Magazine in recognition of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace during the past year. Agilent SMM Mode is ...
Agilent Technologies Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results
Agilent Technologies Inc. today reported revenues of $1.06 billion for the third fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2009, 27 percent below one year ago. Third quarter GAAP net loss was $19 million, or ($0.06) per diluted share. Last year's third quarter GAAP net income was $169 million, or $0.45 per share.
Spirent Validates Cisco’s Medianet in Largest Public 1GigE and 10GigE IPTV Test
Spirent Communications plc has successfully supported the industry’s largest public IPTV test by validating the resiliency and video quality of Cisco’s medianet solution. Medianet Megatest, the independent benchmarking of Cisco’s IP video service delivery network equipment conducted by the European Advanced Networking Test Center AG (EANTC), demonstrated that Spirent is the foremost provider of test and measurement solutions suited to valid...
Spirent Validates Video Performance of Industry’s First Live Global Interconnection Demonstration
Spirent Communications plc, in its continuing role as a leader in network, services and device testing, played a critical part in the industry’s first live interconnection carrier Ethernet demonstration conducted at the Ethernet Expo: Europe 2009 Conference and Expo.
Core Logic Licenses Arm Mali-400 MP GPU To Deliver High- Definition Graphics For Next-Generation Portable Media
ARM announced today that Core Logic Inc, a leading Korea-based fabless semiconductor manufacturer in the development and delivery of mobile multimedia solutions, has licensed the ARM Mali-400 MP multicore graphics processing unit (GPU) to enable significantly enhanced, high-definition (HD) entertainment and browsing experiences on smartphones, fully-featured multimedia phones, portable media players (PMP) and personal navigation devices (PND) wit...
Quadros Systems supports powerful new Atmel SAM9 microcontrollers
Continuing its focus on ARM-based processors, Quadros Systems, Inc., a leading provider of real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced support for the AT91SAM9G20 and SM9XE microcontrollers (MCUs) from Atmel. Developers can now combine the efficiency and scalability of the RTXC software family with the flexibility and performance of SAM9 family.
Fairchild Semiconductor Receives Hisense Strategic Supplier Award
Fairchild Semiconductor has received the Strategic Supplier Award, 2009 from Hisense. Hisense specializes in designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, its main products are televisions, air conditioners, refrigerators, computers and CDMA mobile phones. Sales of flat-panel televisions in China reached 28 million units up to 2008, this year sales are expected to reach 15 million units.
Mark Lunsford Joins NXP
NXP today announced that Mark Lunsford has joined the company as vice president of sales and marketing for the Americas. He is responsible for overseeing NXP’s Americas sales and marketing teams, focused on helping customers succeed with NXP’s mixed-signal and standard products solutions and enabling new business opportunities.
NXP powers Centre for Railway Information Systems’ Drive to Make Railway Travel Effortless for Passengers
NXP Semiconductors today announced that its secure microcontroller-based chip technology MIFARE DESFire has been selected by the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), an IT organization under the Ministry of Railways, to power contactless smart cards for automatic fare collection using ATVMs (Automatic Ticket Vending Machines) across various cities in India. Indian Railways, one of the largest and busiest rail transport networks in the w...
Patent Board Ranks Laird Technologies at 41 of the Top 50 Innovator Companies in the Telecommunications Industry
Laird Technologies today announced that the Patent Board ranks the company as #17 in Industry Impact, #19 in Innovation Cycle Time, and #41 overall in the board’s Top 50 Scorecard for Telecommunications – an increase of 16 points from its previous ranking.