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Category: Communications

Communications and Networking

  • Freescale Acquired by NXP

    Did not see that coming. American chipmaker Freescale will be acquired by Dutch rival NXP in a cash and stock deal worth about $11.8 billion.…

  • A Hundred Billion Antenna Reconfigurations

    Cavendish Kinetics recently made an announcement regarding their ongoing reliability testing for their MEMS-based antenna-tuning technology. We’ve talked about this tuning concept before (albeit with…

  • Atmel Gives SIGFOX a Transmitter

    You may recall that, some months ago, we wrote about SIGFOX. As a quick review, SIGFOX is installing a completely new cellular system optimized for…

  • Zigbee 3.0 Released

    Zigbee rolled out their latest revision late last year: 3.0. I sat with Zigbee Alliance CEO Tobin Richardson right as he had arrived back in…

  • Calxeda Isn’t Dead Yet

    Remember Calxeda? The chipmaker that was going to do super power-efficient server chips based on ARM? Well, that company went under a year ago, but…

  • What Does ConnectOne’s “G2” Mean?

    ConnectOne makes WiFi modules. And they recently announced a “G2” version. Being new to the details of these modules, I got a bit confused by…

  • Move over Internet toaster: the wireless pan lid is here

    I am sure that it is not April 1st, so the release I got last week from Nordic Semiconductor has to be legitimate. A company…

  • HyperWeave Brings IP to Remote Sensors

    I can’t decide whether this is a post about technology or language. I guess it’s some of both. A company called 1248 has announced an…

  • Easier Zigbee Remote Controls

    Zigbee recently announced the second version of their remote control standard, ZRC 2.0. The idea is that, in a Zigbee home, with consumer electronics and…

  • M2M in Orbit

    This is for those of us that maybe haven’t been paying attention. The most important concept that turns Things into an Internet of Things is…