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Category: Communications

Communications and Networking

  • Clearer Phone Conversations

    I recall the few times I was able, for some reason, to take advantage of noise-cancelling headphones on an airplane. Once on your ears, when…

  • The Case for Zigbee

    Not long ago I did a piece on wireless technologies. It was stimulated by the fact that BlueTooth Low Energy (BT-LE) seems to be on…

  • Net Neutrality Takes a Hit

    Imagine that a private company creates a public toll road. This actually happens, so it’s not a crazy idea. In exchange for building and maintaining…

  • Qualcomm Plugs In @ Home

    It almost sounds too good to be true. You plug in your new connectable gadget, and not only do you get power, but you’re also…

  • CEVA Goes for Base Stations

    Mobile communications have been one of CEVA’s focus areas (others being audio and images). If you’re new to CEVA, they do DSP cores for SoCs,…

  • LinkedIn’s Man in the Middle?

    LinkedIn has just introduced a new phone app called Intro that helps provide information to you about LinkedIn members when they send you email. That…

  • Antenna Tuning Without MEMS

    Quite some time ago, we reported on WiSpry, a MEMS company that was using its technology to switch capacitors so that the antenna tuning can…

  • The Next OCTEON

    Cavium has recently announced the latest in their OCTEON line: following OCTEON II is OCTEON III. (Betcha didn’t see that one coming.) If there’s one…

  • Big and Little Core Combos

    A long while back ARM introduced their big.LITTLE concept. (So cute how they put the big in little letters and the little in big letters!…

  • Adios Multimedia Frustration

    Phones have a ton of work to do – mostly things unrelated to being a phone. And we notice when things bog down and work…