Category: Mobile

Mobile

  • 12-Way MEMS Switch

    MEMS is entering yet another space traditionally done with electronics: RF switching. The switching comes as a result of the ridiculous number of bands (currently…

  • 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 Mobile Environment Sensor

    Bosch Sensortec recently announced a new environmental sensor, the BME680. It actually builds on prior devices. The first was simply pressure and temperature; the next…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Collocated Location Technology

    Location services used to mean one thing: applications that leveraged GPS and other global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) to fix your location and then… do…

  • 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…

  • A New IoT Platform: RuBAN

    Yet another Internet of Things (IoT) “platform” was announced recently: the RuBAN platform by Davra Networks. I enclosed the term in quotes not to question…

  • Sensor Platforms Acquired

    We’ve spent a lot of time on sensor fusion here, and there are three players that routinely come up: Hillcrest Labs, Movea, and Sensor Platforms.…

  • Meshing With Bluetooth

    A while back, we took a look at what seemed to be the dominant two radio protocols in new Internet-of-Things announcements: Bluetooth Low Energy and…