BaySpec Introduces Palm-Sized 1064nm Handheld Raman Analyzer

BaySpec introduced a palm-sized, dispersive handheld Raman analyzer based on 1064 nm excitation. The 1064-Mini uses BaySpec's proprietary high throughput Volume Phase Grating (VPG)TM technology, ruggedized packaging, battery operation ahttp://www.bayspec....

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Qualcomm Acquires Rapid Bridge -- an IC Design House

Qualcomm agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Rapid Bridge LLC, a San Diego-based developer of advanced techniques for semiconductor designs. The company's technology reduces complexity in integrated circuit (IC) development at advanced technology nodes to enable greater design flexibility and optimized die size and power consumption. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.qualcom.com http://www.rapidbridge.c...

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AT&T Summarizes T-Mobile Acquisition Benefits in FCC Filing

AT&T formally filed papers with the FCC supporting its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA and responding to critics. AT&T's top argument is that the merger will give it the scale, spectrum and other resources to deploy LTE to more than 97 percent of the U.S. population. The company says consumers will benefit because the expanded capacity will provide "a more robust platform for the next generation of bandwidth-intensive mobile applications...

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New M-PHY and UniPro Specs for Mobile Devices

The MIPI Alliance announced two new specifications for data transport performance in mobile devices such as smartphones and full-function phones, tablets/netbooks, digital cameras and high speed memory storage. The M-PHY v1.0 offers an optimized physical layer with high bandwidth capabilities. It is a flexible serial interface with a data rate range spanning 10 kbps to near 6 Gbps. It offers multiple transmission modes plus a low energy per bit...

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Virgin Media's 100 Mbps Broadband Cover 4 million Homes in UK

Virgin Media 100 Mbps broadband roll-out has now passed four million homes across the UK. Powered by Virgin Media's fibre optic network, the UK's leading broadband service is now available to over 100 towns across the UK. The company aims to expands the service across the remainder of its network of nearly 13 million homes by mid-2012. Virgin Media is also currently trialling 200 Mbps services and has deployed a 1.5 Gbps cable broadband trial in East London.http://www.virginmedia.com/...

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JouleX Secures $17 Million for Network-based Energy Management

JouleX, a start-up based in Atlanta, closed $17 million in venture funding for its enterprise energy management systems for data centers, distributed office environments and facilities. The JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) is a network-based, "agentless" system that measures the energy consumption and utilization of all network-connected devices and systems to provide visibility into power usage across the enterprise. The system provides monitors, analyzes...

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International Monetary Fund Hit by Cyber Attack

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is the latest victim of a cyber attack, possibly originating with a sophisticated "spear phishing" penetration, according to news reports. The data breach has been described as "major" and "extensive" although details have not been disclosed. As a precautionary measure, the World Bank has cut off direct network links with the IMF.Recent high-profile cyber incidents in recent weeks include the RSA Secure-ID data breach, Sony, Google, Lockheed Martin and CitiGroup.http://www.imf....

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Denmark's XENA Offers 10-40-100 Gbps Ethernet Test Module

Xena Networks introduced a tri-speed 10-40-100 Gbps Ethernet Test Module. It features a suite of test features for Layer 2 and Layer 3, including protocol testing, capture, histograms, service disruption measurements, multi-stream Ethernet generation & test and RFC 2544 benchmarking. This is augmented with 40/100G-specific features such as virtual lane swapping, skewing and PRBS testing.The new tri-speed module will be available for both Xena's...

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Korea's "Make Everything Linked" Targets WDM-PONs

MEL (Make Everything Linked) is a start-up company founded in 2009 by former ETRI (the federally supported telecom research institute in Korea) researchers, announced the opening of an office in California and appointment of Dr. Donald P. Yu as its Chief Marketing Officer. MEL's original technology is the wavelength reuse WDM-PON, where the optical signal modulated with downstream data is re-used so as to carry the upstream data through the Reflective...

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IBM Develops 10 GHz Graphene IC for Potential Wireless Applications

Researchers at IBM have created the first integrated circuit fabricated from wafer-size graphene and demonstrated a broadband frequency mixer operating at frequencies up to 10 GHz. The milestone is significant because it demonstrates the viability of integrating graphene transistors with other components on a single chip. Graphene, which consists of a single layer of carbon atoms packed in a honeycomb structure, possesses outstanding electrical,...

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