Symantec Completes Sale of stake in Huawei Symantec Joint Venture

Symantec completed the previously announced sale of its 49 percent stake in Huawei Symantec Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Symantec) to Huawei for USD $530 million. The completion of the sale liquidates Symantec’s ownership interest in the joint venture and gives Huawei sole proprietorship over all elements of the joint venture entity.Huawei Symantec was a Hong Kong-based joint venture established by Huawei and Symantec in 2008. Symantec said its...

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Turkcell Files US Lawsuit Against South Africa's MTN over Iran License

Turkcell filed a lawsuit against South Africa based MTN in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Turkcell complains that MTN breached rules of international law when it obtained a private GSM license in Iran, which Turkcell had initially secured. Turkcell alleges that MTN took action to scuttle the Turkcell position in Iran in order to gain that license. http://www.turkcell.com...

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Qualcomm Builds R&D Center in Singapore

Qualcomm is planning to build an Integrated Circuit (IC) Design and Engineering R&D center in Singapore. Qualcomm also will manage certain strategic business planning and development, sourcing, procurement and distribution, as well as other marketing and administrative functions, from Singapore for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, the company's chipset division. Qualcomm has operated a chipset distribution center in Singapore since 2000. The company has also operated a test development in Singapore since 2008. "Electronics is one of the largest...

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MediaTek Combo Chip Offers 802.11ac plus Bluetooth 4.0

MediaTek introduced an 802.11ac plus Bluetooth 4.0+HS combo chip designed for mobile consumer platforms. Specifically, the MediaTek MT7650 combines the latest IEEE 802.11ac technology, Bluetooth 4.0 LE functionality, and the company's Wi-Fi/Bluetooth coexistence algorithm onto a single die. The 802.11ac enables transmissions up to 433 Mbps. This highly integrated chip supports dual band 2.4/5GHz configuration with 80 MHz channel bandwidth, 256-QAM modulation scheme for increased data transfer efficiency, receive beam forming for extended range...

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UC San Diego and TowerJazz Develop Wafer-Sized Phased Array with 16 Antennas

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and TowerJazz have demonstrated the first wafer-scale phased array with 16 different antenna elements operating at 110 GHz frequency range. By integrating the antennas on-chip, the design eliminates the need for expensive and lossy transitions and distribution network between the phased array and the off-chip elements. The wafer-scale SiGe BiCMOS chip is 6.5x6.0mm and combines the 110 GHz source, amplifiers, distribution network, phase shifters and high-efficiency on-chip antennas. The wafer-scale...

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Fujitsu Semiconductor Intros LTE FDD TDD Transceiver

Fujitsu Semiconductor Wireless introduced an LTE FDD and TDD optimized transceiver. The Fujitsu design eliminates the need for external low noise amplifiers (LNAs) and inter-stage surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters.The new device (MB86L13A), which covers the frequency spectrum from 700 to 2700 MHz, offers multiple transmit, receive and diversity ports. The device offers the flexibility to map ports and bands for roaming requirements. The transceiver uses an open standard MIPI DigRF 4G v1.1Rev0.06 interface to the baseband. The device supports...

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Bharti Airtel Launches in Rwanda -- Greenfield Net Built in 83 Days

India's Bharti Airtel has launched operations in its 17th African country -- Rwanda. Airtel has already said that it will invest over USD 100 million in its operations over the next three years and generate direct and indirect employment opportunities. Mobile penetration in the country was at 38.4 per cent as of July 2011. Airtel was awarded the license by the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency (RURA) last year to operate 2G and 3G GSM mobile services....

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Global Payments Hit by Breach, Visa Outage

Global Payments Inc., a leading credit card processor, reported an unauthorized breach of its processing systems potentially impacting 1.5 million credit card numbers in North America. Card data may have been compromised. The company said it believes the problem has been contained.Visa has de-listed Global Payments as a compliant credit card processor. Separately, in what appears to be an unrelated incident on Sunday, Visa was struck by an outage in the United States that blocked credit card purchases for some for about 45 minutes. http://www.globalpaymentsinc.com...

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Telstra Launches Samsung GALAXY S II 4G LTE

Telstra launched its second LTE smartphone - the Samsung GALAXY S II 4G.SII 4G features a larger WVGA (800×480) SuperAMOLED Plus screen measuring in at 4.5-inches. Compared with the Galaxy SII it also has a more powerful 1.5GHz dual core processor onboard to support fast web browsing and easy switching between multiple apps, games and videos. It comes with an NFC chip built in for NFC tag reading.Multimedia functions include an 8 megapixel camera...

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Analog Devices Acquires Multigig for High-Speed Clocking

Analog Devices has acquired Multigig, a small, privately-held company specializing in high-performance clocking technology. Financial terms were not disclosed. Multigig, which is based in San Jose, California, provides next generation clock, RF synthesizer and timing ICs for the wired and wireless communications markets. Its clock synthesizer ICs break the 100 femtosecond jitter barrier. Multigig said its CMOS VCO for RF applications offer excellent...

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