(Reuters) – Scientists in Switzerland have come up with a material mimicking the way tendons connect to bones, which could speed the development of stretchy, wearable electronic devices. The stretchable electronics industry is in its infancy but devices that are able to flex without breaking could revolutionize devices from smartphones and solar cells to medical […]
Applications
EEPROM-configurable IC enables easier development of TPMS modules
The MLX91802 is a system in package solution for tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) implementations that combines an analog pressure sensor and a low power sensor interface with an MLX16 16-bit RISC-based microcontroller. It is housed in a compact, pressure ported, plastic SO16 package and has an operational temperature range of -40 °C to 125 […]
Celtics team up with Comcast Business Services
With an assist from Comcast Business Services, the Boston Celtics have upgraded their data and voice services between their administrative and practice facilities. The Celtics are using Comcast’s Ethernet service to download and transfer bandwidth-intensive video files and images between the organization’s administrative office in Boston and its practice facility in Waltham, Mass. The Comcast […]
Cox CTO Hart to deliver keynote address at SEMI Forum
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers announced today that Cox executive vice president and CTO Kevin Hart will be the keynote speaker at its SCTE SEMI (Smart Energy Management Initiative) Forum 2013 in April. Hart, who is also program committee chairman for SCTE Cable-Tec Expo in New Orleans in September, is expected to highlight the […]
Belden purchases PPC for $515M
Belden continued its expansion into the broadband space with an acquisition of privately held PPC for $515.7 million. For the last few years, Belden has been expanding out of its origins in broadcast equipment into other areas of the communications market. In 2007, it bought Telecast Fiber Systems, and in 2011 purchased ICM Corp. Belden […]
Huawei will open an R&D center in Finland
Huawei Monday announced a move to set up shop on Nokia’s home turf. The Chinese company says it will invest $90 million over a five-year period to establish a research and development (R&D) center in Helsinki, Finland. Huawei said the move will add to its existing R&D deployments, which include more than 70,000 employees worldwide. […]
Panel: Fault Under Japan Nuke Plant May Be Active
A team of Japanese geologists says a seismic fault running underneath a nuclear plant in western Japan is likely to be active, which could force the scrapping of one of its two reactors. The five-member panel commissioned by the Nuclear Regulation Authority announced Monday that the structure underneath the Tsuruga plant showed signs of seismic […]
iSolated: Bad Apple Maps directions lead to desert
SYDNEY (AP) — The city of Mildura is not at the end of a dirt road in the Australian bush, in tire-choking desert sand far from food and water. Unfortunately, Apple’s much-maligned mapping application thinks it is. More than two months after Apple’s CEO apologized for errors in its Maps service, Australian police say the […]
Comcast’s next-gen X1 platform heads west to Calif.
Comcast’s X1, which is its next-generation IP/QAM platform, has landed in California after making its debut in Boston earlier this year. After a trial in Augusta, Ga., last year, Comcast first launched its X1 platform in Boston, followed by rollouts in Atlanta and Chattanooga. X1 is now in front of Comcast subscribers in the San […]
Dish: Sprint trying to block new market entrant
The back and forth between Dish Network and Sprint continued today, as Dish submitted an ex parte filing that blasts Sprint’s suggestion that the FCC do more to protect the H-block from being interfered with by Dish’s AWS-4 spectrum. Dish has already conceded a terrestrial guard band at 2000-2005 MHz, OOBE limit of -30 dBm/MHz at […]