First SDR using partial reconfiguration of FPGAs unveiled 

Xilinx and ISR Technologies this week demonstrated a software-defined radio (SDR) using partial reconfiguration of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) at a technical conference in Monterey, Calif. ...

Intermec suspends licensing policy to boost RFID 

Intermec Technologies Corp. has suspended its RAND licensing program for the EPCglobal Generation 2 RFID standard for 60 days...

Raytheon, Nextel partner on P2T interoperability solution  

Nextel Communications and Raytheon JPS Communications said they would jointly develop a patch that would enable users of Nextel’s Direct Connect push-to-talk service to interconnect to land mobile radio systems ...

Vanu wins Army contract for software radio 

Vanu said today it has been awarded a development contract from the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command Research, Development and Engineering Center ...

Thales announces role in JTRS radio development 

Thales announced it is a core member of the General Dynamics JTRS Cluster 5 team that has been awarded a $295 million contract by the U.S. Army to develop small, lightweight software-defined radios for use by all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces...

Airspan partners with picoChip on WiMAX base-station upgrade strategy 

Airspan Networks picoChip announced the two companies would jointly develop upgradeable reference designs for WiMAX base stations...

Tropos unveils WiMAX integration strategy  

Tropos Networks announced a three-pronged strategy to integrate open-standard WiMAX into new and existing metro-scale Wi-Fi networks...

Transcrypt unveils voice scramble for ICOM radios 

EFJ, Inc. announced that its Transcrypt International subsidiary has launched a plug-in voice scrambler designed for ICOM radios...

Vanu, Raytheon to team up on DARPA initiative 

Vanu announced last week it would partner with Raytheon in the second phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Next Generation program...

Netgear, Flarion to combine Wi-Fi, Flash-OFDM 

Netgear and Flarion technologies last week announced a partnership to create a product suite that would integrate Netgear's line of 802.11b/g products with Flarion’s Flash-OFDM technology...