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The growth in the demand of smartphones has highlighted the complexities of wireless communications through problems of reduced sensitivity when the user holds some devices. New research has been investigating this problem, along with developing new solutions to overcome the loss of connectivity.The study by academics in the field of antennas and propagation in the University of Bristol's Centre for Communications Research (CCR) is published in the journal IEEE Antennas and Wireless...

GERMANTOWN, Md., Feb. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite networks and services, today announced that Antenna Man, a Vermont-based satellite television and Internet access dealer, has been awarded platinum dealer status for signing-up and supporting new residential and business customers of HughesNet® , the nations' #1 high-speed satellite Internet service. With more than 550,000 subscribers in 96 percent of America's...

PARIS, February 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- This concept accelerates the testing process for broadband devices (mobile phones, smartphones, laptops, digital tablets). - Measurement speed is near real-time, thanks to a combination of multiple sensors arranged in 3D inside a sphere. The sensors surround the object under test The new SG-3D concept is "all-in-one." It is composed of a spherical, shielded metal cage lined with absorber. A multitude of measurement sensors are...

A prototype implantable eye pressure monitor for glaucoma patients is believed to contain the first complete millimeter-scale computing system.And a compact radio that needs no tuning to find the right frequency could be a key enabler to organizing millimeter-scale systems into wireless sensor networks. These networks could one day track pollution, monitor structural integrity, perform surveillance, or make virtually any object smart and trackable.Both developments at the University of...

NEWTOWN, Pa., Feb. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has collaborated with The Pennsylvania State University to develop a breakthrough material that can significantly improve the performance of spacecraft antennas. The electromagnetic metamaterial is considered to be the first commercially viable product of its kind and is one of the first practical implementations of electromagnetic metamaterials that improves a real-world device. Lockheed Martin's University Research...

SAN MATEO, Calif., Feb. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantance Inc., a fabless semiconductor company with patented innovations in mobile power amplifier (PA) power management, today introduced the Q1005 Power Management Controller for radio frequency (RF) PAs. Featuring the company's innovative qBoost(TM) technology, the Q1005 dramatically improves the performance of PAs for 3G and 4G data communication. Smartphones, tablets, data cards and other high-speed data devices that use the Q1005 to...

Queen's University Belfast aims to develop discrete self-aligning flat antennasBulky present generation satellite dishes and ground terminals could become relics of the past thanks to research currently being conducted for the European Space Agency (ESA) by Queen's University Belfast's Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) aimed at developing discrete self-aligning flat antennas.It is hoped the work could lead to a one-size-fits all solution that could be...

Cheaper, lighter and more energy-efficient broadband devices on communications satellites may be possible using metamaterials to modify horn antennas, according to engineers from Penn State and Lockheed Martin Corp."Existing horn antennas have adequate performance, but have undergone little change over several decades except for advances in more accurate modeling techniques," said Erik Lier, technical Fellow, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. "Modifications enabled by...

An innovative new radio telescope array under construction in central New Mexico will eventually harness the power of more than 13,000 antennas and provide a fresh eye to the sky. The antennas, which resemble droopy ceiling fans, form the Long Wavelength Array, designed to survey the sky from horizon to horizon over a wide range of frequencies.The University of New Mexico leads the project, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., provides the advanced digital electronic...

HORSHAM, Pa., Jan. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ORBIT/FR, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ORFR), a Microwave Vision Company and a leading producer of automated microwave test and measurement systems for the aerospace, defense, communications, automotive and satellite industries, closed out the 2010 calendar year with several significant orders totaling approximately $3.3 million. All recent significant orders came from the aerospace & defense industry; with the majority from aviation customers...