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ProVision Communications today announced David Newland has joined the company as chief financial officer (CFO). David, a former Vodafone Group Financial Controller and Managing Director for its UK Paging division, has over 20 years of experience as a Financial Director of mobile telephony and wireless networks. David spent 16 years at Vodafone, since then he has been providing consultancy services to the telecom sector.

Marco Panizza, Manager, Applications Engineering, defines the terms and relationships among efficiency, heat, cooling by conduction, convection and radiation. Using these relationships, he performs the calculations to determine efficiency and thermal impedance, leading to choose a proper heat sink.

Linear Technology today announced a series of free half-day seminars on the use of its family of high performance DC/DC µModule regulators. Designers today are challenged with increased complexity of power design and a growing number of system voltage rails. These seminars will help designers solve their power design challenges with efficient, compact µModule power solutions. The seminars take place in March and April at the dates and locations...

Professional Software Associates, Inc. celebrates its fourth anniversary of cooperation in software and firmware development with the leading supplier company of LED signs, Adaptive Micro Systems LLC. Maintenance, Verification and Validation, and New Features Implementation are the three main areas in which PSA provides software development services to Adaptive.

TRaC announces plans for a major investment of £1 million in a new test facility in Up Holland, Lancashire. The investment, which is supported by the North West Regional Development Agency, will create the largest comprehensive test facility in the North West of England and generate new jobs for the region. The new facility will provide convenient local test services, simplifying the certification process and helping companies in the region redu...

Prysmian will this week unveil the latest rewards of its focus on FTTH Research and Development, when it appears at the FTTH Council Conference in Lisbon next 24-25th February.

Light-Based Technologies Incorporated announces the final closing of their $2M A Round of financing. The deal will give Light-Based Technologies the financial support required to complete development and launch of their LB4 family of ICs for the control of Solid State Lighting (SSL) products.

At the NAB trade show in Las Vegas, Rohde & Schwarz will highlight transmitter and T&M solutions for the ATSC Mobile DTV, ISDB-TB and DVB-T2 digital standards. Rohde & Schwarz recently scored an industry first when it successfully put into operation an ATSC Mobile DTV multiplexer and exciter fully-compliant with the final A/153 Mobile DTV standard at Sinclair Broadcast Group’s WNUV-DT station in Baltimore. The company is also involved in initia...

Xilinx Inc today announced the expansion of its Authorized Training Provider (ATP) program to South America with the addition of Anacom in Brazil. The company joins a global network of 28 Authorized Training Providers in Africa and the Middle East, Asia Pacific, the Americas, Europe, and Japan.

Adept Scientific is pleased to report that patches for EndNote X2 and earlier have been released by Thomson Reuters. The patches will address cases where bibliographic records with a publication date post-2009 are not being imported to EndNote X2 or earlier.