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Alrad Imaging has announced Raptor Photonics now offer a newEMCCD camera Merlin EMCCD Camera with a CameraLink or GigE output. The ME247-CL (monochrome) and ME246-CL (colour) cameras offer a standard CameraLink output inside a compact housing, designed for demanding security, industrial or scientific applications. In order to support GigE output, Raptor also offers a standard adaptor box from Pleora, which converts CameraLink data to GigE data.

Spirent Communications plc., today announced that Spirent Landslide Mobile Packet Performance Test Systems has been nominated for the prestigious GSMA Global Mobile Award in the Best Network Technology Advance category. Spirent's role in enhancing network quality, performance and driving cost reductions in LTE network deployments is the primary reason for its selection as one of the finalist in this year's award.

ADC KRONE announced that it will highlight its fiber leadership through an expanded portfolio of Fiberto- the-X (FTTX) solutions at the 2010 FTTH Council Europe Conference, from 24-25 February at The FIL (Feira Internacional de Lisboa) in Lisbon, Stand 4.

STMicroelectronics introduced a unique 3-axis digital gyroscope that employs a single sensing structure for motion measurement along all three orthogonal axes2. This innovative design approach significantly increases accuracy and reliability in motion-controlled consumer applications, paving the way to previously unseen levels of realism.

Telegent Systems, the company that makes television mobile, today introduced its third generation analogue mobile TV receiver, the TLG1121. The TLG1121 is the first single-chip analogue mobile TV receiver based on 65nm CMOS process technology, reducing power consumption and solution footprint relative to Telegent’s previous generation product. With this chip, Telegent continues to bring innovation and technology leadership to the analogue mob...

X-Rite Europe GmbH introduced a compact, handheld instrument called CAPSURE™ that gives professional painters, interior decorators, do-it-yourselfers and architects powerful new capabilities to accurately image and measure the colours of walls, carpets or any textured inspiration object and match those colours with an electronic fan deck of tens of thousands of paint chips.

Continuous Computing, picoChip and Cavium Networks today announced that they have collaborated to produce the world’s first complete Long Term Evolution (LTE) femtocell reference design. Available immediately, this solution helps accelerate time to market for product developers, femtocell access point manufacturers, network equipment vendors and operators. The reference design is the industry’s first to include the LTE modem (PHY), radio freq...

A month after joining the Open Handset Alliance, Freescale has introduced a new evaluation kit that speeds and simplifies the development of compelling applications based on the Android platform and Freescale’s i.MX51 processor.

HCD, the contract electronics manufacturer, PCB design house, cable assembler and box build specialist, has made a significant contribution to film processing company, FilmLight winning four Science and Technology Awards from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – commonly referred to as ‘Tech Oscars’ – providing PCB layout and assembly services to the Soho-based company.

Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia chip technologies company, is demonstrating two of Imagination's latest ENSIGMA UCCP310 IP platforms running real time Wi-Fi and ATSC integrated on an advanced SoC test chip at MWC 2010 in Barcelona (15-18 February 2010).