Posts Tagged ‘Featured’

Antennagate, Steve Jobs, Intel, Qualcomm and a Clash of Engineering Cultures

Posted on July 18th, 2010 by admin

Steve Jobs gave a press conference on 16 JULY 10 designed to respond to the growing uproar over Apple’s iPhone 4 antenna problems. His pitch [...]

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Cognitive Radio for Kids

Posted on July 5th, 2010 by admin

Nokia has produced a really cool animation about CR that can be enjoyed by everyone, even a policy maker. Thanks to Ozzie Diaz of Air [...]

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Cognitive Radio Presentation at Wireless Communications Alliance

Posted on February 27th, 2010 by admin

On 2-25-10 we moderated a panel session of the Cognitive Radio Special Interest Group within the Wireless Communications Alliance. WCA is a Silicon Valley based [...]

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Cognitive Radio in the News

Posted on February 8th, 2010 by admin

It is notable that two major news outlets have featured Cognitive Radio very recently. First, EE Times has a great piece in conjunction with the [...]

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Smart Phone Bill of Materials Good for CR?

Posted on January 25th, 2010 by admin

Cognitive Radio architectures and implementations require advanced signal processing. While the algorithms can be implemented in software, of course, the ability for RF systems to [...]

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Does White Space Want to be Free?

Posted on January 12th, 2010 by admin

Anthropomorphizing about spectrum or information is pretty catchy, but weird. But maybe Google is even weirder when it offers to fund the creation and use of [...]

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4G is Real in the USA

Posted on January 12th, 2010 by admin

We can cool the speculation about WiMax vs LTE, at least for a while. Clearwire’s deployments of WiMax have led to about 173,000 subscribers in USA [...]

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Google Nexus One is a “Platform” for Social Networking and Augmented Reality

Posted on January 7th, 2010 by admin

Google’s 5 JAN 10 launch of the Nexus One smart phone has captured attention in two main areas: it’s capability as a smart phone, especially [...]

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Cognitive Radio

Posted on December 20th, 2009 by admin

The FCC wants to get substantially better use of spectrum, and they advocate using economic principles of competition to guide allocations. Only by using Cognitive [...]

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Importance of MIMO

Posted on December 20th, 2009 by admin

Lloyd Nirenberg briefed a gathering of customers of LitePoint Corp. in Taiwan on the importance of MIMO technology:
Download “Why is MIMO the Next Big Thing?“

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