Posts Tagged ‘Wireless’

New Stock Market Index! Direct market value for some IP

Posted on July 11th, 2011 by admin

We have discovered an important measure of IP value hiding in plain sight. We identified some pure-play IP firms, such as ARM, MIPS and others, [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

WiFi Disruptive to Backhaul Systems

Posted on June 1st, 2011 by admin

Recently an IEEE discussion about a new business model for using WiFi to off-load cellular data traffic was posted. The idea that the cellular operators [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

PHY Layer Research: Unnecessary?

Posted on April 17th, 2011 by admin

Communication theory is one of the few in engineering that actually has a set of known, computable boundaries for optimum system performance, which boundaries serve [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Has Cognitive Radio Disappeared Like AI?

Posted on November 19th, 2010 by admin

In some outposts of the wireless engineering community, “cognitive radio” (CR) and “software defined radio” (SDR) are sub-disciplines used in common practice, just like “artificial [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Who’s Suing Whom in Telecom?

Posted on November 8th, 2010 by admin

A very interesting web site has posted a useful picture showing who is suing whom in telecom:
Wonderful graphic showing Who’s Suing Whom in the Telecom Trade
The [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Smart Phone Patent Lawsuits Focus on Android

Posted on October 25th, 2010 by admin

Recently there have been many articles about the outbreak of lawsuits over patents used in smart phone design. The most comprehensive article is probably in [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

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 [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

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 [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

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?“

Read the rest of this entry »