January 2015 – Samsung has made an entry into the consumer premium noise cancelling headphone line with the Level Over Headset. The headphones are available in Black and a White & Tan model. Rare in the marketplace is the combination of a stereo headphone product that has both active noise cancellation and is wireless. The…
October 2014 – Maxim Integrated held an AE and press demo event to show off their new kits for the for the Internet of Things (IoT) product area. These new kits were targeted at wellness and medical electronics as well as standard industrial control. The wellness products had the highlight of the second-generation FIT2 which…
July 2014 – In a visit to the LitePoint offices in Silicon Valley, we were shown the new IQNFC lab and production test system they have developed for multi-application NFC testing. NFC is a stable connection technology that has had a challenge over use model and awareness of it being embedded into products due to…
October 30, 2013, NFC and Proximity Solutions, WIMA, San Francisco—Clint McClellan from Qualcomm and the Continua Organization brought on a panel of providers. The panelists were George Karidis from Hotech in Greece, Suke Jawanda from the Bluetooth SIG, Koichi Tagawa from Sony, and Horst Merkle from Roche Diagnostics. Karidis opened with comments about integrating NFC…
December 2012 – Broadcom held their annual pre-CES GeekPeak on new technologies for the coming year in San Francisco, overlapping with the IEDM conference. The sneak peak features both demos of the products in action and in current devices – including the Wii U platform. The presentation covered 6 main trends for 2013 in the…
November 29, 2012, WIMA NFC Conference, Millbrae, CA—a panel of ecosystem partners looked at the issues facing NFC as a consumer technology. Hans Reisgies from Sequent moderated the panel. Panel members were; Doug Kilgour from ISIS, Jeff Fonseca from NXP Semiconductor, Frank Maduri from RIM, Kaushik Seturaman from Microsoft, Ramesh Sharma from Inside Secure, and…
November 28, 2012, WIMA NFC Conference, Millbrae, CA—Marc Greenbaum from Verizon Wireless described the changing ecosystem and marketplaces for NFC functions. These applications are growing very fast and will provide exciting new capabilities that are evolving and changing roles of many institutions. The mobile industry is moving into the third age of mobility. The industry…
November 28, 2012, WIMA NFC Conference, Millbrae, CA—Koichi Tagawa from the NFC Forum and Sony asked now that we are on the verge of shipping 100M NFC devices, what do we owe the consumers? Over the past 10 years Sony, one of the founders of the NFC Forum, has been slowly making the transition from…
November 28, 2012, WIMA NFC Conference, Millbrae, CA—Corey Wilson from Smartrac presented a case for changing the focus of NFC from financial to non-financial areas. The capabilities from the technology to enhance communications will become the driver for greater consumer adoption. NFC is supposed to be fun. The startup will not be in transactions, but…
November 28, 2012, WIMA NFC Conference, Millbrae, CA—Jeff Miles from NXP talked about NFC creating a new dimension in the digital reality. NFC is becoming a trusted, smart, and secure platform for many consumer contacts. NFC has been in development for the past ten years. We are now at the stage in it’s evolution where…