The report, from technology research firm OnWorld, says that a majority of industrial automation engineers are using some form of mesh networking sensors, while interest in low-power wide area networks is also growing.

A worker in Raytheon's semiconductor foundry holds a gallium nitride wafer. (Image courtesy of Raytheon). If the mark of critical technology is that companies are willing to sue to protect it, and governments are blocking other countries from ...

A personal radar system could give a sixth sense to people who already lost one to blindness. Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland are testing wearable scanners that guide the blind or visually impaired by mapping the envir...

Toward the end of last month, Marki Microwave made its first change in chief executive since Ferenc Marki and his wife Christine founded the firm in 1991. But the two founders did not look far to fill the position. Their son, Christopher Marki...

Over the last year, Intel cleaned the slate after failing to sell computer processors at the heart of smartphones. The company ended its mobile processor line, announced around 12,000 layoffs to focus on cloud computing and connected devices, and...

The Spartan Test Module. (Image courtesy of Millitech).Millitech has released a pair of wireless modules that bolt onto test equipment and extend their frequency range into millimeter waves. It is a part of the wireless spectrum that is being plu...

Teledyne Technologies signed a deal Monday to acquire E2V Technologies, a maker of radio frequency parts and machine vision systems, for $789 million. Teledyne said that E2V’s technology would mesh with the mixed-signal and imaging products it se...