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19 July 2010 - 4Home Software Provides Efficiency, Automation for Connected Households
4Home is part of the emerging field of connected home services, which provides comfort, convenience, awareness and security to households. Connected home services are delivered over the Internet, and can be achieved through multiple interfaces including mobile phones, Web browsers, tablets, and TVs.

(4Home's Chief Marketing Officer Nate) Williams said that the early adapters of the technology were tech-savvy people, ages 25 to 39, who wanted to improve their productivity. "They see it as an extension of what they are doing on the iPhone."

 

13 July 2010 - Mirics Raises Another $13m
Mirics, the Hampshire soft-TV specialist, has raised $13m in additional funding. The new money will enable Mirics to expand the market for its FlexiTV software demodulation-based platform which combines Mirics’ silicon front-end (MSi3101) with demodulator algorithms. which replicate the complete functionality of silicon demodulators (such as OFDM demodulation and error correction).

 

07 July 2010 - Roke Manor develops wide area femtocell
Using picoChip's technology as a development platform, Roke Manor Research has created a femtocell which has up to 40,000 times the area covered by competitive devices. Alongside its wide area coverage, the femtocell also connectivity from vehicles moving at up to 120km/hr.

 

15 June 2010 - picoChip Raises Another $20m Taking VC Investment To $110m.
picoChip has raised another $20m in equity funding on top of the $20m it raised last November, taking the total amount of capital raised by the ten year-old company to $110m. It expects to be cash-flow positive by the end of the year.

picoChip, the leading supplier of femtocell ICs, says that twelve cellular network operators have launched femtocell products, the majority of which use picoChip ICs. It is also a major supplier of Wimax silicon.

 

10 June 2010 - HANs Promise Energy Savings For All
Get ready for one more home network, the home-area network (HAN). It has a separate application altogether: to connect your heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system and other power-hungry appliances to your electrical meter and the local power utility.

Gigle Networks makes HomePlug AV/P1901-compliant PLC chips. The GGL301 is a 200-MHz Intelligent Multi-PHY switch with an on-board programmable network processor and memory. Also included is an analog front end (AFE) for the powerline and a 10/100 Ethernet port.

 

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19 July 2010 - 4Home Software Provides Efficiency, Automation for Connected Households
13 July 2010 - VCs Betting Femtocells Will Coexist with Wifi (picoChip)
13 July 2010 - Mirics Raises Another $13m
07 July 2010 - Roke Manor develops wide area femtocell (picoChip)
07 July 2010 - Roke Goes Wide on Femtos (picoChip)
01 July 2010 - Vodafone Sure Signal: inside a femtocell (picoChip)
24 June 2010 - Continuous Computing and picoChip Earn Industry Honours for LTE Femtocell Reference Design
23 June 2010 - picoChip wins Best Enabling Technology and Best Progress in Commercial Deployment awards at Femtocell World Summit
16 June 2010 - Artemis Project Names Top 50 Water Companies (Emefcy Ltd.)
16 June 2010 - PicoChip raises $20 million for femto push
15 June 2010 - picoChip adds $20m to consolidate femtocell lead
15 June 2010 - picoChip Raises Another $20m Taking VC Investment To $110m.
15 June 2010 - picoChip gulps another $20m; Big money for little cells
15 June 2010 - 4Home Announces Connected Home Services Platform for Intel Atom Processor
14 June 2010 - picoChip Gets a $20M Boost for Femtocells
13 June 2010 - New ways to store and share digital movies (4Home at Connections conference)
11 June 2010 - IT Infrastructure: Everything Is Connected in the Digital Home of the Future (4Home)
10 June 2010 - A closer look at picoChip's smartSignalling feature
10 June 2010 - HANs Promise Energy Savings For All (Gigle Networks)
09 June 2010 - 4Home, Marvell team up to introduce energy-managing Plug Computer
07 June 2010 - picoChip addresses 'signalling storm' with femto upgrades
07 June 2010 - picoChip Tackles 3G Signalling
04 June 2010 - Picochip Gives Femtocells a New Lease on Life
03 June 2010 - SmartSignaling from picoChip enables a 3G femtocell to support up to 400 smartphones
03 June 2010 - Always-on smartphones next big challenge, says picoChip
03 June 2010 - picoChip platform enhancement address smartphone signaling problem
03 June 2010 - Nanotech Semiconductor unveils low-power, pure CMOS TIA for GPON
17 May 2010 - 4Home ControlPoint: Something for Everyone; 4Home's customizable software is an energy-management chameleon.
13 May 2010 - Wastewater treatment company Emefcy raises $5m
23 April 2010 - 10 reasons Israel is a cleantech leader (Emefcy)
13 April 2010 - 4Home raises $6.8M in 2nd round
13 April 2010 - 4Home bags $6.8M to automate appliances and save energy
April 2010 - SFP-based ONUs expand multipoint Ethernet market (Broadway Networks)
30 March 2010 - Le marché des femtostations de base va connaître une croissance vertigineuse (picoChip; article is in French, see English translation)
30 March 2010 - Plugfest reveals new femtocell supply chain; Reference designs and ODMs will be key to lower costs and rapid roll-out (picoChip)
25 March 2010 - PicoChip targets 4G LTE roll-outs with partnership
22 March 2010 - picoChip Showcases LTE Femtocell Silicon
19 March 2010 - Taiwan makers partner with picoChip to develop femtocell products
17 March 2010 - picoChip-PC323 Next Generation Femtocell Chip at Mobile World Congress 2010 (movie clip)
17 March 2010 - AirWalk to demonstrate LTE picocell at CTIA show (picoChip)
11 March 2010 - Femtocell development and evolution trends (article by Rupert Baines, VP Marketing at picoChip)
08 March 2010 - Call for new technology drive to spur growth (picoChip)
26 February 2010 - Third Annual SPIFFY Award Winners Announced Global Telecom Service Providers Award Telecom Startups for Innovation and Impact (4Home)
26 February 2010 - Femtocells are getting bigger (picoChip)
26 February 2010 - Use The Software Modem To Defuse The Convergence Time Bomb (article by Chet Babla, director of marketing, Mirics Semiconductor)
23 February 2010 - Femtocells one of biggest themes at MWC 2010 - picoChip extends market leadership
18 February 2010 - Femtocells in spotlight as new route to LTE; Rascal picoChip in hot pursuit
16 February 2010 - Six new femtocell customers take up picoChip's picoXcell SoC
16 February 2010 - MWC 2010: picoChip adds to its femtocell solutions with latest SoCs and FAP software
16 February 2010 - Femtocell market to reach 49m units by 2014 — Informa (picoChip)
16 February 2010 - MWC 2010: picoChip lance une solution complète pour les femtostations de base HSPA+ (picoChip; article is in French, see English translation)
15 February 2010 - Femtocell solution to public coverage woes (picoChip)
12 February 2010 - Teardown: Falling costs to make femtocells soar in 2010 (picoChip)
11 February 2010 - Rupert Baines-VP of Marketing for PicoChip speaks with bnetTV.com at the 2010 CES show held in Las Vegas
09 February 2010 - Ikanos Partners with picoChip in femtocell market
09 February 2010 - Ikanos, picoChip partner to advance Femtocell market
03 February 2010 - O&E Join in SFP Transciever (Broadway Networks)
01 February 2010 - EDN Hot 100 Products 2009 (Gigle)
01 February 2010 - The femtocell comes of age: The femtocell market is undergoing a period of radical change and market, participants must keep pace (picoChip)
22 January 2010 - Feel the bandwidth (picoChip)
18 January 2010 - Vodafone: 'guarantees' home coverage with £50 femtocell (picoChip)
14 January 2010 - Realising the benefits of femtocells (picoChip)
07 January 2010 - 4Home, Verizon Wireless Tout 4G Home Control
06 January 2010 - Mobile phone 'not-spots' zapped (picoChip)
06 January 2010 - Winners and losers at CES opening reception (picoChip)
06 January 2010 - Mirics Launches FlexiStream™: a New Home Media Center Platform for Windows 7
04 January 2010 - Mirics says software-based TV is ready for mass market
04 January 2010 - Mirics starts volume shipments of FlexiTV software
02 January 2010 - Femtocell uptake expected this year (picoChip)


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