In This Week's Headline Alert:
AISG-Compliant Transceiver Fits Into A Hundredth Of The Space
Symbian Platform Source Code Now Fully Available For Free
Free Maps App Tops 1 Million Downloads In A Week
Use Scalable Fonts In Your Mobile Environments
TD-LTE Femto Basestation Features Verified
Mobile Development & Design UPDATE e-Newsletter | February 9, 2010 | Free Digital Subscription


Hardware
AISG-Compliant Transceiver Fits Into A Hundredth Of The Space
By Louis E. Frenzel, Editor-in-Chief

The single-chip MAX9947 fully integrated AISG-compliant transceiver from Maxim Integrated Products packs a transmitter, receiver, and active filters into a 3- by 3-mm TQFN package that is one-hundredth the size of discrete solutions.

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Fujitsu’s Compact, Flexible, Low-Power Touch Sensor Controllers Available at Digi-Key
With low power and quick response time, Fujitsu’s easy-to-program touch sensor controllers convert capacitance generated between the human body and a conductive touch pad to digital data with no analog processing.
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Software
Symbian Platform Source Code Now Fully Available For Free

The Symbian Foundation has completed the open-source release of its source code for the Symbian platform, which the organization calls the world’s most widely used smart-phone platform. This move, which took the platform from proprietary code to open source over more than 10 years, was completed four months ahead of schedule.

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Applications, Test & Tutorials
Free Maps App Tops 1 Million Downloads In A Week

Since its January 21 launch, the new version of Nokia’s Ovi Maps with free walk and drive navigation has been downloaded more than 1.4 million times. In fact, the application was downloaded a million times in its first week.

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Use Scalable Fonts In Your Mobile Environments
By Steve Martin, Monotype Imaging

Because of their scalable nature, scalable fonts and font technologies are smarter to implement than fixed-in-size bitmap fonts to support text across a wide spectrum of mobile phones and applications.

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TD-LTE Femto Basestation Features Verified

The Applied Science and Technology Reserarch Institute (ASTRI) of Hong Kong has successfully verified its TD-LTE femto basestations using equipment provided by Rohde & Schwarz.

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