Recently, Vodafone Germany's boss is quoted (in Germany) saying that Vodafone Germany currently spends a middle three digit million sum a year on power for its mobile networks in Germany. Interesting, so let's break that number down a bit. Let's assume that Vodafone's yearly power bill for their complete GSM and UMTS networks is 400 million euros and that their DSL assets are not included. I am no...

The first step in reducing power consumption is knowing how much power is being consumed, but when it comes to many data centers, that is not as straightforward a proposition as it seems

Yesterday Electronics Ph.D. student Atif Shamim won the overall Best Paper Award at the European Wireless Technology Conference for an amazing new invention to reduce power consumption of the 'power-sucking' device and increase battery life. He has built a prototype that extends the battery life of portable gadgets up to 12 times, by getting rid of all the wires used to connect the elect...

Atif Shamim, an electronics PhD student at Carleton University, has developed a way to greatly reduced smartphone, such as BlackBerry or iPhone power consumption. He developed a prototype that removes of all the wires used to connect the electronic circuits with the antenna. It uses packaging technique to connect the antenna with the circuits via a wireless connection between a micro-antenna embed...

Huge breakthrough in tiny module Atif Shamim’s wireless connector can extend the battery life of devices like the iPhone and BlackBerry by up 12 times An Ottawa inventor has pulled off something the titans of innovation behind the iPhone couldn’t — find a way to reduce power consumption of the “power-sucking” device to increase battery life. Atif Shamim, an electronics PhD student at Car...

New technology from Carelton will help reduce power consumption by 92%.

A new wireless antenna technology developed by Atif Shamim, an engineering student at Canada's Carleton University, is claimed to be able to reduce mobile phone power consumption by nearly 92%. The key piece of the technology involves disconnecting a cell phone's antenna from the rest of the electronic components in the device. Full article in Mobileburn.

The inclusion of multiple wireless technologies on a single IC is becoming increasingly widespread. As the drive for reduced power consumption, additional functionality and significant cost reduction reaches a crescendo, it has never been a more exciting time for combination ICs.

According to NTT, the LSI (large scale integration) chip is said to have been developed for the new LTE mobile system called super 3G, and it comes with the lowest power consumption and highest decoding for downlink transmissions ever. Such an event development may not have come as a surprise to those w...

You might remember Sony showing off that crazy super-thin, super-flexible screen last year, all thanks to emerging OLED technologies. OLED promises to bring higher brightness, more colours, thinner screens and lower power consumption. Definitely the next generation of mobile displays, but the biggest hurdle to date has been prohibitive production costs. Luckily the ROLLED Project