Antenova, the integrated antenna solutions company, announced today that it has acquired the radio frequency (RF) design engineering team from a U.S. based developer of advanced RF power amplifiers for mobile handsets. Antenova further announced plans for an R&D center in the Chicago area in the first quarter of 2007.

"The addition of this highly experienced RF design team enables Antenova to accelerate the development of our full range of RADIONOVA® integrated radio antenna modules for mobile devices and underpins our strategy for moving up the RF component value chain,” stated Greg McCray, CEO of Antenova. “Our OEM & ODM customers have been very interested in our progress and have been providing input and direction into our development program. Having this RF expertise in-house allows us to move forward and complete the RF integration (e.g., front end module, power amplifier, transceiver, etc) with the antenna and get RADIONOVA modules into the market more quickly.”

This is a major advance for Antenova as it aggressively expands from delivering embedded antennas to providing integrated radio antenna modules for the mobile device markets. Antenova's RADIONOVA product line not only includes a stable, high performing, multiband platform antenna, but also the radio components optimized and integrated into a single package that lowers the overall OEM development costs while improving radio and antenna performance with lower power consumption.

“We have spent a lot of time looking all over the world for an experienced team of RF designers to complement our leading antenna design teams. We are very impressed with the capabilities of these engineers and scientists, and particularly their insight into optimizing RF circuits with antennas," said Simon Kingsley, Chief Scientist of Antenova.

McCray added, “We are also establishing a full Design & Support Center in the Chicago area to house the new team and grow our operations in the US. The new design and support center will complement our North American sales organisation already established in California and Texas.”

For more information please visit http://www.antenova.com

Barclaycard, GAM and Davy have all deployed Datanomic’s state-of-the-art data matching engine, which enables them to define the most appropriate matching rules for their data when screening customers regularly against Sanctions and PEP lists from third parties such as World Check, OFAC and the Bank of England to meet the requirements of European Anti-Money Laundering legislation.

Jonathan Pell, Datanomic’s CEO commented: ‘The deployment of our Sanction List Matching solution within these organizations further strengthens Datanomic’s position as the de-facto standard for financial services institutions. The scalability and ease-of-use of our software enables companies to quickly and painlessly comply with increasing industry regulation.’

The company also revealed that it has won new business with a number of high profile customers and partners: CGI, Restart, Evolved Networks, SAM 7, Oakleigh Consulting and OpenCloud. It has also added new contracts to existing relationships with Alliance & Leicester, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accenture. Pell commented, ‘The fact that some of our earliest customers continue to expand the use of Datanomic software, coupled with the rapidly growing number of organizations that select dn:Director as their strategic data quality solution ahead of the legacy vendors, is a fantastic endorsement. Time after time, Datanomic technology demonstrates a rapid and significant return on investment.’

The 2006 Frost & Sullivan European Technology Innovation of the Year Award is conferred on Astron Clinica Ltd. of the United Kingdom in recognition of its novel skin imaging technology- Spectrophotometric Intracutaneous Analysis (SIAscopy). This technology has pioneered the measurement and non-invasive visualisation of the major dermatological constituents – blood, melanin and collagen – of the skin.

“ Astron Clinica’s SIAscopy utilises both visible and infrared (IR) light to examine skin components such as blood, melanin, dermal melanin and collagen to a depth of 2 mm below the skin's surface, and provides gross living pathological data on skin lesions,” notes Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Sangeetha Prabakar. “This eliminates the need for other more laborious clinical examination and laboratory analysis procedures.”

Using sophisticated mathematical models and software programmes, SIAscopy generates images called SIAscans, which can then either be displayed on PCs, viewed separately or overlaid, to demonstrate how skin features relate to one another. This allows physicians to know the exact size of a lesion and make more precise incisions.

“ SIAscopy is a safe, non-invasive and painless technique that is ideal for analysing and monitoring various skin conditions such as skin cancers or melanomas, psoriasis, acne, eczema, skin de-pigmentation, skin aging, and scars,” observes Ms. Prabakar. “High-resolution scans provide five different views of the lesion under examination and enable skincare specialists to visualise the skin’s structure, vascular composition, and reticular pigment networks in unmatched detail and clarity.”

While contact SIAscopy provides very high-resolution SIAscans for all types of cells and structures, giving the maximum amount of information about a specific area of skin or a lesion, non-contact SIAscopy allows a larger area (such as an entire back or face) to be imaged and provides details about the concentration of haemoglobin and melanin levels. It is particularly helpful in monitoring large numbers of moles on a person, observing moles that are changing and is also useful for imaging haemoglobin.

“ One of SIAscopy’s greatest advantages is in reducing the need for biopsy,” says Ms. Prabakar. “This, in turn, reduces expenses, decreases scarring as well as the time lag between identification and diagnosis. Furthermore, SIAscanning is quick and easy, and requires only minimal training of staff.”

The SIAscopy-based DERMETRICS product suite includes products for skin cancer, skin conditions, skin health, skin cosmetics, and skin pharmaceuticals. SIAscopy shows strong potential for adoption by medical and cosmetic industries. For instance, Proctor & Gamble has announced the introduction of a skin tone analysis system to be powered by SIAscopy. Beau Visage, a MediSpa client consultation and management system, uses non-contact SIAscopy to examine the entire facial haemoglobin and melanin structure and measure skin age and sun damage.Frost & Sullivan’s Technology Innovation Award is bestowed upon a company (or individual) that has carried out new research, which has resulted in innovation(s) that have or are expected to bring significant contributions to the industry in terms of adoption, change, andcompetitive posture.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognise companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry.

For more information please visit http://www.astronclinica.com