Tech Roundup: JDSU Earns High Marks, KLA-Tencor Announces End-of-Quarter Dividends for Stockholders and More

Milpitas-based this week announced its regular cash dividends for common stock holders, for the end of the second quarter of its fiscal year 2012. A quarterly cash dividend of 35 cents per share will be paid out on Dec. 1 to all KLA-Tencor stockholders on record as of Nov. 14.

Milpitas-based announced this week that three of its innovative communications test and measurement solutions received high scores in Broadband Technology Report's 2011 Diamond Technology Reviews for the role they play in ensuring consumer quality for advanced broadband service deployment. JDSU test products consistently rate very high in this annual program, now in its seventh year. The JDSU DSAM Field View QAM(TM), SmartID(TM) Advanced Coax Probes and PathTrak(TM) WebView(TM) 3.0 solutions were awarded scores of 4.0 or higher out of a possible 5.0 with high acclaim from top industry executive judges. Key factors included technical usefulness within broadband networks for problem-solving, simplifying test processes, reducing costs and expenses, improving subscriber experience and simplifying technicians' tasks.

Milpitas-based Sonics Inc. announced this week that Microchip Technology has licensed a number of its on-chip networks for its award-winning 32-bit microcontroller family. Sonics’ solutions will be used in the PIC32 product family for applications such as automotive, consumer electronics, home appliances, wireless connectivity and more. This announcement comes on the heels of Sonics’ announcement this week that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Arteris for infringing on as many as seven of Sonics’ patents. Sonics’ press release states that the company has tried many times to resolve the issue with Arteris through “business discussions,” but they were unable to resolve the issue, so the company decided to take legal action.

Promise Technology Inc., a Taiwanese-based company with headquarters in Milpitas, this week announced the release of its VTrak Monitor, a mobile software application for iOS-based systems that allows customers that have deployed PROMISE VTrak Ex30 systems to remotely monitor their systems through an iPhone, iPod or iPad device. The company says the VTrak Monitor is “destined to become a trusted companion to monitor VTrak Installations either on the go or inside the data center.” The application can be downloaded from the iTunes app store.

Milpitas-based AVer Information Inc., a provider of video conferencing, digital video security DVRs and presentation solutions, this week announced a new partnership with 888Voip, a voice over IP (VoIP) communications distribution organization. Representatives say the partnership will allow AVer to expand its video conference solutions to small and medium businesses.