Stephen Phillips has announced that he has made the incredibly tough decision to withdraw from the 2012 Global Cycle Challenge after suffering from an illness that has left him too weak to continue.

Stephen first set off on his mountain bike to begin his Global Cycle Challenge on the 18^th February from Greenwich Park, London. Since this date he has cycled through a vast number of countries (including, France, Spain and America) crossing the halfway mark in New Zealand in mid April, however, luck did not seem to be on Stephen’s side. Continue reading “Stephen Phillips – Round the World Cyclist has withdrawn from race.” »

Digital Amplifiers
A Digital amplifier is a Class-D amplifying system that takes a digital audio input and creates a Pulse Width Modulated (PWM) switching waveform by digital processing of the input signal. The PWM waveform is boosted to higher power by a switching output stage and then filtered before driving a loudspeaker. Continue reading “DDFA Technology” »

Over recent months, CSR has been working with Phil Jarrett of Mi-Zone, the inventor of the proximity alarm which is designed to protect items of value.

The Mi-Zone proximity alarm is a unique device that can attach to anything considered worth protecting.  Users can simply attached it to, or hide it on, anything they wish to safe-guard.  Once the selected item moves outside a pre-set security zone, the alarm is triggered on both the mobile handset and the Mi-Zone tag itself.  You can choose from low, medium or high security settings, depending on the range of the security zone you create around the item you are protecting.   Continue reading “CSR and Mi-Zone Proximity Alarm” »

At last week’s Bluetooth “All Hands” Meeting, in Vancouver BC, CSR won two awards.

Both of them were team efforts.
Chris Church won for Outstanding Technical Contributor.  The team involved in this supported each other as follows:

• Robin Heydon did the original work, and supported Chris technically.
• Chris Church stepped up and assumed leadership of the Human Interface Device Working Group.
• Krishnan Nair made technical contributions.
• Members of our team (Simon Finch et al) provided real hardware.
• Chris had to get through determined opposition from within HID, and from parts of the SIG. Continue reading “CSR wins awards at Bluetooth All Hands Meeting” »

More than ten months research was announced by Senior Product Manager Richard Edgar, (R&I Central) last week at Cambridge TV Whitespace Consortium’s all day event at Duxford’s Imperial War Museum. The consortium is an unprecedented industry partnership between CSR, Microsoft and fifteen other corporations including BSkyB, Samsung, Nokia, the BBC and Arqiva. You can access further information from the Microsoft press release here.
Continue reading “CSR Attends Cambridge Whitespace” »

Kia Ora from New Zealand

After leaving San Francisco on such a high I could be forgiven for thinking such good luck was going to continue. Instead New Zealand has been a major struggle.

I arrived at 5:30am to a waking Auckland, not too cold and the sun was beginning to rise. Clearing customs was extremely relaxed and I collected my baggage without problems. That is until I looked at the box closer. Continue reading “Stephen Phillips in New Zealand” »

Stephen took time out from cycling around the world to answer a few questions from US radio station KGO/ABC Radio CSRKGORadioCyclist13April2012

Dear All

Having returned from near oblivion and self doubt I have amazed myself at how well I have done considering my injury in Athol.

I promise I tried to stick to Physio’s orders of 80 miles a day but the warm weather, sun, desert scenery along with the odd ghost town spurred me on and I made the distance between Phoenix and San Francisco four days ahead of planned schedule. Continue reading “Stephen Phillips Update – Leaving the USA, next stop New Zealand” »

Hello all.

It has been some time since my last update but with good reason.

I left Portugal suffering from both food poisoning and Achilles Tendonitus however a few rest days in transit between Europe and USA saw my heel improve and the worst of the pain was over. Or so I thought! Continue reading “Stephen Phillips Update – Hanging out in Sunnyvale” »

Having been given the all clear from his doctor, Stephen is now back in the race. He recently dropped into our Santa Ana office. Here is the latest report from our team there:

Stephen Phillips makes it to Santa Ana, CA from Phoenix, AZ in four days! Steve arrived into Santa Ana at 8:10PM on Tuesday 3rd April and headed straight for the Hampton Inn to rest up for the night before biking into CSR Santa Ana on Wednesday 4th April. Continue reading “Stephen Phillips in Santa Ana” »