Industry News
Booming underground economy — report
Symantec has released a report that details an online underground economy that has matured into a global market in which stolen goods and fraud-related services are regularly bought and sold and where the estimated value of goods offered by individual traders is measured in millions of dollars.
[ + ]Shielding agreement
WL Gore's range of surface-mountable EMI shielding materials is now available from Richardson Electronics.
[ + ]China connection extended
Altium has appointed Digital China as a key distributor for Altium's unified electronics design solutions.
[ + ]Taiwan sales rise 15%
Taiwan's electronic manufacturing services companies saw a large increase in revenues during the third quarter of last year as demand rose from the same period in 2007.
[ + ]Copper for inkjet?
Engineers at Samsung in Korea have synthesised copper nanoparticles for use in inkjet-printed electronics.
[ + ]Thin film lens array
Depositing silicon dioxide over a square-patterned substrate could turn out to be an attractive route to making arrays of micro and nanosized lenses.
[ + ]Green LED development plan
IMEC, Europe's nanoelectronics research research institute, and Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp say they will jointly develop manufacturing technology for high-efficiency LED (light-emitting diode) devices.
[ + ]Directors appointed
Steve Adcock, CEO of the Electronics and ICT Association, says the association has appointed its first board of directors. Six directors have been appointed and represent a strategic cross-section of the electronics and ICT industry in addition to academia.
[ + ]Cable demand will persist
Applied Market Information's multiclient study quantifies consumption of insulation and jacketing polymers in the whole EU-27+3 European cables industry by country, by applications and by polymer.
[ + ]Adelaide firm expands USB measurement
Formally known as Fiberbyte, the Adelaide-based technology innovation company has been re-launched as ChronoLogic Pty Ltd to more accurately reflect its position as a company providing precision timing systems in a universal distributed platform.
[ + ]Mirror array for industrial applications
IMEC has developed a monolithically integrated 11 megapixel micro-mirror array for high-end industrial applications, claimed to be a world first both in terms of pixel density and reliability.
[ + ]Micro linear motors drive partnership
Epcos and New Scale Technologies have signed a technology cooperation agreement to develop ultrasonic motors.
[ + ]Cable agreement
Richardson Electronics has agreed with Radiall to promote and distribute 'Service +', an automated program for ordering, manufacturing and delivering RF cable assemblies.
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