EMC Technologies' Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane laboratories have been appointed by TÜV Rheinland as recognised test laboratories.

Digi-Key Corporation and Bosch Sensortec have entered into a global agreement to distribute Sensortec acceleration and pressure sensors and its BMP085 baromateric pressure sensor.

Osram (Germany) has extended its existing licence with Everlight Electronics of Taiwan, about manufacturing and sales of white and coloured LEDs with conversion technology for all applications.

National Instruments says it will continue its investment to further medical device development by offering software and training grants in 2009.

Schaffner has bought Betec-Engineering, specialists in developing and distributing active harmonic filters.

Omron and Renesas are to jointly develop capacitive touch sensor solutions, a field that is attracting a great deal of interest as a next-generation man-machine interface.

SpinetiX has appointed Amber Technology as the distributor for a suite of digital signage hardware and software solutions in Australia and New Zealand.

More than US$2 billion has been earmarked for motor vehicle battery research as part of the US$787 billion economic stimulus and recovery package announced by US President Obama.

Citrix Systems says it will develop the industry's first applications and desktop delivery solutions optimised for Intel Core 2 desktops and Centrino 2 laptops with Intel vPro technology.

Soanar and WIMA have formed a partnership covering Australia and New Zealand for the distribution of all WIMA products.

Backplane Systems Technology is 20 years old, having grown from a specialist company manufacturing custom backplanes for computer and telecommunications applications to an industrial computer and peripheral supplier.

Open Kernel Labs has gained a further US$7.6 million in venture funding. The company is a spin-out organisation of NICTA, Australia's Information and Communications Technology research centre of excellence.

NIL Technology and IMS Chips have started a collaboration to combine their capabilities related to electron beam lithography.

To explore solutions to overcome the scaling limitations of conventional flash memory, IMEC, a European research organisation, has started research activities on resistive RAM (RRAM) cells.

According to Comtest, it is the first laboratory in Australia to achieve NATA accreditation to the Minimum Efficiency Performance Standard AS/NZS 4665 for External Power Supplies.