Kontron has won a further multimillion-euro order, this time from the Walloon Transport Company in Belgium.

The international TETRA community will meet in Munich for its world congress 26–29 May.

The Australian government's recently announced 10% investment allowance for capital equipment purchases — including manufacturing-related products and equipment — could act as an incentive to buyers.

Research In Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry wireless solution, has opened a regional headquarters in Sydney to serve customers in Australia.

Fluke has established a web forum, Action Eco, to give managers a place to learn low-cost, energy-saving techniques and share their own ideas and experiences.

Paqworks Business has joined Madison Technologies in its Industrial IT & Communications division.

Digi-Key has expanded its current franchise agreement with Tyco Electronics to a worldwide deal.

Fuji Electric Device Technology and Semikron International have signed a supply and license agreement.

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.

WL Gore's range of surface-mountable EMI shielding materials is now available from Richardson Electronics.

Altium has appointed Digital China as a key distributor for Altium's unified electronics design solutions.

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.

Engineers at Samsung in Korea have synthesised copper nanoparticles for use in inkjet-printed electronics.

Depositing silicon dioxide over a square-patterned substrate could turn out to be an attractive route to making arrays of micro and nanosized lenses.

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.