SolarWinds has launched it operations in the Asia-Pacific region.

The global value of connector factory shipments to the telecom/datacom market will top US$7 billion in 2008 by the end of this year and is expected to approach $10 billion in 2012, representing a five-year compound average annual growth rate of 8.6%, according to Bishop & Associates.

Taiwan, with the world’s second-largest chip design industry, has some companies that have countered a slump in the global economy by tapping emerging markets such as China.

Underwriters Laboratories is acquiring the assets of Wakefield Laboratories, an electrical testing laboratory in Auckland, New Zealand.

Heidelberg Instruments has selected Altium as its electronics design standard.

NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips and Renesas Technology, has expanded the licensing agreement on NXP's MiFare technology.

Bishop & Associates has released a 218-page, five-chapter report providing an overview of the Chinese connector market.

Richardson Electronics will now sell WL Gore's range of surface-mountable EMI shielding materials including Gore-Shield Supersoft SMT EMI gaskets and grounding pads, and the snapShot board-level EMI shield.

Digi-Key has expanded its range of Tyco Electronics Raychem circuit protection products to include the PolyZen family of polymer-protected zener diodes.

Mouser Electronics has signed a distribution agreement with Electronic Assembly, a supplier of LCD modules.

The Electronics and ICT Association (EICTA) has signed an agreement with the Hong Kong Wireless Technology Association.

Soanar is distributing WIMA products in Australia and New Zealand.

Symantec has announced the Open Collaborative Architecture and a third-party developer program to establish greater interoperability with Symantec solutions.

NTT Docomo, Renesas, Fujitsu and Sharp plan to jointly develop the SH-Mobile G4 single-chip LSI device, and a platform incorporating it, to support the HSUPA/HSDPA/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE (2G) mobile telephony standards.

Lonsdale-based electronics company Redarc Electronics has won the Environmental Sustainability Award for minimising its environmental footprint and contributing to a more sustainable future.