The global market for photonic crystals will be worth US$13.9 million in 2007, according to a new technical market research report, Photonic Crystals: Technology and Global Markets (AVM059A) from BCC Research.

Network Appliance has teamed with Oracle to strengthen virtualised infrastructures with powerful server and storage solutions.

FCI has appointed Pierre Vareille as its chief operating officer, effective 1 December 2007.

FCI has been recognised as one of China’s Electronics Component Leaders in the category of Excellent Service Provider.

The Institute of Instrumentation, Control and Automation Australia (IICA) and Reed Exhibitions have signed a two-year agreement for ICEX, the exhibition section of IICA, to again be part of National Manufacturing Week for the next two years.

The IDTechEx Printed Electronics Awards have been presented in recognition of outstanding achievement. The awards were presented by Dr Peter Harrop, CEO of IDTechEx.

FCI and Amphenol have entered into second source agreements covering three connector product families: FCI’s ZipLine connector system and Amphenol’s XCede and Crossbow interconnect platforms.

Acceleware Corp has announced a partnership agreement through which Agilent Technologies will resell the Acceleware acceleration products throughout its worldwide sales organisation to Agilent Antenna Modeling Design System (AMDS) users.

Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a technology to automate ‘post-silicon debugging’.

Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a product safety testing organisation, has acquired Parkside Laboratories Ltd. in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Eaton Corporation has expanded its global Power Quality business by acquiring Schneider Electric’s small systems business of MGE, known as MGE Office Protection Systems.

Semikron International and LS Industrial Systems Korea are teaming up to develop and deliver power electronic solutions for the industrial drives and consumer market.

The value of the thin-film and printed battery market will reach $5.6 billion by 2015, according to a report from NanoMarkets, an industry analyst firm.

Fluke Australia has announced that it will donate new high-performance logging digital multimeters to educational institutions through its education grant program.

Emona Instruments has been appointed the Australian distributor of the Berlin-based manufacturer of hydrogen fuel cell teaching and research equipment, Heliocentris.