Industry News
RS online for Aus
RS Components says its Internet Trading Channel (ITC) is now live in Australia and New Zealand.
[ + ]Powerware and Lightning Protection International, join forces
Invensys Powerware has partnered with Lightning Protection International to distribute the latter's range of Guardian CAT (Controlled Area Triggering) series Air Terminals, LPI Surge and Transient protection products for data, communication and signal lines, and LPI grounding products throughout Australian and New Zealand.
[ + ]Philips and IBM join forces
Philips and IBM are jointly developing systems for radio frequency identification (RFID) and smart card applications. The companies will combine to address the growing need for high-security smart cards and RFID technology in day-to-day business processes, operations and consumer lifestyles.
[ + ]Fluke recall
In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Protection Safety Commission, Fluke Corporation is voluntarily recalling the TL221, TL222 and TL224 modular test leads.
[ + ]ADC acquire Krone
GenTek has announced signing an agreement to sell its Krone communications group to ADC Telecommunications.
[ + ]Electronic reading device
Philips, Sony, and E Ink Corporation have announced what is claimed to be the first consumer application of an electronic paper display module.
[ + ]Kingston in memory deal
Kingston Technology has announced a worldwide memory marketing agreement with computing systems developer, Silicon Graphics.
[ + ]Sea charts give way to electronics
The end of the traditional navigating table on ships and their dependence on traditional paper charts is now in sight with the development in Britain of an electronic chart and navigation system.
[ + ]SA electronics suppliers join forces
Adelaide-based Tyronics and Tekelek have merged combining their design and manufacturing operations.
[ + ]Another twist in the field of superconductivity
Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered an interesting type of electronic behaviour in a recently discovered class of superconductors known as cobalt oxides, or cobaltates. These materials operate quite differently from other oxide superconductors, namely the copper oxides (or cuprates), which are commonly referred to as high-temperature superconductors.
[ + ]Piezo power for notebooks
As notebook computers become thinner and lighter, the bulky power adapters used for line current approach the weight of the notebooks, but smaller and lighter adapters may be on the way, thanks to piezoelectric technology, according to a Penn State electrical engineer.
[ + ]Transistor lights the way
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed the world’s first light emitting transistor (LET).
[ + ]Superconductors at a stretch
Research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology suggests that next-generation, high-temperature superconductor wire can withstand more mechanical strain than originally thought.
[ + ]Multilevel molecular memory
In conventional memory cells a bit of information is either a zero or one.(In hypothetical quantum computers, a bit could be both a zero and a one at the same time, but that kind of nimble balancing is years away from exploitation and so bits continue to be bi-level.) In the meantime one way of cramming more data into a fixed lateral region on a data storage device, other than shrinking the cell's size, is to store more than one bit in each memory cell. This is one goal of molecular electronics (or moletronics) where, for instance one would like to store information in the form of parcels of charge placed at several active sites around a single molecule.
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