AEEMA has announced the integration of Automatic Data Capture Association (ADCA) into AEEMA. ADCA will be a forum of AEEMA’s ICT Australia division and will be known as the Automatic Data Capture Australia forum.

Seiko Epson has developed the uFR (micro flying robot), which it claims as the world’s smallest flying prototype microrobot.

NewTek Sales and IneoQuest Technologies have signed an agreement under which NewTek is the distributor to promote IneoQuest MPEG over IP technology for cable operators and equipment manufacturers pursuing video-on-demand applications.

Engineers at Princeton University and Hewlett-Packard have invented a combination of materials that could lead to cheap and super-compact electronic memory devices for archiving digital images or other data.

Blackburn North based Rectifier Technologies has signed an agreement with the Wuhan Pution Telecom Equipment Group that will see state-of-the-art Victorian designed rectifiers being used under licence in China.

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories developing ultraviolet light-emitting diodes recently demonstrated two deep UV semiconductor optical devices that set records for wavelength/power output.

Samtec's support of the IBIS Interconnect Modelling Specification (ICM Version 1.0) and early adoption of this specification for interconnect modelling has resulted in an invitation to join the IBIS Open Forum as a member organisation. IBIS (I/O Buffer Information Specification ) is entering its thirteenth year as an industry-wide standard method for describing buffer electrical behaviour including databook buffer timing and signal integrity requirements.

Philips and IBM are to jointly develop customer systems for radio frequency identification (RFID) and smart card applications. They plan to address the growing need for advanced high-security smart cards and RFID technology in day-to-day business processes, operations and consumer lifestyles.

RS Components has launched its Online Trading Platform localised for Australia and New Zealand. The Internet Trading Channel (ITC) is now live in Australia http://www.rsaustralia.com/ and New Zealand http://www.rsnewzealand.com/

In the future, powering up your laptop may require you unroll it first. Engineers at the University of Toronto have constructed flexible technology that could lay the groundwork for future generations of bendable television, computer and mobile phone screens.

National Instruments has acquired the Dallas, Texas-based software developer Hyperception, a designer of graphical development tools for digital signal processing (DSP).

Stacking organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) leads to brighter, stabler, longer lived light sources than individual OLEDs.

Euro-engineer Keith Armstrong will be visiting Australia-New Zealand February-April 2004 to present a series of EMC courses to industry and the public, sponsored by EMC Technologies.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed what it claims to be the first light emitting transistor (LET). Unlike conventional transistors, which include an electrical input port and an electrical output port, the LET also has an infrared optical output port.

Proving it is possible to use biology to create electronics, scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have harnessed the power of DNA to create a self-assembling nanoscale transistor, the building block of electronics.