NEC has entrusted ARM technology experts BlueWater Systems with the development of a modern replacement for the ageing and bulky third-party magnetic tape units (MTUs) used within its NEAX telephone exchanges.

Soanar and Infineon Technologies have mutually agreed to end their distribution agreement in Australia and New Zealand at the end of December. After two years working together both companies have decided to pursue other interests.

A team of University of California scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed what it claims is the first inorganic, multi-colour light-emitting diodes based on colloidal quantum dots encapsulated in a gallium nitride semiconductor.

A Victorian government funded electronics industry capability mission to North Asia last year has generated almost $60 million in actual and anticipated sales over three years, according to the government.

Innovec Controls, based in St Leonards NSW, has achieved quality accreditation to ISO 9001:2000 for the design and manufacture of electronic equipment for the process control industry.

NewTek Instruments has been appointed distributors for Xantrex Technology, a power electronics company.

Arrow Asia Pacific has acquired the component distribution business of Connektron.

The University of Queensland is set to enhance its position as a centre for magnetic resonance research with the establishment of the Queensland Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Network (QNN).

Mediaware, an Australian de-veloper of digital video process-ing systems for the international defence sector, has been selected to receive an Australian Defence Capability and Technology Demonstrator (CTD) project.

Anritsu has received the Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Line Strategy Leadership in the combined markets for signal generators, vector network analysers and spectrum analysers. The award recognises that the company "demonstrated the most insight into customer needs and product demands" and met stringent criteria established by Frost & Sullivan's analyst team.

Stacks of ceramic plates are capable of transforming fuels like natural gas into electricity using an electrochemical process.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania propose to shrink circuits to save space and power and, more importantly, accommodate electronic applications at much higher frequencies than are possible with current models - applications that include nano-optics, optical information storage and molecular signalling.

The science fiction of the 1970s TV program Six Million Dollar Man is just around the corner with the development of wearable muscles by Australian electrochemists, scientists at the international conference Connect 2005 were told.

Farnell InOne has become the first company in Australia to achieve the Standards Mark for the Certification of Electrostatic Sensitive Devices from the certified testing body SAI Global.

Erni has appointed two distributors in Japan - Tokyo Electron Device (TED) and Takumi Shoji Co.