News & Analysis
Averna accelerates design phase and shortens production cycle for Sumitomo, USA
Averna, test solution leader for optics technologies, today announced that Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations, USA Inc (SEDU) has selected Proligent® Analytics to streamline its product design and testing operations for optical components such as XFP transceivers, which will help improve their time-to-market.
Premier Farnell awarded Carbon Trust Standard, demonstrating continued commitment to its environmental initiatives
Premier Farnell has been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard (CTS) for measuring, managing and reducing its carbon footprint by 2% for its UK-based operations and committing to reduce it year on year. The company has already reduced its global carbon footprint by 20% within a period of three years.
Jaltek Systems Achieves BS EN 9100 and ISO 13485 Accreditation
To aid the growth of Jaltek’s strategic proposition to its defence and medical client base, Jaltek Systems has recently achieved certification to both BS EN 9100 and ISO 13485 standards.
Hamamatsu Microfocus X-ray Sources (MFX) Wins Prism Award
Hamamatsu Photonics is a proud recipient of a Prism Award, given in recognition of their MicroFocus X-ray Sources (MFX). The Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation is an international competition for companies that realise innovative products that break conventional ideas, solve problems and improve life with photonics technology. This prestigious Award was presented to Hamamatsu Photonics during a gala ceremony held during the SPIE Photonics West...
Minicom Spins Out its Digital Signage Division; Raises $6 Million from JVP and Aviv Ventures for the New Venture
Minicom Advanced Systems, a developer of remote access, KVM, and digital signage solutions, today announced that it would spinout its digital signage division (“MDS”). The new company simultaneously announced that it had raised $6 million to finance its operations independently. The investment, which was led by Jerusalem Venture Partners and joined by Aviv Ventures, will enable the company to broaden its platform from its new offices in Jerus...
COMPRION now offers a Smart Card Web Server Option for Terminal Testing
COMPRION, the leading test equipment provider for Smart Card interfaces now offers a simulation and various test benches for Smart Card Web Server (SCWS) applications on the UICC.
NanoKTN Events Drive Domestic and International Commercial Success for UK Nanotechnology Companies
The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), one of the UK’s primary knowledge-based networks for Micro and Nanotechnologies, has announced details of the success of its events and conferences hosted throughout 2009. Exhibitors and delegates have confirmed that attending events held by the NanoKTN, has increased sales and had significant, commercial impact on their businesses.
Multiple Tensilica IP Cores Power NEC, Fujitsu and Panasonic Mobile Communications Fully Functional LTE Handset SOC for Major Japanese WirelessCarrier
Tensilica announced that NTT DOCOMO has confirmed that several Tensilica Xtensa LX dataplane processor cores (DPUs) are used in the latest LTE (Long-Term Evolution) mobile handset system-on-chip (SOC) design demonstrated in February at the Mobile World Congress (Barcelona, Spain). NTT DOCOMO previously exhibited the device developed under a collaborative project among DOCOMO, Fujitsu, NEC and Panasonic Mobile Communications (Panasonic Mobile), wh...
Panasonic selects CSR’s SiRFstarIII for new range of mainstream hybrid digital cameras
CSR announced that its SiRFstarIII architecture features in Panasonic’s new DMC-ZS7 and DMC-TZ10 hybrid digital cameras targeted at mainstream consumers. SiRFstarIII enhances the travel photography experience by providing end users with the ability to not only geo-tag their images with longitude and latitude information, but also enabling access to real-time location information on the country, city or landmark where the camera is being used ...
Imec presents portable, easy-to-wear mind speller
Imec, Holst Centre and the lab of neuro- and psychophysiology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven today present the Mind Speller, a portable, easy-to-wear, intelligent textual and verbal communications prototype device enabling people with motoric disabilities (suffering from for example brain paralysis or speech or language disorders) to communicate.