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20 November 2002

• SIA projects double-digit growth for global semiconductor sales
• Season's greetings
• Microsoft technology powers navigation feature in BMW 7 Series
• CME gets Advantech agency
• Ultra wideband (UWB) community must standardise technology and its message - for it to thrive

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6 November 2002

• SANAS signs the ILAC Arrangement
• Trolleyponder protocol patents allowed by EU and US authorities
• Crabtree wins an SABS design award
• Contract to develop OLED-based 'Universal Communication Device'
• Plastic shows promise for spintronics
• Mini-circuits invests $110m to expand Malaysia plant

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23 October 2002

• Slow adoption of wireless data services troubles service providers
• Net-generation youth initiative winners announced
• Report looks at the prospects for the convergence of mobile and Internet technologies and 3G take-up

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9 October 2002

• New hi-tech development organisation launched
• Programmable device exhibition
• New Blue IQ business event for 2003 to attract investors

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25 September 2002

• SATNAC 2002 - Solving the 'digital divide'
• Noninvasive technology can read closed books
• Soft multipliers increase DSP performance five-fold
• Instant digital faces set for cellphones too
• Security scenarios in embedded design

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10 September 2002

• Improving measurement for the manufacturing industry
• Tel.Com Africa 2002: Africa's premier international telecommunications event
• Eonic Solutions and Parsec sign mutual VAR agreement
• 3D 'chip-sandwich integration technology offers way out of wiring crisis
• Beamer me up Scotty - well ... not quite

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28 August 2002

• Microchip Technology - Summer School 2002
• Benefits of lightning-fast timing analysis
• Tuks professor elected to the IFAC council
• Turbine optimises wind energy capture

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14 August 2002

• 3M announces telecommunications deal with Malesela
• Webb supplies communications system to hospital in Gambia
• Telecom applications tested from 20 km high stratospheric platform
• Data I/O celebrates 30 years in device programming
• AAD appointed as distributor for Sony Ericsson GSM modules

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31 July 2002

• Fighting the brain drain
• Parsec - your electronic engineering solutions provider
• Innovative SA company invents tunnel/mine antenna range
• World's first 100 million voxel volumetric 3D display
• Defence industry seminar showed ground-breaking work

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17 July 2002

• Altera and EBV celebrate expanded distribution agreement
• Parsec sells Altera agency to EBV-Electrolink
• GSM system supplied to Tanzanian mine
• Residential Telkom subscribers 'trigger-happy'
• University team reaches quarter-finals of the 2002 Robot Soccer World Cup
• High-temperature electronics heats up

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3 July 2002

• Technology in emerging markets
• Grintek Telecom wins top award from Telkom
• EBV-Elektronik named European Distributor of the Year 2001
• Dartcom upgrades existing fibre assembly lab with the latest high-tech equipment
• Name change for test and measurement giant
• Poynting develops antennas for transponder landing systems
• The future for data communication is wireless
• Dynamic Cables shows its mettle with unique new fibre-optic laboratory

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19 June 2002

• Future engineers see IST Group in action
• Gauteng set to become world-class IT destination
• Testerion installs R3m Fuji SMD placement line
• Current setbacks aside, RFID will revolutionise verticals, says ABI

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5 June 2002

• ICT for all: Attainable aspiration or pipe dream?
• THRIP boosts SA industry and economy
• Ultra-capacitors help solve power problems in professional cameras
• HIV/AIDS educational tool developed at university
• Specialist world can expect an upturn after November’s electronica
• DSPs/MPUs for base stations to be the 'Paul Revere' of wireless revolution
• Long-lasting lithiums
• Current Automation - power solution providers

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22 May 2002

• EBV-Electrolink adds Altera Corporation to its semiconductor portfolio
• Chinese delegation visits South Africa
• Company formed to open up communication links in Africa
• Microsoft appoints Arrow Altech as embedded distributor
• Tablet PC design
• Shaking up the world of virus detection
• The 'robot journalist'
• ADEC hosts breakfast at the Hilton
• Bluetooth for the new user
• The networked home - big consumer numbers, neat wireless technologies; but do we want it?
• The Acterna range of telecommunication test solutions finds a permanent home with Grintek Telecom

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8 May 2002

• Nexgen, Fibreplus merge to address public sector opportunities
• No-coil transformer inventor seeks partners
• New research highlights critical factors facing UK design engineers
• ASIC market takes a turn for the better in 2002
• Telecommunications boom said to await Africa
• 'Mighty F-350 Tonka' uses Osram's advanced LED illumination

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24 April 2002

• Inflatable speaker company set for expansion
• PC users will want greater value for money - not faster PCs
• Piezo stack technology helps lower fuel consumption
• Why not all transient voltage surge suppressors are the same
• Motorola Support Centre opens doors to Middle East, Africa

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10 April 2002

• Sapphire chip linked by light
• Spescom MeasureGraph welcomes Inet Technologies partnership
• Through-glass touch technology allows design freedom

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27 March 2002

• Erlang gets exclusive Africa-wide distribution rights from Bird Technologies Group
• World's first biochip with integrated evaluation electronics
• Savvy designers must know whether to choose optical, capacitive, or transformer-based interfacing to the telephone network
• PC-based control and analysis courses very successful
• Increasing demand for round-the-clock Internet connectivity
• Global standards for automatically switched optical networks enable new market services

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13 March 2002

• Ball boys meet their match
• Craig Barrett - Technology innovation leads to economic growth
• Constantia breathes new life into local telephone manufacturing and repair

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27 February 2002

• Innovative personal display system
• ASIC Design Services joins VariCore Design Alliance along with five other international companies
• Elprom receives award
• Prism to deliver cashless fuel purchasing system to Saudi Arabia
• Central Circuits for fast turnaround on high-tech PCBs
• Speedy 'flies' in South Africa
• Leading lingerie e-tailer uses RFID technology in efficient e-fulfilment solution
• Ethernet over copper for broadband - new standard
• Natcom Electronics sees continued growth
• New wideband speech coding standard - wireless and wireline speech quality set to improve
• FireWire storage device packs 1 Gig in a keychain
• Lenslet Labs announces new optics-based DSP technology

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13 February 2002

• Harriet Green promoted to Vice President of Global Strategy and Business Development of Arrow Electronics
• New measurement and automation company formed
• Electronics industry prospects - an industry insight
• 2002: A viewpoint from Memec SA
• Through the looking glass
• World handset radio frequency semiconductor markets poised for robust growth
• Prospects for 2002 - thoughts from EBV Electrolink
• Future communications will require ever smaller components
• Personal, pocket-size storage device simplifies data transport

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30 January 2002

• Parsec wins Export and Technology Excellence Awards
• Executive promotions at Avnet Electronics Marketing, Avnet Computer Marketing
• RF Design's GPS seminar a great success
• Fastest CMOS transistors
• The wireless Internet - different perceptions, different needs, different devices
• Wearable computer at Consumer Electronics Show
• Macroprocessing: the computing design principle for the times