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Fluke competition extended
24 March 2004, Residential Estate (Industry)
Spescom MeasureGraph's 'Win a Fluke' competition, carried in Dataweek's 11 February edition, received an overwhelming response from readers. In view of this, the sponsors have decided to extend the closing ...

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Electronics test seminars highly successful
24 March 2004, Access Control & Identity Management, Commercial (Industry)
National Instruments South Africa hosted an Electronics Test Seminar in Durban and Midrand last month. Attracting some serious movers and shakers in the engineering and test management communities, the ...

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Sun and AMD alliance to benefit local business
24 March 2004, Access Control & Identity Management
Sun Microsystems' alliance with processor manufacturer AMD will shortly result in the introduction of high-performance entry-level machines ideal for local businesses. That is according to Jos Nickmans, ...

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Radiation-resistant FPGAs used throughout all phases of the Mars exploration
24 March 2004, Products & Solutions
In a sequel to the 1997 Mars Pathfinder mission, Actel radiation-tolerant and radiation-hardened field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have returned to Mars, playing critical roles throughout the missions, ...

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Hardwired AC surge protector
24 March 2004
Citel's M80 Series is a compact, low profile AC surge protector designed for light commercial and light industrial applications. The SPD provides 80 000 A of surge handling capacity and incorporates a ...

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Piezo sensors to improve diesel engine efficiency
24 March 2004
Siemens VDO and US automotive supplier, Federal Mogul, have developed a sensor they say will improve the efficiency of future diesel engines while making them smoother-running and reducing their emissions. The ...

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Licensing agreement for QMA coaxial connectors
24 March 2004
Rosenberger has signed a licensing agreement with the Swiss company Huber + Suhner and Radiall, of France, for QMA RF coaxial connectors. Rosenberger is authorised to act as a QLF manufacturer. The new ...

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Back to the future for electromechanical vendors
24 March 2004
New Zealand company, Vending Management Services (VMSL), has developed and is offering an innovative product for upgrading electro-mechanical vending machines. Called the EMU, or electro-mechanical upgrade ...

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Low power microprocessor supervisors
24 March 2004, CST Electronics
Maxim designed the MAX6854-MAX6869 nanopower microprocessor supervisory circuits for portable applications such as glucose meters, cellphones, PDAs, pagers, and MP3 players. With optional manual reset ...

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Electronics News Digest
24 March 2004, Electronic News Digest
Southern Africa    Izingwe consortium, led by the former Nedcor director, Sipho Pityana, has bought up a 30% stake in power and telecommunications cable maker, Aberdare Cables, for R165m.       Sentech has ...

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KZN Innovation Support Centre calls on 'bright sparks' to bring ideas to the table
10 March 2004
Individuals or small to medium companies who approach the ISC with new ideas or inventions can expect their products to be evaluated and researched before they are advised if it has a degree of success

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Analog market significantly improved in 2003
10 March 2004
Strong growth in power management, mixed signal and wireless specific products helped advance the analog market up 12% in 2003

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ZigBee set for widespread adoption
10 March 2004
ZigBee offers a particularly cost-effective approach to wireless-enabling products because the radio has been designed specifically to be small in silicon area, and very efficient on software code space

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An update on the state of the electronics industry in SA - Part III
10 March 2004
Grintek employs over 1300 people (with a large percentage being engineers and technicians) in its facilities that are located in Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban

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CSIR develops unique web camera
10 March 2004
Defencetek says that the advantages of this network camera's fully digital image capturing and processing capability outweigh what analog cameras have traditionally offered

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Forecast expects 7,2% growth for connector industry
10 March 2004
Bishop & Associates is projecting the world connector market will increase in volume by $11,4 billion in the next five-years

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Spescom MeasureGraph at SAIMC golf day
10 March 2004
Spescom MeasureGraph recently sponsored Fourballs at the SAIMC Golf Day held at Leeukop Country Club. The fourball comprised (l to r) Eddy de Swart of Gem Tool Company in Pretoria, Warick Strachen of ...

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Hotbed of ideas from flexible textile firm
10 March 2004
Advanced textile firm, Gorix, has become a well-known name thanks to its namesake product - the Gorix Electro-Conductive Textile (E-CT), a woven textile which through specific spinning, weaving and carbonisation, ...

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Appointments
10 March 2004
Doug McCusker has been appointed as a director of TempeTech, a technical staff recruitment and placement organisation.    Accutronics has appointed Tobie Muller as the marketing director (shareholding) ...

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New record for the largest Internet image
10 March 2004
Thought to be the world's largest image served over the Internet, and the largest image of the Earth, Earth Resource Mapping recently completed a World Geocover Mosaic from Landsat satellite imagery, ...

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