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Light emitting diodes show rapid growth
28 January 2004
The world lighting market is valued at nearly Euro18-billion per year and is expected to exceed Euro25-billion by 2007, and although general lighting accounts for the lion's share of the market, the most ...

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RFID swings into 2004 with high hopes, observes ABI
28 January 2004
If 2003 was the year the market awakened to supply chain-based RFID, 2004 will surely be the year it readies for school. The two mandates for 2005, set by Wal-Mart and the US Department of Defense, pushed ...

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Breakthrough claimed in mobile video communication
28 January 2004, Products & Solutions
Siemens has developed a new video communication standard for mobile phones in cooperation with research organisations and leading high-tech-companies from all over the world. With the currently available ...

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Wireless broadband Internet access a reality
28 January 2004
With the recent announcement of Motorola's new fixed wireless access system, Canopy, residential and small business customers can now look forward to affordable access to the Internet at Broadband speeds ...

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Less than 250 µW enough to power new credit card-sized UHF transponders
28 January 2004, Trolley Scan, Products & Solutions
Trolley Scan announced in Johannesburg that it has crossed another major technical hurdle in the development of small, efficent, low cost UHF transponders - key elements in radio frequency identification ...

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Electronics News Digest
28 January 2004, Electronic News Digest
Xilinx has announced that its radiation-tolerant field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are playing a critical role in the successful NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Mars exploration mission. Xilinx ...

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Plugging a translation gap
January 2004, Fieldbus & Industrial Networking
People who do not speak the same language find other ways to communicate. Machines and computers cannot. Whether it is a car or a chemical plant, different pieces of equipment are controlled by information ...

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Annual AspenTech conference
January 2004, News
The AspenTech Africa Annual Conference is being held from 25-28 February 2004 at the Wild Coast Sun. The event is sponsored by AspenTech Africa and its Platinum sponsors, Accenture and Microsoft. The ...

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Industries join forces to promote economic growth of Gauteng
January 2004, News
The successful Blue IQ Smart Industry Expo, organised by business-to-business professionals Exhibitions for Africa, closed on 24 October 2003, with a well-attended stand awards function. Exhibition stands ...

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Accurate, portable logging of food temperature
January 2004, Instrotech, Temperature Measurement
Temperature measurement of perishable foodstuff during treatment, transportation or storage is made easy with the new Ebro temperature logger from Instrotech. The logger is the convenient size of an ...

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First exclusive computer theft survey
19 November 2003
The 2003 BSI Computer Theft Survey is said to be the first survey to deal with the specific issues surrounding the theft of computing devices

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Industrial audits identify improvement opportunities
19 November 2003
The main focus of any audit is to identify improvement opportunities and risks within the operation and to establish where the most value can be added utilising the minimum amount of time, effort and resources

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RS Components donates R1,9m worth of equipment to Central Johannesburg College
19 November 2003
RS Components is committed to becoming involved with the upliftment of previously disadvantaged individuals and institutions

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ISIS focuses on telecommunications
19 November 2003
In line with Altech's telecommunications, multimedia and IT (TMT) convergence strategy, management had identified the telecommunications sector as a high-growth area

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Datatec finalises MBO of two of subsidiary's divisions
19 November 2003
"Datanet's national branch and dealer network will benefit from the 'one-stop' solutions approach, increased service levels and a more 'open' communications philosophy."

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Are hotspots really that hot?
19 November 2003
By the end of 2008 more than 167 000 wireless hotspots will have been deployed

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World's first commercial optical processor revealed
19 November 2003
Lenslet's optical processor offers a combined solution of optics and silicon in the format of a standard electronic board card with standard interfaces and development tools as generally accepted in the industry

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'Power Assist' set to stimulate new generations of tools and appliances
19 November 2003
Power Assist is a low-cost control and feedback technique for applying the power of an electric motor based on a hand-wheel user interface

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Spescom provides free-space optics links in city centre
19 November 2003
FSO equipment is one-fifth the cost to deploy compared to fibre-optic cable and deployments take a tenth of the time

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