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Electronic horse whip developed
14 August 2002, Opti-Num Solutions
A new electronic horse whip that can help allay growing criticisms of cruelty to animals in horseracing has been developed using MATLAB, The Mathworks' technical computing language and environment. 'The ...

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New distribution agreement for cabling accessories and peripheral products
14 August 2002
Nexgen Fibreplus has signed an agreement with Queensbury Wholesalers in terms of which it will distribute the company's range of Gigacore cabling accessories and peripheral products in Gauteng. The locally ...

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Telecoms expert attends Munich seminar
14 August 2002
Nikolay Ostrovski, Spescom's Communications Test Specialist, recently attended a 3-day technical seminar held by principal, TEMIA, in Munich, Germany. He was one of only 10 delegates in this specialist ...

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Next up for wireless communication: the computer chip itself
14 August 2002
The silicon chip may soon join the growing list of devices to go wireless, a development that could speed computers and lead to a new breed of useful products. A team of researchers in the US, headed ...

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Electronics News Digest
14 August 2002, Electronic News Digest
Southern Africa 3M Telecommunications, a division of 3M South Africa, has announced a deal with the Malesela Group, a 100% black-owned company, based in Pretoria. The deal, effective 1 July 2002, gives ...

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Fighting the brain drain
31 July 2002
"Industry's approach has to be one of retaining high levels of excellence as opposed to the egalitarian socialistic tendencies in many spheres of South African society these days."

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World's first 100 million voxel volumetric 3D display
31 July 2002
Some typical applications include: drug discovery; virtual prototyping; air-traffic control; surgical planning; battlefield visualisation; game development; and other possibilities

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Defence industry seminar showed ground-breaking work
31 July 2002
The aim of the seminar was to demonstrate the effectiveness of The MathWorks tools for the defence industry

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Parsec - your electronic engineering solutions provider
31 July 2002
During 2001 the company won the State President's Award for the Most Outstanding Small or Medium Enterprise and also received the Award for Technology Excellence

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Innovative SA company invents tunnel/mine antenna range
31 July 2002, Inteto Connect
Vodacom is also undertaking underground trials for cellular communication in mines at an AngloGold mine

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Erratum
31 July 2002
Please note that the article 'Constantia breathes new life into local telephone manufacturing and repair' in Dataweek 13 March 2002, incorrectly indicated that Telkom no longer supplies the Marconi (TEMSA) ...

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Innovative relay-type mobile communications technology to be commercialised
31 July 2002
Mitsubishi has completed development of a prototype system consisting of a new relay-type mobile communications technology by outsourcing to Detecon, the engineering and consulting affiliate of Deutsche ...

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Electronics News Digest
31 July 2002, Electronic News Digest
Southern Africa IST Energy has had its national contracts for the supply of remote terminal units (RTUs) and pole-mounted remote terminal units (PMRTUs) extended by Eskom Distribution. The company has ...

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Residential Telkom subscribers 'trigger-happy'
17 July 2002
"61% of respondents indicated a willingness to switch within 1-12 months if offered a 15% discount."

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University team reaches quarter-finals of the 2002 Robot Soccer World Cup
17 July 2002
The TUKS Cheetas won their first games, but lost the quarter-finals to China

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Parsec sells Altera agency to EBV-Electrolink
17 July 2002
The local EBV-Electrolink has purchased the Altera Agency from Parsec Components

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GSM system supplied to Tanzanian mine
17 July 2002
Webb designed and supplied communications hardware that uses its MIKOM frequency shift repeater to provide GSM cellphone reception throughout the mine

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Altera and EBV celebrate expanded distribution agreement
17 July 2002, EBV Electrolink
"The focus EBV brings to bear on engineering excellence and support, coupled with its strong logistics capability, is just what customers need when using leading-edge products such as Altera's latest Stratix device family."

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High-temperature electronics heats up
17 July 2002, Electrocomp
The industry urgently needs electronic systems capable of working under harsh ambient conditions at temperatures up to 175°C or higher

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Seminar: Rapid prototyping using the Unified Modelling Language (UML)
17 July 2002
Software has become the very personality of embedded products. Interestingly, most of the 'software' attention has been focused on the lower-level development activities such as writing the software, ...

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