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RS giving away another special edition Raspberry Pi
21 August 2013, RS South Africa
RS Components is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Raspberry Pi computing board by giving away another special anniversary edition board to the reader who submits the most creative or innovative ...

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Electronics news digest
21 August 2013
Africa ICASA has drafted regulations on local loop unbundling, a process which will give Telkom’s rivals the right to utilise the physical connections from Telkom’s exchanges to subscribers’ premises. ...

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Uniross back in industrial battery business after 5-year recharge
7 August 2013
The company has the local capacity to supply volumes from prototypes and small manufacturing runs, up to thousands per month, with higher volumes possible through its Chinese facility.

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Communications bill proposes wireless spectrum trading
7 August 2013
The bill also aims to speed up turnaround times by proposing that ICASA must notify an applicant for spectrum licences of its decision in respect of such application within 60 business days.

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Survey shows SA expats eager to give back
7 August 2013
The survey attracted 957 participants from 22 countries, 40% or 387 of whom currently reside abroad.

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The true cost of manufacturing in South Africa
7 August 2013, Microtronix Manufacturing
Mike Goodyer, CEO of Microtronix, weighs in on some of the issues that are making it difficult for South African electronics manufacturers to thrive.

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Technology seminars prove successful
7 August 2013, Electrocomp
A series of electronics technology training sessions was recently hosted in Johannesburg and Cape Town to give local electronics design engineers a glimpse of future products and technologies. The sessions ...

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Altium releases new component libraries
7 August 2013, EDA Technologies
Altium has released a new range of component libraries for board-level designs using the ARM Cortex-M based EFM32 Gecko microcontrollers developed by Energy Micro and recently acquired by Silicon Labs, ...

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Electronics news digest
7 August 2013
Overseas    Business Intel reported second-quarter revenue of $12,8 billion, net income of $2,0 billion and earnings per share (EPS) of $0,39. These results were down on last year’s second quarter when ...

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Mantech owner becomes Mobicon director
24 July 2013
In addition to his new responsibilities to Mobicon’s board and shareholders, Moutinho remains as CEO for the group’s operations in Africa, comprising Mantech and Suntronika.

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And the winners are...
24 July 2013
Congratulations to the two winners of Avnet Kopp sponsored development boards who successfully completed Dataweek’s word search competition at the National Electronics Western Cape show.

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Actum now distributes Exxelia’s product range in SA
24 July 2013, Actum
The Exxelia group is comprised of Eurofarad, Firadec, Sic-Safco, Astema, Microspire, Dearborn Electronics and Temex Ceramics.

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Q&A on SA’s smart ID cards
24 July 2013
Wanting to know just how smart these cards really are, we quizzed a Gemalto representative to learn more about their technical specifications.

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AAD secures new fingerprint scanner agency
24 July 2013, Altron Arrow
Arrow Altech Distribution (AAD) announced that it is now an official distributor of DigitalPersona fingerprint biometrics solutions. AAD will thus be able to supply DigitalPersona’s wide range of optical ...

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WSN powered by vibration energy harvesters
24 July 2013
At the recent Sensors Expo and Conference, MicroGen Systems demonstrated its vibration energy harvesting BOLT Power Cells powering a live wireless sensor network (WSN) using Linear Technology’s Dust Networks ...

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Minister of Communications axed
24 July 2013, Technews Publishing
Embattled Dina Pule is the Minister of Communications no longer. In his cabinet reshuffle speech on the 9th of July, President Jacob Zuma announced that she will be replaced by Yunus Carrim, the former ...

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TMI now an official Fluke dealer
24 July 2013, Test & Measurement Instruments (TMI)
As of June 2013, Test and Measurement Instruments (TMI) has been appointed as an official Fluke dealer by the South African agents, Comtest.    Speaking on the occasion of the appointment, Joe dos Santos, ...

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K Measure expands range to cover RF test equipment
24 July 2013, K Measure
A vector network analyser, in short, analyses all the electrical characteristics (including S-parameters) of an electronic device under test (DUT). The DUT can be a single component, a circuit of passive ...

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RF analysers can be remotely controlled by iOS devices
24 July 2013, Concilium Technologies, Test & Measurement
Agilent Technologies has announced that its FieldFox handheld RF and microwave analysers can now be remotely controlled via an iOS device such as an iPad or iPhone. Also new are a spectrum analysis time-gating ...

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Electronics news digest
24 July 2013
South Africa Altech announced its intention to delist from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on 20 August, after 38 years as a publicly traded company. The move depends upon support from shareholders, ...

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