Industry News
u-blox joins CAR 2 CAR Communication Consortium
u-blox, a provider of wireless and positioning modules and chips, has become a member of the CAR 2 CAR Communication Consortium. [ + ]
Telit and Glyn to exhibit at CeBIT Australia 2015
Electronics suppliers Telit and Glyn will be exhibiting at CeBIT Australia 2015 from 5-7 May at Sydney Olympic Park. At the business technology event, Telit will be demonstrating how it is making the Internet of Things (IoT) plug and play. [ + ]
Australian manufacturers can learn from international growth centres
Australia can learn from international experience and build collaborative pathways to sustainable economic success, said John Pollaers, chairman of the Australian Advanced Manufacturing Council. [ + ]
Qld start-up secures $3m funding for its polymer technology
Queensland-based start-up TenasiTech has received $3 million in investor support for its scratch-resistant and environmentally sustainable acrylic glass. [ + ]
Are you disengaged, disloyal and demotivated?
The average Australian worker would not recommend their workplace to others, is disinclined to do any more than what's expected and is probably on the hunt for another job, a new nationwide employee survey has found. [ + ]
Veeco to evaluate BluGlass's RPCVD p-GaN
Veeco Instruments has proposed to evaluate BluGlass's RPCVD p-GaN for LED and power electronic applications, following BluGlass's recent announcement of its improved performance data. [ + ]
Wearable camera market to soar
Wearable camera shipments are set to increase to 30.6 million units a year by 2020 from 5.6 million in 2014, according to market research firm Tractica. [ + ]
Demonstration of new LTE embedded module
Sierra Wireless and its distributor, M2M Connectivity, are demonstrating the soon-to-be-released AirPrime HL7549 LTE embedded module supporting B3 (1800 MHz), B7 (2600 MHz) and B28 (700 MHz). [ + ]
ACES sets pace for additive manufacturing revolution
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES) at the University of Wollongong is helping to set the pace in the next revolution in additive manufacturing. [ + ]
Vishay receives TTI Supplier Excellence Award
Vishay Intertechnology Asia has received the 2014 TTI Asia Supplier Excellence Award. TTI is an authorised distributor specialist offering interconnect, passive, electromechanical and discrete components. [ + ]
Low-power control technology for wearables
Toshiba has developed an innovative low-power control technology for microcontrollers supporting multisensor wearable devices. [ + ]
element14 to distribute ARM mbed IoT starter kit
element14 has signed a deal with ARM to be the first to stock the recently launched ARM mbed IoT starter kit - Ethernet Edition for IBM Internet of Things Foundation. [ + ]
International Unmanned Systems and Robotics trade show
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International will host Unmanned Systems 2015 from 4-7 May at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta. [ + ]
Linx Technologies joins Thread Group
Linx Technologies has joined the Thread Group, an industry organisation formed by Yale Security, Silicon Labs, Samsung Electronics, Nest Labs, Freescale Semiconductor, Big Ass Fans and ARM.
[ + ]Australian breakthrough paves the way to large quantum computers
A UNSW-led research team has encoded quantum information in silicon using simple electrical pulses for the first time, bringing the construction of affordable large-scale quantum computers one step closer to reality.
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