Shipments of TFT LCDs for portable navigation devices and motor vehicle monitors (used in car navigation and in-console monitors) increased in the second half of 2009 and the first half of 2010.

Digicom has changed its name to Arrayware. The company decided on the change to complement its tagline 'Specialists in Field Programmable Gate Array firmware and design'.

Digi-Key Corporation has signed a worldwide agreement with Energy Micro to distribute its ultra-low-power EFM32 Gecko microcontroller products.

RF Micro Devices has been awarded a US$1.5 million R&D contract by the US Office of Naval Research to include the development of materials, device fabrication and high-power circuits, using gallium nitride (GaN) microelectronics.

RS Components will distribute Crydom products in Asia and will become Crydom’s first strategic partner in the Asia-Pacific.

A new equation developed, in part, by researchers at the University of Michigan could help to enable a wider adoption of organic semiconductors.

Researchers at Shanxi University in China have made progress in understanding the single-molecule magnet, which combines the classical macroscale properties of a magnet with the quantum properties of a nanoscale entity.

A group, led by Takhee Lee from Korea’s Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, has demonstrated a combination of materials and processing for a resistive memory circuit design.

Building and home automation are two of the biggest potential areas for expanding embedded technology, according to Andrew Tuft, managing director of Backplane Systems Technology.

Gresham Power Electronics has been awarded a major contract to supply specialist battery-charging equipment and batteries for new submarines for India. The contract will last until 2016 and is valued at approx $867,000.

Digi-Key and Bridgelux have signed an agreement that allows Digi-Key to distribute Bridgelux products to users worldwide.

A report by the Australian Communications and Media Authority confirms that Australians are increasingly able to view video content on their own terms, including when, where and how they want it.

Broadcast Australia has commissioned its first site to be majority-powered by renewable energy. The Mount Owen site near Queenstown in Tasmania has been upgraded to use site-generated wind and solar power, which are together expected to meet the site's 8 kW power needs for 80 to 90% of the time.

IBM will establish a world-first global research and development laboratory at the University of Melbourne.

ABB has been awarded a contract worth $4.5 million to supply power technology for the Collagar wind farm project, 25 km south-east of Merredin in Western Australia.