Fluke has established a web forum, Action Eco, to give managers a place to learn low-cost, energy-saving techniques and share their own ideas and experiences.

Paqworks Business has joined Madison Technologies in its Industrial IT & Communications division.

Digi-Key has expanded its current franchise agreement with Tyco Electronics to a worldwide deal.

Fuji Electric Device Technology and Semikron International have signed a supply and license agreement.

Symantec has released a report that details an online underground economy that has matured into a global market in which stolen goods and fraud-related services are regularly bought and sold and where the estimated value of goods offered by individual traders is measured in millions of dollars.

WL Gore's range of surface-mountable EMI shielding materials is now available from Richardson Electronics.

Altium has appointed Digital China as a key distributor for Altium's unified electronics design solutions.

Taiwan's electronic manufacturing services companies saw a large increase in revenues during the third quarter of last year as demand rose from the same period in 2007.

Engineers at Samsung in Korea have synthesised copper nanoparticles for use in inkjet-printed electronics.

Depositing silicon dioxide over a square-patterned substrate could turn out to be an attractive route to making arrays of micro and nanosized lenses.

IMEC, Europe's nanoelectronics research research institute, and Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp say they will jointly develop manufacturing technology for high-efficiency LED (light-emitting diode) devices.

X-On Electronics has been appointed by Mouser as its distributor for Australia.

Steve Adcock, CEO of the Electronics and ICT Association, says the association has appointed its first board of directors. Six directors have been appointed and represent a strategic cross-section of the electronics and ICT industry in addition to academia.

IDT (Integrated Device Technology) and Digi-Key have signed a distribution agreement.

Applied Market Information's multiclient study quantifies consumption of insulation and jacketing polymers in the whole EU-27+3 European cables industry by country, by applications and by polymer.