The global optoelectronics market to be worth $600 billion by 2010, according to a report by Global Industry Analysts.

Vitrek Corporation, a US instrumentation manufacturer, has appointed Westek Electronics as the Australian representative for electrical safety testers and its other test equipment.

ABB Australia has re-launched its Graduate Program in order to recruit and develop the future leaders of ABB.

The National Electrical and Communications Association (NECA) said it supported the new alliance known as the Australia and New Zealand Electro Technology Training Alliance (ANZETA) set up to streamline and improve the quality of training and education provided in electrotechnology.

Glyn is extending its distribution program with memory and video processing circuits from Averlogic Technologies, a semiconductor company with headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan.

Markets for displays, signage, lighting, RFID tags, sensors, solar panels, batteries and other products manufactured using printing technology will reach $30.1 billion by 2015, according to a report from NanoMarkets.

Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, NICTA, has spun out its fourth technology company in less than six years of operation, following the founding of network monitoring company, Monitoring Division.

Glyn is extending its distribution program with memory and video processing circuits from AverLogic Technologies, a semiconductor company with headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan.

A transceiver integrated on a single chip that operates at 60 GHz on the CMOS process has been announced by NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence.

Richardson Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Crystek Corporation of Fort Myers, FL, to distribute its High Performance Frequency Line.

Telit Wireless Solutions has secured an order worth $10 million over a two-year period from a US customer.

A $9000 Office for Youth grant has enabled 15 South Australian high schools to give students a taste of new-age technology ideas and equipment.

Rittal has announced that it will become the sole Australian and New Zealand distributor for the Lampertz range which includes security protection for IT and data centre locations as well as high-availability systems for data backup.

The Holst Centre presented a plastic 64-bit inductively coupled passive RFID tag operating at 13.56 MHz at the International Solid State Circuit Conference.

Richardson Electronics has signed a North American distribution agreement with EPCOS. EPCOS offers a portfolio of capacitors, thermistors, varistors, surge arrestors, inductors, ferrites and SAW filters which will enhance the company's ability to satisfy the varied and constantly changing needs of its global power conversion customers.