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.

Emerson Network Power has launched an in-house apprentice program in Australia to overcome the lack of skills in its core business areas.

Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) has entered into a partnership with IMEC to perform research and development for the sub-32-nm memory process generations.

Nu Horizons Electronics Corp has expanded its distribution agreement with Finisar Corporation into Australia and New Zealand. Nu Horizons previously distributed Finisar's products throughout North America.

Altium Limited, a Sydney-based Australian electronics design software company, is working with the University of New South Wales Gifted Education Research Resource and Information Centre (GERRIC) to introduce high school students to the future of electronics design.

Triple Point Calibrations has moved to new premises at 190 Wright Street, Adelaide.

National Instruments and Anritsu Company have entered into a joint agreement to develop LabVIEW Plug and Play and LabWindows/CVI instrument drivers for Anritsu test instruments.

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany in Albany, NY and IMEC in Leuven, Belgium have announced plans to jointly perform extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) experiments in order to accelerate the introduction of EUVL into manufacturing.

Dalsa has announced that its IPD Vision Appliance products have been approved for participation in the Rockwell Automation Encompass Program.

While there is a high level of awareness of and interest in VoIP services among Australian consumers, take-up is still comparatively low, according to research released by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).