A method of improving battery power and extending its charge holding capacity has been developed by chemists in Britain.

Osram is intensifying its research and development work on organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) with the aim of applying this technology also to general illumination.

Designers of electrical and electronic components have a wide choice of polymers at their disposal.

Cutter Electronics has been appointed the Australian and New Zealand representative for Nuhertz Technologies.

Digi-Key Corporation and Future Designs, Inc (FDI) have signed a global distribution agreement.

Greenpeace has launched the 'Guide to Greener Electronics', which ranks companies on their use of harmful chemicals and electronic waste recycling.

Apple Computer has introduced Boot Camp, public beta software that enables Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP.

To maintain relevant Australian Standards, Standards Australia has embarked on a project to reassess about 2000 standards sectors that are more than 10 years old.

Forty-four suppliers have launched 407 3G/WCDMA devices according to GSA, the global mobile Suppliers Association. It means 221 new products worldwide became available in the past 12 months, representing almost 120% in growth.

Endress+Hauser has opened a Queensland state office at Eight Mile Plains.

Glyn has been appointed as the OEM distributor of power line communication (PLC) solutions provider Yitran for Australia and New Zealand.

Tyco Electronics has announced that it has entered into a royalty-based technology licensing agreement with Astec Power that will allow Astec Power and its affiliates to use patented Tyco Power Systems technology in its current designs for its isolated converter eighth-brick and sixteenth-brick families of power modules.

Detecting residual vapours of chemicals, explosives and biological agents without delving into people’s luggage is the future of airport security with the help of research at Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

A three-year project to develop a reconfigurable photonic ‘firewall on a chip’ has been announced following EU funding of 2 million Euros.

Engineers at the School of Electronics and Computer Science have developed a method to make bipolar transistors that work twice as fast as current devices.