ADC Krone Australia has won a three-year contract to assist in supplying Telstra's Customer Access and Inter Exchange Network.

Farnell InOne, international distributor of electronic and industrial components, issued a warning at the launch of its new catalogue of RoHS-compliant products, alerting the electronics industry to possible mayhem if distributors don't take the lead in issuing new part numbers for compliant stock.

NewTek Instruments has been appointed Australian distributors of Corning Cable Systems' Landscape solutions optical test equipment products.

Acqiris has appointed Trio Test and Measurement Solutions to resell its products. Under the non-exclusive agreement Trio will distribute the Swiss-based Acqiris' products, throughout Australia from its sales offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

A high-capacity chip under development is claimed to have the potential to do away with many of the identity documents, credit cards and passwords people have to use each day. The IST program-funded project SM-PAYSOC has created a working prototype of the chip packaged in a smartcard, which in the future could also be incorporated into a USB token or a SIM card.

NEC has entrusted ARM technology experts BlueWater Systems with the development of a modern replacement for the ageing and bulky third-party magnetic tape units (MTUs) used within its NEAX telephone exchanges.

Soanar and Infineon Technologies have mutually agreed to end their distribution agreement in Australia and New Zealand at the end of December. After two years working together both companies have decided to pursue other interests.

A team of University of California scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed what it claims is the first inorganic, multi-colour light-emitting diodes based on colloidal quantum dots encapsulated in a gallium nitride semiconductor.

A Victorian government funded electronics industry capability mission to North Asia last year has generated almost $60 million in actual and anticipated sales over three years, according to the government.

Innovec Controls, based in St Leonards NSW, has achieved quality accreditation to ISO 9001:2000 for the design and manufacture of electronic equipment for the process control industry.

NewTek Instruments has been appointed distributors for Xantrex Technology, a power electronics company.

Arrow Asia Pacific has acquired the component distribution business of Connektron.

The University of Queensland is set to enhance its position as a centre for magnetic resonance research with the establishment of the Queensland Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Network (QNN).

Mediaware, an Australian de-veloper of digital video process-ing systems for the international defence sector, has been selected to receive an Australian Defence Capability and Technology Demonstrator (CTD) project.

Anritsu has received the Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Line Strategy Leadership in the combined markets for signal generators, vector network analysers and spectrum analysers. The award recognises that the company "demonstrated the most insight into customer needs and product demands" and met stringent criteria established by Frost & Sullivan's analyst team.