Comindico has been sold to SP Telemedia Ltd. Receivers will be working with SP Telemedia to ensure the smooth transition of the business.

Molex Premise Networks has appointed Hagemeyer Australia as its distributor in Australia.

AVT Services is operating a calibration laboratory for regular calibration and repair of mass flow controllers of all brands.

Autodesk is retiring all AutoCAD 2000i-based products on 15 January 2005.

Brisbane-based B&R Enclosures has won the National Gold Award for Quality.

Ceramic Fuel Cells has established a wholly owned subsidiary, Ceramic Fuel Cells (Europe) Limited, initially headquartered in Britain.

The market demands ever greater miniaturisation in printed circuit boards - as well as an increasing use of flexible circuitry - so the need for improved methods of producing high-resolution PCBs is becoming more important.

Researchers with the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkely Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have shown that for nanocrystals, the doping process in which one type of positively charged atom, or cation, is exchanged for another, takes place at a much faster rate than for crystals of extended size and is fully reversible, something that is virtually forbidden in micro-sized crystals under the same environmental conditions.

An ANU Researcher has been named one of the world's top 100 young innovators by an American technical magazine.

NetComm has formed a dedicated consumer electronics division, branded Banksia Digital, that resurrects an established Australian communications brand. The Banksia company and brand, under then CEO David Stewart, was amalgamated into NetComm in 1997.

A research report providing a description of the major connector initiatives and their impact on technology driving the connector industry has been published by Bishop & Assoc in the US. The aim of the report is to create a resource for understanding the new technologies, their purpose and uniqueness and to provide a basis for determining their viability in an ever-changing world of electronic systems.

The Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (AEEMA) and the South African Electronic Industries Federation (EIF) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to foster collaboration between the two industry associations.

Worldwide semiconductor revenue growth is starting to slow in the second half of 2004. Although the slowing will affect income mainly during the fourth quarter, the second half of 2004 is still generating strong growth of 10% on top of the increase seen in the first six months of the year, according to a newly-revised outlook from iSuppli's Electronic Components Forecast service.

The CSIRO ICT Centre has completed the spin-off of its compound semiconductor technologies to EpiTactix. EpiTactix has secured $5.2 million in start-up funding and support from a syndicate of investors, including the CSIRO and an AusIndustry R&D Start Grant.

Kontron has announced a joint marketing activity with Advantech and Adlink to promote the ETXexpress product brand to the embedded market.