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ACROSSER In-Vehicle PC AR-V5430FL has been selected as a winner of 2010 Taiwan Excellence. The Taiwan Excellence is an award that is delivered by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) to encourage Taiwan industries to upgrade and incorporate innovalue into their products. AR-V5430FL was selected among 717 products submitted from 325 contestants.

Finder has announced the appointment of Bill Killick as Area Sales Manager for the Midlands region. Killick will promote the company's market-leading range of relays and timers and rapidly expanding portfolio of lighting control and energy saving products.

Outram Research Ltd – a specialist manufacturer of leading-edge power quality monitors and analysers – announces that Bluetooth® is available across its entire power quality range, becoming the first manufacturer to enable Bluetooth remote control on all its products. This means that power engineers can control the entire range of Outram’s power quality analysers with one application running on a PDA.

Ikanos Communications, Inc. today announced that that AVM, Germany's leading manufacturer of broadband network equipment, has selected Ikanos' Fusiv® Vx180 communications processor for integration into its most advanced family of multimedia home gateways. The Ikanos-based FRITZ!Box family of home gateways will be deployed in Germany and throughout Europe in IP-enabled multi-service A/VDSL access networks, enabling advanced services such as digit...

Plessey Semiconductors announced today the planned release of a number of innovative semiconductor products including a range of amplifiers, demodulators, synthesisers and high-speed pre-scalers. These products have been designed primarily for the defence and space markets, but are also used in the general communications, automotive and industrial control market segments. The types of end products that will use these components include television...

Lattice Semiconductor announced the formal opening of Lattice SG Pte. Ltd., its new Asia Operations Center. The opening was marked by a formal ribbon cutting ceremony and attended by Lattice executives Bruno Guilmart, President and CEO; Michael G. Potter, Chief Financial Officer; Clay Miller, Chief Information Officer; Byron Milstead, General Counsel; Douglas Hunter, Vice President of Corporate Marketing; and Willy Bowman, Vice President of Worl...

Effective 1 February, 2010, Martin Gundolf has been appointed to the new post of Vice President of Marketing at AEM Technologies Holding AG and will be responsible for the group's worldwide marketing activities. In addition to his expertise in marketing, brand management and communications, the holding will benefit from Mr. Gundolf's multi-faceted experiences from past leading positions in diverse business-to-business industries. His familiarity...

ACAL Technology, and Napier Partnership Ltd, have co- sponsored the media production course at the University of Chichester. The students were tasked to create fun viral videos incorporating silicon chips and other electronic components in order to promote ACAL Technology. Each video was judged on various criteria, including production quality and the likelihood that it would spread virally, by a panel of judges from ACAL and Napier, and the win...

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Fears over the UK’s ability to generate sufficient electricity over the next 10 years were highlighted in the energy regulator Ofgem’s recent Project Discovery consultation. According to Ofgem, the shrinking capacity of the UK electricity market means that we not only face the prospect of insufficient supply to meet demand but energy prices rising by up to 25% by 2020 – and spiking even higher in the interim.