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The National Microelectronics Institute (NMI) has announced the creation of the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) to address the threat of diminishing skills in the UK electronics sector. The foundation aims to increase and sustain the supply of industry-ready graduate engineers and boost career take-up in the sector.

Avalue, the professional e-service platform provider, is introducing a new invention for Digital Signage application, featuring exceptional energy-saving technology and slimmest appearance green product, the MPC-21W3.

The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), one of the UK’s primary knowledge-based networks for Micro and Nanotechnologies, will again be convening the Nano4Life Conference. Nano4Life 2010, organised by the NanoKTN in collaboration with The Wellcome Trust, will explore the key areas within the life sciences where nanotechnology offers the opportunity to advance healthcare and improve product discovery and development.

congatec AG has announced that Christian Eder (43) will be taking on the position of Sales Manager EMEA with immediate effect, as well as continuing to function as Marketing Manager. Christian Eder is one of the 13 former Jumptec employees who founded the company in 2005. Since then he has been responsible for congatec AG’s worldwide marketing.

Atmel today announced that Xirgo Technologies, LLC has selected Atmel's Cortex-M3-based product family for its next-generation enhanced-battery-life asset tracking platform. Xirgo Technologies' existing machine-to-machine communications devices are used by leading companies in automotive insurance, fleet tracking, vehicle financing, and dealer lot inventory verticals. Xirgo is targeting its next-generation platform, designed to address the long b...

Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, announced today that MobileOne (M1), one of the leading mobile communications providers in Singapore, with more than 1.7 million customers, has selected Huawei as the sole provider of an ATCA (Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture) platform based IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) solution to enrich its national broadband ser...

Prysmian SpA signed today a 1.070 million euro long term credit facility with a pool of primary domestic and international banks. The agreement has maturity 31 December 2014 and will be utilized to refinance the company’s existing facilities, including general corporate purposes, at their maturity date on 3 May 2012. The contract is a “forward start agreement” negotiated in advance respect to the date of its utilization.

Lantronix announced the launch of the company’s blog. Immediately accessible at www.lantronix.com/blog, it encourages open and candid exchanges with customers, partners and the greater Lantronix community on a variety of interesting and relevant topics.

A123 Systems (Nasdaq:AONE), a developer and manufacturer of advanced Nanophosphate lithium ion batteries and battery systems, today announced details related to the further expansion of the company's United States manufacturing capacity.

Wind River and Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing today announced the immediate availability of Wind River's VxWorks DO-178B Platform, designed to meet the stringent safety certification requirements of the aerospace and defense industry. The new release of the platform includes complete DO-178B Level A certification evidence for a reference board support package (BSP) for the SVME/DMV-183 single board computer and additional processor su...