News & Analysis

The latest addition to the Murata Electronics UK team is Stuart Criddle, who joins as Key Account Manager - Distribution.

Cherry Electrical Products UK will be showcasing contact-free Smart card readers at InfoSec 2008, London Olympia, April 22-24. The Smarter Terminal ST-1275 is a combined contact/contact-free chip card reader, offering hassle free access, whilst retaining the ability to maintain security.

Hammond Electronics has appointed Russell Irvine to the new position of European Account Manager. His primary focus will be on building deeper relationships with Hammond's extensive network of UK and European distributors.

A study of technology journalist’s laptop commuting habits has revealed evidence of on-screen data exposure as a recognised security issue. The research, commissioned by diversified technology company 3M, also indicates that companies should not only be doing more to educate their remote workforce about the dangers of information shoulder surfing while travelling, but should also be looking to enforce laptop screen privacy in their security pol...

Silicon Laboratories Inc. today announced that it is now among a select number of companies to become an International Standards Organization/Technical Specification (ISO/TS)-16949:2002 registered corporation demonstrating the company’s achievement in meeting the most stringent quality standards. This achievement brings several benefits to Silicon Labs’ automotive customers including higher confidence in products shipped, simplified manufactu...

Advanced Power Components plc today announces that it has acquired the entire issued share capital of Novacom Microwave Limited (“Novacom”), a distributor and manufacturers’ representative for RF and Microwave frequency electronic components, for a maximum total consideration of approximately £1.6 million cash.

Express Logic, Inc. today announced that the total number of product deployments using its popular ThreadX® RTOS now total in excess of 500 million units. Led by HP’s use of ThreadX in their line of inkjet and All-In-One printers and Broadcom and Marvel’s use of ThreadX in wireless networking SoCs, ThreadX has consistently ranked among the most widely deployed operating systems for embedded devices. Thanks to its royalty-free licensing model...

QuickLogic is partnering with Israel-based avionics technology leader Sital Technology to optimise Sital’s MIL-STD-1553 controller design with QuickLogic’s ViaLink programmable fabric. The MIL-STD-1553 bus is used in military and avionics applications such as head-up displays, radar, and weapons systems. The controller design will become part of QuickLogic’s Proven System Block (PSB) library for military-grade solutions using the PolarPro...

Cherry Electrical Products UK is to debut a new low cost smart card reader with USB interface at InfoSec 2008, London Olympia, April 22-24. The SmarterTerminal ST-1210V presents the very latest innovation providing the ability for one-handed operation through its functional design and stable construction.

AWS Group has been confirmed as the leading supplier in the SBAC’s SC21 change program by Phil Curnock, the SBAC’s SC21 project manager. SC21 is designed to accelerate the competitiveness of the UK’s Aerospace & Defence industry by raising the performance of its supply chains. AWS is sponsored by General Dynamics UK (GDUK), a significant customer.