Farnell claims it is first European distributor to offer the complete Molex EXTreme Power series, which includes the EXTreme LPHPower, MicroPower and ZPower ranges.

Le Ble D’Or Brewery 5F, No.20,Jingyeh 3rd Road (Miramar Store);Taipei, Taiwan (02) 2175-3739 http://www.lebledor.com.tw/4.html This is another great find by Alan Hutton. Alan writes: “The Le Ble D’Or Brewery can be found inside the Miramar shopping mall in downtown Taipei. Due to strict laws in Taiwan, however, alcohol cannot be consumed in the same place as it is brewed so ...

Freescale Semiconductor hopes to widen the use of its Kinetis range of ARM Cortex-M4-based microcontrollers with a development tool for small form factor designs. As a lower cost alternative to the company’s existing Kinetis development platform, the KwikStik development tool combines a J-Link debug probe, low-power touch sensing, a segment LCD user interface and a suite of development and run-time ...

The British Post Master General was an important figure – a Cabinet Minister and the official guru on communications.

AMD is positioning its x86 processors in the embedded board market, with an design ecosystem similar to that of ARM, writes Richard Wilson.

The government won cautious praise for its approach to net neutrality, otherwise known as the open internet, at a public all-party parliamentary committee debate on Tuesday.

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system (OS) is set to surge to second place in the OS market behind Google's Android by 2015, according to a research firm.

AMD is positioning its x86 processors in the embedded board market, with an design ecosystem similar to that of ARM. AMD’s main interest in the embedded processor market centres a round its Fusion devices and the low power Geode LX800 processor. The LX800 is used in Kontron’s latest Pico-ITX single board computer, the KTLX800/pITX. The Geode LX800 is a sub-1W ...

Cambridge’s optical plastics start-ups have not met with unqualified success, so the progress of Eight19 will be watched with interest.

VTI Technologies, the Finnish MEMS specialist, is moving into the consumer market, the company’s co-founder and general manager, Scott Smyser, told the Globalpress Summit Conference in Santa Cruz today.