Warning: This article may contain content that is not safe for work! Just recently my significant other was going about his business in the loo when suddenly he felt an ominous movement directly beneath him. Understandably perturbed, he investigated further and discovered a radial crack in the wood composite toilet seat he’d installed just the week before. At this point ...

Electronics Weekly is taking votes for its Product Innovation of the Year - Readers' Choice as part of this year's Elektra Awards

Distributor association Afdec has pegged back its growth forecast for the UK component distribution market

Hermann Hauser, former CEO of Acorn Computers, now boss of venture capital company Amadeus Capital Partners, has found haggling to be an essential part of his working life. He tells a good yarn about how he learnt the art.

Texas-based ARM microcontroller firm Luminary Micro has pulled in $25m of funding towards its bid to take market share from the big players such as NXP, STMicroelectronics, Atmel and OKI. Set up in 2004, Luminary was started specifically to exploit the hard real-time potential of ARM’s Cortex-M3 processor. “The M3 is deterministic, the first ARM core that is,” Luminary founder and ...

The most read Gadget Master entries for the month of August was a mixed bag, ranging from an inventor’s home-made electric go-kart, through to a handy gadget that makes night reading a lot easier, along with a martini mixer still going strong after its debut in Gadget Master more than one month ago. Find out what everyone else is reading. ...

US chip developer Ageia has launched a version of its physics hardware engine for laptops that brings the power consumption down below 10W.

E2v Technologies is in a growth phase with its sights set on specialist semiconductor acquisitions. Company CEO Keith Attwood told Electronics Weekly that for much of the firm’s history it has been locked into a “UK corporate” existence but the buyout from Marconi in 2002 has released a company with massive growth potential. E2v is celebrating its 60 years in ...

Samsung comes under pressure to reveal more details of the reason for the power outage which caused a production glitch at its semiconductor plant in Giheung earlier this month

Rambus have been such clots that it’s hard to feel sorry for them now that the EC is bringing its great clunking hammer to crush this little, but irritating, nut.