The intellectual property assets of display firm Printable Field Emitters (PFE) has been bought by a consortium of its founders, former directors and other stakeholders using personal funds. When the firm went into administration, “we were quite advanced with an Asian company and starting the technology transfer process”, Richard Tuck told Electronics Weekly. “The intention is to continue this [the ...

US government involvement in encryption and its desire to control and weaken existing encryption technologies has created a huge...

Farnell bought US catalogue specialist Premier and its share price promptly fell ten per cent, but Farnell knows what this...

Headlines in wireless are dominated by standards. GSM, DECT, Bluetooth, 802.11, ZigBee, and WiMAX have evolved – or are still evolving – through meetings and international committees, as companies and engineers try to influence the final form of the technology. Invariably, it seems, these standards take a long time to finalise, and, once the committee process has run its course, ...

Interconnect manufacturer Harwin has signed a distribution agreement with Charcroft Electronics as part of a plan to increase its presence in the defence, aerospace and similar sectors. Charcroft launched a connector division late last year, and Harwin is third manufacturer to appoint the Wales-based firm as a franchised distributor. The first two appointments were Wearnes Cambion and Vitelec. “Harwin has ...

SuperH, the microprocessor IP firm, has strongly denied a claim it is closing its doors and transferring its assets back to parent firms Renesas Technology and STMicroelectronics. Initial reports on the closure of SuperH came from analyst Jim Turley, who said: “SuperH has halted all licensing activity, folded its tent, and will merge back into the parent company whence it ...

An unusual electrode array, known as a tongue display unit, will result in a seeing aid for the blind. The device will follow a significant neuroscience discovery made by Professor Maurice Ptito of Université de Montréal in Canada when using a 12×12 contact array. Using the 12×12 array to produce images on the tongue and a non-invasive medical scanner, he ...

Microsoft has launched version five of Windows CE, with wider access to the operating system’s source code. Licensees will now gain access to around 2.5 million lines of code, and will be able to create their own version of the OS. “The derivatives programme allows OEMs and manufacturers to modify code and ship derivatives based on that code,” said Hardy ...

Visit any hospital nowadays and you will see the signs requesting that you turn off your mobile phone to prevent interference with electrical equipment, such as life support machines. Anyone unfortunate enough to need the services of such equipment will be comforted that such notices are there and, hopefully, observed. But the proliferation of wireless devices with legitimate uses in ...

The latest knight to ride for the BT round table, Sir Peter Bonfield, will be looking to bring the competitive skills that he...