20 November 2002: Feature Articles

• Season's greetings
• SIA projects double-digit growth for global semiconductor sales
• CME gets Advantech agency
• Microsoft technology powers navigation feature in BMW 7 Series
• Ultra wideband (UWB) community must standardise technology and its message - for it to thrive

6 November 2002: Feature Articles

• SANAS signs the ILAC Arrangement
• Contract to develop OLED-based 'Universal Communication Device'
• Crabtree wins an SABS design award
• Trolleyponder protocol patents allowed by EU and US authorities
• Mini-circuits invests $110m to expand Malaysia plant
• Plastic shows promise for spintronics

23 October 2002: Feature Articles

• Slow adoption of wireless data services troubles service providers
• Net-generation youth initiative winners announced
• Report looks at the prospects for the convergence of mobile and Internet technologies and 3G take-up

9 October 2002: Feature Articles

• New hi-tech development organisation launched
• New Blue IQ business event for 2003 to attract investors
• Programmable device exhibition

25 September 2002: Feature Articles

• SATNAC 2002 - Solving the 'digital divide'
• Noninvasive technology can read closed books
• Instant digital faces set for cellphones too
• Security scenarios in embedded design
• Soft multipliers increase DSP performance five-fold

10 September 2002: Feature Articles

• Improving measurement for the manufacturing industry
• Tel.Com Africa 2002: Africa's premier international telecommunications event
• 3D 'chip-sandwich integration technology offers way out of wiring crisis
• Beamer me up Scotty - well ... not quite
• Eonic Solutions and Parsec sign mutual VAR agreement

28 August 2002: Feature Articles

• Benefits of lightning-fast timing analysis
• Microchip Technology - Summer School 2002
• Tuks professor elected to the IFAC council
• Turbine optimises wind energy capture

14 August 2002: Feature Articles

• 3M announces telecommunications deal with Malesela
• Telecom applications tested from 20 km high stratospheric platform
• Webb supplies communications system to hospital in Gambia
• AAD appointed as distributor for Sony Ericsson GSM modules
• Data I/O celebrates 30 years in device programming

31 July 2002: Feature Articles

• Fighting the brain drain
• Innovative SA company invents tunnel/mine antenna range
• Parsec - your electronic engineering solutions provider
• Defence industry seminar showed ground-breaking work
• World's first 100 million voxel volumetric 3D display

17 July 2002: Feature Articles

• Altera and EBV celebrate expanded distribution agreement
• GSM system supplied to Tanzanian mine
• Parsec sells Altera agency to EBV-Electrolink
• High-temperature electronics heats up
• Residential Telkom subscribers 'trigger-happy'
• University team reaches quarter-finals of the 2002 Robot Soccer World Cup

3 July 2002: Feature Articles

• Technology in emerging markets
• Dartcom upgrades existing fibre assembly lab with the latest high-tech equipment
• EBV-Elektronik named European Distributor of the Year 2001
• Grintek Telecom wins top award from Telkom
• Dynamic Cables shows its mettle with unique new fibre-optic laboratory
• Name change for test and measurement giant
• Poynting develops antennas for transponder landing systems
• The future for data communication is wireless

19 June 2002: Feature Articles

• Future engineers see IST Group in action
• Gauteng set to become world-class IT destination
• Current setbacks aside, RFID will revolutionise verticals, says ABI
• Testerion installs R3m Fuji SMD placement line

5 June 2002: Feature Articles

• ICT for all: Attainable aspiration or pipe dream?
• THRIP boosts SA industry and economy
• DSPs/MPUs for base stations to be the 'Paul Revere' of wireless revolution
• HIV/AIDS educational tool developed at university
• Specialist world can expect an upturn after November’s electronica
• Ultra-capacitors help solve power problems in professional cameras
• Current Automation - power solution providers
• Long-lasting lithiums

22 May 2002: Feature Articles

• EBV-Electrolink adds Altera Corporation to its semiconductor portfolio
• Chinese delegation visits South Africa
• Company formed to open up communication links in Africa
• Microsoft appoints Arrow Altech as embedded distributor
• ADEC hosts breakfast at the Hilton
• Bluetooth for the new user
• Shaking up the world of virus detection
• Tablet PC design
• The 'robot journalist'
• The Acterna range of telecommunication test solutions finds a permanent home with Grintek Telecom
• The networked home - big consumer numbers, neat wireless technologies; but do we want it?

8 May 2002: Feature Articles

• Nexgen, Fibreplus merge to address public sector opportunities
• New research highlights critical factors facing UK design engineers
• No-coil transformer inventor seeks partners
• 'Mighty F-350 Tonka' uses Osram's advanced LED illumination
• ASIC market takes a turn for the better in 2002
• Telecommunications boom said to await Africa

24 April 2002: Feature Articles

• Inflatable speaker company set for expansion
• Motorola Support Centre opens doors to Middle East, Africa
• PC users will want greater value for money - not faster PCs
• Piezo stack technology helps lower fuel consumption
• Why not all transient voltage surge suppressors are the same

10 April 2002: Feature Articles

• Sapphire chip linked by light
• Spescom MeasureGraph welcomes Inet Technologies partnership
• Through-glass touch technology allows design freedom

27 March 2002: Feature Articles

• Erlang gets exclusive Africa-wide distribution rights from Bird Technologies Group
• Savvy designers must know whether to choose optical, capacitive, or transformer-based interfacing to the telephone network
• World's first biochip with integrated evaluation electronics
• Global standards for automatically switched optical networks enable new market services
• Increasing demand for round-the-clock Internet connectivity
• PC-based control and analysis courses very successful

13 March 2002: Feature Articles

• Ball boys meet their match
• Constantia breathes new life into local telephone manufacturing and repair
• Craig Barrett - Technology innovation leads to economic growth

27 February 2002: Feature Articles

• ASIC Design Services joins VariCore Design Alliance along with five other international companies
• Central Circuits for fast turnaround on high-tech PCBs
• Elprom receives award
• Ethernet over copper for broadband - new standard
• Innovative personal display system
• Leading lingerie e-tailer uses RFID technology in efficient e-fulfilment solution
• Prism to deliver cashless fuel purchasing system to Saudi Arabia
• Speedy 'flies' in South Africa
• FireWire storage device packs 1 Gig in a keychain
• Lenslet Labs announces new optics-based DSP technology
• Natcom Electronics sees continued growth
• New wideband speech coding standard - wireless and wireline speech quality set to improve

13 February 2002: Feature Articles

• Harriet Green promoted to Vice President of Global Strategy and Business Development of Arrow Electronics
• Electronics industry prospects - an industry insight
• New measurement and automation company formed
• 2002: A viewpoint from Memec SA
• Future communications will require ever smaller components
• Personal, pocket-size storage device simplifies data transport
• Prospects for 2002 - thoughts from EBV Electrolink
• Through the looking glass
• World handset radio frequency semiconductor markets poised for robust growth

30 January 2002: Feature Articles

• Parsec wins Export and Technology Excellence Awards
• Executive promotions at Avnet Electronics Marketing, Avnet Computer Marketing
• Fastest CMOS transistors
• RF Design's GPS seminar a great success
• Macroprocessing: the computing design principle for the times
• The wireless Internet - different perceptions, different needs, different devices
• Wearable computer at Consumer Electronics Show