Electronics news digest 20 April 2005, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa
Savings on monthly phone bills of up to 40% on cellular calls, up to 70% on SMSs and up to 70% on international calls can be achieved using a new locally-developed telephone, claims ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 6 April 2005, News, Electronic News Digest Southern AfricaTrolley Scan has delivered the RFID component of a 1000 vehicle access control system to a partner in Bulgaria. The system will monitor and control 10 vehicle access points, it announced. ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 23 March 2005, News, Electronic News Digest Southern AfricaQualcomm and Ericsson have announced that they are jointly supporting CDMA technical trials in South Africa by demonstrating the benefits of CDMA2000 and CDMA2000 1xEV-DO wireless services ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 9 March 2005, News, Electronic News Digest Southern AfricaThe Communications Users Association of South Africa's Ray Webber welcomed Telkom's announcement that they will be reducing the cost of their broadband products but suggests that the ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 23 February 2005, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa The new authorised Fluke distributor in southern Africa, Electest Distribution, has announced that it will now be trading as Comtest. Comtest is the only officially authorised Fluke Partner ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 9 February 2005, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa The first call for papers to be presented at AMSATCON 2005, the annual Amateur Radio Satellite Conference, hosted by the Southern African Amateur Radio Satellite Association (SA AMSAT) ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 26 January 2005, News, Electronic News Digest Southern AfricaAvitronics, a South African company jointly owned by Grintek and Saab, has successfully concluded a contract in excess of R7m with Abu Dhabi Shipbuilding. The contract is for the delivery ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 17 November 2004, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa Global trade and trends in the electronics and ICT sectors was the theme of the recent 10th Annual World Electronics Forum (WEF), held this year in Washington DC and attended by Eileen ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 3 November 2004, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa For its interim results Altron announced significant growth of 18% in revenue and 35% in operating income for the six months to 31 August 2004. Altron said the revenue increase from R5 ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 20 October 2004, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa
There are substantial opportunities and economic potential for South Africa in the global electrotechnical arena, according to two newly-released reports on the country's electrotechnical ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 6 October 2004, News, Electronic News Digest Southern AfricaBAE Systems has awarded Denel an export contract worth about R14-million to supply 'layers display and control units' (LDCUs) for incorporation onto a BAE Systems new light field artillery ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 22 September 2004, News, Electronic News Digest Southern AfricaAltech has purchased 50% of the Econet Wireless Group (EWG) for $70m. The transaction will position Altech favourably in the high-growth cellular (GSM) network operator market, it said. ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 8 September 2004, News Southern AfricaVodacom has concluded a framework contract with Siemens as a sole supplier for the construction of Vodacom's UMTS network in South Africa. By 2007, Siemens will upgrade Vodacom's existing ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 25 August 2004, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa
In a bid to stimulate growth and employment in the electronics sector in the KwaZulu-Natal region, an interim association has been formed charged with the task of encouraging players ...