Electronics Today

EXECUTIVE FORUM
Shiv Nadar conferred with Padma Bhushan award
Sunil Mittal inducted into ITU Telecom Board
Lenovo India appoints Gill as Executive Director- Relational Business
Motorola names former AT&T CEO as Chairman
Jaswinder Ahuja, is ISA Chairman for 200 – 09
Shrinivas Chebbi CGM APC

TRENDS
Better heat-to-electricity from bulk alloys
Laser designation of Objects for mobile manipulation
Low-power lasers drive biochips
Matter wave bending helps develop instruments
Organic transistors manufactured using inkjet technology
Stretchable and Foldable Silicon Integrated Circuits
New technology makes 3-D imaging quicker, easier
Information theory boosts clustering
Magnetic levitation gives computer users sense of touch
Feasibility of a quantum channel between Space and Earth
Semiconductor wire built into an optical fiber
Record for creating high-frequency microresonator

TECHMARCH
Wearable flexible silicon circuits

SPECIAL REPORT
Metamaterials developments and applications

SPECIAL ARTICLE
Breakthrough development of manufactured solar cells by inkjet printing

SMARTCARDS TODAY

India set to launch indigenous IndiaPay credit card
European banks moot pan - European card network
India world’s 2nd largest mobile market
Delhi Metro and Citibank launch co-branded Card
Multipurpose smart cards to be issued
to the poor in Delhi
RBI report moots disbursement by smart cards
UGC issues smart cards to student community
Global- Platform unveils specs for security management
Multi-function smartcard for travel on suburban
trains and bus launched in Mumbai
Smart card DL with insurance cover
RBI guidelines for mobile-banking
RBI service of Indo-Nepal remittances
Expressway to have smart card based toll
collection system
Bangalore Metro to launch AFC system
Delhi to issue multipurpose smart cards
Smart card based driving licences for Cheenai
National IDs driving biometrics market growth in APAC
China’s RFID market to hit $1.4b: ABI
Twelve new recent biometric standards enhance
facial imaging : a review publication
Wafer-thin Smart DisplayCard with PKI chip
RFID used for intelligent wine bottling in France
Biometric ID authentication and access control for ports
                               

RFID Briefings

Contactless sensor cars to keep high speed trains on track
RFID UHF Gen2 transponder for magnetic tape cartridges
World’s largest RFID-enabled manufacturing initiative
Nordic ID breaks world records in mobile RFID systems
RSA ties up with Innovative Card Technologies
Inmate tracking system installed in Australian jails
DePuy Orthopaedics implements RFID technology
New class of RFID Systems for supply chain announced
RFID can save $700 million in lost luggage
Item-level tag, inlay based on near-field, far-field techs
RFID apps at hypermarket stores

RFID Products

UHF RFID reader IC claims ‘lowest’ power draw, BOM
IDENTEC introduces Reefer Tag - Mark IT.
Biometric chipset promises high performance
RFID industry’s first smart wireless sticker
New high-performance IC for passive RFID tags
Intelleflex FOB tag for asset tracking applications
New high frequency RFID reader module
KSW Microtec tracks, traces and manages assets
Proprietary ultrasound identification RTLS platform

Smart Products
VASCO launches Identikey Server 3.0
BC-alpha² — top speed card personalisation
Blue Bamboo pocket POS
Solution using a small, robust handheld smartcard-reader
VeriFone’s PAYware PC for next-gen payment accept
First Data introduces FD50 terminal

Smart Briefings
Mobile banking services to reach 800m by 2011
RBI guidelines for mobile payments soon
Biometrics attendance at Chandigarh RLA
ICICI awards ATM software contract to a Lithuanian company
ATVMs at all Chennai suburban stations soon
TCS to provide e-signature platform to Prudential
RBI to use smart card for financial inclusion
Javelin cautions about consumer concerns on m-Payments
Celcom ties up with Paybox for m-Payments
EU funds fingerprint ID security project
Canadian Moneris buys Keycorp Canada
VeriFone says system keeps breached data safe
Eurosmart signs with SCS Cluster

EXECUTIVE FORUM
Dr. Somasegar wins Asian American Engineer of the Year Award
Dr. Rajeev Rastogi is Head, Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore
Ahmed Mahmoud is CIO, AMD
Sangita Singh honoured
Ganesh Natarajan is Nasscom’s new Chairman

TRENDS
GPS gives cell phones street credentials
Tabletop antenna calibration to 110GHz
Progress in CNT-enhanced conducting polymers
Tiny device crunches big numbers
Nanowires allow ‘power dressing’
CMOS crash-avoidance chip developed
Silicon carbide transistors boost inverter efficiency
Coating electrical contacts with organic semiconductor film
Carbon nanotube breakthrough by Fujitsu
Nanoscale metal-to-insulation transition possible
Electrospray research yields practical results
An updatable holographic three-dimensional display

TECHMARCH
Extreme ultraviolet lithography

SPECIAL REPORT
Personalised medical monitoring

SPECIAL ARTICLE
Pioneering world’s first production of rollable displays
heralds mobile revolution

Corporate briefings
No more USO fund for BSNL
MTNL launches iPTV service
Kolkata to have semiconductor research centre
Tata Tele to sell 49% stake in tower biz
Ramco Systems, NIIT in pact
Tata Communications partners Telsima
Huawei deploys IP CDMA network in India
France’s TES expands multimedia workforce in India
BEL ties up with three Israeli companies
Wipro opens global service centre in Kuala Lumpur
India Design Centre in Kolkata attracts IBM
MS India opens lab at IIT Madras
Gartner upbeat on Indian IT growth
Sanyo India sets Rs. 1.5 billion sales target
Moser Baer to invest $1.5 b in thin film unit
Axiom opens Bangalore unit
Tundra Semiconductor expanding design centre

DESIGNER’S CORNER
NXP introduces four 32bit ARM9 MCUs
Amtel’s AVR MCUs reduces system cost
Renesas commercialises Tiny Series MCU
Infineon unveils next-gen powertrain MCUs
ST introduces Bluetooth/FM radio combo
Temperature switch operates over ‘largest’ voltage range
MOSFET/Schottky device up DC/DC converter efficiency
High power wire-wound resistors

SMARTCARDS TODAY

Future Group and Cisco in talks for retail RFID
project in India
Sandeep Sethi is no more
Asim Ghosh, new COAI Chairman
Sunil Goyal is CEO, Bharti Teletech
Rollout of smart card based RSBY starts
Bartronics secures US patent for its RFID wristband
YES Bank launches mobile payments
Electronic stamping facility in Karnataka
Wafer-thin display card with PKI chip
ePassport development at IIT-Kanpur
Maharashtra to issue biometric ration cards
Automated parking machines in Hyderabad
MNIC national rollout planned from 2011
SBI smart card solutions for Sikkim
Zicom’s JV with CNA group
New gen. NFC retail solution from Oberthur, Airtag
SCM Microsystems unveils new NFC reader
RFID monitors blood transfusion process
Global GSM growth to slow in 2008
Biometrics bank accounts for diamond workers
Mobily opens tech centre in India

RFID Briefings

Conversion of Paris library branches to RFID
UHF RFID tyre tag and rubber patch technology combined
HP extends RFID solution for retail in India
IBM unveils Smart retail innovations in India
RFID inlay design and low-volume production service
TAGSYS, Sirit announce RFID technology partnership
Leadership for hospital asset and patient tracking
American national animal identification system
Tracking trucks and other mobile assets throughout Africa
Printed RFID to achieve accepted commercial use by 2010

RFID Products

Personal tracking device guides you to lost items
TDC-industry-leading RFID reader
UPM Raflatac Hammer RFID tag for near-metal tagging
Advanced RFID memory windshield inlay launched
Desktop readers for 125kHz and 13.56 MHz systems
RFID tag chips with industry-leading performance
SmartMark™: pipeline RFID tags
Bielomatik transponder and label attaching machine
Intermec large rigid tags: passive RFID tags

Smart Products
New access control cards available from Electro-Com
Cryptomathic’s key management system
Verifone announces PCI-PED approved MX860
New Evolis travel case — plastic card printing on-the-go
USB2.0 fingerprint reader gets FIPS 201/PIV certification
New ACR122 Octopus Card reader
Fingerprint recognition system offers network control of
security access applications
Epson puts smartcard reader on laser printer

Smart Briefings
World’s first smartcard profile interoperability solution
Corporation Bank’s mobile banking facility
RBI modifies fund transfer system
RBI: high value payments only thru e-transfer
NIST asked to develop Biometrics accreditation BLAP
Airtel launches mobile payment solutions
Otto Kuennecke awarded passport project in Korea
Bundesdruckerei develops forgery-resistant high-security cards
Muehlbauer reveals on-the-road biometric capture
European eGovernment project FASTeTEN goes live
Insurance with new smart cards in India

EXECUTIVE FORUM
M. Natarajan awarded CV Raman Birth Centenary Award
Dr. A. Sivathanu Pillai conferred Nayudamma Award for 2007
Sunil Mittal gets GSM Award
Bharadwaj is Canon’s Senior VP
Rich Beyer named CEO of Freescale, replacing Michel Mayer

TRENDS
Cheaper solar panels, sensor nets, and flat-screen TVs
Single-chip CMOS radar camera
Super-charging lithium batteries triple energy storage
Breakthrough in single-molecule sensing
Capacity of phase-change memory doubled
TV for the visually impaired
Derivation of a 3D acoustic cloaking shell
The promise of piezoelectric fibre pairs
Developing cyber technology to find fraudsters
Silicon nanowires get a charge from heat
Nanotech impacts health and environment
Clothes that clean themselves

TECHMARCH
Biomedical electronics advancements

SPECIAL REPORT
Semiconductor memory technologies

SPECIAL ARTICLE
Secure materials and holography

SMARTCARDS TODAY

Budget proposals push Smart Card, RFID
and Biometrics usage in India manifold
India’s first Contactless Smartcard Facility opened
Tracking of fish by using RFID technology
Growing use of cash cards for train booking
ETSI approves NFC standard for mobiles
SBI to start PoS terminals business from next fiscal
ICICI Prudential to use biometric smart cards
for rural offices
NXP to boost Indian manufacturing ecosystem
DEN goes for NDS solutions to protect
new digital service
India’s first EMV standard based platinum credit card
Fingerprint mobile phone market grew
10 times in 2007
Biometrics to kill airport queues and hassles
Four Biometric training modules
developed by Kent university, UK
Atmel ties up with Phoenix for next-gen. PC solutions
Avery Dennison opens plant in Pune
Renesas unveils multi-function smartcards for
financial and ID applications
First e-business application
for the European citizen card
                               

RFID Briefings

Infronics Systems opens new centre
Collaborative portal for managing inbound freight
First Wi-Fi / Ultra Wideband Tracking system
Real time tracking of rack-level assets
Medical centre to utilise RFID from mobile aspects
Automating distribution with full-scale RFID solutions
Battery-based RFID asset optimisation solution
Serialisation tech to meet e-Pedigree mandate
The only sterilisable active RFID RTLS asset tag
KSW Microtec credit card inlays come in sheet format

RFID Products

Hammer RFID tag for near-metal tagging
iDTRONIC compact flash RFID reader 14443 A/B
SmartMark™: SnapAround™ RFID tags
SATO LM408/412e: thermal printers
RFID Conveyor Tunnels
MIKOH Smart&Secure: retail RFID tag
Intermec EasyCoder PF2i : RFID baggage tag printer
Omni-ID Max: long-range passive UHF RFID tag
Advanced ID Corp. PR500BT: UHF RFID reader
RF-LoopTag® from bielomatik
RFID asset tracking solution: Asset Tracking

Smart Products
New M4200 mobile series of payment terminals
CEM unveils new S610 series of IP card readers
Smart card connectors protect against theft
Low-cost expansion of access control features
Easy-to-integrate kiosk card printer from Datacard
ViVOtech reader certified for PayPass rollout
Reader IC to empower portable UHF RFID readers
Biometric card stores personal info, cash
Precise 100 XS fingerprint reader

Smart Briefings
Cross Match acquires Labcal Technologies Inc.
NFC trials under GSMA’s Pay-Buy-Mobile Initiative
Consumer perceptions favour fingerprint sensors
Wavecom, Ingenico join for wireless e-Payments
PayPal agrees to acquire Fraud Sciences Ltd.
Assa Abloy agrees to acquire Simons-Voss
Gemalto’s personalisation centre in Poland
Oberthur licensed to manufacture clear cards
G&D: Internet security through smart card
Biometric cards to record cadets’ presence
New facial recognition system breakthrough
Palm vein scanning, more accurate biometrics tech

EXECUTIVE FORUM
Templeton becomes TI Chairman
Gavrielov is Xilinx President
Sameer Nagpal is VP at Zicom
Surendra Singh  is  Websense Director
Sudip Nandy, CEO,  Telecom at Wipro
B.P. Gupta is ITI Finance Director

TRENDS
CAD-CAM applied to atomic force microscope
Quantum order for quantum super computers
Nano-sized voltmeter measures electric fields
Uniquely sandwiched materials coax light
Making tomorrow’s computers from a pencil trace
High Q nanowires may be practical oscillators
Fastest optical shutter without heating or cooling
Researchers develop low-cost auto radar chip
Cu pairs found in insulators and in superconductors
New FETs with thin films of carbon 60
Photonic gel crystals to reflect multi-coloured lights
Molecular walker takes baby steps                                                

TECHMARCH
Infrared and night vision technology

SPECIAL REPORT
Programmable logic design methodology

SPECIAL ARTICLE
Technology of placing 01005 Components*

Infosys establishes dedicated Microsoft facility
Siemens PLM expands Pune development centre
Sahara Computers unit in Uttarakhand   
Alcatel wins FLAG undersea cable contract
Bosch invests in fuel efficiency apps

Corporate briefings
Sun’s Java platform to support Itanium 2 systems
ABB plans major expansion in India
HP, BITS Pilani tie-up for executive education
Samsung India rolls out 10 millionth CTV
Origin Infosys bags Rs. 80-cr Elcot order 
MindTree completes purchase of TES PV
IBM employee base in India hits 73,000
Tulip bags Assam network project
Nasscom, CBI Netherlands tie-up
Satyam unveils upgraded STB framework
Polycom sets up India development centre
Huawei’s support to MTNL network
California Micro Devices sets up India design centre 
IBM wins $150-m Bharti Airtel contract
AMD opens new R&D facility in India
Mentor Graphics expands India operations
Telelogic signs $3.2 m defence deal
Vodafone Essar in outsourcing deal with IBM
DESIGNER’S CORNER
Agilent coaxial PIN diode switch has high isolation
Atmel GUI MCU target ‘smart’ control panel apps
MindTree delivers Blackfin-based DVR platform
ST releases flexible, cost-saving controller
Freescale ‘motherboard-on-chip’ device
TI boost converter drives multiple ultrabright LEDs
Infineon touts ‘smallest’ TVS diodes
Optical amplifier targets 100 Gbits/s networks
A unique textile, flexible connection for power, data and heat  

DESIGNER’S CORNER

Freescale updates ColdFire portfolio with 10 MCUs                              
Atmel CAP architecture aims at emerging mid-volume markets         
NXP claims largest ARM MCU portfolio                                                    
LED floodlight, indoor/outdoor bulb offers energy savings                   
ST unveils energy-metering chips                                                            
Solid-state relay                                                                                             
Micro-USB connector for device miniaturisation 
Precision op amps suit low-frequency sensor apps

PRODUCT REVIEW
Scientech Technologies presents
Agilent  automates UMTS cellular mobile stress test
e Device BridgeD130 plugs dial-up modem to GPRS network
B&K Precision’s handheld spectrum analyser works to 3.3 GHz 
Boonton debuts 7.5-GHz handheld spectrumanalyzer
Siemens launches wave radar level transmitters             

SMARTCARDS TODAY

GlobalPlatform unveils Confidential Card Content
RFID markets to grow at 21%annuaiiy: ABI
Eurosmart: 2008 shipments to reach 4 billion
EU resident permit to be more secure
Smart card to drive rural remittances
Pilot on Mobile optical funds transfer
FINO,IFC tieup for microfinance institutions
Renesas develops enhanced performance 16-Bit MCUs
Ericsson bags Idea Cellular contract
SWIFT has now direct presence in India
Cosmos Bank ties-up with PayMate for mobile payment solutions
Infineon- Intel tie-up to develop highdensity SIM
Pakistan to issue smart driving licences
NCR bags orders for automating petrol stations
ISO standard for biometric authentication
CCIL- DTCC sign Info sharing and collaboration pact                                

RFID Briefings

New RFID tag to trace wooden assets
US  NISO issues RFID best practices document
SmartMark harsh environment tags
World’s largest item-level RFID retail deployment
Most reliable RFID solution in automatic protection of assets
Item-level RFID solution to track footwear

RFID Products

64Kbyte FRAM RFID tag debuts for aviation
Extended capability RFID products with badge tag
New IP30 handheld RFID reader for mobile computers
New proficient products in IAITO’s UHF Range Portfolio
UHF RFID reader with advanced global frequency range
Industry’s first UHF RFID Gen 2 Card Printer/Encoder
Advanced ID Corporation PR500BT: UHF RFID Reader

Smart Products
World’s first NFC card reader compliant to CCID standard
Pixelplus SoC suits biometric systems
Bell ID launches stand-alone EMV scripting product
Bell ID launches stand-alone EMV scripting product
Consumer Biometric Product Line is fingerprint sensor
PCI-PED pinpad powered by USIP MICROCONTROLLER
Zicom’s exclusive door lock - “Zicom Fingerprint Lock”
Broad range of access control applications from HID
Keywatcher electronic key management system from KSQ

Smart Briefings
F&S Award for Solus Software
BMC plans use of smart card property tax payers
Datacard group unveils contactless smart card coupler
Biometrics Corp. and VALID join forces
Infineon ships one billionth RF transceiver
Indian school students set to get smart health cards
Smart cards across multiple security applications
ICICI Bank introduces mobile banking application
Smart ID cards for expatriates by year-end
Experian, Microsoft develop identity management service
ESIC plans smart card for members
US football team kick off new infrastructure with RFID
e-signature keys approved in Bahrain

EXECUTIVE FORUM
Brown is Motorola CEO
BEL gets three new executive directore
Pitroda gets prestigious industry leader award12
Satyam chief bags E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Anil Sethi is Microsoft India Director for OEM biz

TRENDS
Nanomechanical devices move to semiconductor
Si nanowires as solar cells and nano power sources
Modelling for ferroelectric computer memory 
Two giant steps in quantum computing
Real-time diagnostics and on-site repair  
Improved e-jet printing provides higher resolution 
Nanomagnets could replace semiconductors
Wireless sensors limit earthquake damage
Single artificial-atom lasing demonstrated
Power thru harvesting energy from the environment                          

TECHMARCH
Electronic warfare advancements


TECHNEWS
Multiple projects looking out for CMOS replacement
Network on chip system replaces on-chip bus  
Russia reinvigorates semiconductor manufacturing capabilities 
IBM detects CNT vibrations using Raman spectroscopy
World’s first 30nm-class 64 Gigabit NAND flash
PVD system for flat panel display mfg. 
Imaging, telemedicine help physicians save lives  
NGF plan seeks reduced first wafer delay
NetLogic uses TSMC half-node process

SPECIAL REPORT
World’s first all-printed thin-film-transistor will lead to low-cost electronic devices 

SPECIAL ARTICLE
Hafnium – evolution in chip fabrication

AROUND THE CIRCUIT AND WITHIN
India faces gigantic challenge of e-waste
ITU adds WiMAX in 3G standard suite
ADB aid for providing e-governance in Assam
ISRO ready with plans to set up colony on moon
Karnataka top software exporting state in 2006-07: ESC
DIT supports Nasscom’s  plea for extension STP sops

CORPORATE WINDOW

Applied Materials opens country’s first nano
 manufacturing lab at IIT, Bombay
Satyam, Arvato systems tie-up
Tektronix Asia Meet held at Bangalore
MindTree buys French chip design company
Moser Baer to set up large grid-connected Solar farm

Wipro signs pact with BAE Systems
ERNI establishes sales presence in India
BSNL launches new global calling cards
IBS solution for Nippon Airways 
Hitachi inaugurates business support centre in India
Dhanus Tech launches FleeTrac
CE Info launches car GPS device
Vitesse Semiconductor expanding operations
EDS Academy plans to train foreign graduates
GM, IIT-Kharagpur to do joint research
Dell to move hardware R&D unit out of India

DESIGNER’S CORNER
Three stereo audio codecs
Beta’s RGB LED Strip   
Alps HSCD Series Geo-magnetic sensor developed
Motorised potentiometer 
Renesas unveils single-chip LSI for LCD DTVs
Extending battery life in handheld multimedia apps
Epcos capacitors for Hybrid drives

PRODUCT REVIEW
R&S unveils non-signalling tester for RF devices
Juki FX-1R high-speed chip shooter
NI LabVIEW 8.5
Card features up to 4 giga samples memory
Agilent radio  network analysis tool for 3G
Keithley debuts system switch multimeter
ERNI evaluation kit
Communication analysers for TD-SCDMA testing
WiMAX manufacturing test system
Agilent 8Gbps fibre channel tester

SMARTCARDS TODAY

Maharashtra to introduce smart card and
RFID for sugarcane cultivators
IBA for India Pay - an indigenous payment network
IBM unveils retail solutions for India
AP to introduce smart cards for the poor
NFC services tested on French railways
Document reader from Cross Match
Liberty Alliance Identity Assurance Framework
SBI invites bids for debit card solutions
Moversa to provide contactless solutions
SA banks unite to combat card frauds
PNB to set up 50,000 smart kiosks
Singapore’s NFC phone trial
RFID applications in China growing rapidly
Malaysian initiative towards e-governance
Biometric passports with empty chips
Alex Mandl is Chairman of Gemalto                       
Ivan Kuznetsov to lead Russian mobile payments
development task force
David Orme is Bell ID CEO
Fleutelot SMS head at Atmel
Voice biometrics gains better acceptance

RFID Briefings

ADT cuts retail RFID costs with Sensormatic iREAD
Innovative RFID solution for bakeries
RFID lowers cost, raises accuracy for vehicle access control 
                                                                                  
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OATSystems and IBM extend partnership to ANZ
RFID Consortium LLC established
End-to-end RFID systems streamlines manufacturing
Hospital uses RFID to track infusion pumps
RFID tyre tags from advanced ID used by Goodyear

RFID Products

Digant’s DT135EV series evaluation kit
Stand alone access control
Mobile gizmos to get single-chip RFID reader
Industry’s advanced UHF RFID reader
RFID devices prevent counterfeiting
UPM Raflatac unveils new RFID tags
Melzer production equipment for MRTD products
IAITO InfoTech RFID product ranges in HF and UHF

Smart Products
Atmel MCU targets mobile payment, TV transactions
Thales updates EMV data preparation software
Datacard® MXD™ mailer card delivery system
OTS range of twinstack laminators
SST’s fastest-performing 8051-based smart card IC
IDsmart™’s biometric sensor-on-card technology
Modular, expandable platform CR80 card personalisation
TTI adds new secure biometric mobile payment handheld

Smart Briefings
ITG, Soliton partner to provide contactless IT security
Thales enables rapid delivery of mobile authentication
NXP-Sony’s Moversa to champion U-SAM cause
Certicom technology to be used by TI for e-passports
Sagem Orga EMV technology for UK credit card issuer
Kyocera Wireless, INSIDE Contactless partner on NFC
Biometrics market slated for high growth through 2012
Mastercard and ARC introduce new travel agent product
JR East and ANA to integrate smart cards
G&D provides Latvia with electronic biometric passports

EXECUTIVE FORUM
ECIL CMD gets Indira Gandhi Gold Award                                              
New Director for VSSC                                                                                 
Ashok Sud is President of AUSPI 
Salgame is Tejas new President

TRENDS
Community photo collections with multi-view stereo                             
M-HWPD — a mobile head-worn projection display                              
New building blocks for integrated graphene circuits                           
Carbon nanotube based battery architecture                                           
Basis for functional DNA nanostructures                                                  
New computer architecture aids emergency response                         
Seashells inspire ultrathin yet ultrastrong materials                             
Quantum cascade laser nanoantenna developed                                 
CNT devices useful to miniaturise wireless devices                             
Novel semiconductor light bender developed                                                 

TECHMARCH
Silicon nanophotonics — integration of silicon electronics and fibre optics

SPECIAL REPORT
CMOS versus CCD technology

SPECIAL ARTICLE
Embedded systems revolution

TECHNEWS
First fully functional nanotube radio unveiled                                           
Hafnium-based chip packs 820 million transistors                               
Cryptographer warns of chip design complexity raising risks           
New material for nano-enabled electronics                                            
Nanotubes are grown on computer chips                                                
NEC launches world’s fastest supercomputer                                      
NEC unveils 40-nm eDRAM technologies                                               
Wireless EEG system powered by body heat                                          
Mobile industry supports Linux as cellular OS                                        
Multiple devices with one UART                                                                 
Rugged new electronic chips from deep trek project                           
New RF tech eases design of nanometer wireless chips
IC test interface extension standard drafted

AROUND THE CIRCUIT AND WITHIN
ISRO offers support for disaster management in APAC                       
Rajasthan unveils a new IT and ITES policy                                           
Pollution Board’s guidelines on e-waste                                                  
TRAI to set up panel on mobile number portability                                 
Nanocity near Panchkula may be a reality soon!                                   
India achieves 250 m telephones target two months ahead               
DSCI panel to advise on data security                                                       
India scores over Europe in wireless IC design, says the study        

CORPORATE WINDOW

Microsoft opens first interoperability lab in Bangalore                            
First automation city in India at Pune                                                         
CA opens largest development centre in Hyderabad                             
Cadence opens third R&D centre in Noida                                              
Shimadzu of Japan plans manufacturing unit in India                           
Nokia plans fresh investment in Chennai 
NTT Data buys majority stake in Vertex

Corporate briefings
NComputing forays into Gujarat
Sun Microsystems forms ‘green’ alliance
BSNL to embark on Rs.2,000-cr WiMax project
Ciena bags VSNL network deal
Cognizant buys analytics firm marketRx for $135 m
Nokia Siemens and IIIT tie-up
HP sets up new facility
IBM research lab to work on services innovation
Patni bags $200-m UK contract 
Magma unveils new products for chip designers
Wipro files patents for e-Enabler
D-Link opens R&D centre in Bangalore
Asus Technology plans R&D centre by next year

DESIGNER’S CORNER

Freescale updates ColdFire portfolio with 10 MCUs                              
Atmel CAP architecture aims at emerging mid-volume markets         
NXP claims largest ARM MCU portfolio                                                    
LED floodlight, indoor/outdoor bulb offers energy savings                   
ST unveils energy-metering chips                                                            
Solid-state relay                                                                                             
Micro-USB connector for device miniaturisation 
Precision op amps suit low-frequency sensor apps

PRODUCT REVIEW
R&S FSU67 spectrum analyser                                                              
Agilent ENA series network analyser                                                   
Keithley nanovoltmeter                                                                               
Handheld vector network analysers                                                        
RF spectrum analyser targets cost-sensitive apps                           
Anritsu intros ‘first’ handheld Mobile WiMAX test solution              
Epson unveils high-speed, high-precision SCARA robots               
Data acquisition system                                                         
Narda introduces L-band Milsatcom transceiver                        
Rohde & Schwarz SMB100A signal generator                          
LeCroy introduces 13-GHz oscilloscope                                   
USB instruments offer 80 analogue inputs    


SMARTCARDS TODAY

RFID innovation by Infosys helps creating magicmirror for apparel industry
Entrust SSL certificates to secure ICICI Bank Web site                     
TI enters electronic govenment ID market                                           
Smartcards to overcome pricing, compatibility issues                      
Unisys sets up security innovation centre                                            
India should not miss the broadband bus                                           
Mobile operators set UHFTV bandwidth                                               
ZTE delivers 10 million handsets in India                                            
Rly. to install 350 ATVM next year                                                           
Government to issue unique ID number for all citizens                     
Security seal to prevent fake certificates                                               
Spanish wine growers using smart card technology  for quality     
Spring Singapore unveils standard for smart card ID                        
GlobalPlatform announces new Board of Directors                          
Smart Card Alliance announces new Board of Directors                  
TCS unveils smartcard solution for microfinance                               

RFID Briefings

Research forecasts steady growth for RFID sector
Thin-film/printed batteries add new functionality
Technology to expand tamper-evident RFID applications
EPCglobal website highlights benefits of RFID technology
Solar powered RFID-based asset tracking systems
Secure RFID reader technology to assist seeing-impaired

RFID Products

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Takes productivity to the edge
Intermec Small Rigid Tag: passive RFID tags
RFID asset tracking solution
X-ident DURA-Tag: RFID Transponder
Atmel’s customisable microcontroller-based SoC platform
Physical access systems by finger vein authentication

Smart Products
Otto Kuennecke PIN handling systems
e-Group launch e-Save card with PrePay Technologies
Ultra-Portable Digipass 270 e-Signature Authenticator
World’s first high-speed card personalisation system
BÖWE unveils CARDTEC’s BC-alpha2
Datastrip’s DSV2+TURBO® handheld biometric terminal
Crescendo™ Smart Cards receive “Works with Windows Vista” logo

Smart Briefings
PayPal sets up office in Chennai                                                    
Electronic access control systems market on rise
Smart card-based vehicle documents in six months
G&D provides Latvia with electronic biometric passports
JR East and ANA to integrate smart cards
Taiwan NFC trails in 2008

EXECUTIVE FORUM
Som Mittal to succeed Karnik at Nasscom                                               
Y.S. Mayya is new ECIL Director                                                               
Vishakantaiah to head Intel India                                                             
New head for Nokia Siemens India   
Xerox Office Group Director

TRENDS
World’s longest carbon nanotubes developed                                        
Linking molecules to form dense logic circuits                                       
Single quantum dots as local temperature markers                              
Passive cooling of a micromechanical oscillator                                    
Assembly of single-molecule electronic components                           
Blending Semiconductor technology and nanomachines                    
Tinier bits help store more data than now                                                
T-ray laser technique for deep scanning                                                  
Silicon chips for future computers, electronics                                        
The magnetic properties of thin films researched                                
Entanglement of single-atom quantum bits at a distance                    

TECHMARCH
Implantable RFID chip speeds up body communications

TECHNEWS
3-D interconnects coming in thin phones                                                
‘Templating’ for self-assembled qubits                                                    
Automotive imahge sensor gives intuition                                               
US researchers discover new Si, Al, Mg isotopes                                  
Coverage-driven technique for ILS design                                               
Challenges for one laptop per child                                                          
Universal flash storage spec unveiled                                                      
ISMI readies 450 mm test bed, wafer bank                                              
The greatness of verticalness                                                                    
Recycling scrapped silicon wafers for solar cell                                     
Common platform in fabs approach                                                         
Creating power out of heat from environment                                         
Development of ‘chip-on-MEMS’ technology                                            
Chip, cell interface explored by IMEC research                                       
Researchers work on real-time control of artificial limbs 
HD-PET technology for sharper tumour images

SPECIAL REPORT
Holographic memory – developments and advancements

SPECIAL ARTICLE
Telecommunications — backbone to aviation

AROUND THE CIRCUIT AND WITHIN
Internet usage in India grows 11 times in 7 years                                  
$7.5 mn nanotechnology lab at IIT Bombay                                              
A look at what ails IPTV sector in India                                                      
Maharashtra law for e-waste disposal                                                      
India’s DoS for satellit-based tech for wireless services                       
MAIT: PC sales log more than 1.7 million in Q1                                      
Indian Semiconductor Association signs pact with Taiwanese body 
Domestic Leased Circuits to give improved  consumers’ choice
Chip design centre at Kolkata to be set up by 2008

CORPORATE WINDOW

Cookson Electronics India Research Centre in Bangalore                  
Kaon Media to make STBs for Tata Sky                                                    
Bharti, SingTel plan venture for long distance telephony                       
TCS Travel and Hospitality Innovation Lab in Chennai                         
Cisco opens campus for healthcare management in Bangalore     

DESIGNER’S CORNER
Flexible EM wave film withstands 2 million folds                                    
Natural-sounding voice guidancechips roll for embedded apps         
MAC/PHY chip powers Mobile WiMAX base stations                              
TI claims ‘world’s fastest’ single-core DSP                                              
Tiny PWM controllers fit motherboard, POL apps                                    
Non-volatile digital pots with SPI Interface  
EM Microelectronic low drop-out regulator

PRODUCT REVIEW
Wavecrest revolutionary new ScopemaX™ expands
    capabilities of existing Real-time Oscilloscopes                                
High Performance Wafer Reader                                                               
TI fuel gauge predicts battery life in mobile phones
Jitter Test System

SMARTCARDS TODAY

Pilot on branchless banking on ZERO platform
Common smart card ticket for rail and bus journey is launched in Mumbai
TN government’s pilot on smart card based DL/RC                              
Global & Indian biometrics markets on high growth path