Electronics Today

EXECUTIVE FORUM
Piau Phang Foo to replace Balu at HP
Prasada Rao is Director (Technical), ECIL
Patni names Chitale as Chief Strategy Officer
Krishna is new D-G of IEEMA
Harit Nagpal to take over as Tata Sky MD
Prakash Sambandam, Director of FIME India
Bala Mahadevan is India CEO, Orange Business Services
Vijayaraghavan is Global Head —Marketing, Systime
Honorary Doctorate for Shiv Nadar
Apoorva Singh is Global Head — Infrastructure Management
Services at Patni

TRENDS
Stretched molecules allow electron studies
Nano-patterned superconducting thin films
Cu nanowires for circuitry, transparent panels
Organic nanoelectronics a step closer
Researchers grow films with magnetic properties
'Dark' laser creates pulses of nearly nothing
Nanotech fab closer to mass production
Printed graphene for better displays
Liquid crystals light way to better data storage
New nylon targets miniature electronics
Field-coupled wireless power transmission system
Nanotubes better Lithium battery performance
Si breakthrough for quantum computing
Solid oxide fuel cells a reality
Fibres that can detect and produce sound
Crystal memory allows efficient storage

                                      

TECHMARCH
Developments in organic transistors

SPECIAL REPORT
Radio frequency based remote controls

SPECIAL ARTICLE
Fibres that can detect and produce sound developed

ARTICLE
World's first monolithic terahertz solid-state transceiver
and other terahertz developments

TECHNEWS
Researchers at HP aim to develop inexpensive, unbreakable displays
Cell phones as health care resource
Philips testing home health care devices
Genetic fingerprint spots new viruses
'Living' lung on a chip created
Copper nanowires make flexible displays
F&S: LTE to boost RF test equipment sales
WiMAX promoters hasten enhanced standard
HP explores memory-centric processors
Seven-atom transistor
EDA prepares to embrace cloud computing
European Commission funds green cloud services

EVENTS
COMPONEX NEPCON India

PVSOLAR TODAY
Solar powered aircraft completes hours flight
Asia Pacific PhotoVoltaic markets to grow 85% in 2010
Tata Power to set up 3 MW solar PV unit
Industry-University partnership targets smart grid, photovoltaics
Solar-powered ‘Soleckshaw’ launched
Solar desalination plant at BARC set up
Despite inverter shortages global PV market will grow
SEMI’s thin film photovoltaic standard published
Titan Energy to raise solar capacity
NVVN to sign up solar projects under construction
Glitter-sized solar photovoltaics promise improved performance

PVSOLAR ARTICLE
Guidelines for Rooftop and other small solar power
plants connected to distribution network (below 33 kV)

DESIGNERS CORNER
Atmel 32bit MCU packs touch controller peripherals
Cable enables fast USB-serial UART connectivity
Single-gate logic ICs suit portable, traditional 5V apps
CompactPCI board packs 8GB of DDR3 1066MHz ECC memory
NXP Semi LED controller offers flexible designing
Kontron COTS backplane offers impressive bandwidth
and configuration flexibility
Ethernet switch offers 28 GbE ports for IPv4/v6 networking
Pick-and-place machine features twin placement robot
All-purpose signal spectrum analyzer operates in real-time mode
Tantalum chip capacitors offer 75V rating
PHY transceiver provides MII/RMII interface

Corporate briefings
Cochlear to open 100% arm in India
Microsoft, Intech to expand Gujarat operations
Alcatel eyes managed services deal in power sector
TCS leads in Karnataka data centre project
Tikona in talks to share broadband with 3G telcos
HCL Infosystems Picks up Majority Stake in NTS Group
Lavasa, Cisco, Wipro join forces on India’s first E-city
Philips Electronics India to focus on healthcare
GE Healthcare to invest $50 m in Bangalore facility
Reliance Comm sells tower business to GTL Infra
Azinova Tech opens at Technopark
GES buys factory automation software firm in India
Elektrobit, Infineon collaborate on multicore reference implementation
New products from MIC Electronics
Tata Comm joins hands with Google
Tulip Telecom gets licence in US
Subex wins 3-year European deal
HP launches high-performance network solutions
APTEL plans to set up 20 more centres
Finnish company Qvantel plans Bangalore centre
NeST Electronics City in Kochi soon
Nokia Care centre in Chennai
Spanco, lowest bidder for service centres in Punjab

SMARTCARDS TODAY

Indian company develops unique non-cloneable ID technology
Laser Soft solution for AP co-operative bank
New biometric technologies poised for growth
Vedanta implements RFID at its Orissa facility
Biometric attendance system in Bihar colleges
Pre-paid toll collection by May 2012
STQC UIDAI’s biometric certification agency
Axis Bank, 'Financial Inclusion' programme launched in Nashik
Margao municipal employees prefer CCTV to biometrics system
Kerala’s MILMA launches milk ATM in Kochi
Instant food and drug recall alerts
RFID market to grow to $5.63b in 2010
Biometric test before entering the counselling hall

Smart Briefings
Bayometric to help improve employee attendance in Maharashtra
Toshiba launches SD Cards forum
Panjab University plans smart cards for teachers
Nazara in pact with EA Mobile
DDA told to conduct biometric survey in JJ clusters
Start-up develops new gait technology
Smart card for HIV/AIDS patients
EMV smartcard solutions with CombOS Dual-Interface
Generic middleware biometric application
Arcot Systems wins Morgan Stanley's Innovation Award
Mobile video services revenue to exceed $2 billion in 2013


       

Smart Products
Smart sensor for mobile systems packs fingerprint security
TDSI
ActivIdentity Introduces PKI Secure Mobile Solution for Smart Phones
MICROPRSS: MP300 SC1 (SPY+SMARTCARD SIMULATION)

RFID Briefings

Partnership to meet difficult RFID sensing and data logging
IBSS and Zebra to offer solutions for healthcare industry
Indian inventor develops RFID-based rail security system
NFC makers join hands for MIFARE apps management
Asset tracking and temperature monitoring solution at hospitals
Tracking success with RFID system at world's largest 5K race
Spanco in Rs 25-cr deal for Chennai library
Atmel in deal with INSIDE Contactless for sale of SMS business
RFID solutions enhance pharmaceutical supply chains
SoC to streamline development of active RFID hardware
Japanese / Korean MNOs offer mobile NFC applications

RFID Products

CAPS-TRAC 3.0 Container Tracking Capabilities
TJS ZeroShrink Starter Kit Allows Jewelers To Reliably Track Inventory In Seconds
iDTRONIC, Has Introduced Mobile Bluetooth Reader I-Poll UHF For ISO 18000-6C EPC Glass1 Gen2 Tags And Labels
Motorola FX7400 Fixed RFID Reader
Motorola MC9090-G RFID ER - Extended-range Scanning for the Most Rugged Environments