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Everyday microcontrollers

Wednesday 05 November 2008 by By Chris Walsh and Saeid Nooshabadi, University of New South Wales

Some years ago I joked that one day, I will have to add facility in my kitchen to plug the fridge into my network. I should be really eating my words now. LG has introduced the world's first Internet-connected refrigerator. But it is ideas like this, and countless others, are driving the popularity

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2011: The Year of OLED Lighting?

Friday 31 October 2008 by By Dr. Harry Zervos, Technical Consultant, IDTechEx

Recent developments and announcements from major developers of organic electroluminescence (OLED) technology seem to be pointing towards the conclusion that 2011 will be the year where the first commercial OLED lighting applications will appear on the market.

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RoHS: It’s all still happening

Wednesday 03 September 2008 by Roland Sommer, RoHS-International

If you thought that RoHS was a one hit wonder, you were sadly mistaken.

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Internode calls for focus in NBN planning

Tuesday 01 July 2008

Internode managing director Simon Hackett has called on the Federal Government’s planned National Broadband Network to use competitive tension to deliver affordable broadband for consumers.

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Kroll urges caution in data management

Tuesday 24 June 2008

In the lead up to the end of the Australian financial year, Kroll Ontrack is urging individuals and businesses to think twice about how they are retiring old computers or systems with proprietary information.

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Seeking self-adjusting instruments

Wednesday 28 May 2008

Switch on any modern projector (beamer) today and the keystone correction automatically squares the image on the screen.

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Block amplifier

Thursday 01 May 2008 by Hernan Alcerreca

Mimix Broadband has released a 3.3V InGaP HBT-matched gain block amplifier that combines high linearity and gain with low thermal resistance. The

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