Picture this. You have just set up your exhibition booth at the Electronica 2016 exhibition in Munich only to find the neighbouring booth next to you is exhibiting products with features that are fake copies of your patented product. This is precisely what hap...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 31-01-2017

Refrigerated transportation presents challenges for data logger systems including extreme temperatures, accuracy, memory and power consumption, explains Maxim Integrated’s Scott Jones The value of temperature sensitive goods produced annually on a worldwide...

By Scott Jones | 27-01-2017

Cadmium is the culprit and it’s used in many home electronic goods, including lighting, computers and televisions. It causes cancer and targets cardiovascular, renal, gastrointestinal, neurological, reproductive and respiratory functions. However, the majority...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 25-01-2017

Cadmium is the culprit and it’s used in many home electronic goods, including lighting, computers and televisions. It causes cancer and targets cardiovascular, renal, gastrointestinal, neurological, reproductive and respiratory functions. However, the majority...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 25-01-2017

Whilst telecoms and computer market demand for semiconductor devices can best be described as mercurial the automotive industry appetite for electronic devices has been a consistent and steady growth area for the past twenty years. This comforting pattern for...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 19-01-2017

Whilst telecoms and computer market demand for semiconductor devices can best be described as mercurial the automotive industry appetite for electronic devices has been a consistent and steady growth area for the past twenty years. This comforting pattern for...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 19-01-2017

Future owners of electric vehicles (EV) may find themselves embroiled in a technology standards war over how they re-charge their cars. And let’s face it; right now one of the major negatives of owning an EV is the time-consuming rigmarole in getting it charge...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 17-01-2017

Future owners of electric vehicles (EV) may find themselves embroiled in a technology standards war over how they re-charge their cars. And let’s face it; right now one of the major negatives of owning an EV is the time-consuming rigmarole in getting it charge...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 17-01-2017

ZF’s Thomas Boethe explains how switches can generate enough energy for wireless transmission   In our increasingly connected world, there is growing demand for low energy consumption, simple to use, flexible data transmission. ZF has developed an innov...

By Thomas Boethe | 13-01-2017

Year 2016 was billed by many industry observers as the year of the hacker and its certainly true that cyber criminals enjoyed bumper profits. The list of hacking examples is long. Here’s a couple. In the United Kingdom, Tesco’s bank was infiltrated and nearly...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 10-01-2017

Year 2016 was billed by many industry observers as the year of the hacker and its certainly true that cyber criminals enjoyed bumper profits. The list of hacking examples is long. Here’s a couple. In the United Kingdom, Tesco’s bank was infiltrated and nearly...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 10-01-2017

Mark Patrick from Mouser Electronics sums up developments in LED lighting technology this year. Over several years, high-power LEDs have made rapid advances as far as power and raw luminous output are concerned. Solid-state is now firmly established as the te...

By Mark Patrick | 21-12-2016