Team Taiwan land embedded prize in Microsoft competition Team Taiwan took the US$25,000 first prize and were bestowed the title of Heavyweight Embedded Technology Champion of the World in this year’s embedded development section of the Microsoft Imagine Cup. The closing ceremony was held in Warsaw, Poland, in early July.

Java modem powers fire alarm warning for deaf people A GPRS and Java modem from Adaptive Modules is playing a key part in the DMS direct message service that aims to inform deaf or hard of hearing people if a fire alarm sounds in public places such as a shopping centre or library.

Partnership between Rutronik and Microchip goes Europe wide Rutronik Elektronische is to distribute the entire product portfolio of Microchip Technology throughout the whole of Europe. The companies have extended their 15-year partnership to Portugal and the Baltic.

Microsoft licenses Arm architecture Arm and Microsoft have signed a new licensing agreement for the Arm architecture. The agreement extends the collaborative relationship between the two companies that has existed since 1997.

Report predicts optoelectronics to be fastest growing segment Optoelectronics is the fastest growing semiconductor product segment and is making significant advances into many markets, according to a report from Databeans.

Xilinx aims to boldly go where no FPGA has gone before

RS offers free PCB design tool with no limitations

Observatory picks middleware for very large telescope

Engineering R&D spend defies recession

BVM comes of age