Aonix, the safety-critical applications supplier, has a “zero-cost” licence model for its ObjectAda for Linux product

Sony Ericsson is to manufacture mobile phones in India, through agreements with contract manufacturers Flextronics and Foxconn

Beware of great products. They could imperil your company. Poor old Motorola is now under threat from corporate raider Carl Icahn, veteran of takeovers at Texaco and TWA, who is now demanding a seat on the Motorola board after buying 1.4 per cent of the company’s shares. No one thinks he’ll stop there.

Freescale Semiconductor and Indesign have collaborated on a secure point-of-sale (POS) reference design for industrial control applications

Tessera Technologies, the electronics miniaturisation specialist has caused a stir in the camera phone market by announcing that it is to acquire digital auto-focus and optical zoom developer Eyesquad. The key to Eyesquad’s autofocus technology is that it uses non-mechanical techniques. “The technology is designed to open up new, high volume market opportunities,” said Tessera. According to Bruce McWilliams, Tessera’s chairman ...

Wolfson Microelectronics has reported strong full year results with pre-tax profits up 30 per cent to around £25.8m and revenues up by 23 per cent to £104.5m but warned of a slower start to 2007. The first quarter of 2007 will be impacted by seasonality and an ongoing inventory correction in the global consumer electronics markets, warned Wolfson. Revenues in ...

So far this year we’ve seen two plastic semiconductor firms decide on their route to manufacturing. What’s bizarre is the choice of location for those manufacturing plants. The UK firm – Plastic Logic – has chosen to go to Germany, while the Dutch – Polymer Vision – are coming to the UK. In the current socio-economic climate of “British is ...

The Technology Partnership (TTP has created the enabling software for UBC Media to launch the world’s first broadcast Digital Music Downloading (DMD) service to mobiles. UBC is soft-launching the service in London in March, with full UK consumer roll out by early summer. The DMD service differs from normal 3G mobile music download services as it offers the ability to ...

Enclosure maker APW UK in Southampton has gone into administration and is looking for a buyer for the second time in under nine months

The Government has moved to stop the decline in manufacturing skills in the UK with the launch of the National Skills Academy for Manufacturing (NSAM)