Here are the top ten most popular articles on
ElectronicsWeekly.com
in the last week, with a blog on high IC prices, an Arduino-based
camera system, Freescale struggles, and the worst gadgets of 2010
leading the way...
See what your peers have been reading. In reverse order:
10. The Ten Best Things About ARM
9. Picture Gallery - Best Gadgets of 2010
8. 'Very strong' 2011 for ICs; double digit boom in 2012
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One to file under the
Digital Life category...
The American Football Superbowl, this Sunday, takes place in the Dallas Cowboy's stadium. It is a neat hook to flag the huge Mitsubishi Electric screen hanging above the field of play, which is now in the
Guinness World Record books, as the world's largest high-definition video display.
To be precise, it consists of four Diamond Vision LED video screens. See
Guinness World Record for Largest Hi-Def Video Display
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Fancy a four-day trip to the Arctic, spending one of them on the high-tech, 472-metre-high Troll gas platform? Check out this
competition on New Scientist.
(No, you won't be expected to work on the rig!)
The challenge is to describe the technology that you think will have the biggest impact on human life in the next 30 years:
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Welcome to another post in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd,
who has
over 15 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry
specialising in interconnection cable assembly.
This week I am going to give you an overview of common fiber connectors in use today. I get asked a lot which connectors to use and this following guide should give you an idea of what is out there and best suited to your application.
I have also spoilt you with a video guide at the bottom of this printable guide!
MT-RJ 
Used for networking applications. It's actually a little smaller than a standard phone jack, and just as easy to connect and disconnect. It's half the size of the SC connector it was designed to replace.
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Here are the top ten most popular articles on
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in the last week, with Nvidia, ARM, CEOs, and the worst gadgets of 2010
leading the way...
See what your peers have been reading. In reverse order:
10. Lego robots user-test Kno tablets
9. Recall Corner: LED lamp overheating
8. Picture Gallery - Best Gadgets of 2010
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Welcome to another post in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd,
who has
over 15 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry
specialising in interconnection cable assembly.
I have recently been working on a project that has had some major design issues and it made me ask questions like how did we get here, and what decisions were made to get this design accepted and put into production.
Now the design was not necessarily a bad one, just over complex and from a production perspective very difficult and time confusing to assemble.
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You may not be in Barcelona but there is no need to miss out on MWC 2011.
You can keep up with all the latest news and developments from the Mobile World Congress as Electronics Weekly editor Richard Wilson is our man on the spot. Simply bookmark:
www.electronicsweekly.com/mwcDrawing together the major players in the mobile space, the huge annual event - formerly known as 3GSM - is intended to highlight the latest trends in mobile technology and services.
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Welcome to the third post in the new series COMs Insider
by
Bob
Pickles, Congatec
UK territory
manager.
Gambling is on my mind this month... After attending the International Casino Expo in London the other week, I was amazed at the sheer amount of technology used by the latest gambling innovations on display. It's clear that there is a big movement towards online gambling. However, casino based fixed gambling systems have also definitely been dragged into the 21st century! Does this ring out the end of the one arm bandit though?
Not really. The one arm bandit is still surviving, albeit in a much more modern form. The technology incorporates flat panel displays and no longer has moving mechanisms, but moving graphics and yes - a few still have the traditional arm at the side to keep everyone happy!
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Here are the top ten most popular articles on
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in the last week, with cracking-up-CEOs, China ICs, Freescale and Renesas (and MeeGo)
leading the way...
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10. Top 10 (and Next 10) IC suppliers in 2010
9. Mobile World Congress: Your Electronics Weekly guide
8. MWC 2011: Qualcomm aims quad-core ARM chip at 4G phones
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A guest post by Rob Irwin, Product Manager at Altium, and editor of Envision.
A couple of years ago I went on a trip to my ancestral homeland of Ireland. In Dublin I was struck by the absurdity of Ireland's tribute to the new millennium - a massive spike official titled the "Monument of Light" and locally known as the
Dublin Spire.
The spire is 121 meters tall, three meters in diameter at the base and tapering to a mere 15 cm at the top.
The absurdity of this monument is not that it's probably the most difficult tourist attraction in the world to actually take a photograph of, but that not long after it was unveiled the light bulb that sits right at the top of this spindly Monument of Light blew, sparking a major engineering effort to get it changed.
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How fares the battle of the browsers over the domain that is ElectronicsWeekly.com?
Well, it's been a while since I did a
browser breakdown and there are some big changes to be seen. Firefox is clearly dominant but Chrome is catching. Opera is surprisingly high, too, maybe reflecting greater smartphone usage...
Here are the figures (courtesy of HitBox), showing the breakdown of browsers by percentage, for the month of January 2011:
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We have a new Photo Gallery on the site - check out 
Our man in Barcelona - Richard WIlson - has not just been 
I hope you are getting used to the slightly new look of the 