Web-based design tools are now providing ready access to embedded system development and NXP's design initiative with ARM has launched a web-enabled development tool for the firm's LPC ARM processor family of microcontrollers.
There is so much hype around the Android operating system that it is all too easy under-play the importance of the Symbian OS in the mobile market.
If you want to buy a British-designed netbook go along to Marks & Spencer.
If you are looking for an investment bet for 2010, may be it is worth looking at the semiconductor industry.
Two bits of positive news for manufacturers.
UK exports in November rose to their highest level for more than a year, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Then came the news that the UK economy is finally emerging from recession, some months after Germany and France.
Avnet Abacus has won the 2009 distributor of the year award from connector supplier Hirose in the UK.
Will the World Cup delay the digital TV switchover? Apparently it can in Italy.
News that November was the highest billings month of the year for the UK and Ireland-based component distributors gives the industry at the start of the New Year.
Maxim Integrated Products has extended its pan-European franchise agreement with Avnet Electronics Marketing to include the Republic of Ireland.
Will ARM Cortex become the processor of choice in the mobile tablet.
The imminent launch of Apple's tablet, on January 26th, could make the mobile computing device which is not a netbook but nor is it a smartphone, the mobile product of choice in 2010.
