May 3, 2013
Shipments of cell phones equipped with near field communication (NFC) will expand by a factor of nearly 10 from 2012 to 2017, reaching 1,2-billion units as the majority of smartphone makers are increasingly adopting the wireless communications and payment technology...
May 3, 2013
The Altron group has welcomed government’s high-value infrastructure development programme to boost local manufacturing and technology. Public procurement is one of the key drivers in government’s Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP). The regulations that give...
May 3, 2013
The worldwide semiconductor assembly and test services (SATS) market totalled $24,5-billion in 2012, a 2,1% increase from 2011, according to final results from Gartner. “After experiencing relatively mild 1,8% growth in 2011, the SATS market remained in a...
May 2, 2013
What would happen if half of all global production for dynamic random access memory (DRAM), two-thirds of NAND flash manufacturing and 70% of the world’s tablet display supply suddenly disappeared from the market? The answer would be chaos, with the worldwide...
May 2, 2013
TopTV creditors have voted to accept a rescue plan whereby China’s Star Communication Technology (Star Times) will take over the struggling pay-TV provider. The rescue plan was adopted just hours before the operator would have had to cease operations on Tuesday night...
May 2, 2013
Mustek has been named as NEC’s Top Performer in Infrastructure Projects, for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. The award was made at the NEC EMEA Partner Conference 2013 in Dubai, where NEC honoured its top-performing business partners who address the...
