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The latest edition of Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics reveals that the world’s biggest PC makers have failed to improve their low scores

Companies backtrack on toxic phase-out
The latest edition of Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics reveals that the world’s biggest PC makers – HP, Dell and Lenovo – have failed to improve their low scores.
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British Government’s £1bn venture capital fund The Prime Minister has announced the creation of the UK Innovation Investment Fund to invest in technology-based businesses with high growth potential. MORE...	India LCD-TV shipments to surpass CRT in 2012 According to iSuppli, shipments of LCD-TVs in India are set to surpass those of CRT-TVs by 2012 as the country undergoes a rapid transition to the flat-panel technology. MORE...

How often do you do it? A multi-country study has examined how we use mobile phones and identified that 11% of Britons never make a phone call on their device. MORE...	From the wires.... Eisuke Tsuyuzaki is Panasonic’s new Chief Technology Officer. Transferring assets EMEA distribution secured Tyco hires Do Consumer confidence in electronics continues to climb EMS market is growing FULL NEWS SECTION

What's new on site Definition of 'low halogen' for electronic products MORE...

Eisuke Tsuyuzaki is Panasonic’s new Chief Technology Officer. MORE...

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TECHNOLOGY IN ACTION
	Trends in Test part 5 – Protocol aware test This is the final instalment in which National Instruments looks at trends in test, which this month focuses on protocol aware test. MORE...

JARGON BUSTER
	Microsectioning PCBs Microsections are an essential tool in the quality evaluation and control of PCB manufacture. It is very important that the people who produce and assess these microsections are trained and supervised by a person who is well versed in the methods of PCB manufacture. MORE...

CASE STUDIES
Saving solder dross

EMS provider Celestica teamed up with EVS International to support their ISO14001 accreditation, reduce solder consumption and cut costs at their European hub in Spain.
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‘Working closely with customers’ has become an over-used cliché, but companies that make the effort to understand their customers’ markets can get closer to this business nirvana.
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DIARY & EVENTS: Coming soon
06/07/2009 Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (UK)
07/07/2009 Design and Assembly Challenges of Ball Grid Arrays (BGAs) and Bottom Termination Components (BTCs) - Overview of BGAs and BTCs (Web)
07/07/2009 The Economic Prognosis for the Electronics Industry: A View from Wall Street (Web)
07/07/2009 3T’s Rapid Prototyping/Manufacturing Seminars (UK)
10/07/2009 Legislative Update on WEEE, RoHS2, and REACH (UK)

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Direct contact stencil cleaning system Gen3 Systems has announced the launch of its new Gensonic Stencil Cleaning System. MORE...	Miniature passive probes Agilent Technologies has introduced a family of miniature, passive oscilloscope probes and accessories with bandwidths from DC to 1.5 GHz. MORE...
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