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Issue number 28 November 2009
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In this issue...
- Jump-starting local telecoms competition
- Telecoms: The year that was...
- Green IT - sustainable profit through energy efficiency
- ICT must be part of the climate solution
- Upgrade your brain
- Mine motion monitoring
- Business survival depends on early adoption of new technologies
- Embedded computers for substation automation
- Festo freezes time
- Modular testing of power semiconductors
- Part I: Developing tin-lead and lead-free solder pastes
- Gadgets for geeks
- Radio amateurs win Nobel prize for physics
- Telecoms in Africa...
- Space technology
- Views and opinion
- Industry and institute news
- Product and company news
 
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Rudolph MullerJump-starting local telecoms competition
by Rudolph Muller, MyBroadband.co.za

There is renewed vigour from government to improve local telecoms services and reduce costs. Assuming that the new minister Siphiwe Nyanda is more effective than his predecessor - not a particularly difficult feat - things may start to look up... (more)
Hans van de GroenendaalTelecoms: The year that was ... 
by Hans van de Groenendaal, EngineerIT
 
The year began on a high note with promises that inexpensive broadband for all would become a reality. But eleven months into the year, none of these expectations have been realised... (more)
Green IT - sustainable profit through energy efficiency
by Matthew Bernath, Grey Matter Thinking
 
More and more companies are seeing the need to be green, but is it just a cost-cutting exercise or has big business really grown a heart? Movies such as "An inconvenient truth" have planted the seeds of the 'green' concept... (more)
ICT must be part of the climate solution
by Hans van de Groenendaal, EngineerIT
 
According to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), information and communication technology is the single most powerfcul tool humankind has at its disposal to avoid a potential climate catastrophe... (more)
Upgrade your brain
by Henry Tucker, ITNow

When it comes to predicting the future, Dr. Ian Pearson is one futurologist who generally gets it right. Having worked as an engineer for BT he now works for future consultancy Futurizon. He spoke to the author about his vision for the IT future... (more) 
Mine motion monitoring
by Ian du Toit, Optron Geomatics
 
Whether underground or at the surface, unanticipated earth movement can pose particularly hazardous conditions on mines. Risks include the endangerment of lives, destruction of property and damage to valuable, specialised equipment... (more)
Business survival depends on early adoption of new technologies
by Garry Ackerman, Galdon Data
 
Business communications are becoming increasingly complex and require workers to manage multiple devices, applications, and face-to-face interactions in an attempt to stay productively connected with one another... (more)
Embedded computers for substation automation
by Daisy Dai, Moxa, USA
 
Power substations play a critical role in transporting electricity from power plants to homes, businesses, and factories. However, a typical power grid can be comprised of hundreds of substations that need to monitored and controlled... (more)
Festo freezes time
Information from Festo
 
Festo is involved in an innovative project with South African-based photographer Paul Godard. The project, currently in the prototype stages, involves the development and construction of a highly precise automated dolly cart... (more)
Modular testing of power semiconductors
by Gérard Cuénoud, Lemsys, Switzerland
 
Having started business in the early 1960s, Lemsys developed a modular approach for power semi-conductor testing equipment in the 1990s, beginning with the test of dynamic parameters... (more)
Developing tin-lead and lead-free solder pastes: Part 1
by J Bath et al
 
There has been an increase in head-in-pillow component soldering defects which interrupts the merger of the BGA/CSP component solder spheres with the molten solder paste during reflow. The issue has occurred across a broad segment of industries including consumer, telecoms and military... (more)
Gadgets for geeks
 
The latest in gadgets: Listening delight - a portable UPO-1 speaker system; enjoy a white Christmas with a Blackberry smart phone; turn up the music with a mini hi-fi stereo portable speaker system, and reach out and touch all-in-one desktop PCs... (more)
Radio amateurs win Nobel prize for physics
 
George E Smith, a radio amateur, was one of the three scientists who were jointly awarded the 2009 Nobel prize for physics. The other radio amateur is Joe Taylor who in 1993 was awarded the Nobel prize for the discovery of a new type of pulsar... (more)
Telecoms news in Africa
by Matthew White, Iona Press Services   
  • Africa needs US$93-billion for infrastructure 
  • Telkom Kenya's landline to bring down internet costs
  • Rwanda fibre-optic broadband project 
  • Cellcom sells debentures to the Liberian public
  • US$5-million for Botsgate internet backbone upgrade
  • Vodafone's fraud probe over Ghana Telecom purchase
  • Call for deployment of broadband infrastructure
  • Uganda backbone project halted
  • Zimbabwe's TelOne restricts calls... (more)
Space technology
  • A tale of planetary woe
  • SumbandilaSat payload activation going well
  • About astronomy star
  • Giant ribbon at edge of solar system... (more)
Product and company news
 
Instrumentation, Automation, Electronics and ICT candidates for employers...
 
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