SAN FRANCISCO -- CIOs in July predicted IT budgets will grow this year, up from 6% in June.
Spending projections were up in all categories month over month, except telecom equipment.
According to research firm IDC, worldwide mobile phone shipments totaled 188.7 million units in the second quarter, increasing 7.3% sequentially and 16.3% from the same quarter one year ago.
Salvador Montoya and Israel Rodriguez, both students at Curie Metropolitan High School, received $500 each in scholarship funds from an IPC fund that supports secondary electronics programs.
The Scholarship Fund also donated $1,000 to the school for additional educational materials and equipment for Curie’s electronics program.
Criteria for the award included a 3.0 GPA in electronics, a 90% attendance record and a history of achievement in electronics at the school. The students also submitted written essays that described their plans for higher education and career goals.
In 2003, Circuits Assembly magazine and Technology Forecasters financed the $10,000 fund through a portion of entry fees from the Service Excellence Awards program. Each year, IPC donates up to $2,500 to the school.
Kim Sterling, IPC vice president of marketing and communications, said in a statement that Curie was chosen as the sole beneficiary “because of the school’s three-year industrial electronics course that gives students work-oriented, hands-on experience using the latest advancements in business and technology.”
SAN JOSE -- The Semiconductor Industry Association today applauded passage of the U.S.-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA, by the U.S. House of Representatives.
“DR-CAFTA is an important agreement for the U.S. semiconductor industry,” said SIA president George Scalise. “Elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade is very important in helping U.S. companies gain access to these rapidly emerging markets."
Boston, MA –The NITON X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) analyzers from Thermo Electron Corp. (thermo.com) were awarded a Gold IDEA (Industrial Design Excellence Award) for Medical & Scientific Products. The award-winning portable analyzer line was designed by Altitude Inc., a Massachusetts-based strategic product development firm.
The analyzers are used for a variety of nondestructive testing applications, including RoHS and WEEE compliance, metal alloy sorting, positive material inspection, mineral exploration and mining, precious metals analysis, environmental risk assessment and lead paint testing. According to the company, the small size, light weight, ruggedness, ease of use and good ergonomics are critical for the demanding field applications of XRF, where instruments must work in a range of environmental conditions and take upwards of one thousand readings per day.
Altitude's designers worked with Thermo engineers and scientists to develop XRF analyzers that maximize productivity. The XLi, XLp and XLt series XRF analyzers determine approximate sample chemistries and identify many types of samples in as little as one second. All are water resistant, dust proof and built to meet the demands of rigorous testing conditions.
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