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ED Europe Newsline – first issue

The first issue of the Electronic Design Europe Newsline was published yesterday. Interestingly Penton has chosen to deliver an email with a link to…

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PCIM had more exhibitors and larger floor area!

Don't they know there is a recession on? PCIM 2009 managed to increase the exhibitors from 252 to 257, and to increase the floor space from 10600 to…

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SupplyFrame launches Twitter tool

I'm still not sure about Twitter. OK, so it's great for following Lance Armstrong, but is it really a going to be a good business tool? SupplyFrame…

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Weka launches Energie&Technik

Weka's Markt & Technik team is launching a new publication, Energie&Technik. Interestingly Weka has chosen to position the publication as…

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NEW attendance figures down on 2008

Perhaps not surprising in the current economic climate, the attendance figures of National Electronics Week were 1750 (excluding delegates and…

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What’s more valuable – EE Times or The Simpsons?

There has been quite a lot of discussion recently about advertising around The Simpsons being more expensive for online broadcasts such as Hulu than…

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YouTube adverts for everyone

I'm a strong believer that online video will grow in importance, and that increasingly electronics companies will use the medium for demonstrations,…

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Recession hits UK-based titles

The last job I would want at the moment is to be a publisher. I'm amazed at how well they continue to run their businesses in a time when not only is…

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Napier research into social media use – preliminary results

I started work on a project to look at the use of social media by engineers some months ago, which has produced some interesting results. We're…

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ilb2b.it relaunched

The web portal for the Italian magazines Elettronica Oggi. EO News and EO Embedded (as well as several other automation, mechanical, energy and…

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