European Electronics Media News

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MAE announces conference programme

With over sixty high-level submissions, the Military and Aerospace Electronics show, MAE06, has been able to announce a full programme for MAE06…

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CIE (UK) stops being different

Components in Electronics (CIE), which has held out with its short, fat "kingsize" format for a long time, is to switch to a conventional layout in a…

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The coolest electronics websites?

In the UK, editors refer to the summer as the "silly season" because there is little news with most people on holiday. We thought that we could be…

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New editor-in-chief for A&D

A&D has announced that Volker Tisken will take over as Chief Editor from 1st September 2006. Volker is an experienced editor in the automation and…

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Call for papers – DATE 07

DATE, the show for people that love expensive EDA tools, has issued a call for papers for the next event, due to take place in April 2007. The event…

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Electronics Components World launches

The Irish tech publishers, Black Dot, have launched Electronics Components World. The site follows the traditional news and product format, and…

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Running out of Online Ads?

Those venerable consultants at McKinsey have reported that we may be running out of online inventory. Although this report does not look specifically…

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New editor at ESE

Embedded Systems Engineering (ESE) has appointed Alistair Winning as editor. Alistair, whose experience includes editing CMP's Electronic Engineering…

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PSDE finds new editor

A couple of weeks ago, we covered the falling-out between Power Systems Design Europe (PSDE) and its former editor, Bodo Arlt. In a remarkably quick…

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German readership study update

Although many people have got bored of readership study arguements in Germany, we thought it was worth mentioning that it looks like results from the…

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