SupplyFrame buys Findchips.com
SupplyFrame, Inc. has acquired FindChips.com (www.findchips.com). The site brings new capabilities to SupplyFrame Media’s online advertising products. FindChips.com has been used by component buyers for over 12 years for performing component inventory search on the web.
A scientist at NASA originally created FindChips.com for personal use. Since then, claims SupplyFrame, over 100,000 people each month use the service to locate available stock of electronic components. However, Google’s AdPlanner tool suggests that the figure for unique users is closer to 52,000 per month – still a good figure for a niche site but way below the 1 million unique visitors per month now achieved by leading distributors such as Digi-Key.
FindChips.com displays inventory levels and pricing information for leading component distributors across the industry. SupplyFrame Media is currently accepting applications from distributors worldwide to be included in the inventory search results at FindChips.com.
August 31, 2010 at 3:43 pm | Uncategorized | No comment
How to article: embedded design & social media
Patrick Hopper of Open Systems Media has produced an interesting paper on using Twitter and LinkedIn in the embedded marketplace. Here is the link www.bit.ly/BECRd
August 21, 2010 at 9:35 am | Uncategorized | No comment
Fuller back at EE Times
Brian Fuller has returned to EE Times. His intriguing job title is “Products Strategist” and Brian, who’s working for Patrick Mannion, sent Publitek the most useful email we’ve ever received from EE Times. If you didn’t get a copy direct, here’s the story.
“We’re in the process of making our EE Times Products coverage and packaging more readable, accessible and useful to our engineering readers, a quarter-million of whom spend quality time at EETimes.com every week. Some of this transformation is behind the scenes; some of it involves your help.
How can you help? Two ways, short-term and medium-term:
1. Short-term: We need your help in building accurate, reliable and timely lists of various products, which are really popular with readers and can drive traffic to your product pages. Here are links to Google forms for three product types we need your help on. If your company makes MCUs, low-dropout regulators, and/or LED drivers, please fill out the appropriate forms and hit submit. It will take just a few minutes of your time.
a. Microcontrollers: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dExJd3c3dU03RjZqblgzWEJBa3NXbmc6MQ#gid=0
b. Low-dropout regulators: https://spreadsheets1.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dFN1ZnZfX0xtU0owN2JEM2pvQ25RWHc6MQ#gid=0
c. LED drivers: https://spreadsheets2.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dGdhWVd2ZF9rRV9xRFlpZ3lxVGtua2c6MQ#gid=0
2. Medium-term: You have some number of “Tier one” or “A-level” product announcements each year. I want to hear about them ahead of time to prepare for more complete coverage that may include video, audio and other elements. You can reach me by email (brian.fuller@ubm.com) or by phone (415.947.6244) or on Skype (brian.fuller9). I can’t guarantee we can handle all requests, but we’ll do our best.
How to contact us
Lastly, the most common question I get is “Who can cover my story?” Here’s an updated list (with emails embedded), organized by newsletter or online site but representing our beats. Since I oversee products coverage, please consider me an essential contact point if you have trouble getting a response from someone:
EE Times Products Brian Fuller
Audio Rich Pell
Automotive Anne-Francoise Pele
CommsDesign Carolyn Mathas
EDA DesignLine Anne-Francoise Pele/Ismini Scouras
Embedded.com Bernie Cole
Embedded.com Europe Colin Holland
Embedded Internet Rich Pell
Graphical System Design Carolyn Mathas
Industrial Control Susan Rambo
MCU Colin Holland
Medical Bill Schweber
Memory Susan Rambo
Military & Aerospace Anne-Francoise Pele
Planet Analog Bill Schweber
Power Management Bill Schweber
Programmable Logic Colin Holland
RF & Microwave Bill Schweber
Signal Processing Patrick Mannion
SmartEnergy Patrick Mannion
Test&Measurement Colin Holland”
That’s how it stands this week!
Welcome back, Brian.
August 21, 2010 at 9:17 am | Uncategorized | No comment
Darnell Power Forum program announced
The Darnell Power Forum, being held in Chicago from September 13-15 will include a plenary session presented in which Efficient Power Conversion, Fraunhofer Institute, Intersil Zilker Labs, Johnson Research and Development Co. Inc. and Excellatron Solid State LLC will participate. They’ll cover topics ranging from the future of digital power to micro-power sources based on fuel-cell technology. Other session topics during the event will include smart grids, energy harvesting, digital power and power system design. Registration is still open at: http://www.darnell.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=113
August 3, 2010 at 6:06 pm | Uncategorized | No comment
Ron Wilson heads back to EE Times, Rich Nass goes medical
Ron Wilson has left EDN Magazine to join EE Times Group as Director of Content for various outlets within the Group including Embedded Systems Design Magazine, Embedded.com, the global Embedded Systems Conferences and custom events. Ron has 38 years’ experience in the electronics industry including various editorial roles in EE Times between 1991 and 2006. He replaces Richard Nass who left EE Times to join the medical group at Canon Communications LLC, publishers of EDN Magazine and Medical Electronics Design, amongst others.
July 1, 2010 at 9:35 pm | Uncategorized | No comment
Elektroniktidningen hires as website traffic soars
Elektroniktidningen (Sweden) has recruited Anne-Charlotte Sparrvik as sales manager within the Nordic Region.
According to the magazine’s advertising director Fredrik Söderberg, the move to hire an additional sales manager comes as the ETN.se site has seen a large rise in traffic during the past six months.
Anne-Charlotte comes from a marketing & sales support background and joins from Kodak.
June 28, 2010 at 5:42 pm | Uncategorized | No comment
Elektra award deadlines – Electronics Weekly (UK)
I wrote a quick update last week to say that Electronics Weekly’s UK Elektra Award deadlines were looming and all awards should be in by this Friday.
Thankfully I didn’t click publish as the award deadline has been shifted by 3 weeks, to the 23rd July.
Whilst award deadlines are a little like takeover bids, you should never accept the first offer, the change in date has been kept very quiet this year.
June 28, 2010 at 5:40 pm | Uncategorized | No comment
BEEAs set to take over the Globe
Findlay’s New Electronics and Eureka magazines have announced the British Engineering Excellence Awards, or the BEEAs for short, are open for entry.
The Globe Theatre will play host to The British Engineering Excellence Awards on Thursday 14th October 2010. http://tinyurl.com/3397q44
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The awards will be held in October at the Globe Theatre in London. 11 categories have been announced including Green Product of the Year, Small Company of the Year and Young Design Engineer of the Year.
This is the awards second year and information on the 2009 event can be found here. Entries close on the 31stJuly and you can also follow the awards via its Twitter feed.
June 22, 2010 at 7:47 am | Uncategorized | No comment
EETimes Europe signs Philip Ling as editor for semiconductor technologies
European Business Press (EBP) has announced that Philip Ling has joined the editorial team of EETimes Europe as editor for Semiconductor and Embedded Technologies. Phil reports to editor-in-chief Julien Happich and assumes editorial responsibility for the online and print products.
Phil’s position is freelance, allowing him to contribute to EETimes Europe while continuing to develop his own business activities which include technical writing and publishing a range of complementary, niche products through his company, Cassidy Publications Ltd.
June 2, 2010 at 6:22 am | Uncategorized | No comment
EL Info announces 2010 special editions
PMN has had a quick mail from Matthias Laasch, EL-info’s editor. It seems the title is launching special-feature print issues that are dedicated to particular industry segments. This is the first time that the publication has done this.
An “Electromechanics and Electronics Packaging” special appeared in April and will be followed by “Opto-Electronics and LED Technology” in June.
A “Smart Engineering” special is planned for just before Electronica.
May 31, 2010 at 9:37 pm | Uncategorized | No comment