Today's Highlights: Steve Jobs private e-mail exchange, Battery-less and wireless switch, Move from PBASIC to C++, more

1. January 28, 2013 Monday EDITION

   Electronic Products brings you the latest articles, research and products to inspire your design.

   How NXP and Cherry’s battery-less, wireless switch works At CES 2013, I was fortunate enough to get a working demonstration of Cherry’s new energy-harvesting wireless switch in…more How to make the move from PBASIC to C++ Many budding engineers write their first line of code in PBASIC, building simple circuits on a Board of Education…more Private, no-hire email exchanges between Steve Jobs, Edward Colligan, and more made public Apple’s co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs threatened to file a patent lawsuit against Palm if the company’s chief…more It's Batteries and Fuel Cells Week on ElectronicProducts.com. Batteries convert chemical, solar, or thermal energy into DC electrical energy. Featured are a host of chemical technologies using properties of lithium, silver, zinc, etc. Included are fuel cells and auxiliary products e.g. battery chargers, and battery packs.

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   Cable-less LED Power Supply ES3 Card Edge Type With the market shifting to mercury-free and low power consuming LED lighting, JAE offers the ES3 Card Edge Connector, a one-piece connector for cable-less direct connection between the LED board and the converter board. This product can be simultaneously SMT mounted with other components, reducing the cost for LED lighting manufacturers. In Stock at Heilind; 877-891-5968 or click here. Pelican-Hardigg Advanced Case Solutions High Level Case Customization Capabilities The Pelican-Hardigg™ Advanced Case Solutions regional custom case facilities (Pelican-Hardigg Advanced Case Centers) are the industry’s first and only factory authorized sites offering innovative high level case customization services. Dedicated to creating custom protection systems for sensitive, mission critical equipment, they not only protect equipment in all types of transport situations. For more information visit pelican.com/acs.

   China consumes 33% of global photovoltaic panel shipments in Q4’12 Santa Clara, CA., January 22, 2013—The Chinese end-market dominated shipments of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels during the final quarter…more Global LTE Subscribers Set to More Than Double in 2013 and Exceed 100 Million El Segundo, Calif. (Jan. 22, 2013)— Just three short years after the technology’s original deployment, worldwide subscribers to the…more Processors for Raspberry Pi and Arduino CoMs Two popular low-cost computer-on-modules (CoM) are the Raspberry Pi and the Arduino.…more Smart Data Works Unveils New Website Toronto, ON, January 22, 2013 — Smart Data Works, developers of DistiStock, is pleased to announce the company has…more Wideband frequency synthesizer integrates VCO The LMX2581 wideband frequency synthesizer integrates a delta-sigma PLLatinum PLL engine, a multicore VCO with fully integrated tank circuit,…more