Following the Thierry Henry handball saga which saw Ireland knocked out of the World Cup by an unseen handball, the Football Association of Ireland demanded a replay but that was turned down by FIFA and the French Football Federation even though Henry himself said he would be happy for the game to be played again. Fifa have now confirmed that Ireland have requested a place as an extra team. This situation has now given us the perfect argument for bringing in the use of video technology yet Fifa are still opposed to it and are now even considering using five match referees.

Today's modern teaching techniques require the teacher to harness the latest classroom technology, which normally incorporates the use of an interactive whiteboard in conjunction with a DLP projector to project the latest interactive school software. Now the company that brought us this DLP projector technology, Texas Instruments have now developed a 3D ready projector. The DLP projector is now commonplace within our schools and colleges. At the heart of every DLP projection system is an optical semiconductor known as the DLP chip, which was invented by Dr. Larry Hornbeck of Texas Instruments back in 1987.

All the Directors and staff at Electrastar would like to wish all our customers, suppliers and readers a very happy Christmas and Prosperous New Year.

Electrastar have now taken the opportunity to develop an area of the business following an influx of interested customers. Historically, in this field, Electrastar have had two key clients that they carried out this type of work for but in the last year, this has now risen rapidly to include regular works for a variety of clients.

The Internet's global regulator, ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved a new multilingual address system. This change is the biggest since the internet's invention 40 years ago.