Amazon Chime Voice Connector now supports inbound calling to United States toll-free telephone numbers. Customers with on-premises phone systems can reduce their inbound toll-free calling costs up to 50% with this Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking service delivered from AWS. 

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, Amazon Transcribe supports transcription in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) in all regions where the service is available .

Today we are announcing the availability of License Included (LI) Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for Windows Server version 1903 for Amazon EC2, providing customers with an easy and flexible way to get up and running with the latest version of Windows Server Semi-Annual Channel release. Windows Server 1903 adds features that are best suited for use cases that involve building modern container-based Windows applications, such as enhanced Kubernetes support.

Today, we released a major update to the Amazon Pinpoint Deliverability dashboard. The Deliverability dashboard helps you understand and solve issues that could impact the delivery of your emails. With the Deliverability dashboard, you can increase the effectiveness of your email campaigns and create a better email experience for your users.

You can now use telephony metadata from phone calls to obtain additional information about the source of the caller. Today, a caller can hide or mask the identity of their phone number by pressing special codes such *67 before dialing a contact center. Telephony metadata provides additional information from telephony carriers that help identify the source of the call.

Previously the only telephony metadata available in Amazon Connect was the Caller-ID field displayed as the source number. Now, you can compare the Caller-ID information with additional telephony metadata to decide on how to route the caller. For example, if a caller is masking their phone number, they can be routed to a contact flow that provides greater security or an agent that specializes in authentication.

To learn more, see Telephony Call Metadata Attributes in the Amazon Connect User Guide. Telephony Call Metadata is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. There is no additional charge, beyond standard pricing for service usage, and associated telephony rates. To learn more about Amazon Connect, please visit the Amazon Connect website .

Trade Wars, sanctions, product bans – nothing better for making a bob or three, Ed confides to his diary. They’re manna for dodgy dealers because finding supplies for people not supposed to have those supplies and who will pay through the nose for them, is lucrative business. As a Peer of the Realm and Secretary …

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ST has joined the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), a cross-industry organization advancing global technologies for smartphone-to-car connectivity solutions. ST’s automotive connectivity portfolio includes thevST25 NFC readers, ST33 Secure Elements, STA12 Accordo infotainment processors, STA13 Telemaco vehicle processors, and Stellar vehicle gateway/domain microcontrollers. ST is in the expanding market for NFC technology as a digital key …

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The semiconductor market figures have been were skewed by exceptional buying from Huawei says CLSA (formerly Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia). Huawei was stockpiling to mitigate the effects of a possible US export ban on US ICs, says CLSA. CLSA estimates that this freak buying spree added 8% to Q1 semiconductor market growth worth $35 billion to …

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Following another top-ten finish at the Monaco E-Prix, the Mouser Electronics-sponsored GEOX DRAGON Formula E racing team heads to Germany for the Berlin E-Prix on May 25. At the Monaco E-Prix, driver José María “Pechito” López continued GEOX DRAGON’s successful season, coming in tenth. Mouser is sponsoring the GEOX DRAGONFormula E team throughout the 2018-19 …

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The NODE Mini Server V2 is powered by a Raspberry Pi 3B+ and uses a 2.5-inch HDD or SSD for data storage. Some of the ports require desoldering from the Pi. Build details are supplied by NODE on its website along with source files for the case and PCB designs. In addition to the Pi, an …

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