The pilot powerline communications deployment by enModus serves a strong reminder that existing cables can serve double duty and slash energy costs.

Amazon Chime is introducing new, frustration-free pricing to make it easier to buy and use Amazon Chime. With this new approach to pricing, you only pay for users that host meetings, on the days they host them, while attendees remain free. Usage fees are $3.00 per user per day, with a cap of $15.00 per user per month. In addition, we are reducing the number of plans from three to two by discontinuing the Plus plan. Screen sharing and user management fees will be included with the Basic plan, which remains free. With these changes, we are simplifying our pricing, and making it easier to save money while providing access to Amazon Chime Pro features to more of your users.

Thanks to SEPAM for this insight – the 25 most prolific applicants for patents at the European Patent Office last year: 1.HUAWEI. 2 398 2.SIEMENS. 2 220 3.LG. 2 056 4.SAMSUNG. 2 016 5.QUALCOMM 1 854 6.ROYAL PHILIPS 1 733 7.UNITED TECHNOLOGIES 1 719 8.INTEL. 1 435 9.ROBERT BOSCH. 1 412 10.ERICSSON. 1 373 11.GENERAL …

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Following  legal challenges by 22 US States’ Attorneys-General to the US FCC’s February 22nd order to overturn net neutrality rules, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict litigation says that the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco will hear the consolidated challenges. The San Francisco court has 24 judges, of which 18 were appointed by …

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Despite reports that Toshiba may walk away from the proposed sale of  its memory business to a Bain-Hynix led consortium, the head of the  memory unit says the deal is going ahead. At the moment the deal is awaiting regulatory approval from China. A clause in the sale agreement says that if  regulatory approvals are …

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Pick your data security standards carefully when responding to the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) that will be in force in May, was the message UK memory firm Integral Memory bought with it on its first trip to Embedded World in Nuremberg. “GDPR has brought the issue of data security into sharp focus,” said Integral …

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With a new Nexperia plant in China, major industry acquisitions, 5G spectrum licences, International Women’s Day, Raspberry Pi accessories and the Qualcomm-Broadcom tussle all figuring prominently…

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Syfer-branded EMI filters from Knowles Precision Devices are being targeted at medical implantable devices and the space sector. Designed for replacing conventional array filters in medical implantable devices is the SYFER E03 (X2Y) range. Available in case sizes from 0805 to 2220 these are integrated passive devices featuring both common and differential mode capacitors in a single …

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It’s a new orchestral work like no other, bringing together Dyson technology – such as Airblades and cordless vacuums – with a traditional orchestra (The Orion Orchestra, for young musicians).

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When Atari and the IC industry were young, founder Nolan Bushnell told Atari engineer Al Alcorn that GE had commissioned the company to develop a ping-pong video game using 20 chips. Leslie Berlin’s book Troublemakers relates how Alcorn proceeded to invent the phenomenally successful Pong but it needed over 70 chips. Alcorn told Bushnell he …

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