Today, the EC signed the contract for a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) with the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO) ASBL. Representing the private sector, ECSO will work directly with the EC to improve Europe’s industrial policy on cybersecurity. A ceremony to mark the occasion was hosted by Vice President for Digital Single Market, Andrus Ansip, and Commissioner …

EC initiates cyber programme

Roke Manor Research has demonstrated the equivalent of an aircraft’s ‘black box’ for use in autonomous vehicles.

Black box can build public trust in driverless car safety

A reference design targeted at the development of IoT wireless sensor nodes using the Sigfox radio protocol is being offered by French M2M specialist éolane. The firm, which is already as supplier of Sigfox low data rate IoT wireless systems, is offering the reference design module based on Silicon Labs’ EZR32 wireless microcontroller, an ARM …

IoT reference design brings ARM and open source tools to Sigfox nodes

Anglia is offering a free sample service for components and supporting development kits. The distributor is offering the Ezysample service to customers with an Anglia Live account, and orders are dispatched the same day with no delivery or handling charges. It is available for parts listed on the Ezysample website. These include many newly launched …

Distributor offers free sample service via website

Field telephones and Morse telegraphs were both in use in the trenches in World War One. Generally these were single wire systems, sometimes tens of km long, with the terminal equipment at both ends earthed to complete the circuit. EW models the communicator It didn’t take long for someone to realise that this created ground …

Read full article: Stealth comms 100 years ago, in the trenches of World War One

Okay it is only an illustration, not a real photograph, but it is good to mark Juno’s arrival – five years in the travelling – into the orbit of Jupiter.

Picture of the Day: Juno spacecraft enters orbit of Jupiter

Imagination made a loss of £63.2million pre-tax in the year to April 30, down from a £2.2 million profit the previous year. Revenues dropped 23% to £120 million. Licensing revenue was £17.1 million down from 2015’s £37.8 million – including a one-off £5.7 million revenue reversal for an SoC Design contract Royalty revenue was £102.7 …

Record loss for Imagination

We are happy to announce that Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) with legal entities in countries participating in the European Union (EU) can now register, list, and sell products on AWS Marketplace, bringing a broad new selection to AWS’s worldwide customers. 

Approval of this application will allow the company to continue funding improvements to maintain quality service to its customers and address the need to replace and upgrade water infrastructure.

Endress+Hauser is expanding its manufacturing facility for Raman analyzers.