Customers can now privately access AWS services from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet.  

Japan’s Mitsui & Co and Tedagua of Spain have formed special purpose company Caitan to deliver a desalination project at Spence copper mine in Chile.

Bauer Nimr will expand the world’s largest constructed wetland as part of a agreement with oil and gas company Petroleum Development Oman…

ENPAR Technologies, a specialist in electrochemical water treatment, is to acquire Pumptronics for $3 million, comprising $1.2 million in cash and the remainder in shares.

I came across a nice 20MHz function generator output buffer, made of easy-to-find transistors. It is here. The website is by Dick Cappel, who seems to have created a lot of interesting designs, and is worth a nose around. .

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Alibaba has bought a stake in a Chinese microprocessor manufacturer to promote development of of processors which support Alibaba’s operating system – AliOS. AliOS has two flavours – called AliOS Cloud Link for cloud computing, and AliOS Things for IoT. The processor company is 16 year-old C-Sky Microsystems of Hangzhou which specialises in low-power 32-bit …

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The five year-old consumer electronics company I.am+, founded by Black Eyed Peas pop singer will.i.am, has raised $117 million and has developed a voice assistant which is going to be used by Deutsche Telekom. The company employs around 300 people. The voice assistant, called Omega, is initially designed for corporate customer service functions but the …

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Although the China smartphone market declined in Q3 the market share of the top 5 producers increased, reports IDC. The top 5 saw their share increase from 65.2% in Q3 2016 to 76% in Q3 2017. No.1 was Huawei with 22.3 million units for  a 19.4% share. No.2.was OPPO with 21.6 millions units for an …

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Lattice adds package options to its MachXO3 control PLD family to address the design requirements of the communications and industrial sectors.

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Farnell element14 has launched local language versions of its IoT Hub

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