Another semiconductor company is using crowd-funding to find the investment needed to bring a product to production and into the commercial market. Lime Microsystems has started a crowd-funding campaign to bring their LimeSDR software defined radio platform into full-scale production. The company is hoping to raise $500,000 to fund the final stages of development and …

Crowd funding changing the game for chip firms

Amazon had Q1 sales of $29 billion for a profit of $513 million. Its cloud service had revenues of $2.57 billion representing about 30% of the cloud services market leaving cloud rivals Google and Microsoft trailing. The cloud business had profits of $604 million in Q1. It delivers 56% of the operating income at Amazon …

Amazon shows its strength

There was an interesting question at the ST results meeting earlier this week: “There was recently a Bloomberg report regarding the contract of the CEO,” asked an analyst, “if – I think your contract is expiring somewhere in May – and there were rumors – STM a new CEO. Any comments there or did I …

The ST Hornet’s Nest

In January, Amazon Web Services announced that longer IDs for EBS volumes and snapshots would be available in April. Starting today, you can opt in to using longer volume and snapshot IDs for EBS and Storage Gateway using APIs or the AWS Management Console.

You can now log all your API calls to AWS WAF through AWS CloudTrail, the AWS service that records API calls for your account and delivers log files to your Amazon S3 bucket. CloudTrail logs can be used to enable security analysis, track changes to your AWS resources, and aid in compliance auditing. Integrating AWS WAF and CloudTrail lets you determine which requests were made to the AWS WAF API, the source IP address from which each request was made, who made the request, when it was made, and more.

We are thrilled to announce 2 new AWS Direct Connect locations. The new locations are at EdgeConneX in Portland Oregon (supporting our Oregon region), and Global Switch in Singapore (supporting our Singapore region). This brings our total location count up to 26.

The 19-1 vote in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee-backed bill identifies $4.5 billion worth of water-related infrastructure projects.

The draft regulations are aimed at increasing total funding for the state’s Drinking Water Program and providing the State Water Board more flexibility to address priority drinking water issues.

The Southern Delivery System (SDS), one of the largest water infrastructure projects completed in the U.S. this century, started delivering water to Colorado Springs customers today.

H2O Innovation is forecasting a drive into the Saudi Arabian desalination chemicals market following its recent deal with provider of specialty chemicals for water and wastewater treatment plants, Chemsbro, whose main customers include the Water and Electricity Ministry of Saudi Arabia, National Water Company, and the Saudi Industrial Property Authority.