Famed San Francisco wax museum turns to AC-powered, MR16 GU10 LED lamps to spotlight life-size representations of actors, politicians, and more, while the Staten Island Museum turned to PAR30 SSL products to light its historical exhibits.

AWS Mobile Hub now allows you to set the AWS region where you would like your project’s AWS resources to be provisioned. These include – US East (N Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). Simply login to the AWS Mobile Hub console , create a new project and set the region you would like your resources for that project to be created in. Mobile Hub then uses this setting to provision AWS resources as you enable features like Cloud Logic, NoSQL database and User Data Storage in that region. Additionally, if a particular AWS service needed by a feature is not available in a region that you have provisioned, Mobile Hub will provision services in the nearest region where that AWS service is available.

Start today by visiting AWS Mobile Hub console .

You can now use Amazon Elastic Transcoder to create WAV outputs with PCM audio. The WAV format primarily stores raw and uncompressed audio and is ideal for use in editing workflows and for archival. You can try out this format by using the newly available system presets.

To learn more, please consult the Elastic Transcoder Developer Guide .

Relationship further expands Nalco Water’s total water management solutions.

EPA’s contractor will continue work through October 2016.

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly newscast for the week of July 18, 2016.

ARM is to be sold to SoftBank of Japan for $32 billion – $10 billion more than the pre-offer market cap. ARM’s board is to recommend the deal to shareholders. The government may also have to approve the deal. SoftBank says it will: Keep the senior management team, business model and culture; Keep the HQ …

Softbank to buy ARM

Is it sensible to pay $32 billion for a company which makes a profit of $660 million? Received wisdom was that ARM’s market cap was so big compared to its profits that no one would be crazy enough to buy it. Now someone is. It was also thought that big ARM customers like Apple and …

Is SoftBank Crazy?

The next country in line for a Qualcomm pay-out is Korea. The Korea Times reports that the Korea Fair Trade Commission is looking at fining Qualcomm up to $900 million. Last year China took $975 million off Qualcomm for unfair trading practices. The Korea FTC has held a 17 month investigation into Qualcomm’s business practices. …

Korea set to fine Qualcomm

The proposed $32bn ARM takeover by Japanese firm SoftBank has caught the semiconductor market by surprise. Most observers believe that the processor IP which is the main ARM business was so important to so many chip makers that ARM’s independence was too strategically important to the market to be broken. As a result it was …

Comment: IoT made ARM takeover inevitable