There’s a kind of a worry going around that productivity has declined and the intriguing thing about it is that no one knows why. UK productivity, the value of the output produced per hour worked – rose at 2.2% a year for decades before the recession. Since the recession the growth rate has been 0.5%. …
UltraSoc Leap into top 100
UltraSoC, the provider of semiconductor IP for on-chip analytics, performance optimization and hardware-based security, has been named by Mishcon de Reya and City AM, in the 2016 Leap 100 list of companies to watch. Now in its second year, the Leap 100 provides a guide to the UK’s most exciting, fast-growth companies. Businesses are selected …
Ricoh gets into no-flicker LED lighting chips
Ricoh has introduced its first LED lighting chip – apart from the camera/phone LED controller it makes. R1580 is a dc-fed constant-current LED driver controller that needs on mosfet and a handful of passives to make a driver. The novel bit is that it is either a fixed output device, programmable by a resistor, or …
AWS Mobile Hub adds NoSQL database service
You can now use AWS Mobile Hub to add a fully managed cloud database service to your mobile app. This feature is powered by Amazon DynamoDB which provides a fast (single-digit millisecond latency) service at any scale.
Deploy Ansible Tower on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start
This new Quick Start automates the deployment of Ansible Tower on the AWS cloud. Ansible is an IT DevOps tool that handles cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, continuous delivery, and many other IT processes. Ansible Tower is a web-based user interface for Ansible.
Enhanced Monitoring is now available for Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Enhanced Monitoring which gives you near-real time access to a set of 26 system metrics and per process metrics for your instance.
Calif. DWR State Water Project allocation estimate increased to 60%
March storms boosted water levels in Northern California reservoirs.
Watts Water opens Watts Works Learning Center
Through the program, courses in four categories will be offered: pressure regulation & control, HVAC (hydronic and electric), cross-connection control, and temperature regulation & control.
VIDEO: Irish bubble-less aeration tech attracts investment from Dow
An Irish university spinout technology that makes bold claims to reduce aeration energy consumption by 75% has attracted investment from the Dow Chemical Company…
Calif. Water Summit to showcase state’s current water status
Infocast’s 3rd Annual California Water Summit will take place in Sacramento, CA on June 1-3, 2016.