After a soft 2015 for the optoelectronics, sensors, actuators, and discretes (O-S-D) market, 2016 is expected to be a year of stabilisation prior to a return to normal growth rates, reports IC Insights. IC Insights’ 2016 O-S-D Report—A Market Analysis and Forecast for Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, and Discretes sees combined O-S-D sales growing 5% in 2016 …

O-S-D market to grow 5% this year, says IC Insights

LG Innotek has added to its portfolio of ZigBee-enabled products based on Daintree technology and Samsung had announced compatibility with the Daintree platform after announcing a Smart Lighting Module at L+B.

You can now view Amazon Aurora clusters on the RDS console. Managing multiple clusters in your fleet is easier as the cluster view allows you to modify and delete clusters as well as manage the Aurora instances on them. For more information on the cluster view and APIs, read the Amazon Aurora User Guide . To know more about Amazon Aurora, visit our product page. 

You can now launch new Oracle 12c and 11g database versions “11.2.0.4v7”, “12.1.0.1.v4” and “12.1.0.2.v3” that include the January 2016 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU). In new versions, we also increased the limit on number of custom Oracle directories to 10,000 and enabled re-granting of read privileges on Oracle dump directories. 

Collins has been promoted from Chief Operating Officer to the position of Chief Executive Officer.

The Wyland National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation is presented by The Wyland Foundation and Toyota, with support from The Toro Company.

The manual snow survey revealed a water content of 97% of historical average — a strong showing, but not strong enough to significantly alleviate the water deficits of the past four years of drought.

IDT has added to its power management products with the introduction of a dual-phase digital power controller that can help customers optimize, monitor and control high-power supply systems. The second-generation ZSPM1363 digital PWM controller delivers high performance and excellent transient response, making it ideal for addressing the growing demands in the telecommunications, server, storage, FPGA …

IDT adds to power management portfolio

In the coming decades the improvement and choice of land vehicle powertrain will mainly be dictated by emissions conformance which will mean a cost/performance compromise. This will result in popularity moving from conventional to pure electric as laws tighten and technology improves, writes Dr Peter Harrop, chairman, IDTechEx Pure electric is already the norm for …

Electric vehicle cost penalty may be decisive

Head over to Andy Workshop for a wealth of Gadget Master material, including how he built his own frequency counter (originally looking for a simple tool for another project, he was side-tracked into building one himself). Thus began the “Nanocounter” (see right). “I somehow managed to persuade myself that it’d be a fun and educational project …

Measure the accuracy of Andy’s Android-friendly frequency counter