The UK should embrace the tech promise embodied in the IoT, AI and blockchain, writes Josh Brooks.

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Metropolis Business Media is today announcing a change to Electronics Weekly’s editorial team.

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A chance to shape the destination of an Elektra 2017 Award. We are looking for readers’ votes in the Consumer Product Innovation category.

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ST suffered a number of ‘mini stoppages’ at its Crolles site last week, reports the ST employees’ representative body CAD-ST, and last Friday, had a one hour stoppage from 13.00 to 14.00 which was joined by about half the permanent staff on the 200mm site. Asked for a reaction to the the CAD-ST stsatement, ST’s …

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Microlease/Livingston has appointed a new sales director for the European markets of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Michael Prax has spent over 25 years in the EMEA test and measurement business. Prior to  joining Microlease/Livingston, he had held high-level management positions at Tektronix, Ametek and JDSU (now known as Viavi). The test system rental and distribution …

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Farnell element14 is now offering start-up companies specialist support and resources to take their products to market. Dubbed Maker to Market, this support includes product design and manufacturing services. Peter Birks, business president, Farnell element14, writes: “With our Maker to Market services, we are helping to meet the needs of both start-ups and professional makers …

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There was once a boy who caught the electronics bug early on his way to becoming the founding CEO of a company valued at over $30 billion. “At 13  had my own radio and TV repair business, ” he recalls, “Dad got the orders in the pub. I cycled round and fixed radios and TVs …

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Europe’s first robotic retail assistants will go live at intu Lakeside in the UK this weekend after being introduced by robot specialists BotsAndUs to shoppers at intu’s Milton Keynes shopping centre last month. The robots, which will direct customers to different parts of the centre, are part of an online personal shopper service going live …

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We are looking for readers’ votes in the University Research category, sponsored by RS Components.

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Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Management Agent (OMA) for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Cloud Control 13c1 and 13c2. OEM 13c  offers web-based tools to monitor and manage your Oracle databases. Amazon RDS for Oracle installs OMA, which then communicates with your Oracle Management Service (OMS) to provide monitoring information.