AWS Config rules are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region.

Amazon Athena is now available in the Europe (Ireland) region.

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.

With the latest release customers can now use Amazon Athena in the following regions: US East (Northern Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland). To learn more, please visit the Amazon Athena page.

AWS Step Functions is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region.

Company paves way in North America for expansion of pipeline inspection, condition assessment and in-line leak detection.

European component industry is facing substantial difficulties in 2017 from proposed changes to EU chemicals regulations, says German component supplier body, the FBDi. The concern is that new chemicals tracibility requirements to be imposed by the EU Commission and European Chemicals Agency will seriously impact the electronic component supply chain. FBDi chairman, Georg Steinberger writes: …

Read full article: New chemicals rules will hit electronics supply chain hard

The LTC7000/-1 is a high speed, high side N-channel MOSFET driver that operates up to a 150V supply voltage.

Read full article: High-speed, high side n-channel MosFET driver operates up to 150V

Here’s an interesting thought – thanks to CB Insights – the amount of stuff that goes on on the Internet every minute:

Read full article: The Unforgiving Minute

NI introduces a vector signal transceiver (VST) with baseband test capability for 5G applications.

Read full article: NI introduces first baseband vector signal transceiver for 5G

Apple took 83.4% of the profits of the smartphone industry in Q1, reports Strategy Analytics, despite having only 14.9% market share measured in units. Apple’s smartphone operating profit was $10.2 billion on revenues of $51.6 billion. Samsung took 12.9% of the profits of the smartphone industry despite having a 22.8% market share measured in units. …

Read full article: Apple takes 83% of smartphone industry profit on 15% unit market share

Uber has not been paying VAT on its taxi fares, reports Reuters. Uber is popular because it is cheap. It undercuts regular tax fares. One way it does that is by subsidising fares and absorbing large losses, and the other way is by not paying VAT. Uber avoids VAT because all its drivers are each …

Read full article: Uber avoids VAT