Amazon is pleased to offer new patch management capability as part of EC2 Systems Manager. 

You can now configure Amazon Kinesis Firehose to prepare your streaming data before it is loaded to data stores. With this new feature, you can easily convert raw streaming data from your data sources into formats required by your destination data stores, without having to build your own data processing pipelines. 

AWS IoT is a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. AWS IoT can support billions of devices and trillions of messages, and can process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely. With AWS IoT, your applications can keep track of and communicate with all your devices, all the time, even when they aren’t connected. 

The redesigned Amazon WorkMail web client now offers a modern user interface, and makes it easier to access your email from a web browser. You can customize the size of the hierarchy and preview panels, which allows you to optimize your experience for the size of your screen. In addition, your most frequently used folders appear at the top of your folder list so that you don’t have to search for them. 

Nine people have been charged so far an investigation of Flint’s lead-tainted water system.

The 14,000 feet of new pipe replaces water main that was installed as far back as the early 1900s.

The worldwide semiconductor market is forecasted to be $335 billion in 2016 – virtually unchanged from 2015 – and to grow 3% in 2017 and 2% in 2018 to reach $354 billion in 2018, reports WSTS. For 2016, growth in Discretes (4.2%), Sensors (22.6%), Analog (4.8%) and Microprocessors is expected to be offset by declines …

Read full article: Flat 2016, growth in 2017 and 2018, says WSTS

EEV CLAIM ‘FIRST’ FOR HIGH-POWER KLYSTRON. This, 56 years ago, was the headline of a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of September 28th 1960. The story continues: A HIGH-POWER klystron claimed to be the first of its kind designed specifically for commercial radar is now being ordered for 50-cm radar equipments in Denmark , Great …

Read full article: EEV’s Klystron The First Of Its Kind

At the CES 2017 exhibition in Las Vegas next month, German printed electronics firm Heliatek is presenting its HeliaFilm technology for building integrated organic photovoltaic cells for widespread urban installations. The significance of HeliaFilm is that it integrates the PV panels as part of the building. In this way the energy generation can be distributed around industrial and commercial buildings which will be smartly connected with …

Read full article: CES: Solar cells integrated into IoT-connected buildings

Nearly 3 million VR devices will be shipped this year and 5 million next year, says TrendForce. Biggest seller is Play Station VR followed by Facebook’s Oculus Rift and HTC’s Vie. All three devices have been hit by low production yields and component shortages, says TrendForce which estimates that 2.91 million units will ship this …

Read full article: 2.9m VR units shipped in 2016, says TrendForce