We are excited to announce that Amazon Pinpoint now supports Kinesis events streams to stream app and campaign analytics events via Kinesis streams or Kinesis Firehose streams and monetization dashboards to view monetization events sent from your mobile app.
AWS Updated the AWS Customer Agreement
AWS updated the AWS Customer Agreement on March 31, 2017.
We’re constantly looking for ways to make using AWS better for our customers. As part of this process, we updated our AWS Customer Agreement on March 31, 2017 to simplify the language, ensure it reflects our latest services and features, and further clarify how customers can use our services.
By continuing to use AWS Services, you agree to the updated terms and conditions in the AWS Customer Agreement.
City of Gloucester partners with Veolia to operate water and wastewater systems
New eight-year contract to manage potable water and wastewater treatment facilities serving the community.
Water Research Foundation focuses efforts on community engagement
Project to build relationships between clean water agencies and the community.
E.Ink makes first profit for five years
E.Ink made a profit of $2 million on sales of $461 million in 2016 after a $14.2 million loss in 2015. Royalty income was $74.3 million. it is the first time the company has made a profit in the last five years. Gross margin went up from 31 – 36% thanks to more displays being …
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Flexible AMOLEDs to out-sell rigid AMOLEDs this year
Flexible OLEDS will outsell rigid OLEDS this year, reports IHS, despited the highe cost of flexibles IHS forecasts Q3 sales for flexible AMOLEDs at $3.2 billion and sales of rigid AMOLEDs at $3 billion. With many smartphone brands planning to apply flexible AMOLED displays to their high-end product lines, revenues for flexible AMOLED panels are …
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Thermal printer works off one Li-ion cell
Rohm has a thermal printhead for incorporating in payment terminals capable of being driven by a single-cell Li-ion battery. Thermal printheads are electronic devices that print on special media (i.e. thermal paper) by generating and dissipating heat. Conventional thermal printheads for payment terminals are driven by 2-cell Li-ion batteries. As thermal printers do not use …
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IoT design board makes most of its FPGA
Arrow Electronics is targeting the maker market with an IoT design board based on an FPGA. The Arrow MAX1000 board can be installed directly into a custom application or integrated on to a completely separate board. The Intel MAX10 FPGA has 8,000 logic elements. The chip also includes integrated flash memory, a 1Msample/s 12-bit ADC …
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From the archive: Henry Joseph Round, unrecognised electronics pioneer Part 2
David Jervis recently contacted Electronics Weekly, trying to get a clean copy of an article written about his grandfather 50 years ago. Sadly, we couldn’t help because most of EW’s paper archive was destroyed in a storage accident. The grandfather turned out to be HJ Round, the British engineer who a century ago helped invent what …
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Free design tool used by 100,000 students, says RS
RS Components now has 100,000 users in schools and colleges of its free-for-download DesignSpark PCB design tool via its educational network licence. In the last five years 100,000 users from more than 200 places of education across the globe, including schools, academies, colleges and universities, have been using the PCB tool. Before the launch of the licence, the DesignSpark …
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