Amazon Cognito is now available in the EU (London) region.

Amazon Aurora is now available to customers in the AWS US West (N. California) region. This increases the number of available regions to eleven, giving you another option for database placement, availability and scalability.

Amazon WorkDocs now offers additional commenting and feedback capabilities, enabling richer and more meaningful collaboration and making it easier for users to centrally organize feedback in one place.

AWS has expanded its HIPAA compliance program to include AWS Direct Connect as a HIPAA Eligible Service. With the addition of Direct Connect, if you have an executed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with AWS you can now transfer large amounts of data, including Protected Health Information (PHI), into and out of AWS in a cost-effective manner designed for your security. AWS Direct Connect offers several benefits for customers: it lowers bandwidth costs out of AWS (which is valuable for applications that have bulk data transfer requirements), it offers more consistent network performance over Internet-based connections for applications that require real-time data feeds, and it provides an alternative means to connect to the AWS cloud for customers who may have security or compliance policies that prevent VPN connectivity to the cloud.

The latest Wikileaks dump shows just how fiendishly clever hackers are, and how almost nothing people say about hacking can be believed. For instance the latest dump of CIA hacking tools show that hackers can leave other hackers’ fingerprints on the sites they’ve hacked. So when we are told by people on the telly that …

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The Chancellor Philip Hammond has presented his 2017 Spring Budget to Parliament. But amid the tax and National inusrance figures, what was of interest to an electronics audience?

Read full article: A technology roundup of the Spring Budget 2017

  A company president once got enthralled by a chip development project which took eight years to get into production. Three years into the project he was at his company directors’ regular Tuesday lunch when the CEO and company co-founder asked him: “When will we recoup our investment?” The president replied: “After I die, maybe.” …

Read full article: Fable: The President Who Paid A Heavy Price

InvenSense develops an ultrasonic fingerprint imaging technology using aluminum nitride-based pMUTs.

Read full article: Invensense and GloFo make pMUTs

A phase-tracking receiver for next generation Bluetooth and IEEE802.15.4 radio chips supporting supply voltages down to 0.85V.

Read full article: Imec develops phase-tracking receiver for 802.15.4 radio ICs

Toshiba adds six low reverse-current Schottky Barrier Diodes (SBDs) to its diode portfolio

Read full article: Toshiba launches six low reverse-current Schottky Barrier Diodes