ACWA Group has appointed Fadey Kassim as chief officer of sales and strategy to drive growth in the Middle East, particularly in the municipal and industrial water reuse segment.

As part of the school committee’s recently enacted Water Policy, Boston Public hired a consulting firm to retest the drinking water in the 30 school buildings that have active water fountains.

The Nashville-based textile company must now ensure the maintenance of water treatment at the Fulton Avenue Superfund Site in Hempstead and North Hempstead.

Spotted on a Fairchild A10 Warthog ground-attack aircraft at an airshow in Wisconsin, and photographed by commentator of this parish Steve K, this landing light is a long way from Ullverston Cumbria, where it was made by Oxley. Designed to replace a PAR46 bulb, it has a 200,000cd 6,000K white mode (+/-11° to 10%), and a …

Read full article: A little bit of Cumbria at a US air show

The man behind the Megaprocessor is building his own computer, transistor by transistor, system component by system component.

Read full article: Hail the Megaprocessor, larging the microprocessor

Datwyler is still in the running for Premier Farnell despite Avnet’s bid. In June the company bid £795 million then, in July, Avnet made an £868 million bid.

Read full article: Datwyler still in the running for Premier Farnell, says board

The largest electronic data processing system in Europe has been installed by Neckermann Versand KG in Frankfurt, West Germany. So, 55 years ago, starts a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 25th 1961. The story continues: The centre consists of an IBM 7070 fully transistorised computing system. Neckermann’s, believed to be one of the …

Read full article: Largest EDP System In Europe Installed In Frankfurt

Intersil has announced ISL91127 and ISL91128, two buck boost regulators with 4.5A built-in switches and up to 96% efficiency.

Read full article: Buck boost DC-DC for battery products is up to 96% efficient

Infineon now dominates in every segment of the power semiconductor market, reports IHS. Last year, Infineon took over the overall top spot in power from TI, and the top spot in power modules from Mitsubishi, helped by its takeover of IR. It has been the leading supplier of discretes for some years. Discretes fell 10.1% …

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AWS OpsWorks is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. Additionally, you can now access OpsWorks using new regional endpoints in the following regions: EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), South America (São Paolo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo).