Electronics Weekly is hosting the IoT Design 2016 event in London on 15 September 2016. And note that the deadline for early bird offers expires on 30 June.

Deadline for IoT Design Early-Bird booking approaches

An interview with Wired magazine sees Rasperry Pi co-creater Eben Upton talking about the possibilities of running Android on a Raspberry Pi.

Promising signs for Android on a Raspberry Pi?

Universal Display Corporation has bought the OLED intellectual property assets of BASF, through its wholly-owned subsidiary UDC Ireland for approximately €87m. “Representing 15 years of research and development, the assets include over 500 issued and pending patents around the world, in 86 patent families,” said UDC. “Largely consisting of phosphorescent materials and technologies, the portfolio has …

UDC buys BASF OLED assets

OK, so you might have another use for a non-stick surface for polycarbonate and polypropylene, but getting the last of the shower gel out of a bottle is important in my book. Laundry detergent spreads out on a piece of normal polycarbonate (left), but flows rapidly across, and off of, a treated piece.  Researchers at …

Read full article: Getting the last drop out of bottles

Odd that Vodafone should take Brexit as a trigger for suggesting it may relocate its HQ outside the UK. For years while good Euro-democrats like Neelie Kroes pushed for better deals for mobile network consumers – e.g. for cutting roaming and data charges – Vodafone has been the chief lobbyist behind whichever wretched UK politician …

Vodafone Goes Europhile

Saving money — not the planet — is the primary driver of energy saving investments by over 1200 facilities executives surveyed in five countries.

Samsung has added CSP LEDs to its automotive-targeted LED portfolio while Lumileds expands its color LED portfolio and Cree boosts performance for packaged LEDs that target high bays.

Amazon VPC Flow Logs is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. VPC Flow Logs is a feature that enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from your VPC. Once enabled for a particular VPC, Subnet or Elastic Network Interface (ENI), relevant network traffic will be logged to CloudWatch Logs for storage and analysis by your own applications or third-party tools. Additionally, metrics can be created to identify trends and patterns.

In April, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of longer volume and snapshot IDs for EBS and Storage Gateway . Starting today, June 29, 2016, all newly created AWS accounts will use longer volume and snapshot IDs by default in all regions except China (Beijing) and AWS GovCloud (US). If you have not yet tested your systems for compatibility with longer volume and snapshot IDs, you still have the option to request the shorter ID format if necessary. For new AWS regions launching later in 2016, all accounts will default to longer EC2 and EBS IDs, with the option to opt out if needed. 

Amazon EFS provides simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Amazon EFS is easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows you to create and configure file systems quickly and easily. With Amazon EFS, storage capacity is elastic, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, so your applications have the storage they need, when they need it.