The Wipperfürth Bluetooth-based light-to-smartphone system marks the first known deployment of Osram’s “Einstone” IoT technology.

Royal Philips and Philips Lighting announced Q4 and FY 2016 results with LED revenue growing, while Cree’s quarterly results beat expectations even while decreasing year over year and Forest Lighting faces a patent fight over LED tubes.

EC2 instances in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now offer native support for the IPv6 protocol worldwide. Last month, IPv6 in VPC was launched in the US East (Ohio) region. We now support IPv6 in all AWS regions, except regions in China.

We are pleased to announce that we’ve added a new edge location in Munich, Germany for Amazon CloudFront. The Munich location is our third location in Germany (joining Frankfurt and Berlin), and our 7th edge location in Germany bringing the total number of worldwide edge locations to 69. To see a list of Amazon CloudFront global edge locations, please see our edge location list here.

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We are excited to announce the release of Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.7, which includes 403 new improvements, fixes, and features to Amazon’s free, cross-platform 3D engine that enables you to create the highest-quality games, connect games to the vast compute and storage of the AWS Cloud, and engage fans with Twitch.

We are pleased to announce that Application Load Balancers now support native Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). With this ability, clients can now connect to the Application Load Balancer in a dual-stack mode via either IPv4 or IPv6.

You can now use blue/green deployments with AWS CodeDeploy. Now, you can choose from two deployment types when using CodeDeploy. The existing deployment type supported by CodeDeploy is now known as an in-place deployment .

The retrofit of 10 new pumps will provide the plant with a longer operating life and help reduce overall maintenance costs at the facility.

 

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for January 23, 2017.

Poseidon Water’s proposed mega desalination plant at Huntington Beach, California, has been named as one of US President Trump’s top 50 priority infrastructure projects in a document purportedly leaked by Trump’s transition team.