The Amazon Connect Chat user interface now supports browser notifications through your customers’ web browser, improving customer satisfaction by letting the customer know when the agent has responded to their message. When your customer receives a new chat message while in another application or browser window, they will receive a notification through their web browser that they can easily click to view the message in the Chat user interface. This feature is supported out-of-the box without the need for manual configuration.

Amazon S3 on Outposts is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The expansion into the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions allows U.S. government agencies and contractors to move sensitive workloads onto their AWS Outposts by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements for object storage.

AWS Secrets Manager now transparently supports SSL connections when rotating database secrets for Amazon RDS MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. You can now enforce SSL to be always enabled for these databases, without first modifying AWS Lambda resources provided by AWS Secrets Manager. 

Thanks to Gartner for this one – the top three capex spenders this year:

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Only three countries in the EU criminalise both the buyers and sellers of sex services –  Croatia, Romania and Lithuania. Countries like Austria, Germany and the Netherlands are at the forefront when it comes to incorporating sex workers into the regular working populace. In Germany, for example, the Prostitution Act passed in 2002 enables sex …

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Eutelsat, the Paris-based satellite operator, has appointed a new CEO with effect from the New Year – Eva Berneke. She joins Eutelsat from being the CEO of KMD, a Danish IT and software company that is now part of the NEC Group. She is credited by Eutelsat with the “transformation of KMD from a mainly …

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 SL Power Electronics, a global leader in designing and manufacturing AC/DC power conversion solutions, announces the availability of the GB130Q family of highly efficient, 130W quad output power supplies in a 3″ X 5″ Open frame form factor. Developed specifically for next-generation applications the screw-less design with no topside heatsink allows for a more automated …

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NEC says it has successfully demonstrated its O-RAN massive MIMO capabilities for the O-RAN ALLIANCE Global PlugFest 2021 at five of its venues, hosted by leading operators and the Telecom Infra Project (TIP). This year, NEC contributed as the first commercial provider of massive MIMO open Radio Units, resulting in NEC’s O-RU being integrated with …

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Murata and Michelin are in volume of RFID modules  that embed into tyres. The passive RFID tags require no external power supply. The tag delivers low cost and easy tyre traceability throughout its lifespan, enabling the management of inventory logistics, aftermarket maintenance and recycling operations. “This new generation of RFID tags is already in more …

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Verification and stimulus specialist, Breker Verification Systems, has taken its Cache Coherency TrekApp as the basis for the System Coherency Synthesis TrekApp, which it introduced at DAC58 in San Francisco. The tool uses abstract models of common and novel algorithms to automatically generate high coverage coherency tests for complex, multi-agent system platforms based on coverage directives. …

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