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DIY SMD reflow for small boards

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Makers and hobbyists have created all sorts of equipment to re-flow surface-mount components. The first I came across were modified domestic table-top ovens – some re-engineered to work exceedingly well. They will take a small PC motherboard, or multiple smaller boards, but are large (~450mm wide) and over-kill for a single small board. Whiles pondering alternatives …

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Qualcomm does seem to relish a scrap – whether with Nokia in the days when Nokia ruled the mobile phone market or with the regulators in Japan, Korea and Europe or the richest company in the world. Now it’s got a raft of Asian contract manufacturers – Foxconn, Pegatron, Wistron and Compal – suing the …

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Raspberry Pi runs Netflix video streaming

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A software development firm, with a liking for ARM-based systems, has demonstrated how it is possible to run Netflix on a Raspberry Pi and so turn it into a low cost home media streaming system. The firm is Eltechs, which is the company behind the ExaGear Desktop which enables x86 applications such as Skype, Teamviewer, MS …

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Open source tools set to help parallel programming of multicores

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The Multicore Association, the processor standards body with a focus on multicore processor implementations, has announced the availability of an enhanced implementation of its Multicore Task Management API (MTAPI) integrated into an open source framework called Embedded Multicore Building Blocks (EMB2). The MTAPI takes care of task scheduling and execution on embedded parallel systems. While …

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Amazon Kinesis Streams Server-Side Encryption Now Available Broadly

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Earlier this month, we announced support for Server-Side Encryption in Kinesis Streams in select AWS regions. Today, we are expanding the availability of this feature to all public AWS regions except the China (Beijing) region, and to the AWS GovCloud region. Server-side encryption makes it easy to meet strict data management requirements by encrypting your data at rest within Kinesis Streams. For more information, see the Kinesis Streams FAQ page and Server-Side Encryption  in the Kinesis Streams Developer Guide.

AWS Marketplace announces enhancements to the Product Support Connection

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AWS Marketplace, which lists over 3,800 software listings from popular software vendors across 35 product categories, has announced an update to the Product Support Connection “PSC”, which allows customers to optionally provide identifying information (name, contact details, location, job title, and company name) in the AWS Marketplace website for product support purposes to help get better support by letting sellers more easily verify your identity. In this updated feature release, customers will see the new seller support ID field, if the seller is enrolled in PSC and has chosen to enable that field, as an additional piece of data that can be entered, edited, or deleted when filling out their contact details.  

AWS CloudTrail Adds S3 Data Events in Canada (Central) and EU (London) Regions

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AWS CloudTrail S3 Data Events allow you to record API actions on Amazon S3 objects and receive detailed information such as the AWS account of the caller, IAM user role of the caller, time of the API call, IP address of the API, and other details. You can programmatically access and act upon the Data Events after they are delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket or to Amazon CloudWatch Events. For example, you can quickly reapply the original Access Control List (ACL) on an object if the ACL of an object is modified. 

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