SoftBank is to to sell a quarter of its ARM shares to the Saudi-backed Vision Fund, according to the Financial Times.  

Read full article: SoftBank sells a quarter of its ARM shares, said FT

In today’s 2017 Budget statement, Chancellor Philip Hammond has unveiled an investment strategy for bringing universal 5G internet access to the UK. But what must the UK communications sector do in order to capitalise on this investment opportunity. Dr Li-Ke Huang, 5G ‎Research & Technology, Cobham Wireless believes this investment in 5G technology is vital …

Read full article: Budget 2017: comms industry welcomes new 5G investment

To mark International Women’s Day, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has launched the call for entries for its 2017 Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards, which celebrate their 40th anniversary this year. The aim of the awards is to celebrate the best female engineering talent and demonstrate to young women and girls across …

Read full article: International Women’s Day: 9% is not enough says IET

International Women’s Day will highlight the lack of status women still face in tech business and the need for gender diversity strategies.

Read full article: International Women’s Day: diversity works for tech business

After two years of litigation, Lynk Labs’ patent action focused on a Juno Lighting business deal has been settled with Acuity Brands and Schneider, the current and prior parents of Juno.

Installations of SSL luminaires, lamps, and retrofit kits completed over the course of 2012–2015 have been studied by the DOE, revealing details on reliability, lumen maintenance, chromaticity shift, and other operational parameters.

AWS has published a new Quick Start that automatically deploys a Heptio Kubernetes cluster on the AWS Cloud in about 10 minutes.

Amazon Aurora now supports the sharing of encrypted snapshots between AWS accounts. This follows our recent announcement of encrypted database replication and snapshot copy across regions, and extends the Aurora security model to separate accounts that have shared encryption keys. The owner of the other account can copy the snapshot or restore a database instance from it.

We are thrilled to announce new AWS Direct Connect location. The new locations is at Interxion Vienna (supporting AWS Frankfurt region).

We are pleased to announce new Amazon Aurora capabilities for global database deployment. Replication across AWS regions now supports encrypted databases, so you can scale read operations to a location close to your users, build a disaster recovery architecture that spans the globe, and easily migrate data from one region to another, all the while maintaining full encryption at rest and in transit.