Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers securely transfer data between AWS services and cloud applications, is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. With AppFlow, you can run data flows at enterprise scale between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications like Salesforce, SAP, Zendesk, Slack, and ServiceNow, and AWS services like Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift, in just a few clicks. See where Amazon AppFlow is available by using the AWS Region Table.

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now supports automatic data expiration by using Time to Live (TTL) settings. With TTL, you set expiration times on attributes or rows in your tables, and Keyspaces automatically deletes those expired attributes or rows.

Amazon WorkSpaces now offers new bundles powered by Windows Server 2019, providing a Windows 10 desktop experience along with a 64-bit Microsoft Office 2019 Professional Plus bundle option in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. The feature brings a refreshed Windows 10 desktop experience, and enables customers to run applications that require recent Windows versions.

I am preparing to sacrifice my liver for my country, Ed confides to his diary, this evening I go to the Russian Embassy to meet my Russkie counterpart. It’s always fun going to the Russian Embassy, the drink flows and by God those guys can sink it. My counterpart, the Russian Industry Minister, is the …

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Eugene Kleiner, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, was a reluctant recruit into the semiconductor business. Julius Blank, another Fairchild co-founder, is quoted by Charlie Sporck in his book SPINOFF as saying that an early recruit to Shockley Semiconductor, Dean Knapic (incidentally the first Silicon Valley spin-off leaving Shockley to found …

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There’s the Nvidia acquisition of Arm (both news story and blog post), the new Chair of the IET, the Integrity RTOS for RISC-V and the importance of Taiwan.

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Semtech has upgraded the LoRa Developer Portal, which makes it easier for developers, to quickly build IoT devices connected with the LoRaWAN standard. The updated portal gives developers low-risk avenues for building with LoRa. With kits and tutorials, developers can create prototypes quickly and cost effectively to see how LoRaWAN can work for their IoT …

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The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft are funding five trilateral projects for the transfer of knowledge from DFG-funded basic research to industry. The collaboration between universities, Fraunhofer institutes and companies is being supported with a total of around €4.5 million over three years. One of the projects is the “MEMS-based parametric …

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ST and Sierra Wireless have enabled the STM32 MCU user community to leverage flexible cellular IoT connectivity and edge-to-cloud technology from Sierra Wireless. The agreement helps developers tackle the diverse challenges involved with creating and deploying IoT solutions, including device design and development, enrollment with a cellular network, and connection to cloud services, enabling a quicker …

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Hiber, the Industrial IoT-as-a-Service company, has turned to Inmarsat to provide the satellite connectivity backbone for its own low-cost, low-power network for IoT offering. The recently announced agreement pairs Inmarsat’s ELERA L-band network – a global satellite network for IoT – with Hiber’s IoT-as-a-service ecosystem. This is aimed at transport, logistics, agriculture and mining industries. …

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