Lindsley Ruth, the CEO of RS Components, says individuals can still make a difference in electronics and sees opportunities ahead in the future.

Read full article: Interview: RS Components CEO bullish on future of UK electronics

Electronics Weekly is teaming up with RS Components to launch a new programme, EW BrightSparks, highlighting the brightest and most talented young electronic engineers in the UK today.

Read full article: EW BrightSparks celebrates the future of electronics engineering

Thanks to IC Insights for this one – the top 20 semiconductor companies at the end of H1:

Read full article: Top 10 (plus 10) IC Companies In H1

Amazon WorkMail now supports interoperability with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and 2013. Interoperability allows you to minimize disruption to your users as you migrate mailboxes to Amazon WorkMail, or use Amazon WorkMail for a subset of your corporate mailboxes. With interoperability, you can set up rich co-existence between Amazon WorkMail and Microsoft Exchange Server, which allows you to use the same corporate domain for mailboxes across both environments, and allows your users to seamlessly schedule meetings with bi-directional sharing of calendar free-busy information. 

Today, AWS Marketplace released Self-Service Listings, a new, web-based interface that lets AWS Marketplace software vendors manage their product listings within the AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). Starting today, software vendors that wish to list their products for sale on AWS Marketplace can log in to AMMP to view their existing product listings, create a new free listing, create a new Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) listing, or track the status of their submitted listing requests. Self-Service Listings offers workflow and collaboration tools that make AWS Marketplace product listings easier to track and manage; vendors can use the new portal to save listings in progress, collaborate internally on product listing creation, view their request history, and more.

Beginning today, Amazon Route 53 starts rolling out support for DNS queries over Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6).

Amazon EC2 instances are now available in more regions:

• R3 (r3.large, r3.xlarge, r3.2xlarge) in South America (Sao Paulo)

• D2 in China (Beijing)

To learn more about these instance types, visit the Amazon EC2 Instance Types page, the Amazon EC2 User Guide’s section on Instance Types, or the Amazon EC2 Pricing page.

GloFo’s plan to get control of a cut-price fab in China has run into trouble, reports Digitimes. GloFo had an agreement with the regional government of Chongqing province to equip an old fab with 40nm 12-inch equipment whereupon it would obtain 51% of the jv with the Chongqing government owning the fab. According to Digitimes’ …

Read full article: GloFo jv China fab deal on hold

Driven by growth in software and IT services revenues, worldwide IT spending is forecast to reach $3.5 trillion in 2017, up 2.9% from 2016’s $3.4 trillion, says Gartner. Software spending is projected to grow 6% in 2016, and another 7.2% in 2017 to total $357 billion. IT services spending is expected to grow 3.9% in …

Read full article: IT spend to top $3.5trn

Last weeks huge internet attack on internet firm Dyn, said to have affected Twitter, Spotify and PayPal amongst other big names, was at least in part launched from IoT security cameras that continue to be a threat, according to security specialist Brian Krebs. The attack was ‘distributed denial of service’ (DDoS), where many – thousands or …

Read full article: Dyn cyber-attack came from incurable IoT devices