Manufacturers have responded to the shock of the UK’s planned exit from the EU by adopting a “wait-and-see” approach to business planning. If this continues for any length of time there is a risk that the economy be affected, according to Zach Witton, deputy chief economist at EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation. “The very sharp pause …

Brexit vote could hit manufacturing investment plans

That strange abberation – the smartwatch – is going the way of all flesh. In Q2 2016 3.5 million smartwatches were sold, says IDC. In Q2 2015 5.1 million smartwatches were sold. A y-o-y decline of 32% reinforces what we’ve seen for decades – that the watch is too small a form factor to hold …

An Abberration

AVX has added a locking plug to its 70-9159 series of low-profile 5A board to board connectors. Part of its ‘Stript’ insulator-less single contact range, the gold-plated beryllium-copper (BeCu) spring contacts have a positive latching mechanism and can absorb a 1mm of tolerance in the x and y direction. Led lighting is one intended application – the …

Low-profile locking connector for LED lighting

Computer dating is a practice which is a lot older than many people think> Here is a cartoon which appeared 55 years ago in Electronics Weekly in our issue of January 11th 1961:

Computerised Dating

Solar LED lighting in developing regions could create 2 million new jobs, according to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, while Philips Lighting issues its first financial report as a standalone company and Osram expands its automotive business with the acquisition of Novità Technologies.

AWS Config is a fully managed service that continuously records configurations changes to your resources in AWS and notifies you when your resources change. With AWS Config Rules, you can define guidelines for provisioning and configuring AWS resources and then continuously monitor compliance with those guidelines. 

AWS Lambda is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. 

Now I’m in a pickle, Ed confides to his diary, the UK tech industry is on my back wanting me to stop a takeover bid for a UK company by a Japanese company. I’d like to curry favour with the UK tech industry, because most of them seem to see me as a bit of …

Ed’s Dilemma

Danish firm Aquaporin and German company Berghof Membrane Technology GmbH have started the development of a tubular based forward osmosis  technology…

Israeli wastewater treatment company Emefcy has signed a contract for its Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor to be used at a hospital in Ethiopia…