Universal Display Corporation has bought the OLED intellectual property assets of BASF, through its wholly-owned subsidiary UDC Ireland for approximately €87m. “Representing 15 years of research and development, the assets include over 500 issued and pending patents around the world, in 86 patent families,” said UDC. “Largely consisting of phosphorescent materials and technologies, the portfolio has …

UDC buys BASF OLED assets

An interview with Wired magazine sees Rasperry Pi co-creater Eben Upton talking about the possibilities of running Android on a Raspberry Pi.

Promising signs for Android on a Raspberry Pi?

Electronics Weekly is hosting the IoT Design 2016 event in London on 15 September 2016. And note that the deadline for early bird offers expires on 30 June.

Deadline for IoT Design Early-Bird booking approaches

Saving money — not the planet — is the primary driver of energy saving investments by over 1200 facilities executives surveyed in five countries.

Samsung has added CSP LEDs to its automotive-targeted LED portfolio while Lumileds expands its color LED portfolio and Cree boosts performance for packaged LEDs that target high bays.

Amazon EC2 has announced Elastic Network Adapter (ENA), the next generation network interface and accompanying drivers that provide Enhanced Networking on EC2 instances. 

This Quick Start automates the deployment of Red Hat OpenShift, a platform as a service (PaaS) solution, on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Red Hat OpenShift uses Docker containers, Google Kubernetes orchestration, and the container-optimized Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system to help developers and IT create and deploy their apps.

Amazon EFS provides simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Amazon EFS is easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows you to create and configure file systems quickly and easily. With Amazon EFS, storage capacity is elastic, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, so your applications have the storage they need, when they need it.

In April, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of longer volume and snapshot IDs for EBS and Storage Gateway . Starting today, June 29, 2016, all newly created AWS accounts will use longer volume and snapshot IDs by default in all regions except China (Beijing) and AWS GovCloud (US). If you have not yet tested your systems for compatibility with longer volume and snapshot IDs, you still have the option to request the shorter ID format if necessary. For new AWS regions launching later in 2016, all accounts will default to longer EC2 and EBS IDs, with the option to opt out if needed. 

Amazon VPC Flow Logs is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. VPC Flow Logs is a feature that enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from your VPC. Once enabled for a particular VPC, Subnet or Elastic Network Interface (ENI), relevant network traffic will be logged to CloudWatch Logs for storage and analysis by your own applications or third-party tools. Additionally, metrics can be created to identify trends and patterns.