Texas Instruments has announced a microcontroller with radios for both sub-GHz and Bluetooth low energy, claiming it to be the lowest power dual-band MCU yet. Called the CC1350 wireless MCU, it offers a range of up to 20km on a coin cell for building automation, factory automation, alarms, security, smart grid, asset tracking and wireless …

Read full article: TI supports sub-GHz and Bluetooth on one MCU

If you thought the self-ordering Internet Fridge was the ne plus ultra of fanciful IoT technology, how about a self-ordering smart ice cube?

Read full article: Smart ice cube finds money at the bottom of a glass

Avanci is a new company which will license telecoms patents. It has been formed by Qualcomm, Ericsson, ZTE, and Royal KPN and technology developer and licensor Interdigital has joined the grouping. The group says it will offer flat-rate licenses that vary “based on the value the technology brings to the device.” That basis for licensing …

Read full article: Avanci to co-ordinate telecom patent licensing

The residential smart lighting also now supports the Internet giant’s Echo and Alexa system in Europe, as the Dutch giant extends its LED IoT push.

Starting today, you can take advantage of several new enhancements to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. These include new minor versions (9.3.14, 9.4.9 and 9.5.2), support for logical replication, event triggers, and the ability to use RDS for PostgreSQL as a source for AWS Database Migration Service.

Johor state, Malaysia, has made public its ambitions to form a public-private partnership to develop what could become the country’s largest desalination plant, thesundaily.my reports.

Water deionisation technology specialist Voltea has secured €6 million ($6.7 million) of capital from a syndicate of investors including Rabobank, ETF, Unilever, and new backer Anterra Capital.

Above all, IDE is a solutions provider. So says chief executive Avshalom Felber, the former financial whizz turned water industry leader, as he outlines the company’s unique mix of thermal and reverse osmosis (RO) technologies, operational expertise, and contractual nous.

IDE Technologies is ranked second in this year’s Fortune top 50 Change the World list of companies, behind GlaxoSmithKline and ahead of General Electric.

OPWP has announced a tender to provide “Technical Advisory Services” for its plans to increase water and power supply…