As part of the school committee’s recently enacted Water Policy, Boston Public hired a consulting firm to retest the drinking water in the 30 school buildings that have active water fountains.

Datwyler is still in the running for Premier Farnell despite Avnet’s bid. In June the company bid £795 million then, in July, Avnet made an £868 million bid.

Read full article: Datwyler still in the running for Premier Farnell, says board

The man behind the Megaprocessor is building his own computer, transistor by transistor, system component by system component.

Read full article: Hail the Megaprocessor, larging the microprocessor

Spotted on a Fairchild A10 Warthog ground-attack aircraft at an airshow in Wisconsin, and photographed by commentator of this parish Steve K, this landing light is a long way from Ullverston Cumbria, where it was made by Oxley. Designed to replace a PAR46 bulb, it has a 200,000cd 6,000K white mode (+/-11° to 10%), and a …

Read full article: A little bit of Cumbria at a US air show

Infineon now dominates in every segment of the power semiconductor market, reports IHS. Last year, Infineon took over the overall top spot in power from TI, and the top spot in power modules from Mitsubishi, helped by its takeover of IR. It has been the leading supplier of discretes for some years. Discretes fell 10.1% …

Read full article: Infineon dominates in power

Intersil has announced ISL91127 and ISL91128, two buck boost regulators with 4.5A built-in switches and up to 96% efficiency.

Read full article: Buck boost DC-DC for battery products is up to 96% efficient

The largest electronic data processing system in Europe has been installed by Neckermann Versand KG in Frankfurt, West Germany. So, 55 years ago, starts a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 25th 1961. The story continues: The centre consists of an IBM 7070 fully transistorised computing system. Neckermann’s, believed to be one of the …

Read full article: Largest EDP System In Europe Installed In Frankfurt

Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) now supports two additional Docker features: networking modes and memory reservation. 

We’re pleased to announce the general availability release of the aws-record Ruby Gem. aws-record is a data mapping abstraction for Amazon DynamoDB, built on top of the AWS SDK for Ruby version 2. It provides helpful features for developing Ruby applications using DynamoDB, including: 

Amazon EC2 Container Registry (ECR) is now available is now available in five additional regions: US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and EU (Frankfurt).