E-Ink is to de-emphasise its ambitions in the e-book market to focus on labelling, wearables, exterior displays, and auxiliary handset screens. E-ink had revenues of $414 million last year for a loss of $58 million attributable to the closing of its Korean subsidiary Hydis. It had licensing income of $100 million mostly from licensing its …
Acal BFi sells Tronics MEMS sensors in Europe
Acal BFi, has signed a distribution agreement with Tronics Microsystems and will sell the French supplier’s MEMS inertial sensors to the European markets. The Gypro series of inertial sensors has a bias stability (Allan variance) of 0.8°/hour. Power consumption can be as low as 25mA. Pascal Langlois, chief executive officer of Tronics, writes: “This collaboration …
Ofcom allocates spectrum for IoT
Ofcom is to allocate 10MHz of VHF spectrum in the 55-68MHz, 70.5-71.5MHz and 80.5-81.5MHz bands for the IoT. Currently, licence exempt devices including M2M can access spectrum in the 870-876MHz and 915-921MHz bands. Ofcom says that the low data rates of IoT applications don’t require more spectrum. Business radio licences will continue to be available …
Raspberry Pi gets shields for IoT
Pi 2 Design has developed a number of media-based I/O shields for the Raspberry Pi 2. The 502SSD shield is a solid state drive which has a 802.11 Wi-Fi interface built-in. The subject for a successful Kickstarter funding campaign in December. The 502IoT is a professional I/O shield which provides access to sensors using the …
Why Psion Made Pocket Computers.
Psion is one of those start-ups which was profitable from Day 1. “In the first year – 1980- turnover was £120,000 and I made £12,000 profit after paying my salary,” recalls founding CEO David Potter, “and I could see I was going to make a great deal more the following year.” Potter had been going …
Rohde & Schwarz joins 5G mobile project in China
Rohde & Schwarz has joined a 5G mobile development collaboration in China. The test firm will work with the China Mobile Research Institute on the evolution from 4G to 5G mobile network technologies within the China Mobile 5G Innovation Center project. As well as developing 4G+/5G test capabilities Rohde & Schwarz said it will promote …
Top 10 most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com
Here are the top ten most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com in the last week, with Andy Grove, node number naming, synaptic processors, Ikea LED bulbs, Graphene-based epoxy, and ST leadership all figuring prominently… Taking it in reverse order as always: 10. High-temperature superconductivity yields another secret 9. Fairy Land 8. Ikea’s great bulb: 1,800 lm and 90CRI 7. IBM …
Daintree continues to expand the ecosystem around its SSL control platform
LG Innotek has added to its portfolio of ZigBee-enabled products based on Daintree technology and Samsung had announced compatibility with the Daintree platform after announcing a Smart Lighting Module at L+B.
Amazon RDS now supports January PSU patches, improved custom Oracle directories and read privileges support
You can now launch new Oracle 12c and 11g database versions “11.2.0.4v7”, “12.1.0.1.v4” and “12.1.0.2.v3” that include the January 2016 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU). In new versions, we also increased the limit on number of custom Oracle directories to 10,000 and enabled re-granting of read privileges on Oracle dump directories.
Cluster view for Amazon Aurora in RDS console
You can now view Amazon Aurora clusters on the RDS console. Managing multiple clusters in your fleet is easier as the cluster view allows you to modify and delete clusters as well as manage the Aurora instances on them. For more information on the cluster view and APIs, read the Amazon Aurora User Guide . To know more about Amazon Aurora, visit our product page.