These funds will be used by the State of Oklahoma to provide loans and other types of financial assistance to communities and state agencies for wastewater improvements.

The grant goes to the state’s Clean Water Revolving Loan Fund.

EnSilica, the semiconductor IP sepecialist, has further expanded its network of specialist design centres with the establishment of a new facility near Oxford focusing on RF and low power sensing applications. The new RF and low power sensing design centre will be headed up by Alan Wong (pictured third from left front row) who joined …

Read full article: EnSilica opens Oxford RF design centre

We’re learning a lot about these high-ranking Euro officials. You’d think these guys would have concerns about England’s relationship with the EU but Jean-Claude Juncker brushed off the BBC with a smartarse comment last week. Now the problematic future relationship between the EU and UK has been caused by a vote of the British people, …

Read full article: Funny Fellows These Eurocrats

Lindsley Ruth, the CEO of RS Components, says individuals can still make a difference in electronics and sees opportunities ahead in the future.

Read full article: Interview: RS Components CEO bullish on future of UK electronics

Electronics Weekly is teaming up with RS Components to launch a new programme, EW BrightSparks, highlighting the brightest and most talented young electronic engineers in the UK today.

Read full article: EW BrightSparks celebrates the future of electronics engineering

Thanks to IC Insights for this one – the top 20 semiconductor companies at the end of H1:

Read full article: Top 10 (plus 10) IC Companies In H1

Amazon WorkMail now supports interoperability with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and 2013. Interoperability allows you to minimize disruption to your users as you migrate mailboxes to Amazon WorkMail, or use Amazon WorkMail for a subset of your corporate mailboxes. With interoperability, you can set up rich co-existence between Amazon WorkMail and Microsoft Exchange Server, which allows you to use the same corporate domain for mailboxes across both environments, and allows your users to seamlessly schedule meetings with bi-directional sharing of calendar free-busy information. 

Today, AWS Marketplace released Self-Service Listings, a new, web-based interface that lets AWS Marketplace software vendors manage their product listings within the AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). Starting today, software vendors that wish to list their products for sale on AWS Marketplace can log in to AMMP to view their existing product listings, create a new free listing, create a new Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) listing, or track the status of their submitted listing requests. Self-Service Listings offers workflow and collaboration tools that make AWS Marketplace product listings easier to track and manage; vendors can use the new portal to save listings in progress, collaborate internally on product listing creation, view their request history, and more.

Beginning today, Amazon Route 53 starts rolling out support for DNS queries over Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6).