Forums, blogs, links, direct mail, downloads. There now exists a true plethora of routes to find the information you need online. How the world has changed since the days when sales execs would arrive on a company’s doorstep armed with data books, product sele...

By Nigel Watts | 04-08-2016

Japanese industrial automation, test and measurement and software company Yokogawa Electric Corporation is investing in a Californian startup called FogHorn Systems, a developer of fog computing technology. But what exactly is fog computing and why is it neede...

By Paul Whytock | 03-08-2016

The latest generation of its BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory has been launched by Toshiba and the company says it is the first 64-layer device in the world to start sample shipments. The device has a stacked cell structure which is said to create significant densit...

By Paul Whytock | 28-07-2016

The answer of course is they will not. The plan is to just drop the package at your doorstep. Tricky if you live in a multi-story block of apartments. Amazon may be testing the idea of delivering packages by drone but don’t expect the service to start anytime...

By Paul Whytock | 27-07-2016

History repeats itself as we witness the sale of yet another one of our cutting edge British electronics companies following the £24billion purchase of ARM by Japanese company SoftBank. OK, so that acquisition is yesterday’s news but for those of us who were i...

By Paul Whytock | 21-07-2016

Hardware and software development tools specialist SEGGER Microcontroller and Renesas Electronics Europe have agreed a collaboration deal aimed at expanding the capabilities of Renesas’ RX Family of 32bit microcontrollers (MCUs). This will happen by adopting S...

By Paul Whytock | 19-07-2016

Infineon Technologies is buying the Wolfspeed Power and RF division (Wolfspeed) of Cree for approx €740 million in cash. The deal includes the SiC wafer substrate business for power and RF power. Wolfspeed has been a part of Cree for three decades and is a pro...

By Paul Whytock | 14-07-2016

A report into cybercrime in the UK has said that criminal cyber capability currently outpaces this country’s response to cybercrime. In the first cybercrime report to be published by the National Crime Agency (NCA) the organisation calls for stronger collabora...

By Paul Whytock | 08-07-2016

We all know the younger generation are much more into social networking than silver-surfers but recent research has shown they are laissez-faire to the point of being dangerously relaxed about the online security of their personal data. In extreme cases the sa...

By Paul Whytock | 06-07-2016

A common public radio interface (CPRI) RF measurement option that is claimed to cut time and costs involved with testing remote radio heads (RRHs) on 4G networks has been unveiled by test and measurement company Anritsu. The company has implemented CPRI RF mea...

By Paul Whytock | 05-07-2016

The long running story of man versus machine reached an important new milestone in March, this year, when Google’s AlphaGo program scored a 4-1 victory in the ancient board game Go, against one of the world’s best players: Lee Sedol of South Korea. This defeat...

By Mirko Bernacchi | 30-06-2016

Now that LED technology is becoming widespread in all kinds of lighting applications, the focus is on making LED lighting products smaller and more energy efficient while maintaining long life and reducing cost. Manufacturers of passive and electromechanical c...

By Martin Keenan | 29-06-2016

A third-generation quarter-brick advanced bus converter that delivers up to 650W and has a regulated output voltage over a range of 40V to 60V has bee developed by Ericsson Power Modules today. The company says its BMR458, a third-generation 3E quarter-brick a...

By Paul Whytock | 28-06-2016

A series of embedded security solutions that use standard microcontrollers (MCUs) and microprocessors (MPUs) as new security structures for embedded devices that will function as IoT endpoints has been developed by Renesas. The first product in the series is t...

By Paul Whytock | 27-06-2016