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Amazon drone deliveries. Novel idea but will they leave the package with a neighbour if you’re out?

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...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 27-07-2016

Sell-off Britain waves goodbye to another innovative crown jewel

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...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 21-07-2016

Sell-off Britain waves goodbye to another innovative crown jewel

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...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 21-07-2016

A quick start for the Genuino 101 development environment

If you are looking to a performance boost for embedded applications, the Genuino 101 is a great place to start. It has all the support and infrastructure of the original Arduino Uno but thanks to a change in processor the 101 represents a big improvement in co...

Environment | By Paul Whytock | 21-07-2016

Technology deal set to expand RX MCU capabilities

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...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 19-07-2016

Technology deal set to expand RX MCU capabilities

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...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 19-07-2016

Infineon buys power firm Wolfspeed for €740 million in cash

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...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 14-07-2016

Infineon buys power firm Wolfspeed for €740 million in cash

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...

In The News | By Paul Whytock | 14-07-2016

Infineon buys power firm Wolfspeed for €740 million in cash

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...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 14-07-2016

Cybercrime Update. Are criminals winning the technology battle?

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...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 08-07-2016

Cybercrime Update. Are criminals winning the technology battle?

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...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 08-07-2016

Cybercrime. The younger generation provides a soft target for fraudsters

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...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 06-07-2016