The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has appointed Theo Blackwell as first chief digital officer (CDO) for London. The role ranges from coming up with initiatives to build the capital’s status as a global tech hub particularly in the creation of public services which efficient and responsive to the needs of Londoners. Blackwell was previously ...
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Lee Jae-yong, the Chairman of Samsung and grandson of the company’s founder, has been sentenced to five years jail in Korea for bribing the president of Korea, Park Geun-hye, who is herself currently on trial for extortion. Lee was accused of offering Park $38 million in return for governmental favours. The prosecutors had asked for a ...
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Broadcom had calendar Q2 revenues of $4.46 billion – up 7% on Q1’s $4.19 billion and up 18% from $3.79 billion in calendar Q2 2016. Gross profit was $2.14 billion up from $1.98 billion in Q1 and the $1.78 billion of calendar Q2 2016. Opex was $1.5 billion. Operating income was $648 million. Net income, ...
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HTC is in trouble and reported to have engaged advisers to discuss strategic options, reports Bloomberg. The Handset and VR operations could be sold separately. HTC’s handset business has been flagging under the assault on the China market from Huawei, Oppo and Vivo. Its VR business, represented by the Vive headset, saw it recently having ...
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Qualcomm’s president, Derek Aberle, is to leave the the company at the end of the year. Aberle heads the licensing division which is embroiled in a vicious legal battle with Apple and in complex anti-trust wrangles with European and Asian governments and the US FTC. Qualcomm is saying that Aberle’s departure has nothing to do ...
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Lorries will be electronically bound together in ‘platooning’ trials in UK motorways, according to the Department of Transport. Up to three heavy goods vehicles will be bound in convoy with acceleration and braking controlled by the lead vehicle. All lorries in the platoon will always have a driver ready to take control. “If successful, this ...
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Harting has added EtherCat connectivity to its modular industrial computing architecture (‘MICA’). “MICA’s modular open-source software makes it the ideal solution for developing edge and cloud applications in production,” claimed the firm. “Creating the EtherCat functionality as an internal function module enables MICA to deliver benefits such as protection class IP67, connectors suitable for industrial ...
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BAE Systems has announced a radiation-hardened single-board space computer. Called RAD5545, it has a quad-core 32/64bit QorlQ Power Architecture processor running at 466MHz and offering 5.6 Drystone Gips of processing with 512kbyte/core L2 cache and 1Mbyte x2 L3 cache on a ANSI/VITA 78.00 SpaceVPX compliant 6U-220 board. Up to 16Gbyte of DDR3 ram can be ...
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WR-BTB is a family of surface-mount board-to-board signal connectors from Würth Elektronik. The plugs with coded guide are available in versions with 40, 64, 80 or 100 pins. Models with 0.8 and 1mm pitch are also available in various heights. Various male and female plugs can be combined to achieve a defined spacing between two ...
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Three leaders have been identified for the next phase of the UK’s Supergen Programme – to design research ‘hubs’ that will investigate sustainable energy technology. They received six-month grants (see below) to build consortia, investigate research strategies, devise networking plans and device engagement plans for their fields, according to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research ...
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