Estonia show that the number of e-Residency applications now exceeds the yearly number of births in the country. The number of 2017 births to November was 10,269, compared with 11,096 e-Residency applications for the same period. “With over 27,000 e-Residency applications to date, we’ve seen the initiative’s popularity grow steadily since launch.” said Kaspar Korjus, ...

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The nRF52810 from Nordic Semiconductor is a multiprotocol SoC supporting Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), ANT and 2.4GHz proprietary protocols, available now at rutronik24.com. The Chip has Bluetooth 5 and an ARM Cortex-M4 CPU for even the lowest cost Bluetooth Low Energy applications. Bluetooth 5 is characterised by high throughput (2Mbps) “advertising extensions“ and improved coexistence features. ...

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Samsung has created a lithium-air battery with a capacity of 520-watt hours per kilogram of battery weight, reports the Nikkei. The capacity was enabled by thinning the separator to 20 microns – less than 10% the thinness of previous models – allowing the use of more cells. The problems are that it takes several hours ...

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Mouser has signed up with  Rigado to distribute Rigado’s wireless modules, development kits, and gateways. Rigado’s edge connectivity IoT products include the R41Z and BMD-300 series wireless modules and development kits. Rigado’s Bluetooth low energy modules are  multiprotocol System-on-Modules (SoMs) for portable, embedded systems. The BMD-300 Series  is a line of low power Bluetooth 5 ...

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Farnell element14 has launched local language versions of its IoT Hub, a major section of the company’s website containing a variety of IoT news items, feature stories and technical articles exploring the possibilities of IoT applications. At the same time, a range of new content has been added to the site. The new languages added ...

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Although the China smartphone market declined in Q3 the market share of the top 5 producers increased, reports IDC. The top 5 saw their share increase from 65.2% in Q3 2016 to 76% in Q3 2017. No.1 was Huawei with 22.3 million units for  a 19.4% share. No.2.was OPPO with 21.6 millions units for an ...

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Lattice has added package options to its MachXO3 control PLD family to address the evolving design requirements of the communications and industrial sectors. The MachXO3-9400 package options offer reduced power consumption with a core voltage of 1.2 V for thermally-challenged environments, provide expanded FPGA logic resources for motor control and board management functions, and offer ...

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The five year-old consumer electronics company I.am+, founded by Black Eyed Peas pop singer will.i.am, has raised $117 million and has developed a voice assistant which is going to be used by Deutsche Telekom. The company employs around 300 people. The voice assistant, called Omega, is initially designed for corporate customer service functions but the ...

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Alibaba has bought a stake in a Chinese microprocessor manufacturer to promote development of of processors which support Alibaba’s operating system – AliOS. AliOS has two flavours – called AliOS Cloud Link for cloud computing, and AliOS Things for IoT. The processor company is 16 year-old C-Sky Microsystems of Hangzhou which specialises in low-power 32-bit ...

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