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STMicroelectronics has announced software to simplify connecting its STM32H5 microcontrollers to Amazon’s AWS cloud and Microsoft’s Azure IoT Hub X-CUBE-AWS-H5 and X-CUBE-AZURE-H5 are expansion packages for ST’s STM32Cube development tools, and both contains a set of libraries and application examples. They are built on the FreeRTOS real-time operating system and ST’s ‘Secure Manager’ embedded security software. Of the Azure package ...

The University of Nottingham has creates a business unit for the industrialisation of electrical motors and drive systems, claiming that it is the first UK institution to create an independent business unit for the industrialisation of electrical motors and drive systems. Nottingham Drive Specialist Services (NDSS) will provide “bespoke development, manufacturing and testing of electrical motors and drives to support ...

U-blox has announced two modules designed to enable AWS (Amazon web services) cloud services for device and fleet management. “For many businesses, connecting devices to the cloud remains challenging,” according to the company, claiming: “Existing solutions involve installing and maintaining dedicated software to manage connectivity on the devices. In addition, many legacy devices are too resource-constrained to accommodate the additional ...

The best of Mobile World Congress, highlighting latest trends in mobile technology and services.

The network operators have had nearly 30 years to develop services, says David Manners. As operators they’ve been in pole position to develop new services but they’ve pretty much failed and the Googles, Facebooks, YouTubes etc have done the job instead… The trouble with network operators is that they’ve always been big companies and the people who get to the ...

The start-up Nivio has announced the beta launch of its European service for Smartphones to provide always-on access to Windows desktop, applications and data. According to Nivio: * Users can access nivio through a range of downloadable client applications or direct from an HTML5 browser. * Users have access to the nApps Store where they can “rent” applications, such as ...

Apple plans to introduce services that will enable iPhone and iPad users to make purchases, say US reports. The services will be based on near-field communication (NFC) technology, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, citing consulting firm Envisioneering Group. NFC technology is to be embedded in the next version of the iPhone for carrier AT&T and in the iPad 2, which Envisioneering ...

BT and Ofcom are facing calls to further open up the telecom giant’s fibre network to help rivals offer high-speed broadband services. BT will not offer customers dark fibre – the ability to lease fibre-optic cables – forcing rivals to use BT services, such as the 10Gbps fibre-based Wavestream, when setting up their networks. This means Ofcom’s latest proposals to allow ...

India plans to extend its crackdown on Research In Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry services to other communication service providers, including Skype and Google.

The mobile industry is pushing for a rapid opening up the 2.6GHz frequency band across the world for mobile broadband services. The licensing of the 2.6GHz band is seen as “critical” for the creation of a global mobile broadband market in a report by US-based research firm Global View Partners in partnership with the mobile industry group, the GSMA. The 2.6GHz ...