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How to improve power supply MTBF and reliability
31/05/2016

Power supply reliability is important - no one wants their production line,

measurement instrument, communications system or electronic product to stop
working prematurely due to a failure. How is reliability defined, what methods
can designers use to improve reliability and how do you ensure that a selected
product will meet expectations?
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UK businesses at risk
New research has found that a quarter
of UK businesses do not have any
form of disaster recovery plan in
place to protect them.

The survey of 1,125 IT workers in

full or part-time employment, carried
out by technology services provider,
Proband, found that 24% of UK
SMEs don't have an IT disaster
recovery plan in place and that
despite the startling fact that 80% of
businesses who have suffered a major
incident fail within 18 months.Even
those companies with a ...
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IIoT fails hit 50 percent
26/11/2019

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) business is expected to see annual IIoT
node shipments top 224 million units in 2023, up over 100 million on 2018.
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Challenges ahead
22/11/2019
 The embedded systems consultancy ByteSnap Design has conducted research
into what electronic design businesses expect to happen in the future and what
their biggest concerns were.
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Labour’s broadband policy

18/11/2019

Labour’s plan to offer free full fibre broadband to every home and business was
certainly an eye-catching announcement in what has been a dull election
campaign, but the costs associated with the scheme have been described as
‘fantasy economics’ by the plan’s critics
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Are data fears misplaced?

14/11/2019

The news that Google has acquired Fitbit in a deal that valued the wearables
company at $2.1bn, while welcomed by some industry watchers, has raised a
number of concerns when it comes to how users’ intimate health details –
whether that is the number of steps they take each day to breathing patterns –
might be exploited by the tech giant.
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Whirlpool fails its customers

05/11/2019

Last week, Whirlpool came under sharp criticism from MPs on the BEIS Select
Committee for using ‘disgraceful’ tactics to, in effect, ‘silence’ customers who
had been victims of fires caused by faulty tumble dryers produced by the
company.
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Smartphone market breaks losing streak

31/10/2019

After five consecutive quarters of declines, the global smartphone business has
recorded marginal growth in the third quarter.
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5G and AI to heightened cybersecurity risks
29/10/2019

An overwhelming majority of cybersecurity and risk management leaders

believe that developments in 5G wireless technology will create cybersecurity
challenges for their organisations.
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Could the days of Facebook’s digital currency be numbered?

24/10/2019

Unveiled in June 2019, Libra was due to roll out as an international digital
currency in 2020 and though it was being developed by Facebook, the currency
was going to be controlled by the Libra Association, a non-profit organisation
made up of a collective of international companies.
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Has the commercial roll-out of VR stalled?

22/10/2019

The news that the BBC has disbanded their team intended to create virtual reality
content and that Google is halting sales of its Daydream View headsets, comes at
a time when questions are being asked about the long term commercial appeal of
VR.
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