The three questions you should always ask with identity governance 16th July 2018

  With the recent GDPR laws coming into place, and security overall just being a big issue that all companies need to address, Electronic Specifier went to meet with SailPoint, a leader in identity governance whose job is to efficiently manage digital identities, securely and confidently.

Cast your minds back to the year 2002. Brazil is winning the FIFA World Cup and the first cell phone to have a built-in camera is released in the US – yes, this story is THAT old. In the world of secure and reliable systems, Wind River releases VxWorks 5.5. Fast forward 16 years, VxWorks 5.5 reaches its End-of-Life (EOL) status and the world is never going to be the same again. Guest blog written by Andreea Volosincu.

President Trump has escalated the looming trade dispute with China. On 10th June he announced further import tariffs of ten percent on over 6,000 products, leading some pundits to suggest that an all-out trade war is all but inevitable. In this article Adam Fletcher, Chairman of the Electronic Components Supply Networks (ecsn) provides an insight into the current imposition of ‘tit-for-tat’ tariffs and examines the impact they may have on electronic components markets.

It has been announced that IPC's Study of Quality Benchmarks for Electronics Assembly 2018 is now available. The global study provides benchmarking data to electronics assembly companies interested in comparing their quality measurements to those of the industry worldwide.

Components Bureau has been appointed as the sole UK distributor for Bivocom, a provider of industrial wireless transmission terminals for IoT and M2M applications. Bivocom manufactures high quality NB-IOT, 4G/3G/2G industrial wireless modems, DTU, Gateway, Router and Android IPC, which are widely used within smart grid, smart city, oil and gas, irrigation, intelligent transportation, kiosk and vending, mining, agricultural monitoring and industrial automation applications.

This weekend in Russia either France or Croatia takes home the gold in the 2018 World Cup. This means that the football superstars Ronaldo and Messi would now have time to travel to Hyrynsalmi, Finland for the Nokian Tyres Swamp Soccer World Championships. But how would the great athletes do in the swamp? Swamp soccer requires good physical condition and relentlessness, but the field is very unlike the sleek grass of the football stadiums.

Back by popular demand, and this year featuring a grand prize of $25,000, ‘Fog Tank’ will showcase leading innovators in fog technologies and applications as they take the stage with investors at Fog World Congress on 3rd October. 

  The main challenge that startups in London now face is the shortage of tech talent, which is what new research conducted by Studio Graphene found. The study found that one in three startups are suffering with staffing challenges which is holding back London tech companies.