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Colin Holland is the editorial content director for Embedded.com and the Embedded Systems Conference. Before taking on Embedded in the US, he served as editorial director of Embedded Systems Programming/Design Europe and an editor on EE Times Europe. He can be reached at colin.holland@ubm.com.

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    • The Harwell Dekatron or 'Witch', which is said to be the world's oldest computer has been rebooted at the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park, in the UK.

    • DDC-I, a supplier of software and professional services for mission- and safety-critical applications, has joined the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Consortium, a managed consortium of The Open Group.

    • Congatec AG is working with with Adeneo Embedded to deliver ready-to-use board support packages for the Freescale ARM Cortex A9 i.MX 6 Series based modules.

    • Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. has changed its name to Mercury Systems Inc. in an effort to better reflect the breadth and depth of its capabilities.

    • If you are near Santa Clara on Wednesday 31st October and want a concise update on the current state of embedded technology development in Brazil head there is a unrivaled opportunity for you.

    • Yesterday at a Young Professionals' Event at the IET in London, Eben Upton, co-founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and SoC Architect at Broadcom gave a talk on Inspiring future generations with open hardware.

    • Renesas Electronics America is to sponsor the FIRST (For the Inspiration and Recognition of Science & Technology) initiative as a means of motivating and inspiring the next generation of engineers.

    • Altium has released two TASKING C compiler solutions for automotive application development, delivering support for the RH850 microcontrollers from Renesas and the Power Architecture based microcontrollers from the Freescale Qorivva/5xxx and STMicroelectronics SPC56 series.

    • Tesla Motors is using Cypress Semiconductor's TrueTouch automotive touchscreen solution for the infotainment system in its Model S.

    • Polycase has produced a black flame-retardant rating of UL94-5VA ABS plastic case for use with the Raspberry Pi board.

    • This might be a better link www.freescale.com/freescalecup

    • Jorge - what country are you in? The Freescale Cup operates in China EMEA Germany India Japan Korea Mexico Malaysia and the USA. See http://www.freescale.com for contacts.

    • Sanjib - Altera announced a similar development with ARM back in October and had a a software demo at the ARM Paris event - http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4229353/Altera-integrates-ARM-processor-in-FPGAs

    • an_m - Thanks for pointing out error - corrected now - I have an ongoing problem with strange product names!

    • Sorry Gross - have added now - at first I only had in Euros.

    • Bill Gatliff will be providing a free Android Speed Training session at 12.30 on Thur 27th Oct at ARM TechCon while he will join Dave Kleidermacher, CTO, Green Hills Software; and Stephen Olsen, Technical Marketing Engineer, Mentor Graphics on a panel: Embedded Android? The next platform, or the next problem? at A 2.30 on Wed 26th at ARM TechCon - see: http://e.ubmelectronics.com/armtechcon/theater/

    • I have been using a wireless Bluetooth keyboard with the iPad OK, will be trying it out on the ViewSonic tomorrow.

    • Has anyone had any experience with these lower cost oscilloscopes made in China?

    • Jim - I know the UK price is £251 (plus VAT) and have asked the company to provide a US price and contact here later.

    • The amount of SRAM is mentioned - it is 6 kB on all devices - do you think that is enough?