Ubisense joins the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC)
Ubisense joins the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) to provide innovative location aware Smart Factory solutions expertise to British manufacturers.
RealVNC demonstration console
Creactive Design has designed the new demo units for the RealVNC roadshow, which has already showcased their latest in-vehicle mobile technology in Detroit, Tokyo and Munich.
A digital convert
Would I like to borrow the company Kindle and write a few lines about the experience of using it?
Dr Dre at the Royal Ballet - timelapse filmed using GoPro Hero2 cameras
Dr. Dre made a rare public appearance to give fans a chance to star in the next TV advert for the Beats Solo HD range of headphones.
AVEVA publishes new business paper - 'Plant Design for Lean Construction'
AVEVA today announced its release of a new business paper focused on the adoption of a Lean Construction philosophy by Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies. The paper looks at what is required from the next generation of plant design products to make a step change in project execution efficiency and presents AVEVA’s insight on how to apply Lean principles in the plant…
Cambridge Design Partnership in hair-raising charity challenge for Movember
For the third year, Cambridge Design Partnership is rising to the challenge of Movember, as staff grow moustaches in aid of the annual charity fundraiser. Aiming to beat their total of £930 from last year, a team of 16 engineers from CDP are forgoing their razors for the month of November, to cultivate some decorative ‘mo’ delights but, most importantly, raise money for a good cause.
torchV10 chosen to add value to enzyme engineering
Es-is Technologies Ltd has chosen to license torchV10 for use in enzyme engineering.
HRH The Prince of Wales to become ICE Honorary Fellow
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has accepted an invitation to become an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), in recognition of his support to the engineering profession and in particular, his promotion of sustainable development.
AVEVA solutions selected by Lundin Norway AS
The use of AVEVA WorkMate and AVEVA PDMS improves project efficiency and mitigates operational risk on the Brynhild and Edvard Grieg oilfields in the North Sea.
YTKO's 'Outset' wins top award for job creation in Europe
Economic development and business support company YTKO has raised the flag for the UK once again this year in Global Entrepreneurship Week, winning the prestigious Grand Jury Prize for inspiring entrepreneurialism at the 6th European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA), at the European Commission’s first ever SME Assembly in Cyprus.
First randomised controlled trial to show spinal cord regeneration in dogs
Researchers have shown it is possible to restore co-ordinated limb movement in dogs with severe spinal cord injury (SCI).
Cambridge Index falls 0.9%
Rising concern over the handling of the US “fiscal cliff” and the ongoing situation in Greece led global equity markets lower during the week. The Cambridge Index fell 0.9% or 113.7 points to 12,108.6, following losses in eight of the top ten index heavyweights.
Signagelive and Seneca offer affordable digital signage bundle
Signagelive, a global leader in cloud-powered digital signage solutions, announces a partnership with Seneca to deliver bundled digital signage solutions at an affordable price point. Signagelive’s Display Edition products are ready for purchase immediately by end customers and resellers alike.
Royal invite for Møller Centre Executive Education team
As part of the celebrations for 2012 Queen’s Award winners, Gillian Secrett (CEO, The Møller Centre) and Mark Carberry (Global Programme Director, Møller Centre Executive Education) attended a reception at Buckingham Palace.
Sustainability: more than just hot air...
A new art installation featuring a 45ft long representation of sustainability will be on display at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge from 21 November until 13 December.
Argon Blaster™ delivers industry’s first flow simulator and traffic generator
Desktop network and security testing solution "Blaster" delivers a line rate, timing accurate, flow simulation application on an affordable PCIe acceleration card for use in standard x86 platforms. This enables OEMs to cost effectively distribute a high performance simulation and traffic generation solution throughout the engineering organisation. This new approach significantly reduces…
Panel of salivary IL-1β and related biomarkers successfully diagnoses periodontal disease
Dental researchers at the University of Kentucky have published a new study demonstrating that a panel of salivary inflammatory biomarkers made up of IL-1β, IL-6, and MMP-8 has the ability to discriminate periodontal disease patients from healthy patients. The study also provides important information about the ability of these salivary analytes to serve as diagnostic aids.
High Value Manufacturing Conference 10th Anniversary: Highlights of a memorable day
The feedback from senior delegates at the HVM Conference on 14 November was very positive, praising the quality of speakers, networking, business development value, and briefing content.
Unique insights revealed with new Cambridge Cluster Map
A group of prominent business leaders have launched the Cambridge Cluster Map – a free, real time, data-driven business directory that showcases the HSBC-nominated “Supercity’s” world-leadership position in creating and scaling great high tech companies.
Need some help with publishing?
Cambridge Publishing Management Ltd writes: Sometimes a company will approach us and say, ‘We’d really like to turn our manual into a proper printed book, but we have no idea what’s involved!’ If that sounds familiar, and you’d like to do a little reading on the subject before you take the plunge yourself, we have lots of useful information on our website that might help.
How to write news articles for the web
If you own or manage a website, it probably has a news section. But have you asked yourself, ‘why is it there?’
Business continuity expert Tony Drewitt joins IT Governance
IT Governance builds on their ISO22301 expertise as business continuity expert Tony Drewitt joins the company.
Raiffeisen Switzerland launches Cronto solution for secure online banking
Raiffeisen, a leading Swiss bank, is the first bank in Switzerland to offer Cronto's Visual Transaction Signing Solution as next-generation protection for its online banking customers. Available to customers today, CrontoSign will help to defend online customers from most advanced attacks poised by Trojan malware specifically targeting online banking.
Sprint and ARM collaborate to drive innovation around Internet of Things
ARM has announced availability of a rapid prototyping developer kit for the Internet of Things (IoT) market that integrates the Sprint Mobile Broadband USB 598U Modem by Sierra Wireless with the mbed microcontroller development platform, which is based on the ARM® Cortex™-M3 processor.
Lead generation, appointment setting and telesales: what's the difference?
Ian Titchener, Director of Telemarketing Matters, writes:,I was recently asked by a client if I could qualify the difference between lead generation, appointment setting and telesales. This is a very good question, and one that is certainly worth understanding before you engage a telemarketing agency, as can determine the level and cost of the service that you are going to require. Let’s look at…