Breakfast networking series kicks off in style
Around 40 Cambridge Network members attended the first in a series of new breakfast networking sessions on 27th September at St John’s Innovation Centre. Devised in response to a survey of Cambridge Network member companies with less than 21 staff, the sessions hope to focus on core business issues over the year.
Support Cambridge in bid to win £25m in the Future Cities Demonstrator Programme
Cambridge is bidding to win £25m to spend next year to help move towards a “Future City”. Can we collaborate to beat other cities with a winning proposal submitted in a month? The bidding team would value your ideas and input now.
Idox invests in bespoke IVR solution from C3
Idox plc, a leading information management solutions provider, has chosen C3 as its telephony technology partner.
Breathing Buildings named in the 2012 Global Cleantech 100
Natural ventilation specialist, Breathing Buildings, announced in the prestigious Global Cleantech 100, a list of the top private companies in clean technology.
Innovation Barriers & Disruptive Innovation - '15 Minute Expert' Report
Examples of Disruptive innovation include the CD (usurping the cassette tape and vinyl), mobile phones and antibiotics. These innovations often encounter substantial barriers to market, for example requiring new equipment purchase and the set up of supply chains. This report examines the nature of these major challenges and how they might be overcome – which can provide strategy insight for…
Civil Engineers welcome appointment of Sir John Armitt
The Labour Party has appointed Sir John Armitt to look at the UK's long-term infrastructure needs and help build political consensus:
Qton Solutions appoints Technical Director
Qton Solutions has announced the appointment of Mark Butler as its new Technical Director.
A corporate party with a difference
It’s not every day you turn 21 and our client wanted to make sure their celebrations were remembered.
Endomagnetics announces quality certification and COO appointment
Endomagnetics, the company developing a portfolio of products to improve the standard of breast cancer management, has achieved certification to an international quality standard.
Smith deliver messaging, positioning and prospectus design for Long Road Sixth Form College
Long Road Sixth Form College commissioned Smith for a positioning and prospectus design project which has now seen the delivery of a new college prospectus for 2012/13.
Netflix Cloud Systems Architect Adrian Cockcroft to address Software East audience
In another coup for Software East, director of architecture for the Cloud Systems team at Netflix will speak at a free evening event in Cambridge on 15 October.
Inder's Kitchen announced as a finalist in the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2012
Cambridge based Indian food delivery and catering company Inder’s Kitchen has been selected as one of the three finalists in the Best Street food / Takeaway category of this year’s BBC Food and Farming Awards.
2idesign design Parkside Sixth Form prospectus
Parkside Sixth is continuing to be a great success and 2idesign are proud to say we are continuing to play our part in that.
Bango brings Facebook into the Payforit community
Single-click billing is key to unlocking the business potential of the mobile web.
On your marks for the Grantchester Fun Run for the Rosie
10.30am - Sunday 21 October, Blue Ball Inn, Grantchester CB3 9NQ
Huppert welcomes new live music law which could save pubs
Cambridge pubs offering live amplified music to fewer than 200 customers will no longer need a licence following the success of a Lib Dem-led Bill backed by the city’s MP Julian Huppert.
The scale of our ambition
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, delivered his annual address to the University in the Senate House today to mark the start of the new 2012 -13 academic year.
UK at greatest risk of identity fraud in Europe
Don’t let it be you’ warns campaign to help combat identity fraud in Britain
Music of colour – Winifred Nicholson paintings at Kettle’s Yard
The paintings of Winifred Nicholson are the subject of the latest Artist in Focus exhibition at Kettle's Yard which runs until 21 December 2012.
CES Selector adds more for metals, materials substitution and selection, and eco design
Support for critical material and process choices helps optimize cost, performance, and environmental impact.
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Anglia Ruskin to run workshop for local social enterprises on Cambridge campus
Huppert brushes up on life-saving skills with hands only CPR
MP Julian Huppert brushed up on the life-saving skills he learnt as a St John Ambulance volunteer during a training session at the Liberal Democrat Conference.
Cambridge Airport celebrates BGAD success
UK business and general aviation day sees 10% growth
Where science meets policy: students organise Cambridge Biological & Life Sciences Symposium
Four PhD students from the Babraham Institute organised the University of Cambridge’s annual symposium for Biological and Life Sciences students (SymBLS) at Peterhouse in September, bringing together students and their research with academics, industry and policymakers. The government and industry attendees particularly enjoyed connecting, and in some cases reconnecting, with cutting edge…
Changes in the Arctic
This year, Arctic sea ice has shrunk to its minimum summer extent since 1979. Should we worry?