ICE welcomes second attempt at Carbon Capture and Storage
On 3 April Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey launched a new competition for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) – the second such initiative in recent years. The first attempt by the previous Labour Government failed when key players withdrew. The last possible project at Longannet power station, was cancelled in October 2011.
Google goes global with expanded Art Project
From now on, with a few simple clicks of their fingers, art lovers will be able to discover not just paintings, but also sculpture, street art, and photographs. Creations from a wide variety of cultures and civilizations are represented, including Brazilian street graffiti, Islamic decorative arts and ancient African rock art.
Fancy a pint? CAMRA uses ViewRanger to publish Best Pub Walks to smartphones
ViewRanger and CAMRA Books have begun to publish guided trails from CAMRA's range of Pub Walk guidebooks into the ViewRanger's mobile GPS app and web community platform.
Let’s ‘shop local’ to boost each other’s business, says leading marketing firm
A Cambridge marketing agency is urging businesses to take a ‘shop local’ approach to help oil the wheels of enterprise in the region.
Giant white rabbit and fluffy baby bunnies join Big Push for the Rosie this Easter
This Easter the ACT fundraising team will be running bucket collections as part of their Big Push for the Rosie Hospital – the £150,000 community fundraising drive to support the modernisation and expansion of Cambridge’s maternity hospital.
Offices in the Cloud: how Virtual Offices benefit from flexible cloud services
By 2020, around 80 per cent of employees may be working outside their organisation, predicts the Vice President of IT Optimisation at Intergence.
RealVNC helps provide smooth running for luxury Caribbean resort
The Jalousie Plantation, Sugar Beach, a popular luxury resort in St Lucia, is using RealVNC’s VNC® Enterprise Edition to make sure IT problems do not get in the way of giving their guests a holiday of a lifetime.
Kaddy’s in the running for Crashaw Prize
Cambridge poet Kaddy Benyon has been shortlisted for the prestigious Crashaw Prize. Kaddy, who graduated from Anglia Ruskin University in October with an MA in Creative Writing, is among a 10-strong shortlist, alongside poets from the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
Conference venue designed for inspiring and innovative events
St John’s Innovation Centre is pleased to announce that its purpose-built conference rooms have recently been refurbished to a very high standard.
ARM, Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient form joint venture
Cambridge, UK; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Munich, Germany - ARM, Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient today announced the creation of a joint venture dedicated to delivering a secure, accessible environment for advanced services running on the growing range of connected devices. This includes tablets, smart-TVs, games consoles and smartphones.
Cambridge Awards Week hailed as great success
The first Cambridge Awards Week has been hailed as a great success with many people taking part in networking and sharing of ideas in support of the two major business awards ceremonies, the 'Cambridge News' Business Excellence Awards and 'Business Weekly' Awards.
Salimetrics saliva testing FAQs now available in local language
Please refer to the Salimetrics European Blog at salimetricseurope.blogspot.co.uk to locate frequently asked questions in local languages and also the Blogsite translated into: Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.
New ASA guidelines won’t prevent broadband speed disappointment, says Broadband Genie
Cambridge-based broadband comparison and review site Broadbandgenie.co.uk welcomes the new broadband advertising guidelines which came into effect on 1st April, but says further amendments are required to clarify broadband services for consumers.
‘Let’s now kickstart deployment’, agrees white space standards body
Weightless, the body behind the industry-leading Weightless machine-to-machine communications standard for white space spectrum, today announces its vocal support for a series of recent Ofcom sentiments.
New major trauma centres to save up to 600 lives every year
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge is one of a network of 22 new centres specialising in treating patients who suffer from major trauma that will open across England, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced.
New Catapults announced
As part of the recent Budget, plans for two further Catapult centres, focusing on future cities and transport systems, were announced. The Future Cities and Transport Systems Catapults will help stimulate economic growth by focusing on innovations that will give UK businesses a technological edge in global markets that could be worth hundreds of billions per year.
Online insecurity
Online passwords are so insecure that one per cent can be cracked within 10 guesses, according to the largest ever sample analysis.
Dr Lang’s 'Paper Trail' unearths family secrets
'Paper Trail', a play about discovery, truth, lies and human history, will receive its premiere at Anglia Ruskin Drama Studio in Covent Garden, off Mill Road in Cambridge, on Friday, 13 April.
ViewRanger navigates to top of iTunes
ViewRanger achieves Top 5 app in France and rides high in Apple appstores all around the world, as it completes its move to a 'freemium' model.
BlueGnome Ltd appoints Gary Harton as IVF Business Development Manager for the Americas
BlueGnome Ltd is pleased to announce the appointment of Gary Harton, BS, TS (ABB), as IVF Business Development Manager for the Americas. Mr. Harton will be responsible for BlueGnome’s 24sure product line; an array-based aneuploidy screening technology which is being used in a number of studies to improve IVF success rates.
Cambridge is one of the best paying cities in the UK
Cambridge has been named as one of the highest paying cities in the UK by a recent report from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), which analysed salaries across the country. The report also highlighted that the East of England has the highest employment rate in the UK, 74.7%.
Technology Ventures Conference (TVC 2012)
"Innovation in an Uncertain World" - 9th Annual Technology Ventures Conference
Smith designs new corporate website for Maleon Consulting Engineers
Smith undertook an industry review, establishing basic principles for the design solution, and delivered a website for Maleon, an international building services design consultancy which provides bespoke engineering design and management solutions for blue chip clients such as Barclays and BP.
Lauterbach announces early support for the new Freescale Qorivva MPC57xx and the STMicroelect
Lauterbach, the leading manufacturer of hardware assisted microprocessor development tools, has added support for the new Freescale Qorivva MPC57xx and STMicroelectronics SPC57x family of automotive microcontrollers to its TRACE32® debugger.
Take part in 2012 Big Weekend celebrations
Cambridge businesses are being offered the opportunity to take advantage of a range of sponsorship opportunities for the city’s annual Big Weekend event on Parker’s Piece, in what promises to be the most attended and memorable weekend in the event’s long history in the city.