Graduate wins £250 for toilet paper!
A paper about clearing effluent sludge from earth toilets in third world countries has won Cambridge civil engineering graduate Jamie Radford £250.
Voyage Manager Links In
Travellers can now automatically update their LinkedIn profile with their latest Voyage Manager travel status updates.
ICE welcomes HS2 Chairman appointment
On Monday (26 March) the Government announced the appointment of Douglas Oakervee as Chairman of the High Speed 2 ((HS2 Ltd)) rail project. Mr Oakervee lives in Newmarket and is a Past-President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE,) who warmly welcomed his appointment.
Amino wins TWI Award for Technology Engineering in International Markets
Amino Technologies celebrates international success at the recent 'Cambridge News' Business Excellence Awards.
Cambridge English Teacher launches online professional development site
A new unique online professional development site for English language teachers around the world has been launched by Cambridge University Press and Cambridge ESOL.
Alan Turing's life, according to his family
To commemorate the centenary of Turing's birth, Cambridge republishes his mother's fascinating biography, unavailable for years, with a new foreword and a never-before-published memoir by Alan Turing's older brother.
Cambridge author wins coveted computing award
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) names Judea Pearl the winner of the 2011 A.M. Turing Award for Transforming Artificial Intelligence.
QUAD Business Builder cash-focused diagnostic and financial modelling building business
Business Aspirations has an offer for fellow Cambridge Network members - to undertake a pro bono initial diagnostic for you.
'Spit Happens' at Johns Hopkins: saliva saves lives, explains stress, and promotes science
Saliva is the central research for Salimetrics founder Professor Douglas Granger at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research facility at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore USA. This article, published by the University, gives insight into how researchers are finding new ways to keep people healthy...
De-stressing at the end of Cambridge Awards Week
Cambridge Awards Week came to an end with a corporate de-stress workshop at Camyoga last Friday (23 March).
Smart working or engineered serendipity? Knowledge Management in practice
We all know the benefits of networking – but can we improve on it? ‘Engineered Serendipity’: creating a situation or event where a discovery can be made by accident, was the subject of a highly interactive and enjoyable closing event as part of Cambridge Award Week at Granta Park.
Endowment creates “the most attractive job in German Studies in the world”
A distinguished Professorship of German at the University of Cambridge has been endowed in perpetuity thanks to a generous £2 million benefaction from The Schroder Foundation, the charitable trust of the Schroder family.
Social enterprises need a ‘business brain’
Social enterprises from across the East of England are being given the chance to become more business-minded at a free event at Anglia Ruskin University on Thursday, 10 May.
Microfluidic expert Dolomite launches novel surface coating agent for droplet microfluidics
After the successful launch of Pico-Surf™ surfactants earlier this year, Dolomite, a world leader in the design and manufacture of microfluidic systems and devices, has announced the release of Pico-Glide™, a novel surface coating agent facilitating advances in droplet microfluidics.
Award winning design in the spotlight
A product developed by Cambridge Industrial Design for leading lighting company Osram is in the spotlight after winning a major international design prize.
U2SU Consulting recruits new intern
Norwich-based US2U Consulting has recently joined forces with the University of East Anglia (UEA) to recruit a new marketing coordinator as part of UEA’s internship programme.
Carlson and Neul launch white space radio system created for WISPs
Arcata, California & Cambridge, England, March 26, 2012... Carlson and Neul today announced the launch of RuralConnect, the first commercially available radio networking system to deliver the full promise of TV white space broadband to WISPs (Wireless Internet Service Providers).
Salimetrics Europe publish 'An Introduction to Saliva Research'
Forming part of the Salimetrics educational programme, the company has published 'An Introduction to Saliva Research'. This type of article will feature regularly on the company blog which can be accessed at salimetricseurope.blogspot.co.uk
C3 work with Cambridge University to reduce costs for multiparty conferencing & collaboration
The University’s voice conferencing facilities had developed organically, on an ad hoc basis, and various services were in use: some charged a subscription whether or not the service was used; others charged at varying rates, making it difficult to track and compare costs. The Solution......
How social media powers the Kony 2012 campaign
Peek Creative Ltd MD, Steve Creamer, was interviewed live across Europe on Friday about his thoughts on the recently launched Kony 2012 campaign created by Invisible Children Inc.
Paws up for signagelive with Vet Live TV
Blackpool-based 21 Digital Signage (21DS) is allowing the veterinary industry to reach a captive audience of millions across the UK through its Vets Live TV. Thanks to signagelive’s cloud-based digital signage solution, the company is able to deliver up-to-date news, ads and infotainment to hundreds of veterinary practices.
Horizon partners with EMQN to minimise variability in cancer diagnostic testing across Europe
Horizon Diagnostics (HDx), a division of Horizon Discovery Limited, a leading provider of research tools to support the development and prescription of personalized medicines, today announced it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the European Molecular Genetics Quality Network (EMQN).
Tame your computer - the only way is up!
In her weekly series for Cambridge Network members, software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she asks: what happened to the Up button? (Windows 7)
CSR named finalist of prestigious UBM Electronics ACE Awards’ Innovator of the Year
CSR plc has announced that SiRFstarV™ Architecture and SiRFusion™ Platform has been named a finalist in the EE Times and EDN 2012 UBM Electronics ACE Awards in the Innovator of the Year category. The awards programme honours the people and companies behind the technologies and products that are changing the world of electronics.
From foraging to farming: the 10,000-year revolution
Excavation of 19,000-year-old hunter-gatherer remains, including a vast camp site, is fuelling a reinterpretation of the greatest fundamental shift in human civilisation – the origins of agriculture.