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The creation of the job has been outlined by Andrew Rigby, who last year became a partner in the Edinburgh law firm of Brodies after spending most of his career in London working on IT and outsourcing contracts. Rigby set up an Outsourcing Hub Initiative think tank six weeks ago to encourage global firms to outsource high-end business processes to Scotland, rather than the low-end call-services typically contracted out overseas. In an interview with the Financial Times, he says the global market for business process outsourcing is forecast to be worth 3bn (£174bn) by 2011.

The Clyde Space new website and online shop is live with nice features, new to Clyde Space, and perhaps new for other space companies. No, not the newsletters, blogs, case studies of previous missions, etc though those are there too. What sets the Clyde Space website apart from other space company websites is it allows visitors to buy their spacecraft online with a credit card.

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The awards closely analysed data captured in over 310,000 broadband speed tests submitted by UK internet users to the Top 10 Broadband site and recognises broadband providers that have achieved excellence in their field. ISPs had their services rigorously tested against a wide range of criteria that included fastest broadband, customer satisfaction and best broadband bundle.

The US Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has set a new world record for photovoltaic cell efficiency by replacing the germanium wafer on the device bottom junction with a composition of gallium indium phosphide (GaInP) and gallium indium phosphide arsenide (GaInAs) to split the solar spectrum into three equal part that are absorbed by each of the cell's three junctions for higher potential efficiency. The PV device now converts 40.8% of the light that hits it into electricity and is the highest confirmed efficiency of any photovoltaic device to date.

Scottish students were most likely to spend more than 21 hours a week at work, at 9% compared to just 2% in the south west of England according to UK Student Finances Survey 2007 study from the Bank of Scotland. It also sfinds that during term-time students spend an average of 5.9 hours a week in the pub and 10 hours watching TV. The average student also spends 9.6 hours a week socialising and 6.2 hours playing computer games.

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Eureka Solutions, in partnership with Sage, is presenting three seminars in East Kilbride, Glasgow and Ayr Scotland in conjunction with the launch of Sage 50 Accounts 2009 and Sage 200 Business Intelligence. With a range of new features including improved credit control and online card payments, Sage 50 Accounts 2009 has a huge amount to offer users. This is the first opportunity Scotland has had to see the software.

London is preparing to compete with Silicon Valley as the largest gathering of heavyweight technology entrepreneurs outside of the US come together at the Royal Albert Hall, acording to the website on the impressive gathering the technology glitterati who are prepared to assemble and pitch the future for us. Alas nobody seems to be willing to crystal ball the current economic situation, something that Silicon Valley struggles with yearly in its semiconductor forecasts.
And, this gathering is slightly less silicon, and a bit more on the cloud or virtual aspects of technology life.
Prices run from £195+VAT and there are of course the famous Hall's boxes for hospitality invitations.

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Feature Articles

On the eve of the Battle of Copehill Down, a galimaufry of UK robotics shiver in anticipation of exercising their ranging skiils, in something resembling a replay of Cavaliers and Roundheads (which might well merit some ethical input in the near term). Southampton University however was too busy to be concerned by any nearby outbreak of hostilities, preoccupied by tas both he Conference on Artifical Life (ALIFEXI) hosted by the Science and Engineering of Natural Systems (SENSe) group in its School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Winchester West Downs Campus and running a workshop to show off the human and commercial face of its display of swarmbots and others robotic approaches. Out in the world, Qinetiq however neatly timed an exercise of ' beating their swords into ploughshares' with the first UK flight of an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for agricultural monitoring and went full circle by scooping a large DARPA order. But don't forget the dog or pattern recognition sense of humour!

It is said that Unst was the influence for Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island - though some say it was the Edinburgh gardens he overlooked. But the author certainly visited in 1869 with his father, the lighthouse engineer Thomas Stevenson. Life on this most northerly inhabited island in Britain can be tough . On Unst the winters are harsh, the winds brutal and relentless, regularly sweeping across the treeless landscape at more than 100mph. Unst though is the island chosen by a retired couple from Wiltshire to build one of the world's greenest houses - a "zero carbon" home powered entirely by the wind and the sun. It sits on the same latitude as southern Greenland, but will soon boast lemon trees, grapevines and green pepper plants in its greenhouse, an electric car powered by the wind, and floors heated by drawing warmth from the air.

China has recently claimed its Internet users has reached about 253m in June, putting it ahead of the US as the world’s biggest Internet market. The majority of the country’s Internet users are 30 or younger. Those statistics holds some interesting implications for both the Internet and other IT related markets, that run along the lines of the motto "He who holds the gold, makes the rules." Witness Li Jinliang, calling for the adoption of WAPI (WLAN authentication and privacy infrastructure), a Chinese national standard for WLAN (wireless local area network) authentication, in order to ensure the security of information transmitted over wireless networks. Some might call it an overly Big Brother approach, but Li is a professor and senior engineer of the China Electronics Technology Group Corporation's No. 7 Research Institute. He is also chief editor of Mobile Communication magazine: an executive member of the council of the China Mobile Communication Association and chief expert of the WAPI Industry Allian

In its heyday, Dounraey provided work for thousands of scientists and engineers whose children made Caithness that educational hotspot, where local schools found university places for pupils at a rate topped only by Oxford and Cambridge. Now local leaders want to use Dounreay engineering expertise to create a new high tech, possibly energy industry from tidal power.
The waters here have some of the world's fastest currents and would make an ideal tidal power centre, says Simon Middlemas, Dounreay's site director. We want to redirect our talent to devices like these. But Gerald Gordon, president and CEO of the US Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, who has spent a month as Fulbright scholar studying the Dounreay situation, has found the Scottish grid is the one critical snag.

This month, the RNA, the transporter of genetic information within the cell, has emerged from the shadow of DNA to become one of the hottest research areas of molecular biology, with implications for many diseases as well as understanding of evolution at the Granada conference. Meantime, researchers from Canada, New Zealand and the US are to work on the WineGen R&D programme with the University of British Columbia.

Business & Markets

The Clyde Space new website and online shop is live with nice features, new to Clyde Space, and perhaps new for other space companies. No, not the newsletters, blogs, case studies of previous missions, etc though those are there too. What sets the Clyde Space website apart from other space company websites is it allows visitors to buy their spacecraft online with a credit card.

The awards closely analysed data captured in over 310,000 broadband speed tests submitted by UK internet users to the Top 10 Broadband site and recognises broadband providers that have achieved excellence in their field. ISPs had their services rigorously tested against a wide range of criteria that included fastest broadband, customer satisfaction and best broadband bundle.

Hardware

The Met Office has signed a contract with IBM for its next-generation £33m supercomputer that will underpin its weather forecast and climate research programmes until 2013. The extra computing power means the Met Office can achieve even more-accurate and detailed short-range weather forecasts through high-resolution computer simulations. It will allow greater use of ensembles — multiple simultaneous forecasts — which means it will be possible to give earlier warning of low probability, high-impact weather. The system will also be used to progress research on climate change and its impacts on society and the economy.

A misdelivered computer to Acharacle, able to access patients records is misdirected by the NHS and draws an apology. A computer with unencrypted information is stolen from a Colchester University Hospital manager's car warents his dismissal. Lost Home Office data in transit to UK Borders authority is lost in March but that matter also dismissed as being before government introduced encryption for posted data.

Software

Eureka Solutions, in partnership with Sage, is presenting three seminars in East Kilbride, Glasgow and Ayr Scotland in conjunction with the launch of Sage 50 Accounts 2009 and Sage 200 Business Intelligence. With a range of new features including improved credit control and online card payments, Sage 50 Accounts 2009 has a huge amount to offer users. This is the first opportunity Scotland has had to see the software.

The Fringe board announced at its AGM that ministers will be invited to take part in an inquiry, along with representatives of Edinburgh City Council, Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Arts Council. An independent investigation will also seek a new computer system to replace the current one – dogged by failures and crippled ticket sales.

To celebrate 25 years of cutting edge technology in structural geology, Midland Valley is holding a Technology Meeting which focus on structural geology with sessions such as building and validating structural models; reducing uncertainty; working with sparse data; and fracture modelling. Speakers from both industry and academia include Dr Tim Buddin (BP), Dr Brett Freeman (Badley Geoscience), Professor George Davis (University of Arizona), and Professor John Dewey (University of California at Davis).During the breakout sessions participants can visit the Midland Valley Knowledge Centre for advanced advice on workflows and projects or receive Move software demonstrations.

According to a Scotland on Sunday report, the shortcomings of the Fringe's new Liquid Box Office system from Pivotal Integration meant that telephone and counter sales were suspended on several occasions and printing problems meant that more than 150,000 tickets were only sent out at the last minute. However, the Edfringe.com website explained that the new system "was launched in June and soon after we encountered a combination of technical problems that resulted in slower than expected processing of ticket purchases".

Nortel has acquired Pingtel Corp.'s business from Bluesocket Inc, an enterprise mobility solutions provider.which bought Pingel last July. Pingtel will provide new software capabilities to Nortel's enterprise unified communications portfolio, as well as additional research and development capabilities. This transaction brings Pingtel's existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) relationship with Nortel in-house. Nortel will use Pingtel's software in its small to medium-sized business (SMB) unified-communications package, which is based on its Software Communication System 500 (SCS500) product. Like most unified-communications systems, the package brings together email, instant messaging and conferencing.

Server/Data Storage

The creation of the job has been outlined by Andrew Rigby, who last year became a partner in the Edinburgh law firm of Brodies after spending most of his career in London working on IT and outsourcing contracts. Rigby set up an Outsourcing Hub Initiative think tank six weeks ago to encourage global firms to outsource high-end business processes to Scotland, rather than the low-end call-services typically contracted out overseas. In an interview with the Financial Times, he says the global market for business process outsourcing is forecast to be worth 3bn (£174bn) by 2011.

Dell has launched its fourth-generation Dell/EMC CX family of storage systems with multi-protocol flexibility and massive scalability - doubling the number of drives up to 960 in a single array. The Dell/EMC CX4 family offers four models that form the foundation of an enterprise storage architecture that is easy to deploy, manage and upgrade.

Networking/Community

The awards closely analysed data captured in over 310,000 broadband speed tests submitted by UK internet users to the Top 10 Broadband site and recognises broadband providers that have achieved excellence in their field. ISPs had their services rigorously tested against a wide range of criteria that included fastest broadband, customer satisfaction and best broadband bundle.

Services

The Clyde Space new website and online shop is live with nice features, new to Clyde Space, and perhaps new for other space companies. No, not the newsletters, blogs, case studies of previous missions, etc though those are there too. What sets the Clyde Space website apart from other space company websites is it allows visitors to buy their spacecraft online with a credit card.

The awards closely analysed data captured in over 310,000 broadband speed tests submitted by UK internet users to the Top 10 Broadband site and recognises broadband providers that have achieved excellence in their field. ISPs had their services rigorously tested against a wide range of criteria that included fastest broadband, customer satisfaction and best broadband bundle.

The creation of the job has been outlined by Andrew Rigby, who last year became a partner in the Edinburgh law firm of Brodies after spending most of his career in London working on IT and outsourcing contracts. Rigby set up an Outsourcing Hub Initiative think tank six weeks ago to encourage global firms to outsource high-end business processes to Scotland, rather than the low-end call-services typically contracted out overseas. In an interview with the Financial Times, he says the global market for business process outsourcing is forecast to be worth 3bn (£174bn) by 2011.

Scottish students were most likely to spend more than 21 hours a week at work, at 9% compared to just 2% in the south west of England according to UK Student Finances Survey 2007 study from the Bank of Scotland. It also sfinds that during term-time students spend an average of 5.9 hours a week in the pub and 10 hours watching TV. The average student also spends 9.6 hours a week socialising and 6.2 hours playing computer games.

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