http://www.computescotland.co.uk/ en-us Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:59:21 +0000 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:59:21 +0000 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Beachshore Design Online Management System editor@computescotland.co.uk (Gail Purvis) support@beachshore.co.uk (Beachshore Support) http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3142.php Around 63% of organisations take a day or more to recover from system downtime, according to research from Acronis. Despite living in a world where businesses operate around the clock, the majority of companies are still putting their systems, and therefore their productivity and profitability, at risk by failing to protect them adequately. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:56:41 +0000 HOyiatluVKRyZATSOdEc http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3141.php Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) students have created the first made in Spain interactive alternative reality adventure for YouTube, a project that fuses cinema with games, allowing the user to choose the course that story will take and involving social networks to move forward Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:48:44 +0000 O0gfzoIQaoPNUkLbQ9KR http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3140.php robertson technologies has awarded its first franchise, extending the computer support business out of its Central Belt homelands which will take its services to SMEs in Fife and Clackmanan Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:14:47 +0000 6ArYAhXnFXZmEynE0unM http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3139.php UK scientists at the Norwich base John Innes Centre have succeeded in growing empty particles derived from a plant virus and have made them carry useful chemicals. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:45:27 +0000 73iycbwmBvCWTJV3Wu9U http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3138.php A country carbon emission footprint website, created by Professor Edgar Hertwich and his colleagu Glen Peters from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology win the Editor's choice award from US Environmental Science and Technology journal. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:37:11 +0000 ioAjq1ZHxM1QBZsLnnob http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3137.php Scotland has innovative voice software skills, but Wales are the experts at listening to the sound of voices, so no surprise that innovative sound-mapping software has been developed at Cardiff University. Based on human hearing it aims to help architects design-out unwanted noise from proposed room design, through the use of audibility maps. Currently looking for a software company to develop the market, long term it could have architectural impact of comfortable conversation places. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:13:00 +0000 8cXtbrh3EVSLhsh1LTJY http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3136.php In January this year, three-year-old Burntisland, Fife-based Burdica Biomed Ltd (BBL) signed a long-term partnership agreement with China giant, Sinopharm which has contracted to undertake the Chinese regulatory compliance process for products from the Burdica portfolio (expected to take a year or so to completion) and subsequently distribute the products in China, with Burdica marketing support. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:20:40 +0000 5IivVKafgwBGnfSCa3PY http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3134.php Your eyes are unconsciously shifting up to four times every second as you read that the Drever Lecture at University of Dundee on March 18th will be on "Ways of seeing: eyes and eye movement s across the animal kingdom" Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:11:59 +0000 VEDHfNuubc1eJy5ncQmS http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3133.php India's top software consultancy has enjoyed a coup as the successful bidder for the UK National Employment Savings Trust administration for which Logica was also tendering. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:55:20 +0000 xg6ZoYzeXt69sDPgJyZg http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3132.php Innovation, Technology and Leadership (ITL) are the themes for The Institute of Directors Scotland chairman and speaker Raymond O’Hare, at this Thursday IoD Aberdeen lunch. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:17:44 +0000 TLS3XOW3ktcJVOpPqtfR http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3131.php Gaberlunzie's ears picked up at a Reuter piece on Skype (having tied up a deal with Verizon) now unveiling software from Nokia Oyj, which could run on more than 200m smartphones around the world. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:44:33 +0000 nUdd0zTActx69Zv2ctTf http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3129.php On the heels of the new mathematical model for leukaemia,Vienna University research work shows how leukaemia cells become ‘addicted’ to genes, which if targeted could prevent diseased cells from developing. The team, led by Dr Veronika Sexl from the University of Vienna, carried out their research on acute lymphoid leukaemia (ALL) and chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML), which can both be caused by fusion protein, Bcr-Abl, created through the joining of two or more genes originally coded for separate proteins. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:40:21 +0000 iTON8LHB2vzyowhN5Blo http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3128.php Technology developed for use in multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (MUAVs), a sophisticated autonomous computer framework of control algorithms - the first of its kind - allows one operator to control a number of vehicles from a safe position on the ground making surveillance missions significantly cheaper. The technology also offers potential in search & rescue, environmental surveillance, mining, oil exploration, surveillance and reconnaissance for traffic control, fire extinction, oceanographic or geological surveys, and marine and border inspection. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:26:27 +0000 yHzzw8VXSP6V4KrhTZIb http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3127.php CERN has been able to take the first measurements of collisions between particles with the highest energy ever generated and performed at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator and recorded with the CMS Experiment, which involved a key component (the barrel pixel detector) contributed by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in collaboration with Swiss Universities. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:20:11 +0000 CECBfZAtVMjF8gP1sjIn http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3126.php US Stem cell products developer Stemgent has started a new business in Scotland that will develop reagents and kits and offer services for use in studying the ubiquitin proteasome pathway (UPP) for drug research. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:13:02 +0000 o7EIPMoWyZaM9c2P1yen http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3125.php Professor Pete Smith of Soils & Global Change at Aberdeen University will be amongst those examining what the outcomes of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen mean for Scotland and the UK, at a conference on "The new Climate Change and Energy Challenges for Scotland and the UK" in Edinburgh on Friday. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:12:58 +0000 vHvY7JOnfq3JaP9sU7A6 http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3124.php Gaming companies could be wasting their time (and a lot of money) pouring their efforts into the wrong channels. A new study indicates that the core gaming audience has a limited tolerance for messages directly from the publishers of games. What it fails to point out is that already games companies or publishers are already routing their time and money into getting coveted 'peer reviews' on social websites. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:28:16 +0000 vW1ZujBbyB0riLba60eZ http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3123.php A new £1 million SEPA scheme to protect vulnerable communities from the threat of flooding in high-risk areas of the North East of Scotland which includes several urban centres such as Aberdeen, Inverurie and Huntly, rural settlements, large areas of agricultural land and significant transport links has been launched by Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:46:47 +0000 neUoml8dgod66m6cqF2b http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3122.php Manchester Salford Quays software provider K3 Business Technology Group has agreed to pay up to £2.13m for the Edinburgh-based cloud computing services firm. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:10:42 +0000 9f7nkRkmTX7MY3ENI8R1 http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3120.php Ensus has just announced the first tanker of its sustainably produced bioethanol has been despatched from Europe’s largest new £250m wheat biorefinery on Teesside, which recently started production, and been sold to Shell as part of a long term deal, and helping Britain cut carbon emissions from road transport to meet its renewable fuel obligations from UK sources The plant will also produce 350,000 tonnes a year of high protein animal feed, which will replace imports. But a quick analysis of the 28 organisations that will contribute and research Designing Next Generation Bio-Refinery, shows who intends long term to rank high in this market, who will observe and who will stay out. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:24:57 +0000 hun45ZafMwcRj3UEUmwi