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Buses equipped with computers make interesting sense. Cisco, for one, exhibiting its unique Network On Wheels (NOW) Van at the New Start Scotland exhibition next Friday and Saturday at the SECC, Glasgow, sees this as moving hightech into the known element everyday of transport mobility. In the US a similar approach has been made by equipping the school bus with the Internet turning rowdy schoolchildren into quieter and either attentive students or dedicated gamers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) workshop “New Languages & Future Technology Prototype” was held this week at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Garching, Munich, Germany for people actively involved in the assessment of prototypes, and programming languages and HPC research activities.

A London-based market research company focused on telecommunications, pharmaceuticals. and defence, states that the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) defence market was worth a total $7.9bn in 2009 and it expect to to see significant sales growth in the global market place. It's a market place that Scottish based manufacturing can supply.

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