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Geberlunzie, struggling with 4-pin bank security numbers (at least two that keep getting used for the wrong card) phone banking security numbers (another couple) to say nothing of email passwords (alpha-numeric) about three, was rather less than thrilled to fall into the comfort of the local Edinburgh library and discover the bar code plastic library card is now scanned and needs another memorable pin!

IBM plans to build the world's largest "noise free" nanoelectronic fabrication facilities in Switzerland. By shielding equipment from external electromagnetic, thermal, and seismic noise, the new facilities should help advance research in a wide range of fields, such as spintronics, carbon-based devices, and nanophotonics.

Whalsay Island is to be without its main ferry for the next two or three weeks after its computer control system which monitor the diesel electric engine’s propulsion system and play a key role in the ship’s operation broke down last weekend. The 36 metre Linga has been fraught with technical problems since it first arrived from the Gdansk shipyard in 2002, and now must have three computers replaced after the originals had their hard discs corrupted.

BT has joined forces with Retalix Ltd to launch a range of products and services which will meet the entire in-store technology requirements of food and convenience retailers in the U.K. The co-operation agreement brings together Retalix's industry-established store technology platform with BT's team of retail experts, with a track record of delivering successful store infrastructure implementations across a variety of retail store types. Combined with its communications and network capabilities IT, BT will be able to offer a new end-to-end grocery solution to the UK marketplace.

Running costs at the Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) have jumped two-thirds in a decade despite a substantial drop in its caseload. The Scottish Legal Aid Board confirmed that its administration budget increased by 65% over the past 10 years to nearly Â£13m this year, while the number of grants it issued fell some 34,000 in the same period. The board, however, defended extra spending on staff and computer systems as giving the taxpayer better value for money on the aid it provides for hundreds of thousands of legal and civil cases.

The UK's first project to measure the amount of rubbish thrown away using microchipped bins has been dumped. South Norfolk walked away from the scheme, started in Autumn 2002, citing "unreliable" and "inconsistent" data. The system worked by using chips to weigh rubbish as it was lifted into one of the 12 lorries fitted with an on-board computer. An antennae in the chip sent the information about the amount of rubbish to the lorry's computer. Problems emerged in 2006 when the system, designed for only 60 to 80 bin lifts per day, was handling thousands of such pickups every day. Difficulties with the system meant binmen were repeatedly forced to override the system to get the bin emptied and finish the round.

Teliris, provider of immersive telepresence solutions, offer the first-ever multi-touch surface computing based collaboration solution and interactive virtual flip chart and whiteboard for telepresence, designed specifically for immersive collaboration business use. The Teliris InterACT TouchTable and Teliris InterACT TouchWall allows for documents, video, audio, presentations and a wide range of other content to be instantaneously shared and manipulated across any number of locations, naturally and easily, as if participants are in the same room.

EMCORE Connects Cables (ECC) are being used by IBM on the DOE computer nicknamed Roadrunner, the first supercomputer to break the petaflop computing barrier. A supplier of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite and terrestrial solar power markets, EMCORE also produces optical fiber Connects Cables (ECC).

Pioneer Corp unveiled its the 60-inch "KRP-600M" PDP monitor, which is the second model added to its high-end "KURO" PDP series. This product is targeted at 'Audio-Visual fans,' who are very particular about picture quality," said Masaaki Nishio, GM of Engineering Department 3 of the PDP Product Engineering Division in the Home Entertainment Business Group of Pioneer.

A new computer-based method of analysing cellular activity has correctly predicted the anti-tumour activity of several molecules. Research published in BioMed Centralâ��s open access journal Molecular Cancer "Identification of metabolites with anticancer properties by Computational Metabolomics by Adrian K Arakaki et al describes CoMetâ, a tool that studies the integrated machinery of the cell and predicts those components that will have an effect on cancer.
And Agilent debuts a new scanner In advance of rolling out its next-generation, high-density microarray platform later this year, Agilent Technologies this week released a new version of its DNA Microarray Scanner that allows users to scan array images at up to 2-micron resolution.

Researchers from the 3. Physikalisches Insitut of the University of Stuttgart for the first time were able to systematically create entangled quantum states in diamond. As the results were obtained under ambient conditions it make sdiamond an ideal candidate for building a quantum computer working at room temperature seemingly to be impossible for other materials. The work is published in 6 June Science.

Artemis Intelligent Power has unveiled a new hydraulic hybrid powertrain for vehicles based on its digital displacement (DD) technology, a core innovation the company has been developing for nearly 15 years. it claims its hydraulic hybrid transmission can potentially double the miles per gallon of vehicles. With an eye simply on achieving a 30% reduction of CO2 emissions on the highway, the company may have actually doubled the MPG of internal combustion engines.

Researchers from the University of Antwerp in Belgium have developed a special PC that can perform their computations just as fast as hundreds of normal PCs. Using this super PC, which mainly consists of gaming hardware and costs less than 4000 euro, they can carry out their computations on three-dimensional images within a few hours, compared to weeks on a regular PC.
The research group Vision Lab at the University of Antwerp (existing Lab spinoffs are Skyscan, Diamscan and DCILabs) focuses on the development of new computational methods for tomography.

As chips ever closer to the atomic level to wring the last bit of performance gains from traditional fabrication, researchers are looking for other novel ways to produce faster computers. Investigators at the University of Utah, with funding from the National Science Foundation, are investigating terahertz radiation computing. Ajay Nahata, a University of Utah professor of electrical and computer engineering, has led an effort to create waveguides that will be able to carry terahertz frequency signals from one location to another. Nahata’s work could eventually be used to construct terahertz-speed microchips.

Bennex is switching its production of its underwater camera system from a location abroad to a new Forres facility and will also be manufacturing an acoustic deterrent system to prevents seal attacks on offshore fish farms. Internationally known Bennex, has just moved into a purpose-built light manufacturing 3,000sq.ft unit at the Enterprise Park, Forres, provided by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), owner of the Enterprise Park.. The company, with offices in Aberdeen and Nairn.

An international group of scientists has swapped their offices for one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet to carry out a challenging field campaign key to ensuring the data delivered by ESA's ice mission CryoSat will be as accurate as possible. The scientists, mainly from Denmark, UK, Germany and Canada, are currently in the middle of CryoSat Validation Experiment (CryoVEx) 2008, an extensive three-week experiment programme in the far north of Greenland and Canada. CryoVEx 2008 is a continuation of a number of earlier campaigns that focus on collecting data on the properties snow and ice over land and sea.

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British Sky Broadcasting the operator of the United Kingdom’s largest digital pay television platform and growing broadband provider, has recently equipped its field service team with rugged mobile computers from Intermec, purchasing over 2,000 of the compact, rugged, Intermec CN3 handheld computers with an extended life battery. This will enable more integration between the entertainment company’s engineers and support systems. Integrated technology on the deployed CN3 includes GPRS and 2D Area Imager. Accessories purchased include in-vehicle suction cup mounting units, home and office based charging docks, and Sky branded holsters.

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