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Using an adaptation of a computer program developed to calculate lung densities in people with emphysema, with a medical scanner, researchers have been able to analyse the physical properties of violins without risking damage to instruments worth millions of dollars. Their findings as to why a Stradivarius violin sounds so good is now attributed of the remarkably even density of their wood.

IT services provider Alchemy Plus, is using DataCore's SANmelody software to provide a hosted server virtualisation farm environment for small businesses, und a 'pay as you use' utility computing frameworks. The Alchemy data center is located in Dingwall in the Scottish Highlands. David Massey, CTO at Alchemy Plus, said, “We wanted to bring the power and efficiencies of virtualisation to smaller organisations that typically were only running a single server or a couple of servers at most. We knew in order to succeed that we would have to develop a model that was as cost effective as it was functionality rich, using the principles of utility computing – a concept where the customer only pays for what is used.”

Plexus Systems, provider of Plexus Online on-demand software for the manufacturing enterprise, announces the availability of fully integrated Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) functionality. Manufacturers access comprehensive and integrated PLM capabilities in the Plexus Online Software as a Service (SaaS)

Dr Bernd Fischer at the University's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) has received £300,000 funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to develop systematic techniques and supporting tools that will allow application developers to customise automatically generated code efficiently and reliably without needing to modify either the code generator or the generated code, improving the safety and usability of automatically generated software code commonly used in the space and automotive industries.

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.

Triple Point Technology, working in cross-industry commodity and energy trading, risk management, scheduling and logistics software solutions, has launched Commodity XL for Fair Value Disclosure, the second product in its Treasury Management and Regulatory Compliance solution suite.More than 60 leading energy and commodity industry leaders throughout North America and Europe including Scottish Power, Campbell Soup Company, PacificCorp, TransAlta, TransCanada, SUEZ Energy, Southern Company, Ameren Energy,(Pennsylvania Power & Light) and J.M. Smucker Company, use Commodity XL for Fair Value Disclosure and Commodity XL for Hedge Accounting based on mature, well-tested software solutions that the Triple Point obtained in its acquisition of INSSINC.

Amanda Lafferty put the Interprise Suite through its paces at an Edinburgh launch by Glasgow based Turnkey Computer Technology. Her phrase seems to sum it up. This accounting software suite, (which looks like giving SAGE a run for its money, has solved issues such as COGS, FIFO, and multicurrency) offers a pre-set company set-up in the provision of ERP/CRM/Accounting.

ITI Techmedia has signed an exclusive licence to a key element of the technology from its Online Games Development R&D Programme. Metaforic,which provides anti-tamper solutions, enters the software protection market with its Metafortress anti-hack solution using ITI Techmedia technology platform to offer high performance security solutions, designed to protect the software industry from attacks, which currently cost companies around USbn every year.

Busy time for Finland's VTT Technical Research Centre as it signs with Philips Applied Technologies to establish an Innohub in the most central city of Finland, Espoo. Both partners have an equal role in the cooperation, and Well Life Center Living Lab provides the premises for InnoHub operations. Almost simultaneously, VTT announces GEMOM (Genetic Message Oriented Secure Middleware) with its nine European research and industrial partners to develop a new self-healing resilient telecommunications messaging platform for secure messaging by 2010.

Ecologists have developed a new "tool" that could in future help prevent costly and acrimonious environmental conflicts such as campaigns against culling problem populations of charismatic animals and arguments over genetically modified organisms. The tool, published online this week in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology, involves a novel use of computer-aided content analysis and is based on the recent environmental conflict surrounding hedgehog culling on the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. The findings indicate that hedgehog defenders with no need for political correctness appealed to the media by speaking in ordinary language. The bird defenders alas, fell back on heavy, correct science statements which lacks any emotive appeal at all.

In the British Small Business Champions Awards software design experts Aberdeen based C-SAM Ltd have reached the Scottish finals. The company now battles it out next week for a place in the national finals in London and if successful will join five other UK area champions to contest the £10,000 first prize.

Aptima Inc, focused on human-centered engineering, announced today the launch of the Visual Scenario Generator 4.0 for Aptimaâ��s DDD 4.0 enabling users to rapidly create complex scenarios for use in the DDD (Distributed Dynamic Decision-making) adaptable simulation environment. While clearly of interest to defence markets, scenarios are also used for training by a wide range of organisations.

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.

Opera Software has released the latest version of its browser. Opera 9.5 (Peregrine) with a number of improvements, including increased speed, cross-device cooperation, support for open Web standards, and new features. Opera makes an interesting push with Mini for moblie phones. For Firefox, the beta version of 3 is emphatically concerned with browsing security. Explorer 8 is still round the mountain.

Cimetrix has a secured design win for its CIMConnect product from Centrotherm, a leading supplier of technology and production equipment for the semiconductor and photovoltaic industries. Centrotherm selected CIMConnect for use on a number of tools, including horizontal and vertical furnaces for semiconductor production as well as PECVD and diffusion furnaces for solar cell production.

Glasgow-based Inisoft established in 1990 by by Kevin Clark and Douglas McLoughlan and a team of around 20 employees, will be merged with the UK company Response, a UK customer contact management groups for an undisclosed sum. The division is to be merged with Response own Software and Professional Services team, but will continue to trade under the Inisoft brand.

A document scanning and storage solution, being implemented by NHS Lothian, is set to revolutionise the management of the clinical records of around 800,000 patients in the region, delivering enhanced security as well as significant time and cost saving efficiencies for the NHS Board. Glasgow-based Northgate Information Solutions, in partnership with e-Docs UK, has been working with NHS Lothian to address the escalating problem of document storage and protection, which historically has resulted in the creation of over 5m patient records (equating to over 32km of shelf space) stored by the Board.

Log onto www.gtacademy.eu to start your journey in the ultimate driving competition courtesy of PlayStation, Nissan and Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. The ultimate competitive driving test is now live with the pan-European competition GT Academy activated this week in PLAYSTATION3 title Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. The competition will see entrants compete for a place in a real-life racing academy at the UK’s Silverstone track.

Scotland has several skilled practitioners in wiring harness systems, but in avionics there is currently no system that will tell manufacturers and when problems are likely to occur, or even if a problem has occurred. Currently the only test for behaviour of avionic wiring is on the ground with an out of service aircraft and separate section wiring accessed only with specially designed test equipment for a specific aircraft. Now a design team at the Institute for System Level Integration (iSLI) has teamed up with Gloucester-based Ultra Electronics BCF Ltd to achieve a new capability to eliminate this problem making aircraft easier to operate and maintain.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has implemented Autonomy Meridio records management solution to more effectively regulate UK surveyors firms. The Institution, whose website experienced difficulties over the weekend and is still not responding to queries for locating chartered surveyors, estimates its new system an save it more than £250,000 yearly in manual processing costs.

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