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IQE markets accelerate
IQE, the Cardiff headquartered, global supplier of wafer products and services to the semiconductor industry reports its interim results for the half year (1H) ended June 2010 showing a strong performance in all main markets with wireless up 52%, optoelectronics up 55% and electronics up 102%.
Electronics component snafu
Component shortages lead to a traffic pileup in the global electronics supply chain, with major contract manufacturers facing a challenging supply imbalance characterised by tight part and finished products inventories and a glut of raw materials, according to the market research firm iSuppli Corp.
West Highland College (UHI) debuts
West Highland College, University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI), formed by the merger of Lochaber College and Skye and Wester Ross College, is launched in Gairloch, Wester Ross, creating benefits for students across the region. Its board of directors has also announced the appointment of Principal Donald Leitch whol will lead the college through merger implementation and prepare for fundable body status.
Back to court: Microsoft avoids $290 damages
Microsoft, which lost its patent battle over Word processing software to the small Toronto firm i4i Inc and ordered to pay $290m in damages last year, is determined to avoid the issue and taken the matter to the US Supreme Court.
Cloud sync: email, calendar, contacts & more
TriSys Recruitment Software, started in Cambridge in 1994 is one of the most eagerly willing to sell you anything in Business Softwarewhich has released its latest version of email, calendar, contacts synchronisation tool connecting to cloud-based email services. If you visit the site, an energetic popup window suggests you can fill in your name to text and communicate NOW!
Intel follows security with wireless
Predicted by unnamed Bloomberg's sources at the beginning of August, the world’s largest chipmaker Intel Corp is to buy Infineon Technologies AG’s wireless business.
Simulation's gold standard for microelectronics
Gold Standard Simulations (GSS) the long promised spin-out company that will enable microchip manufacturers to develop the next generation of chip circuits has now been launched by the University of Glasgow.
Forensic lab: cut or slim?
The Grampian Joint Police Board comprising Aberdeenshire and Moray councillors has conceded the only way to justify keeping a forensic laboratory in Aberdeen open, is to slim down services to balance the books.
Livewires for IP Digital Sparks
The Digital Spark conference, held this week September 1-2 has never been lacking an audience, since Abertay University raised the wow! factor of its speakers, but a late reminder points out what you will miss by not attending and offers a registration point.
BT, Abica upgrade: Google goes VOIP
Both BT and Abica have upgrade plans for broadband. BT is to get a £2.5bn broadband network going with Huawei. Abica is to capitalise on Fibre To The Curb/Cabinet (FTTC) upgrades and Google runs the Skype gauntlet, offering VOIP but not in the UK yet.
RESPONSE aims at EEG/video telemetry equipment
Ahead of the Great Scottish Run, taking place on Sunday 5 September, customer contact company RESPONSE has already raised more than £1000 for Yorkhill Children’s Foundation in only 4 weeks.
Onyx names Balfour Beatty Engineering
Balfour Beatty Engineering Services has awarded leading technology provider Onyx Group a contract to provide IT services to the UK Engineering Services Division. Headquartered in Hillington, near Glasgow, and with further offices across the UK, BBES selected Onyx Group to provide an outsourced IT Helpdesk service. Onyx will act as a first line response to BBES staff experiencing IT issues and provides expert transition to BBES’s own IT teams when calls are escalated up the chain.
Verisurf's latest metrology software
Metrology software development company Verisurf has released its 5th generation of Verisurf X software. With Model-Based GD&T Inspection technology at its core, the new computer-aided inspection and reverse engineering software, inspects parts faster and more accurately, without needing any 2D drawings.
Multiview Video Encoding on show
Multiview Video Coding (MVC) is the new standard for 3-D movie compression, reducing the data significantly and simultaneously provides full, high-resolution quality. At the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam from 10-14 September, researchers will showcase how 3-D movies can be transmitted via Internet and digital television channels such as via satellite.
Morphing UAV rescue plane
A shape shifting robot plane (ASARP), small and cheap-to-build unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is intended to cut the cost of maritime search-and-rescue missions and reduce risks to material and human lives has been successfully developed in a combined Cyprus-Israel developed project.
Database automation win: 3 PAR bid for again.
Hewlett-Packard may appear to have lost 3PAR to Dell, but it has acquired Stratavia, a privately held database and application automation company based in Denver but terms of the deal were not disclosed. And has now put in a renewed bid for 3PAR offering $27.00 per share in cash, or an enterprise value of $1.8bn. Nice to have deep pockets. The Dell response has been to respond with its own $27 per share for 3PAR matching the HP $1.8bn. By weekend HP cranked up the bid for 3Par to $1.88bn, topping Dell’s latest offer by 11%. And next?
Solar cells: improving InGaN and glass
Hot on the heels of better gallium and nanowire solar cells in Germany, Texas Tech University scientists have developed an indium gallium nitride (InGaN) solar cell with characteristics ‘significantly higher’ than previously reported values for devices with similar indium content in the QWs. But in Spain,research has focused on photoactive compounds to improve the solar cell glass.
£7.5m Dunstaffnage new science park
About to go to tender on the Inverness Highland University campus, a multimillion pound marine science park in Argyll has been give the go-ahead by Highlands and Island Enterprise (HIE) which has approved £7.5m for first phase of the Park at a site next to the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) laboratories Dunstaffnage, near Oban.
High value job creation costs £10,000+ a head
Back in May Hewlett-Packard agreed to work with the Scottish Government to find new jobs or retraining opportunities for its axed 700 workers. First Minister Alex Salmond says that the decision by HP to invest in Erskine – with the help of Regional Selective Assistance grants worth £7m from Scottish Enterprise – highlights Scotland’s strengths as a first-class destination for technology in creating 700 jobs, where applicants (recruiting starts in November) will offer expertise on projects, infrastructure and maintenance for business customers.
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