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Cloud services Achilles heel? Apply remote test
Cloud services provide a new and promising opportunity for Enterprises to address the growing complexity of Information Technology. The availability of smart-phones and the expectation of immediate, simple access to private and company specific information on a global basis are driving demand for IT services centralisation and related competences required to support these effectively.
Raw material shortages: substitution offset
The EU has been trying to develop plans that will ensure industry access to raw materials such as rare metals and earths. One route that is quietly developing is that of substitution.
Soitec buys nano Altatech
Silicon on insulator Soitec has acquired nano production systems producer Altatech Semiconductor S.A based at Montbonnot Saint Martin near Grenoble. The final purchase price of €15m was financed partly in cash and partly using Soitec stock, purchased by BNP Paribas Exane on the market under the share buy-back program approved by the shareholders.
Women research ID management
Professor Liesbet van Zoonen of Loughborough University and a team of women colleagues from Dundee, Essex and Northumbria universities have received a £1.36m grant to examine taboos and desires around future technologies of ‘identity management’.
Software to exploit multicore
Why must a programmer care for the hardware architecture when writing embedded applications for multi-core? At HiPEAC 2012, Professors Nikolaos Voros and Jürgen Becker explain how the ALMA Consortium comprising French, Greek, Netherlands and German based academic and business organisation aim to turn 'must' into 'may'.
Sixth Sense – Advanced Sensor Technology
Sensing for security; sensitive measurements in extreme environments; from data to information; and biomedical sensing are among the topics covered at Heriot-Watt University's 2nd annual Industry Day welcoming the views of those working in this sector, and those who wish to discuss the important issues currently facing the industry.
Autonymous car heads into legal storms
The car has always been an accommodating electronics box, but recently seems to be taking on the role of technology showpiece. GM turns car windows into interactive displays. BASF and Phillips integrate their solar OLED into car roofs. Google pushes its autonomous vehicle programme as achieving 200,000 miles under computer control without an accident. But the US warns that questions of legal liability, privacy and insurance may be far more challenging and difficult to resolve than any mere matter of technology.
Visualising slow bio processes
Pepric, a spin-off from Belgium research organisation imec, has successfully closed a €1.4m capital round. Pepric develops scanner systems for direct visualisation of magnetic labels and commercialises equipment for quantitative molecular detection and imaging to monitor biological processes evolving slowly over time.
Sensors for concrete monitoring
Innovative sensors have been developed that will dramatically improve the ability to spot early warning signs of corrosion in concrete. More resilient and much longer lasting than traditional corrosion sensors they will make monitoring the safety of structures such as bridges and vital coastal defences much more effective as carbon steel bars used to reinforce submerged concrete in tidal zone areas are at particular risk of corrosion caused by wet conditions.
Weir acquires valves & pumps, seismic sensors next?
The engineering group Weir has made its second acquisition in the US shale oil and gas sector with the acquisition of Dallas-based US valve maker Novatech for $176m (£113m). Perhaps it should also consider the seismic sensor market too.
North China brewer uses Telemetry
China’s oldest and third largest brewer, Harbin Beer has hired British company Telemetry to serve and audit its online video advertising in China. Telemetry being the first foreign company to be permitted to serve and audit an online video campaign for a Chinese brand, within China not unjustifiably claims a major achievement.
Of robots, earth from space and bullfrogs
Gaberlunzie has always had an enormous fondness for robots from the earliest Ridiculous ElectronicDevice which he was warned never to stand near unless he had personally programmed.
Graphene: magnetic, irridescent, & super hydrophobic
Graphene's multi-magnetic face now adds two other unusual properties with iridescence and super hydrophobicity that could have applications in liquid transportation and analysis, and due to graphene’s remarkable electrical properties, even in electricity.
Semiconductor market optimism
Future Horizons which last year settled for seeing 2011 as essentially a flat year with 1% growth compared with 2010 for the global chip market is now expecting an 8% growth in the semiconductor industry this year. And If the economy bounces back, it could be as much as 20%. In the III-Vs arena, IQE, Cardiff expect a full year revenues for 2011 to exceed £75m, up from £73m the previous year. EBITDA is also expected to increase to not less than £13.7 million. Net debt is expected at less than £4m.
Superconductors: Essen & Prague
The RWE Group and its partners are to replace a 1-km-long high-voltage cable connecting two transformer stations in the Ruhr city of Essen with a state-of-the-art superconductor solution. It marks the longest superconductor cable installation in the world.
Helius: the edible monitoring pillchip
US California based Proteus Biomedical, is to launching a “digital health product” Helius an edible chip in pill sensor in the UK around September in collaboration with the pharmacy chain Lloydspharmacy.
Smart meters: not a smart move
Margaret Hodge the Chair of the Committee of Public Accounts notes that "The idea of smart electricity and gas meters is a good one, but the programme to install 53m of them in all homes and small businesses in the country by 2019, at an estimated cost of £11.7 billion, is both challenging and subject to significant uncertainty.
UKube countdown for 3Q 2012
UK educational satellite FUNcube-1, on show at the ASE conference in early January, is to be launched in 3Q, 2012 Created by volunteer radio amateur organisation AMSAT-UK, it will join several other spacecraft on a DNEPR rocket .
Atoms up work
IBM Research has successfully demonstrated the ability to store information in as few as 12 magnetic atoms and by beginning at the smallest unit of data storage, the atom, researcher demonstrate magnetic storage at least 100 times denser than today’s hard disk drives and solid state memory chips.
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