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Graphene straddles the world. At Manchester University moving into the vertical plane it becomes a vertical field effect tunnelling transistor. Over at the ORNL laboratory in Tenessee, graphene becomes a plasmonic antennae.Down under at University of Wollongong in New South Wales correctly mixed with nanotubes and PVA, it becomes the most super tough fibre material capable of mass production.

In its quest to discover and help develop emerging and early stage technology based start-ups UKCisco has launched the next stage in its British Innovation Gateway (BIG Awards IPrize) initiative. With support from JP Morgan and other partners, BIG Awards will take the form of an annual open innovation competition to discover and reward the finest examples of the UK’s most innovative start-up digital businesses and SMEs.

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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.

Roke Manor Research Ltd , acquired by the US Chemring Group in 2010 has been appointed by the UK Government's National Technical Authority for Information Assurance (CESG), as UK's only Conformance Test Facility of Protocol Requirements for IP Modular Encryption (PRIME) the UK's framework to ensure interoperability between large UK government networks such as the Public Services Network (PSN)

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The requirements for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) deployment in the UK following the publication of the Government's 2050 CCS Roadmap.
Planned sessions focus on the continued technical challenges and overall feasibility of post-combustion CCS, and will include discussion on the findings from the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) studies, which were completed as part of the now discontinued Longannet project. The seminar will also examine how these findings can be used in taking forward the development of CCS.

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.

MicroStrategy and Apple are holding a free-of-charge seminar that covers the ways in which apps and the iPad transform business processes. Discover how internal and external communication can be revitalised by using apps and learn the ease with which your commercial apps can be deployed to the app store.

Are you up to speed on the two environmental regulations for two directives concerning electronic waste and batteries and what they will mean to your business in 2012?  Important, significant changes planned will impact upon your environmental responsibilities. UK Department for business, Innovation and Skills invites you to a free half day roadshow in your area which will provide you with essential information and helpful advice.

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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.

Devastating floods, deadly earthquakes, near apocalyptic tsunami, typhoons, storms, Arab spring, and economic downturn lets Acronis dub 2011 a year of disasters, yet Acronis GM Northern Europe and MEA, David Blackman comments that businesses around the world have grown in confidence about their ability to back up and then recover data and IT systems following a disaster.

The cloud offers enhanced IT service availability and flexibility, but customers need to understand their responsibilities to achieve this. The risks associated with cloud computing depend upon both the service model and the delivery model adopted. This article focuses on two specific risks: availability and lock-in.

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.

Business & Markets

In its quest to discover and help develop emerging and early stage technology based start-ups UKCisco has launched the next stage in its British Innovation Gateway (BIG Awards IPrize) initiative. With support from JP Morgan and other partners, BIG Awards will take the form of an annual open innovation competition to discover and reward the finest examples of the UK’s most innovative start-up digital businesses and SMEs.

Graphene straddles the world. At Manchester University moving into the vertical plane it becomes a vertical field effect tunnelling transistor. Over at the ORNL laboratory in Tenessee, graphene becomes a plasmonic antennae.Down under at University of Wollongong in New South Wales correctly mixed with nanotubes and PVA, it becomes the most super tough fibre material capable of mass production.

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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.

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.

Software

Devastating floods, deadly earthquakes, near apocalyptic tsunami, typhoons, storms, Arab spring, and economic downturn lets Acronis dub 2011 a year of disasters, yet Acronis GM Northern Europe and MEA, David Blackman comments that businesses around the world have grown in confidence about their ability to back up and then recover data and IT systems following a disaster.

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'.

A highly accurate 3D map of Britain made available online by aerial mapping company Bluesky is created using data from aircraft mounted lasers that transmit light pulses that bounce off the earth’s surface the 3D map covers most of England and Wales, including all major towns and floodplains. Nothing there for Scotland? Not so!

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Roke Manor Research Ltd , acquired by the US Chemring Group in 2010 has been appointed by the UK Government's National Technical Authority for Information Assurance (CESG), as UK's only Conformance Test Facility of Protocol Requirements for IP Modular Encryption (PRIME) the UK's framework to ensure interoperability between large UK government networks such as the Public Services Network (PSN)

iomart Hosting has been voted one of the best web hosting companies and cloud service providers of 2011in the US HostReview Annual Web Hosting Awards winning third place, just behind Liquid Web and SoftLayer and was the highest placed of any European company. It also came 4th in the Best Cloud Service category for “those companies that offer outstanding performance and value for cloud computing servers,” ahead of US giant, Amazon.

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Roke Manor Research Ltd , acquired by the US Chemring Group in 2010 has been appointed by the UK Government's National Technical Authority for Information Assurance (CESG), as UK's only Conformance Test Facility of Protocol Requirements for IP Modular Encryption (PRIME) the UK's framework to ensure interoperability between large UK government networks such as the Public Services Network (PSN)

In its quest to discover and help develop emerging and early stage technology based start-ups UKCisco has launched the next stage in its British Innovation Gateway (BIG Awards IPrize) initiative. With support from JP Morgan and other partners, BIG Awards will take the form of an annual open innovation competition to discover and reward the finest examples of the UK’s most innovative start-up digital businesses and SMEs.

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.

Devastating floods, deadly earthquakes, near apocalyptic tsunami, typhoons, storms, Arab spring, and economic downturn lets Acronis dub 2011 a year of disasters, yet Acronis GM Northern Europe and MEA, David Blackman comments that businesses around the world have grown in confidence about their ability to back up and then recover data and IT systems following a disaster.

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PRACE Research Infrastructure welcomes three new members: Denmark, Israel and Slovenia, make a total of 24 PRACE members for 2012.

When Gaberlunzie was fairly young, one of the more intriguing books he was shown was the one where numbers in colours helped doctors discover if you were colour blind (or colour vision deficient (CVD) to give it its preferred nomenclature)

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’.

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One of the key ways to promote Scotland’s many tourist attractions and improve customer experience whilst they are here is through digital technology which is often overlooked.

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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.

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PRACE Research Infrastructure welcomes three new members: Denmark, Israel and Slovenia, make a total of 24 PRACE members for 2012.

Initially of the workshop provides an overview of COMSOL Multiphysics V4.2a - capabilities, new abilities and functionality enhancements, and its new, more efficient, user interface the COMSOL Desktop.

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PRACE Research Infrastructure welcomes three new members: Denmark, Israel and Slovenia, make a total of 24 PRACE members for 2012.

When Gaberlunzie was fairly young, one of the more intriguing books he was shown was the one where numbers in colours helped doctors discover if you were colour blind (or colour vision deficient (CVD) to give it its preferred nomenclature)

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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’.