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Digital sight and sound for September
EXPO 2010 Shanghai has as its star a 130 x 6.3 metres animated tapestry developed by Hong Kong based Crystal CG. The digital viewing which can be seen at Gizmag or at Crystal CG is well worth visiting. On the digital sound arena, the WIMP application (Where Is My Phone) has been revamped and can be heard on You Tube.
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.
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.
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.
£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.
OFT survey shoulder to cry on
As Which? survey scores Santander one of the worst for savings satisfaction (39%) and Halifax and Bank of Scotland, now part of Lloyds Banking Group just score 42%, overall results are shown to be getting worse. Now the Forum of Private Business, a not-for-profit small business support group is urging firms to take part in a new survey of their experiences of dealing with banks.
Inverness Campus site goes to tender
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) board gives the go-ahead for the tendering of work which will prepare 89-acres of the Inverness Campus site for its future as a north of Scotland world class facility.
Qinetiq bleeds livewires to SME sector
Qinetiq's CEO Leo Qinn is backing his current blood letting, and recorded as having purchased 50,000 shares in the company at a value of 106.80p per share. The deal cost him a total of £53,400 and takes Quinn’s total shareholding in the company to 653,301 shares with a current value of just under £700,000.
New bank model needed
Scottish technology businesses are being offered £3m of investments from the Connect Scotland Investment two day conference in Edinburgh mid November. It comes against a background of banks not lending at reasonable rates for mortgages, but creaming it in on well above prime. Bank fees and costs for small and medium sized enterprises rising since the end of 2009 with a highly restrictive lending criteria, with routes such as factoring seeing an increase in in the past year, but its charges of better use within the business.
Diversification does well at THG
Ruaridh Nicolson has been appointed sales and marketing manager at Teknek, the global leader in contact cleaning equipment for a number of sectors including semi-conductors, converting, printing, medical and solar cells.
Relaxing magnetic fields
Researchers at the University of Dundee have made a breakthrough in the study of magnetic fields when a team from the magnetohydrodynamics research group in the School of Engineering, Physics and Mathematics used computer simulations of evolving plasmas in the Sun’s atmosphere.
Museums: powered down and panoramic
Britain’s oldest public museum, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, has used Power Down technology from lthe Qubic Group to reduce the costs of running its 200 workstations needed to meet the increasing number of public-facing ICT initiatives (eg gallery touch screens), needs of staff and academic researchers. And if you ever had a soft spot for the marvellous Pitt Rivers, just see what panoramic vision has done for the viewing. All you missing is to reach out and open (remember?) those amazing drawers!
Evatronics grows China silicon customers
The silicon intellectual property provider, Evatronix SA, has appointed Alex Zeng as its country manager in Beijing to optimise support for the growing number of Evatronix customers in mainland China. Its announcement comes with the company's presence at the EDA Tech Forum events hosted in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan on August 24th, and Shanghai and Beijing, China on August 31st and September 2nd, respectively, where Evatronix will unveil its latest IP improvements in USB 3.0, NAND Flash and SD memory, and multimedia.
Probability chip takes a bow
Any UK design engineers out there feeling lyrical? Lyric Semiconductor Inc based in Cambridge Massachusetts, is a DARPA- and venture-funded MIT spin-out, has emerged from stealth mode to launch a new technology called probability processing, poised to deliver a fundamental change in processing performance and power consumption and is looking for a senior design engineer.
iPad platform in D2BD 2010 winners
The three winning teams Angry Mango (University of Wales, Newport), Team Tickle (Abertay University), and That Game Studio (4 students from University of Skovde and 1 from Abertay University) are also the sole nominees for the BAFTA Ones to Watch award, chosen by a panel of gaming industry experts during the three day event. The platforms include the iPad, Xbox360 and a 2D platform using Windows Phone 7 inputs.
Numediart = New Media Art
There's something about a determined French release sitting among mainly English ones and includes the word 'numediart' which is a red rag for Gaberlunzie curiousity.
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