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Browsing can bring on colour
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)
COMSOL Multiphysics
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.
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'.
Ensuring business continuity in Clouds
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.
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.
Whisky biofuel as water loses to wind
THE UK government's review of feed in tariff (FIT) energy payments is estimated to have stalled £100m of hydropower investment in Scotland, while a newcomer Celtic Renewable is to use whisky by-products for the production of biofuels.
RSPB: fisheries and peatland
The RSPB Scotland has warned that a new strategy for Scotland's inshore fisheries set out in the two year old National Marine Plan will not help fishing communities, unless it does more to protect our seas and is brought into effect and RSPB is also urging the Scottish Government to honour its manifesto pledge to restore Scotland’s peatlands.
LiDAR geodata comes online
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!
UK government gets new CIO
The head of IT at the Ministry of Justice is to become the Government's chief information offices, on the heels of Joe Harley announing his resignation from that post at the end of March. Government also looks for a replacement CIO at Department for Work & Pension where Harley held the title.
Iomart Hosting: voted among best
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.
Non-compliance costs RBOS £11.77m
RBS has been fined £2.17m by the FSA for tampering with closed complaint files. Direct Line and Churchill insurance staff acted under pressure from management to alter documents before they were sent for regulatory review. The third fine the RBS Group has been subject to in 18 months with its total levy of non-compliance fines from 2010 standing at some £11.77m
Kilcreggan ferry drops Helensburgh
The Kilcreggan ferry between Helensburgh and Gourock is to have one of its stops withdran from April to save nearly £200,000 in operation costs following a dramatic drop in use.
Cloud growth forecast as steady
The rising use of online storage and infrastructure systems to support services like Apple Inc.’s iCloud, cloud servers will enjoy robust prospects in 2012 and then move on to become the fastest-growing segment of the server industry within three years. Shipments of cloud servers are projected to reach 875,000 units in 2012, up a notable 35% from 647,000 in 2011 and nearly double the 460,000 in 2010 in IHS iSuppli Compute Platforms report
Abica offers speedup broadband
Commercial broadband speeds are dwindling behind those piped into residential premises, leaving people at work struggling to get the sort of speeds they enjoy when using the internet at home. Business telecoms Abica says this is a costly problem that the smaller business community cannot afford to put up with and offers to rectify the problem.
BT ups WiFi hotspots
BT claims Wi-Fi users in Scotland can now take advantage of nearly 320,000 Wi-Fi hotspots, almost three times the number ofbless than two years ago. The BT network, claimed as UK's largest, has more than 3m UK hotspots in homes, independent businesses and city centres. There are nearly 26,000 hotspots in Glasgow, 20,000 in Edinburgh, 16,700 in Aberdeen and 26,700 across the Highlands.
Flexiant: new bosses and £1m
Having moved offices and with work on EU projects 4CAAST, Cumulo Nimbo, and Optimis,cloud automation software company, Flexiant has now secured £1m investment and appointed John Pocock and George Knox as chairman and CEO, shedding Laurence Blackall, with co-founders Alex Bligh and Tony Lucas moving to COO and CTO respectively.
Ofcom proposal extends 4G coverage
Ofcom has set out a number of new proposals for making 4G mobile spectrum available in the UK. This includes introducing new measures expected to extend coverage to at least 98%[of the UK population and revised plans to promote competition.
Education of the heart
The Dalai Lama will deliver this year’s Margaret Harris Lecture on Religion and talk "Education of the Heart: a new world order of compassion" during his historic visit to Dundee, Inverness, and Edinburgh after several programmes in Manchester and London.
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