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The Scottish Commission for Regulation of Care and the Social Services Council have gone live with Funnelback Hosted Search on each of their websites.This service allows Scottish residents to search for adult, child and independent healthcare services in Scotland. Funnelback is owned by Squiz whose Suite, the world's first supported open source web management suite is due for release in November 2010 incorporates a content management system,analytics capabilities, effective search and a platform for integrating applications and data, underpinned by a global, 24/7 support framework and an automatic update service.

As government talks IT spending crackdown, and business looks to saving operating costs there is good logic to data centre providers talking and funding new facilities. These will not employ hundreds, but will cause less potential fallout in failure, and with so much competition around should offer excellently competitive market price. But the heart of the issue may lie in the Carbon Reduction Commitment penalties.

Westminster plans to cap migration will threaten Scottish Universities and their renowned science, technology and engineering work, reports the Herald Scotland. The top five countries of origin of international academic staff in the UK are US, China, India, Australia and Canada. At professorial level, 7.5% of staff are non-EU nationals; at senior researcher/lecturer level 14.1% are non-EU nationals; at lecturer level 26.3% are non-EU nationals and at researcher level 40.3% are non-EU nationals.

Two recent reports Blueprint for Scotland from the Scottish Council for Development and Industry and Rebalancing Act from NESTA, supported by Oxford Economics are interesting exercises on how to foster economic growth, but with the November 2010 Manufacturing Technology Scotland show in Glasgow being postponed until 2011, action on recommendations need to be able to be as effective and as fast as possible.

Liberal Democrats hold the balance of power on Twitter, finds Virgin Media Business research which shows the Liberal Democrats making the greatest strides of all UK political parties in using Twitter, to match their new-found political power with online influence. Research claims that underpinned with the right networks and IT strategy twitter-style media will make for wider government reach and greater accountability.

Considering that in the UK in 1900 there were only 200 women doctors; only in 1910 were were women allowed to become accountants and bankers, (but not diplomats, barristers or judges) and that it is less than 80 years since women in the UK have enjoyed the right to vote, their current move into successful entrepreneurship is definitely exhilarating and speeding up and doubtless politics will follow later.

This summer, children throughout the UK will be helping discover just how many ladybirds there are in school grounds. "Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire and your children all gone" may not be the scene, but the voracious Harlequin eats native ladybird lavae. Children will also investigate the relationship between ladybird pupae and their parasites. There is still time to get involved with the project.

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The recovery in Scotland's labour market continued in April, with both appointments and wage inflation on the rise, according to the latest Bank of Scotland Report on Jobs . The rise in demand for permanent staff in Scotland was broad-based, with seven of the eight monitored employment categories recording higher vacancy numbers. The strongest rise was registered in the IT & Computing sector, followed by Executive & Professional.

National Milk Records, the provider of livestock services has signed an agreement with Embedded Technology Solutions, a spin-out company from the University of Strathclyde to distribute the Silent Herdsman, an intelligent electronic monitoring collar which effectively detects a cow's oestrus events and enables dairy farmers to significantly improve the efficiency of reproduction in the herd during the insemination process. Scotland has a wealth of expertise in animal monitoring and has another approach to this on show in Canada recently .

A wide range of Universities including Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Napier, Heriot Watt, Dundee and Strathclyde have been awarded funding from European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Biggest beneficiary is the University of Aberdeen awarded £2.6m towards a new facility to support the transfer of research from the laboratory to the commercial world.

Scotland’s farmers are to get new software which will be up and running this summer. Funded by the Scottish Government, the £400,000 PLANET (Planning Land Application of Nutrients for Efficiency and the Environment) software project aims to help improve both the farm business and the environment.

Prime minister, Gordon Brown, is to talk about his plan to ensure that superfast broadband reaches every home in the UK, a scheme to be funded by a household charge of 50p a month on phone lines. Superfast broadband, for the entire country, including Barra will be achieved by 2020, though the vast majority of the country is scheduled to have next generation broadband (no speeds mentioned) by 2017 using the 50p landline tax introduced in the Digital Economy Bill.

In the run up to looking at how anyone selects help to build a website or happily goes the DIY route, ComputeScotland takes a look an one site that anyone wanting to keep an eye on their lairs kingdom, will have inevitably stumbled over, that is Scotland archivist,'Scottie' and his comprehensive guide to all thing Scottish at the Rampant Scotland site.

Five out of eleven locations in the Highlands and Islands have been identified for their potential to be significant manufacturing sites serving Scotland's burgeoning offshore tide and wind energy industry, as have a swathe of central belt locations. But it highlights that the Scottish southern lands appear to be out in the cold from any renewables calculations.

Scottish government reports that Scotland's hydro power potential is nearly double the amount previously estimated, with small hydro playing a key role in hydro development and job creation. But a major bottleneck is in the amount of skill available in Scotland and the rest of the UK to achieve worthwhile targets.

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