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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.
Electronics component snafu
Component shortages lead to a traffic pileup in the global electronics supply chain, with major contract manufacturers facing a challenging supply imbalance characterised by tight part and finished products inventories and a glut of raw materials, according to the market research firm iSuppli Corp.
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.
Back to court: Microsoft avoids $290 damages
Microsoft, which lost its patent battle over Word processing software to the small Toronto firm i4i Inc and ordered to pay $290m in damages last year, is determined to avoid the issue and taken the matter to the US Supreme Court.
Cloud sync: email, calendar, contacts & more
TriSys Recruitment Software, started in Cambridge in 1994 is one of the most eagerly willing to sell you anything in Business Softwarewhich has released its latest version of email, calendar, contacts synchronisation tool connecting to cloud-based email services. If you visit the site, an energetic popup window suggests you can fill in your name to text and communicate NOW!
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.
BT, Abica upgrade: Google goes VOIP
Both BT and Abica have upgrade plans for broadband. BT is to get a £2.5bn broadband network going with Huawei. Abica is to capitalise on Fibre To The Curb/Cabinet (FTTC) upgrades and Google runs the Skype gauntlet, offering VOIP but not in the UK yet.
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.
Onyx names Balfour Beatty Engineering
Balfour Beatty Engineering Services has awarded leading technology provider Onyx Group a contract to provide IT services to the UK Engineering Services Division. Headquartered in Hillington, near Glasgow, and with further offices across the UK, BBES selected Onyx Group to provide an outsourced IT Helpdesk service. Onyx will act as a first line response to BBES staff experiencing IT issues and provides expert transition to BBES’s own IT teams when calls are escalated up the chain.
Multiview Video Encoding on show
Multiview Video Coding (MVC) is the new standard for 3-D movie compression, reducing the data significantly and simultaneously provides full, high-resolution quality. At the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam from 10-14 September, researchers will showcase how 3-D movies can be transmitted via Internet and digital television channels such as via satellite.
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.
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.
Scottish Social Services Council: Funnelback to Squiz
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.
TAP scores £250,000 oil spares deal
While the IT community in Aberdeen considers cloud services, Aberdeen Pressure Washer Centre, a division of Turriff AgriParts (TAP) Ltd has been awarded a £250,000 contract to supply Kärcher spares to a major oil company in Azerbaijan or Gorgia
This week Aberdeen examines the Cloud
The rapidly expanding use by businesses of cloud computing as an IT solution will be the focus of an industry forum in Aberdeen next week at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre on August 25th, that will examine how the concept of IT services hosted remotely and delivered by internet – has developed in recent years, and assess the benefits to individual companies.
Google cloud-based Prediction
Smart Web services rely on machine learning, algorithms that enable software to learn how to respond with a degree of intelligence to new information or events. Google has launched its service Google Prediction API that provides a simple way for developers with databases to play with to create software that learns how to handle incoming data.
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