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Cloud services Achilles heel? Apply remote test
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.
Raw material shortages: substitution offset
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.
Soitec buys nano Altatech
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 wins conformance monopoly
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)
PRACE grows membership
PRACE Research Infrastructure welcomes three new members: Denmark, Israel and Slovenia, make a total of 24 PRACE members for 2012.
Acronis: backup & data recovery
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.
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)
Women research ID management
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’.
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'.
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.
Rain forest and flight wing truths
LMU biologist, Professor Susanne Renner teamed with Professor Robert E. Ricklefs at University of Missouri in St. Louis used data to dispose of the neural theory for rainforests. At Cambridge University Professor Holger Babinsky creates a 1-minute video to show it is lower air pressure above that raises a wing, not the common but wrong explanation of wing curvature creating wing lift.
Devolution impact: telecoms and broadband
In January 2012 the Westminster government offered to devolve to the Scottish Parliament the powers necessary to conduct a referendum on the independence of Scotland, with the possibility of repealing the Act of Union of 1707. This could return Great Britain to a Union of the Crowns, with separate parliaments under one sovereign.
Weir acquires valves & pumps, seismic sensors next?
The engineering group Weir has made its second acquisition in the US shale oil and gas sector with the acquisition of Dallas-based US valve maker Novatech for $176m (£113m). Perhaps it should also consider the seismic sensor market too.
North China brewer uses Telemetry
China’s oldest and third largest brewer, Harbin Beer has hired British company Telemetry to serve and audit its online video advertising in China. Telemetry being the first foreign company to be permitted to serve and audit an online video campaign for a Chinese brand, within China not unjustifiably claims a major achievement.
Of robots, earth from space and bullfrogs
Gaberlunzie has always had an enormous fondness for robots from the earliest Ridiculous ElectronicDevice which he was warned never to stand near unless he had personally programmed.
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.
NISIC wipes out NBII
The USA National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is being terminated A new database, the National Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC), has been added. If you wish to receive NISIC Alerts access your Alerts account and add it to your selected Alerts source
Graphene: magnetic, irridescent, & super hydrophobic
Graphene's multi-magnetic face now adds two other unusual properties with iridescence and super hydrophobicity that could have applications in liquid transportation and analysis, and due to graphene’s remarkable electrical properties, even in electricity.
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