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Technology developed by Edinburgh based Rapid Mobile, offers graphically rich and highly interactive slot games giving users the chance to win huge progressive jackpots. Its ThinkPhone system allow games such as one with a Deal or No Deal theme, the 1920s themed Diamond Bonanza, and a seasonal release called Christmas Bonanza, delivered on to mobiles by Gamesys.

High hermeticity polymer based micro-cavity for wafer level MEMS device encapsulation is on offer from Heriot-Watt University, while University of Edinburgh has packaged prototypes for an optical manipulator, which has been built and demonstrated. The technology and know-how is now available under a non-exclusive license agreement from the University of Edinburgh. Both source from the Scottish University Technology database source which has a wide range of sectors and some interesting offers, as in GLOSS (games localisation software) from Abertay and innovative surface engineering of metals and oxides from the University of Edinburgh and University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Well worth a rummage!

The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), which grades all UK universities on the quality of research, sees Scotland with a 65% increase in numbers of world-class university researchers since 2001. There are now researchers, whose work is considered world-leading in every single Scottish institution and more than 50% of Scotland's assessed research is deemed internationally excellent or world-leading.

The Open Source Awards, held in Glasgow as part of the Scottish Software Awards, went to JISC Regional Support Centre for Access Apps in the Educattion category.and the Enterprise Award went to Grenock-based Wolfson Microelectronics. The awards recognise the work done by Scots Open Source software developers and companies using and promoting Open Source.

EPSRC is to provide £250m fundeding for 44 new centres of doctoral training which will train over 2000 PhD students over the next five years. Out of the 44 Universities, Scottish prospective PhD strengths are seen as optics and photonics, condensed matter physics and wind energy systems, which go to Heriot Watt, St Andrews and Strathclyde Universities respectively. Sadly no industrial centres made it to Scotland and no-one managed to bid for skilling wave and tidal energy experts.

Rail passengers in Scotland face growing disruption following a sudden rise in the theft of copper cables from railway lines, since soaring global prices for metals, fuelled by growing demand from China, has triggered a surge in metal thefts from Scotland's railway lines. Perhaps the railways should take a leaf out of the Gauteng Soweto development in South Africa, which receives a business boost with a R1bn investment by shared broadband infrastructure company, Dark Fibre Africa (DFA), to lay fibre in the township.

Intel Corporation has announced its Intel Health Guide (IHG), a care management tool designed for healthcare professionals treating patients with chronic conditions, for the UK. Claiming a new category of personal health systems that go beyond the simple remote patient monitoring systems available today, Intel is collaborating with healthcare industry leaders in Europe, such as NHS Lothian, UK, the Institute for Prevention and Telemedicine (IPT) and the Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands to demonstrate the clinical benefits of the Intel Health Guide for a wide range of chronic conditions.

The Renishaw Advanced Metrology Centre, opened this month at Herriot-Watt University will facilitate both teaching and research in modern industrial metrology and materials analysis using highly accurate co-ordinate measuring machines (CMMs), laser calibration equipment, and sophisticated Raman spectroscopy.

In time for your Christmas wish list, inone of the first commercially available ranges of video glasses, Vuzix iWear is using the 'Eyescreen' full-colour organic microdisplay from MicroEmissive Displays to deliver large-screen viewing experiences to its new AV230XL device.The new video eyewear uses MED’s microdisplays, similar in size to the human pupil, to equal the visual effect of a conventional 44-inch TV screen. The glasses can be connected to almost any video device such as a personal video player, cellphone, PC, or game terminal, and will enrich theuser experience on offer from innovations such as mobile TV, video telephony and virtual reality. The sub-0 selling price oprnd up exciting video experiences to a broad consumer market.

Edinburgh University's specialist database researchers have used the latest innovations in data strategy to develop a solution to data inaccuracies that could save businesses, particularly for those that use direct marketing, substantial amounts of money. The team of pioneering data scientists is led by Professor Wenfei Fan considered a leader in his field and who won the prestigious BCS Roger Needham Award, putting the UK at the forefront of database management technology.

Sun Microsystems could not confirm yesterday whether the 900 jobs at its Linlithgow server plant were under threat, after announcing 6,000 job losses worldwide, an 18% cut of its workforce as analysts urge it to 20%. The Linlithgow plant employs 600 full-time staff, plus 300 contractors, but the UK Sun website as yet carries no press releases for November.

Scheduled shifts in Earth's orbit should plunge the planet into an enduring Ice Age thousands of years from now, but the event will probably be averted because of man-made greenhouse gases, say two research scientists, who built a high-powered computer model to take a closer look at intriguing phases of global cooling and warmth. One of the authors is the geoscientist, Professor Thomas Crowley, SAGES director at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

A University of Glasgow patent provides a method for bonding at least two parts where one part comprises silicon carbide by forming a layer of silica on the silicon carbide surface to provide a bonding surface, applying a bonding solution including hydroxide ions to the bonding surface of at least one of the partsand positioning the parts or the bonding surfaces so that a bond can be formed between them. The patent claims extend to assemblies obtained or obtainable by this method, and covers a device or assembly comprising silicon carbide bonded to another part by an interface material that comprises silica treated with a solution, preferably an aqueous solution, which includes hydroxide ions. The claims also extend to a device or assembly comprising silicon carbide bonded to another part by an interface material that comprises a siloxane network.

Napier University computer experts at have secured funding of £199,879 to help in the pre- commercialisation of a unique digital fingerprinting and analysis technology to help companies and other organisations crack down on computer fraud. The patent-pending technology, codenamed ‘digital DNA’, is based on a new collecting and analysing technique that identifies sequences in user access of data, leaving behind a 'digital fingerprint' that will help in later digital forensic investigations.

Old guise Scottish Enterprise has often been accused of damaging independent publishing interests for the Scottish technology business, by calmly turning most technology issues into Scottish Enterprise in-house produced publications for its large subscribing client base But two central belt independent business to business publishers in Glasgow and Edinburgh, are showing to be proactive about expanding their titles, though neither has seen their websites as a communicating media to compliment their print publications.

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