http://www.computescotland.co.uk/ en-us Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:55:05 +0000 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:55:05 +0000 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Beachshore Design Online Management System editor@computescotland.co.uk (Gail Purvis) support@beachshore.co.uk (Beachshore Support) http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3147.php Two news stories on the University of the Highlands and Islands, currently the UHI Millenium Institute, report respectively that the organisation is on the brink of achieving full University status but this is subject to the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) recommendation which has asked for a stronger university structure.Regardless of the outcome, law firm Harper Macleod, is providing funding by for two three-year UHI PhD research projects, suggesting that commercial Scotland endorses it's long awaited and hard worked for 15th University. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:07:43 +0000 CE77W6eqxdR6fLetgVFF http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3146.php Phosphorus is just as important to agriculture as water. But a lack of availability and accessibility of phosphorus is an emerging problem that threatens our capacity to feed the global population. Like nitrogen and potassium, it is a nutrient that plants take up from the soil and it is crucial to soil fertility and crop growth. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:19:12 +0000 Vfbppk6wTeMvNmi9CrvV http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3145.php The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1,500 Fellows are the cream of experts in the sciences, arts, humanities, professions, industry and commerce. This March it announced the election of 48 new UK and International Fellows elected after a rigorous four-stage selection process culminating in a ballot of the entire Fellowship. Each new Fellow of the RSE is recognised within his or her peer group as having achieved excellence within their discipline or profession. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:32:57 +0000 aXqXZi2TUCdy6R5ZOMGz http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3144.php Seven Highlands & Islands businesses recently won sponsored places to MIT to attend an entrepreneurs development programme. One, a Shetland businessman excelled at an entrepreneurs development programme. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:40:19 +0000 5b3cKY2A2kx0SekcFdHq http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3143.php Buses equipped with computers make interesting sense. Cisco, for one, exhibiting its unique Network On Wheels (NOW) Van at the New Start Scotland exhibition next Friday and Saturday at the SECC, Glasgow, sees this as moving hightech into the known element everyday of transport mobility. In the US a similar approach has been made by equipping the school bus with the Internet turning rowdy schoolchildren into quieter and either attentive students or dedicated gamers. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:13:20 +0000 pVKQtNdoe81Aqxvy8AHi http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3142.php Around 63% of organisations take a day or more to recover from system downtime, according to research from Acronis. Despite living in a world where businesses operate around the clock, the majority of companies are still putting their systems, and therefore their productivity and profitability, at risk by failing to protect them adequately. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:56:41 +0000 HOyiatluVKRyZATSOdEc http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3141.php Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) students have created the first made in Spain interactive alternative reality adventure for YouTube, a project that fuses cinema with games, allowing the user to choose the course that story will take and involving social networks to move forward Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:48:44 +0000 O0gfzoIQaoPNUkLbQ9KR http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3140.php robertson technologies has awarded its first franchise, extending the computer support business out of its Central Belt homelands which will take its services to SMEs in Fife and Clackmanan Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:14:47 +0000 6ArYAhXnFXZmEynE0unM http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3139.php UK scientists at the Norwich base John Innes Centre have succeeded in growing empty particles derived from a plant virus and have made them carry useful chemicals. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:45:27 +0000 73iycbwmBvCWTJV3Wu9U http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3138.php A country carbon emission footprint website, created by Professor Edgar Hertwich and his colleagu Glen Peters from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology win the Editor's choice award from US Environmental Science and Technology journal. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:37:11 +0000 ioAjq1ZHxM1QBZsLnnob http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3137.php Scotland has innovative voice software skills, but Wales are the experts at listening to the sound of voices, so no surprise that innovative sound-mapping software has been developed at Cardiff University. Based on human hearing it aims to help architects design-out unwanted noise from proposed room design, through the use of audibility maps. Currently looking for a software company to develop the market, long term it could have architectural impact of comfortable conversation places. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:13:00 +0000 8cXtbrh3EVSLhsh1LTJY http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3136.php In January this year, three-year-old Burntisland, Fife-based Burdica Biomed Ltd (BBL) signed a long-term partnership agreement with China giant, Sinopharm which has contracted to undertake the Chinese regulatory compliance process for products from the Burdica portfolio (expected to take a year or so to completion) and subsequently distribute the products in China, with Burdica marketing support. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:20:40 +0000 5IivVKafgwBGnfSCa3PY http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3134.php Your eyes are unconsciously shifting up to four times every second as you read that the Drever Lecture at University of Dundee on March 18th will be on "Ways of seeing: eyes and eye movement s across the animal kingdom" Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:11:59 +0000 VEDHfNuubc1eJy5ncQmS http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3133.php India's top software consultancy has enjoyed a coup as the successful bidder for the UK National Employment Savings Trust administration for which Logica was also tendering. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:55:20 +0000 xg6ZoYzeXt69sDPgJyZg http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3132.php Innovation, Technology and Leadership (ITL) are the themes for The Institute of Directors Scotland chairman and speaker Raymond O’Hare, at this Thursday IoD Aberdeen lunch. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:17:44 +0000 TLS3XOW3ktcJVOpPqtfR http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3131.php Gaberlunzie's ears picked up at a Reuter piece on Skype (having tied up a deal with Verizon) now unveiling software from Nokia Oyj, which could run on more than 200m smartphones around the world. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:44:33 +0000 nUdd0zTActx69Zv2ctTf http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3129.php On the heels of the new mathematical model for leukaemia,Vienna University research work shows how leukaemia cells become ‘addicted’ to genes, which if targeted could prevent diseased cells from developing. The team, led by Dr Veronika Sexl from the University of Vienna, carried out their research on acute lymphoid leukaemia (ALL) and chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML), which can both be caused by fusion protein, Bcr-Abl, created through the joining of two or more genes originally coded for separate proteins. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:40:21 +0000 iTON8LHB2vzyowhN5Blo http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3128.php Technology developed for use in multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (MUAVs), a sophisticated autonomous computer framework of control algorithms - the first of its kind - allows one operator to control a number of vehicles from a safe position on the ground making surveillance missions significantly cheaper. The technology also offers potential in search & rescue, environmental surveillance, mining, oil exploration, surveillance and reconnaissance for traffic control, fire extinction, oceanographic or geological surveys, and marine and border inspection. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:26:27 +0000 yHzzw8VXSP6V4KrhTZIb http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3127.php CERN has been able to take the first measurements of collisions between particles with the highest energy ever generated and performed at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator and recorded with the CMS Experiment, which involved a key component (the barrel pixel detector) contributed by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in collaboration with Swiss Universities. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:20:11 +0000 CECBfZAtVMjF8gP1sjIn http://www.computescotland.co.uk/3126.php US Stem cell products developer Stemgent has started a new business in Scotland that will develop reagents and kits and offer services for use in studying the ubiquitin proteasome pathway (UPP) for drug research. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:13:02 +0000 o7EIPMoWyZaM9c2P1yen