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Carbon footprint detection work
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.
ITL through social networks
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.
What price peer-review in games?
Gaming companies could be wasting their time (and a lot of money) pouring their efforts into the wrong channels. A new study indicates that the core gaming audience has a limited tolerance for messages directly from the publishers of games. What it fails to point out is that already games companies or publishers are already routing their time and money into getting coveted 'peer reviews' on social websites.
Edinburgh DigiMIS joins Manchester K3
Manchester Salford Quays software provider K3 Business Technology Group has agreed to pay up to £2.13m for the Edinburgh-based cloud computing services firm.
PRACE evaluates nextgen architecture prototypes
A Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) workshop “New Languages & Future Technology Prototype” was held this week at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Garching, Munich, Germany for people actively involved in the assessment of prototypes, and programming languages and HPC research activities.
Survey backs optimism in Scotland's IT
The annual Scottish Technology Industry Survey results, show 72% of respondents are optimistic or very optimistic about the outlook for the year ahead, compared with 44% last year. A large majority (78%) expect sales to grow this year and less than 10% of firms expect sales to decline.
Desktop virtualisation boosted with Linux
Userful Corporation, multiseat Linux desktop virtualisation suppliers claims that 30,000 schools worldwide have chosen Userful virtual desktops to reduce computing costs and improve computer-to-student ratios.
Kneber, a new Zeus botnet
NetWitness analysts have discovered a dangerous new ZeuS botnet affecting 75,000 systems in 2,500 organizstions around the world. The newly-discovered infestation, dubbed the "Kneber botnet" after the username linking the infected systems worldwide, gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and email systems from infested computers and reports the information to miscreants who can use it to break into accounts, steal corporate and government information, and replicate personal, online and financial identities.
Test Driven Development with Rails Studio
EdgeCase UK will run a "Test Driven Development with Rails Studio" in Edinburgh, Scotland. It follows from Edgecase Scotland on Rails 2009.
Routes to speed up the wireless traffic
In France, Bouygues Telecom takes UK Cambridge based ip.access nanoGSM system for 2G and EDGE coverage. Over in the US, Aspera with asp-AIR for speeding up wireless file transfer now has distributors in the UK and Ireland.
Fast Alzheimer's analysis method
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a method for analysing MR images in just a few minutes when diagnosing Alzheimer's disease. The accuracy of the analysis Fast and robust multi-atlas segmentation of brain magnetic resonance images is comparable to manual measurements made by skilled professionals, currently considered the most reliable method for diagnosing Alzheimer's and is also well suited for clinical use.
UK works on cyberscam & chip & pin: US cordons defense networks
UK invests £4.3m in a cyber scam crackdown team; chip & pin get excoriated as 'unfit for purpose' and US Defense Industry Systems Agency budgets to cordon off military from public network zones.
Barcelona: Apple's app galls telcos, Adobe offers AIR
Twenty-four telecom operators have formed an alliance to build an open platform that will deliver applications to all mobile phone users in an effort to compete with Apple's successful apps store while Adobe unveils FLASH also despite Apple's disapproval.
Growth for Opera Mini: SIM to threatens handsets
Opera Mini, the world’s most popular mobile browser, has crossed the 50m unique monthly users mark in January 2010, as users seek out the Opera Mini experience over other options by downloading it on their mobile devices. In the UK a survey of 250 mobile phone users reveals that just 48% of consumers recognise the term ‘SIM only contract’ - suggesting mobile phone users are missing out when it comes to finding the best value mobile phone tariff
Entrepreneur starts game rolling for Scottish girl geeks
The first of the Girl Geek Scotland dinners in 2010 launched in Dundee yesterday addressed by computer games entrepreneur Shanna Tellerman. The Geek dinners are now planned for Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
Dynamic Edge on cloud nine
New IT solutions company, Dynamic Edge Solutions, is on track to hit its £400,000 turnover target after delivering state-of-the-art cloud computing solutions for 10 North-east companies. Takers include hydraulic engineering, pharmacy network support and financial advisors.
Scottish Government selects design agencies
Advertised in February 2009, the overall Scottish Government new £170m Framework agreement has a budget of between £130m - £170m over the possible four-year-period across all six Lots. It is understood that 23 suppliers have been appointed to the framework according to the initial advert. The framework will be involved in the procurement of design, print, display materials, promotional Items and DVD replication and duplication services throughout Scotland.
PoweredByCloud Conference: Cloud Law Summit
PoweredByCloud the first major cloud computing conference to take place outside the US runs from 8-9th February with Cloud Law Summit on 10th February. If your company is serious about communicating with the paying early adopters in cloud, then our 2010 event is likely to be the best venue to do that. The Cloud Law Summit the first ever international review of the many legal issues surrounding the launch of cloud computing services in EMEA, and the complexities of North American law, the Patriot Act and privacy of data concerns.
Genetic research for diabetes straddles world
Believed to be one of the largest genetics studies ever an international team of 174 research centres has identified 13 new gene variants associated with blood glucose and insulin, with five linked to Type-2 diabetes. The findings - published in Nature Genetics - raises hopes of better treatments for the condition.
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