Richard Featherstone speaks at Human Factors Summit, San Francisco
Richard Featherstone of Medical Device Usability will be speaking at the Human Factors Engineering and Usability Studies Summit in San Francisco tomorrow (Wednesday 10 February 2016).
Onespacemedia creates new platform for national centre for synthetic biology commercialistion
SynbiCITE is the UK’s national centre for the commercialisation of synthetic biology. With the primary objective of accelerating, facilitating and promoting the commercial exploitation of synthetic biology research and technology, SynbiCITE is a powerful catalyst in a rapidly emerging industry - designed to deliver substantial benefits to the UK economy.
New design talent joins Onespacemedia team
Onespacemedia is thrilled to introduce the latest recruit to join its internship programme - Robert Korodi.
New initiative aims to close the Skills Gap
Step Up is a new digital platform which aims to close the skills gap in Cambridge. It launches this week (Thursday 11th February) at Form the Future’s Education & Skills conference.
Women of the World Cambridge festival line-up announced
Author Polly Vernon and barrister Charlotte Proudman will join talks and performances and a celebration of women’s achievements as part of Cambridge’s Women of the World (WOW) Festival next month.
UCL awards research identity project to The District
Creatives at Cambridge agency The District will be pouring over reams of academic research for the next two months as they develop a brand identity and website to communicate the purpose and findings of a £2.4million, four year global research programme led by University College London.
AMIHO Technology launches compact, high performance, LoRa and Wireless M-Bus module
Say goodbye to 'dark' meters and speed time to market with AMIHO's AM091 production-ready compact radio modules providing LoRa and Wireless Meter-Bus at 169MHz.
Research investigates positive prejudice towards gay men
Psychologists at Anglia Ruskin University are exploring the issues around “positive prejudice” towards gay men in the UK.
JTAG Technologies sponsors hardware developers' conference
JTAG Technologies take the lead at H/WExpo, a conference for hardware designers, hardware testing professionals and hardware manufacturers.
Validation of humidity probes in-house is now an affordable option
The new HygroCal100 humidity verifier from Michell Instruments provides a practical option for companies that are not able to invest in a full humidity calibration laboratory to verify their humidity probes in-house. The unit is cost-effective and is available either on its own or with a choice of options to meet a variety of needs.
Tame your computer - helpful highlighting
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members, software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she describes how to make text look like it was marked with a highlighter pen (Word and Outlook*)...
New Innovators: ‘Data management is behind the times’
ExMarie Curie fellow in Cambridge University- Eoin Murray, developed Rinocloud as the solution to a problem he experimented working on with the top Universities.
42 Technology expands its team and facilities following record growth in 2015
42 Technology has today announced a significant increase in the company’s capacity to deliver client projects following record business growth in 2015. The consultancy has increased its staff numbers by 40% over the past year, added more office space, and within the next few weeks will double the size of its development laboratories.
Microsoft acquires SwiftKey
Microsoft has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SwiftKey, whose highly rated, highly engaging software keyboard and SDK powers more than 300 million Android and iOS devices.
Discover the businesses who are helping our city to shine!
During six exceptional evenings this month, e-Luminate Cambridge will offer the public a unique spectacle creating ephemeral light art installations.
The amazing axon adventure
How does the brain make connections, and how does it maintain them? Cambridge neuroscientists and mathematicians are using a variety of techniques to understand how the brain ‘wires up’, and what it might be able to tell us about degeneration in later life.
New addition to the IT Governance catalogue: The Psychology of Information Security
The international information security experts IT Governance have added a new title to their catalogue: The Psychology of Information Security – Resolving conflicts between security compliance and human behaviour by Leron Zinatullin.
CUATS event : 'The Practicalities of Algorithmic Trading Strategies'
Organised by CUATS, the Cambridge University Algorithmic Trading Society, a talk this Wednesday (February 10, 2016, 7:00 PM), by Jeremy Sosabowski, PhD, will a be a ‘soup to nuts’ overview of trading strategies form the initial idea to full implementation, including live trading examples.
Amadeus leads $40M investment in Africa’s fast growing online travel agency, Travelstart
Amadeus, the global technology investor, has announced a $40M investment in Travelstart in partnership with MTN – Africa’s leading mobile and digital life services operator.
Impact studies: Metail's 'mini-me' shopping revolution
Despite the spiralling increase in online clothing sales, the huge number of returned items poses an important challenge to the retail industry: how to reduce the volume of returned purchases without imposing punitive conditions which may deter customers from buying.
Trading with China is no monkey business
As China celebrates the start of the Year of the Monkey today (8 February) the Cambridge region is celebrating a growing success in the country which is set to continue - with hundreds of opportunities currently available, ranging from joints for robots to premium tea for restaurants.
Cambridge Design Partnership showcases connected wearable monitor at MD&M West
Innovative technology and design company Cambridge Design Partnership will be exhibiting at Medical Device and Manufacturing West (MD&M West) this week (9 – 11 February) in Anaheim, California.
iPatch - the revolutionary new system for testing colour in the home
Cambridgeshire based interior designer, Yasmin Chopin, is the first to work with the whole range of colours using a revolutionary new system for testing colour in the home called the iPatch.
Pension income choices: final salary schemes
The last article covered the pension income choices offered by defined contribution, (also know as money purchase schemes), which embraces all of the choices offered by Pension Freedoms from April last year.
Anglia Ruskin students arrange black tie event to support SOS Children’s Villages
A group of students at Lord Ashcroft International Business School are organising a black tie dinner and auction for high profile guests on the evening of 14 April, in partnership and support for local charity, SOS Children’s Villages.