EACS achieves Sophos Gold Solution Partner status
EACS has announced the achievement of Sophos Gold Solution Partner status. It is one of only four partners in the UK to hold this level of certification.
Today marks the start of Scams Awareness Month!
Cambridge Citizens Advice Bureau is warning about the fraudsters preying on hard-up households throughout Scams Awareness Month this May. Fraudsters are “picking the pockets” of up to four million people each year, according to new research from central Citizens Advice.
Mills & Reeve adds four to the partnership
Mills & Reeve has announced four new internal partner appointments, bringing the partnership to 118 across the firm’s six UK offices.
Government approves £165 million deal for Papworth Hospital move
Papworth Hospital, the leading specialist heart and lung hospital, will move from its current location outside Cambridge onto the Cambridge Biomedical Campus next to Addenbrooke’s hospital site. A £165 million deal for a new hospital has been approved by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne.
Huppert welcomes Papworth deal after weeks of lobbying
Cambridge MP Julian Huppert has welcomed the news that the government has approved a £165 million deal to move Papworth Hospital to Cambridge.
ARM Holdings PLC announces retirement of CFO in May 2015
ARM Holdings plc, the world’s leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) supplier, announces today that Tim Score, who has been Chief Financial Officer since 2002, has decided to retire from the company 12 months from now in May 2015.
RealVNC appoints Compuwave as key distributor in DACH region
Compuwave GmbH, a specialist in selling software, software procurement and licensing advisors, will supply VNC® software to resellers in the DACH region.
Somersault produces video series for Hewlett Packard and MIS Training Institute
Over the past 12 months, Somersault has been working with the Enterprise Security Products division of Hewlett Packard and MIS Training Institute to film a number of events across Europe.
Linx starts construction on new St Ives headquarters
Coding and marking specialist Linx Printing Technologies has started construction of its new purpose-built headquarters in St Ives, Cambridgeshire. The company plans to transfer from its existing premises in Spring 2015.
Red Alien launches Google penalty recovery service
Red Alien’s backlink auditing and penalty removal service aims to reverse the negative impact of poor back-link building that can cause a website to lose traffic and Google ranking positions.
Will's project is a winner
Will Hawkins from Churchill College, Cambridge, has won the ICE East of England/Cambridge University Engineering Department 'Best Final Year Student Project Award' for his work on Prestressed Ceramics.
‘Water Shares’ would create mutual responsibility to preserve water
The introduction of a proposed new ‘water shares’ system which would see all licensed water extractors own a share in their local water catchment, could create a sense of mutual responsibility to preserve water supplies and incentivise trading of water during droughts, says the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).
Time's up! Please don't over-run when speaking
This could be the most important rule of all in public speaking. Ignore it at your peril; it could undermine all that hard work you put in, says communication coach Jon Torrens.
Fishy end to Headway's 2008 balloon race
A charity balloon race was organised for Headway Cambridgeshire in 2008, kindly organised by a small group of supporters to raise funds for the charity. But no one could have predicted what happened several years later...
ZEISS and TNO establish partnership to enable development of next-gen lithography optics
ZEISS and TNO announced that they have established a strategic partnership aimed to enable next-generation optics for semiconductor manufacturing.
Athey Consulting completes third national report on LEP economies
Athey Consulting’s latest report for the LEP Network, released to LEPs on 31 March 2014, reveals a series of insights for local economies in England. The overall message is one of confidence and capability across the Local Enterprise Partnership area economies, but that the scale of challenges differs.
Provoke Me and Gratnells partner to develop Learning Rooms classroom initiative
UK based manufacturer Gratnells has been leading the world in the design and creation of bespoke storage solutions for the education sector for more than 100 years. They approached Cambridge design agency Provoke Me to create a new website and extranet for launch at a forthcoming education exhibition... the timescale for completion? Just 10 days!
Cambridge MFin graduates report 93% employment success
Cutbacks in recruitment in the financial sector have failed to dampen the performance of Cambridge Master of Finance (MFin) graduates.
Cordic launches Smart Booker 2 for iPhone and Android
Cordic, the leading software supplier of data despatch solutions to taxi and private hire fleets, has today launched its new and improved iPhone and Android application: Smart Booker 2.
Top civil engineering student honoured
Andrew McCloud has been awarded the Institution of Civil Engineers East of England Best Student Award where candidates are nominated by their tutors. Andrew is a part-time civil engineering student at Suffolk New College and was nominated by tutor Chris Hughes.
Cambridge Junction awarded £124,663 for pioneering digital arts project
Cambridge Junction and key partners Cambridge University Faculty of Education and The Raspberry Pi Foundation are pleased to announce that they are to be the recipients of a grant of £124,663 from the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts towards a pioneering project developing the making of music using the Raspberry Pi computer.
Riverbed introduces Cascade Express 460 Virtual Edition
Network performance monitoring in private clouds and the software-defined data center.
Huppert calls on government to act over AstraZeneca takeover bid
MP Julian Huppert has expressed his concerns over the risk to AstraZeneca’s planned move to Cambridge and the future of UK jobs as American pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer makes a bid to take over the company.
Internet of Things: node potential of 10 billion yearly
"By 2025, tens of billions of smart objects will be internet enabled with IP addresses..."