Calling all SMES in the Cambridge region
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is creating a local mediation network in the Cambridge area. Here’s your chance to get involved, gain new skills and reap the benefits for your business. Find out more at a breakfast seminar on 2 July (please note this date has changed from 13 June).
Diamond Jubilee service to unite Town and Gown
There will be a special Service of Thanksgiving for the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen, to be held at Great St Mary's Church on Sunday 3 June at 3pm.
100-year-old takes to the skies for the first time
Most people gain their first experience of flight at a relatively young age, but for John Archer of Thurlow a first flight in an aeroplane was just an exciting way of celebrating his 100th Birthday!
New school bus for the East of England
Anglia Ruskin University’s big green roadshow bus will be offering advice and guidance about Higher Education to school pupils in the East of England when it hits the road this summer.
Global Regulatory Services joins Parliamentary and Scientific Committee
Global Regulatory Services (GRS) has become a member of the prestigious Parliamentary and Scientific Committee. The parliamentary group focuses on scientific and technological issues, providing a long-term liaison between parliamentarians and scientific bodies, science-based industry and the academic world.
Anglia Ruskin targets success in Thelmas
Anglia Ruskin University is celebrating after securing two nominations in the prestigious Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards – the Thelmas!
Earthquakes without frontiers
Understanding the threat posed by unanticipated earthquakes in continental interiors is the focus of a new study led by the University of Cambridge.
Coaching: An evolution revolution
Effective coaching interventions can help individuals and organisations to manage acceleration in the pace of life at work and at home - often turning it to their advantage, writes Oxbridge Coaching.
RiffStream#Cambridge: CfEL is striking a chord with creative innovators
The Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) is supporting entrepreneurs and SME business leaders in the creative industries through an event in Cambridge called ‘Concept to Customer: Connecting Partners & Catalysing Investment’ on 7th June 2012. It is the first in a series of experimental events based on the new RiffStream# methodology for accelerating business creation developed by technology…
Turner Prize 2012 nominee to be resident at Wysing Arts Centre this summer
The Mirror, the second of Wysing Arts Centre’s series of artists’ residencies for 2012, is to include Turner Prize nominee Elizabeth Price, and invites contributions from individuals, experts and hobbyists.
Voyage Manager partners with Findwhere
Voyage Manager Ltd, a technology company that specialises in travel monitoring and tracking solutions, has recently announced its partnership with FindWhere; a company that provides location tracking of Windows Mobile, Android, Blackberry, iPhone and Symbian based phones.
£80 million start-up loans for new businesses
An £82.5 million StartUp Loan scheme has been launched this week that will give our next generation of entrepreneurs the finance and support to potentially start over 30,000 new businesses, in a move to boost enterprise and economic growth.
IoD welcomes launch of young entrepreneur StartUp Loans
The Institute of Directors (IoD) has welcomed the launch of the new StartUp loan scheme for young entrepreneurs**, a proposal which the IoD helped to champion as part of the National Youth Enterprise Working Group.
New Institute of Fundraising website by netXtra scoops top honour at MemCom Awards
The Institute of Fundraising (IoF) has taken top honour in the ‘Website of the Year’ category at this year’s MemCom Awards – a website developed, integrated and launched by membership and not-for-profit online communications experts netXtra.
Waste regulations to be simplified following environmental Red Tape Challenge
The Government's review of environmental legislation, part of the Red Tape Challenge that aims to reduce the administrative burden on businesses, looks set to curb a range of waste management-related regulations.
Focus on Power: TEM00 goes 800mW
Eagleyard Photonics, a leading supplier of semiconductor laser diodes, has announced the release of a new, high-power laser diode with single mode output.
Xtendwave chooses EnSilica processor for receiver IC for atomic clock signal
EnSilica has announced that Xtendwave has licensed its high-performance eSi-3200 32-bit processor core to power Everset™, Xtendwave’s time code receiver solution for the next-generation WWVB atomic timekeeping signal.
Top line-up announced for Sixth Cambridge Digital Marketing Conference
The speaker line-up has been announced for the CIM conference to be held at Duxford this year (5 July), and once again, an impressive amount of expertise can be found.
World’s major copper producer selects AVEVA NET
Santiago de Chile: AVEVA (LSE:AVV) announced that the Vice Presidency of Projects (VP) at Chile’s state-run Corporación Nacional del Cobre (CODELCO) are using AVEVA NET as its information management solution for the execution of important capital projects in Chile. This follows an extensive evaluation against several competitors.
Mantracourt wireless data collector enables remote monitoring of instrumentation over GPRS
Wireless remote unit collects data from instrumentation and transmits reports worldwide
Cambridge companies partner to promote High Value Manufacturing 2012
Qi3 Accelerator and the HVM Conference Series of CIR Strategy are pleased to announce a partnership in promoting High Value Manufacturing in the Cambridge area and beyond. Qi3 Accelerator is running the UK’s first HVM bootcamp in July 2012, for which entries close tomorrow (31 May). Its purpose is to help a group of HVM businesses to become more investable by providing them with three days of…
Celebration of Business in Ely Cathedral
Over 150 businesses are exhibiting in a Celebration of Business Exhibition at Ely Cathedral - open tomorrow (Thursday 31st May). Please come and visit. Tom Green from Ely Cathedral Business Group will be on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Sunday Breakfast at 8.05 - listen live on 96FM 95.7FM.
Sentec CEO to discuss metering for grids at Smart Grids & Cleanpower
Sentec's CEO, Dr Mark England, will discuss smart metering of various kinds, the SMETS system, and update delegates on future trends in metering and technologies at Smart Grids and Cleanpower on 14 June.
The new police knowledge
The science of crime prevention gives police much more knowledge about crime prevention than most politicians or journalists even understand, a leading criminologist will tell this year’s Hay Festival.
'Drugs, Deceptions & Disasters'
Cambridge Infectious Diseases will hold its first annual invited lecture later this week (31 May, 2012).Drugs, Deceptions & Disasters will provide the opportunity to hear three leading investigators speak on the global problem of counterfeit drugs and poor quality essential medicines.