New grants for small businesses employing their first apprentice
Employers across the region are being encouraged to take advantage of a new funding initiative to help them recruit their first young apprentices.
EON to weigh up energy innovation opportunities at Smart Grids Conference
Smart Grids Conference 2012 notes that the future UK generation portfolio will look very different to today. Changes in the production and use of electricity will necessitate changes in the way the UK energy market operates. Will it be all about producing energy? Or primarily providing capacity, balancing, and stability? This talk will look at the value and increasing importance of these services…
Xaar partners with Digiprint Supplies
Xaar has partnered with DIGIPRINT SUPPLIES to provide sales and support for Xaar industrial inkjet printheads. The partnership gives wide-format printer users easy access to Xaar 126, 128, 500, 760, Proton and Electron printheads in regions where there is no direct machine manufacturer support.
Sensor100 April on-line newsletter is now published
Sensor100 is an international community of organizations and people active in Bio-sensor and Chemo-sensor research, development and commercialization.
How visualisation uncovers the big picture of ‘Big Data’
Dr Rupert Ogilvie, Optimisation Consultant at Intergence, an IT optimisation consultancy based in Cambridge, has outlined how data visualisation can help manage Big Data that is often too unwieldy to capture, manage, and process within a reasonable amount of time.
Tame your computer - be weather wise!
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 use Google to get the weather forecast.
Work starts on Cambridge Sports Centre
Construction work has begun on the site of the £16 million Phase One of the long-awaited Cambridge Sports Centre at West Cambridge.
PublicHealth@Cambridge
This month, the University of Cambridge will be profiling research that addresses public health. To begin, Professor Carol Brayne, Director of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, explains how the goals of a new University Strategic Network, PublicHealth@Cambridge, will generate fresh insight into the health and well-being of populations.
Voyage Manager integrates with Iridium to provide travel tracking in remote places
Voyage Manager Ltd. has teamed up with the operator of the world’s furthest-reaching communications network, Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IRDM), to enable travellers and other customers with its GPS tracking service, “VM Travel Tracker,” to have vital, global coverage anywhere on Earth, from pole-to-pole, from the middle of the Sahara desert to the remote jungles of Asia and South America…
US2U Consulting continues work with Michell Instruments
US2U Consulting, the business consultancy based in Norwich, is continuing its work with Michell Instruments of Ely. Their ongoing work together comes as part of Michell Instruments’ aims for business progression.
Inside story of the Cambridge Phenomenon - book launches next week
Next week will see the launch of The Cambridge Phenomenon 50 Years of Innovation and Enterprise by Kate Kirk and Charles Cotton. The book is a multi-dimensional portrait of one of the world's most enterprising clusters of technology companies and features a Foreword by Bill Gates. The ongoing Cambridge Phenomenon remains the subject of business, economic, political and academic interest.
New agreement with the British Library: Cambridge Network web archives
The Cambridge Network and the British Library have agreed to work together on archiving periodically the websites of Cambridge Network members in the national UK Web Archive. Cambridge Network member sites will be a valuable addition to the archive, documenting the evolution of the Cambridge phenomenon and providing a unique record of the products, history and relationships between member…
Aardman Animations gets remote support with help from RealVNC
Academy Award winning Aardman Animations is using VNC® Enterprise Edition from RealVNC to remotely monitor and fix computers used in its editing department and animation studios.
Discover the world’s leading personality tool
Cambridge Network members are being offered a unique insight into the world of psychological type and how it can be used to support personal development at a special MBTI® Taster event on Thursday 12th July 2012 in Cambridge.
Salmonella infection, but not as we know it
Cambridge University researchers, funded by the BBSRC, have shed new light on a common food poisoning bug.
Nujira files 150th Envelope Tracking patent
Nujira Ltd, the world leader in Envelope Tracking technology, has announced the filing of its 150th patent relating to Envelope Tracking (ET). The milestone comes just 12 months after reaching the 100 patent landmark in April 2011, reinforcing Nujira’s dominant position in the ET IP landscape.
Entrepreneurs can bid for £35k of funding
Cambridgeshire entrepreneurs have the opportunity to secure up to £35,000 in start-up funding courtesy of Anglia Ruskin University.
Horizon Discovery and H3 Biomedicine collaborate to validate novel cancer targets
H3 Biomedicine to employ Horizon’s unique gene editing technology (GENESIS) and isogenic cell lines (X-MAN) to identify and validate genetically defined drug targets for development of cancer therapeutics.
Ubisense delivers RTLS solutions in Japan and Korea with strategic partnership with Geoplan
Cambridge and Tokyo - Ubisense and Geoplan kk sign a strategic partnership to deliver real-time location solutions to manufacturing companies in Key Asia markets of Japan, Korea and China.
Have a peek at turning your tweets into currency
Leading creative agency Peek worked together with publishers Brightword to launch a new social media campaign to promote the book by Peek's director Sarah-Jane White, "49 Quick Ways to Market Your Business for Free"...
Xaar to represent UK manufacturing excellence at Science Museum
Xaar, the world-leading developer of inkjet technology and manufacturer of industrial inkjet printheads, has beaten competition from hundreds of other UK companies to win a place in the Government’s ‘Make it in Great Britain’ exhibition this summer. Xaar joins over 40 British businesses at the event, including such iconic brands as Airbus, McLaren and BAE Systems.
Rise in whooping cough
There were 665 laboratory confirmed cases of whooping cough in the UK between January and March of this year reported by The Health Protection Agency, says The Travel Clinic. This compares to 1,040 cases across the whole of 2011. Only 421 cases were confirmed in 2010.
Salimetrics Europe to exhibit at the International / European Congress of Endocrinology
Salimetrics Europe is to exhibit at the International/European Congress of Endocrinology. Opening this Saturday in Florence, the ICE/ECE Endocrinology Conference will attract over 5,000 visitors from across Europe.
Yossi Dahan - Windows Azure technical specialist to keynote Cloud East event
Windows Azure technical specialist Yossi Dahan has been announced as a keynote speaker for June's Cloud East event in Cambridge.
Mills & Reeve gives added juice to Langholm Capital
Leading national law firm Mills & Reeve has advised Langholm Capital on the acquisition of 120-year-old family-run Purity Soft Drinks.