Silicon Fen shorts: New CEO for EEDA; Meldex 'in play'?
The chief executive of the East of England Development Agency, David Marlow, will be leaving EEDA later this year and the recruitment process for his successor has begun.
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Antenova Ltd, the integrated antenna and RF solutions company, announced the availability of GPS Radionova M10214-K1 evaluation kits. Including the M10214-A1 RF Antenna Module, the world’s smallest RF antenna module incorporating a SiRFstarIII GPS chipset and optimized with Antenova’s high efficiency complementary GPS antenna, the M10214-K1 Evaluation Kit provides designers and developers a complete GPS solution in a box for the development of GPS enabled devices.
CEO Greg McCray (pictured) said: “Location is rapidly becoming a pervasive application in mobile devices, even outside of the traditional personal navigation devices. The small size and high performance of [our] GPS RF antenna modules in varying orientations make it an ideal solution for embedding GPS functionality into a variety of mobile applications, including mobile phones, PDAs, portable media players (PMPs), trackers, personal safety devices and a multitude of other location aware devices.”
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Autonomy Corporation plc, a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, said it has entered into a license agreements with Ernst & Young, AT&T and BHP Billiton to license its software, as well as with Countrywide to license Autonomy software for compliance and regulatory matters.
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Specialty pharma Meldex International plc (until recently called BioProgress plc) said it has received an approach which may or may not lead to an offer for the Company. The Cambridge-HQed group has been expanding steadily over the past 18 months under the able leadership of CEO Richard Trevillion. It provided no further details of the approach.
15th January 2008
