Snippets: Aveva in £4m customer deal: Cisco invests in ip.access
AVEVA, supplier of engineering IT systems for the marine industry, has won a contract worth £4m to equip a major Japanese shipyard with AVEVA Marine solutions.
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ip.access, specialists in femtocell and picocell technologies, said Cisco has made an investment in the company, terms or size of which were not disclosed.
A consortium led by OrthoMimetics has been awarded £0.75m from the UK Technology Strategy Board for the commercial development of LigaMimetic, the second product based on OM’s technology platform.
LigaMimetic is a porous, resorbable tissue-regeneration scaffold that uniquely mimics the composition and structure of ligaments and their bony insertions. It will be used initially to enhance existing surgical techniques for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, a procedure performed worldwide an estimated 500,000 times each year. For patients, this could mean a reduced risk of reinjury, a better chance of pain-free healing, and a greater likelihood of avoiding total joint replacement surgery later in life.
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Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC) and Microsoft Corp announced the creation of the BSC-Microsoft Research Centre, which will focus on the way microprocessors and software for the mobile and desktop market segments will be designed and interact over the next 10 years and beyond.
Computer architecture experts at BSC have teamed up with computer scientists at Microsoft Research Cambridge to look for innovative solutions to the challenges and opportunities that massively parallel processing represents. The vision of the centre is of a top-down computer architecture in which software requirements drive the hardware innovation forward rather than letting the hardware design condition software development. In addition to fundamental and applied research in transactional memory, a promising technology that facilitates writing of parallel programs for multi-core processors, hardware support for managed runtimes will be conducted in the initial research projects.
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Antics Technologies, providers of novel real-time 3D animation software, said Torcomp Studica was its official academic reseller for both the U.S. and Canada. Educators will be able to obtain free licenses for Antics V3 direct from Antics and the software will also be available for accredited schools and students to purchase through Studica.com.
Antics enables student creatives to develop ideas that move with 3D animation. Whether its for filmmakers to pre-visualize shots, plan productions or pitch their ideas or for those looking to produce and broadcast 3D animated movies for the web, Antics puts the power of 3D animation into the hands of anyone with basic computer skills. It also has applications in drama, media studies and any subject where students can benefit from enhanced storytelling and the 3D exploration.
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CSR said it has partnered with Cheertek to produce a reference design for a digital photo frame chipset with Bluetooth functionality. Cheertek has implemented CSR's BlueCore4-ROM, a complete Bluetooth system designed to ensure minimum time to market for OEMs. BlueCore4-ROM allows the frame to not only receive pictures but also to play audio streamed via Bluetooth.
24th January 2008
