Snippets: Brady expands into London; Splashpower signs licensing deal
Brady plc, supplier of trading and risk management solutions for metals and commodities, said it is opening a new office in London. The move is part of its aggressive drive for expansion and development, the company said.
Brady will be moving to new offices in Cannon Street in the City of London, an area historically linked to futures and commodities trading. Brady’s UK headquarters will remain in the Cambridge Science Park and will continue to house the head office operations, development and support. The new London office will put Brady’s sales and marketing staff in closer proximity to its City-based clients.
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Splashpower Ltd., a developer of wireless power technology, said it has signed a licensing agreement with brand manufacturer Alba plc to distribute wireless power products to the consumer market.
Alba will design and make products based on Splashpower's inductive charging technology. Initial products are planned for Q3 2008 and will feature a charging unit and add-on receivers purchased through retail stores and online. The universal charger will support a range of mobile phones and MP3 players.
In a second phase of market development scheduled for Q4 2008, Alba and Splashpower will support the integration of wireless power receivers into a range of handheld consumer devices with technology and manufacturing expertise.
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CSR said it has successfully integrated GPS with cellular measurements to create eGPS (enhanced Global Positioning System) technology capable of providing accurate position information on demand in all environments. CSR's first single-chip GPS with embedded Bluetooth and FM radio technologies is back from the fab and proven working.
CEO, Joep van Beurden (pictured) said: "Along with last month's announcement of the intention to form the EGPS Forum with Motorola, our working silicon and demonstrations at Mobile World Congress are all significant steps on CSR's roadmap towards adding high performance, yet power-efficient eGPS to cellular phones at an additional cost of less than $1.Our patented eGPS technologies are ready to change the market for location technologies in mobile handsets."
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Breakthrough ice technology developed by a British company means many women with non-cancerous breast tumours can now be successfully treated in their doctor's surgery rather than having to endure a hospital operation, Cambridge Design Partnership said.
The treatment, developed by technology and product developers, Cambridge Design Partnership and its client Sanarus Medical Inc based in California involves inserting a thin probe into the breast tumour that is then frozen at temperatures of -20 to -40 degrees centigrade.
The frozen tumour dies and over time is reabsorbed by the body. Ultra sound is used to ‘image’ the growth of the ice ball during the freezing process, making sure that only the affected tissues are frozen. The treatment is quick, painless and takes less than 30 minutes to treat a large tumour of perhaps 4cm, while most take less than 15 minutes.
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Zeus Technology, provider of application traffic management software, said CPU Sales & Service, Inc will begin selling ZXTM (Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager), both as software and as a virtual appliance (ZXTM VA).
Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, CPU Sales & Service serves small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) with a wide range of network infrastructure products and services.
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Bango plc announced the immediate availability of Bango Analytics, a new product that is a unique technology that captures mobile-specific data about mobile users responding to campaigns and presents that data in an easy to use form.
Bango Analytics measures the effectiveness of Google, Yahoo!, AdMob, JumpTap, Microsoft and the many other advertising and search marketing opportunities available on the mobile web. It is a widely held view within advertising agencies that the inability to measure the effectiveness of mobile marketing is holding back investment, the company said.
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Xaar plc, the inkjet printing technology group, and EFI-Jetrion announced an agreement whereby Xaar's revolutionary 1001 piezoelectric printheads will be supplied for use in EFI-Jetrion's 4000 Series full colour UV label printers for the first time. Earlier models of this printing press were first shown last autumn at Labelexpo Europe; the Jetrion 4000 Series of UV inkjet printers bring narrow web converters an affordable, full-color alternative to toner-based printers.
By incorporating Xaar's latest inkjet technology into the Jetrion 4000 series printers, converters will benefit from added flexibility and cost-effectiveness for applications such as labels, tags, forms and tickets on a variety of substrates.
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Moroccan telecommunications operator Wana has awarded Cambridge Broadband Networks a significant contract for the provision of its VectaStar transmission platform. Wana is using VectaStar to backhaul multiple services including corporate access and CDMA cellular traffic with WiMAX set to follow later in 2008.
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Itheon Networks, the Networked Application Performance Lifecycle specialists, said they were re-branding to iTrinegy as part of the company's strategy of establishing a strong and unique identity as it expands.
Product Director Frank Puranik said "We've outgrown our offices and today we feel it's time to go forward with a name that represents a company at the cutting edge of the testing and monitoring market. We have an aggressive timetable of new product releases and upgrades scheduled for 2008 developed in-line with the needs of our customers and the industry, and renaming our company underlines a new era of continued growth and change for us."
The UK move to offices near Cambridge enables iTrinegy to recruit within a good pool of IT specialists, and with close links to Stansted Airport, the move allows iTrinegy to meet the increased demand for their products in Europe.
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ixPressia and TTP announced the integration of ixPressia Print Engine software with TTP’s Meteor Print Controller. ixPressia and TTP have combined technologies to provide a total solution for printer manufacturers, dramatically cutting the time to bring new printer systems to the market.
8th February 2008
