But tonight’s orgy of glamour and glitter caught my eye because looking through the shortlist, I can’t see any technology companies listed there. I’m sure they are all run by very serious-minded people but the shortlisted firms are mostly consumer rather than industrial or engineering start-ups.

Hectronic, a specialist in embedded PC development and manufacturing, announces a platform for speedy development of x86-based embedded systems, for embedded XP

Electronics Weekly puts its questions to an industry figure: Mike Surrey, director of business development at Telent What technologies are having the biggest impact on the communications services business? The convergence of IT and Internet Protocol technologies continue to impact the telecoms and IT industries as a whole, including services. Every year more traffic is carried on radio access networks ...

National Instruments has added timing tools including its first PXI Express timing and synchronisation controller and a PXI module that synchronises PXI systems

SynQor is targeting its latest isolated DC-DC converters at industrial applications where a wider range of input voltages is required.

Display developer Liquavista has shown its range of displays that it claims are better than LCD

An inquiry into how the Ministry of Defence procures its equipment was started this week by the House of Commons Select Committee on Defence

Want to be the first to know what other people are reading about? Slay your appetite with October’s Top 10 Most Read Gadget Masters. 1. Can you turn a Pringles can into a WiFi antenna? Apparently so. The jury’s still out as to whether these guys have way too much time on their hands or if this is simply a ...

Silicon & Software Systems aims to create a world-class cenrtre for mixed-signal chip design in Europe following the acquisition of Acacia Semiconductor

GDS announces the availability of what it describes as the world's first 70