Information Technology

Californian public display maker Ideum has chosen Zytronic of Newcastle to supply touch screen sensors for its next-generation Pano Duo 49” interactive touch table. Zytronic’s proprietary technology, branded ZyBrid, is multi-touch projected capacitive. “The crucial difference between the first generation Pano Duo 49” table and Ideum’s new one is the transition from an infra-red touch frame to Zytronic’s all-glass printed ...

Dublin-based Benetel has integrated its Radio Unit with Radisys’ 5G NR OpenRAN software for OpenRAN deployments in communication, industrial and private networks. The two companies have also made a licensing agreement for Radisys’ LTE software to allow its distribution with Benetel’s eNodeB radio platforms. Pre-integrated, the hardware and software can be deployed in both non-standalone (NSA) and standalone (SA) 5G ...

Ready for international Computer Awareness Day on Monday, London based IT company WFH IT Support has released its list of the ten most common cybersecurity mistakes made by businesses. “2020 has presented challenges across the board to businesses big and small and to make things worse, cybercriminal tactics have become more sophisticated than ever. The National Crime Agency has identified a surge ...

Phone users are catching up with the word entry speed of desktop keyboard users, is one of the findings of an on-line test that Aalto University, University of Cambridge and ETH Zürich organised, and over 37,000 people took part in. “We were amazed to see that users typing with two thumbs achieved 38 words per minute on average, which is ...

UK consultancy 42 Technology has ported a Rust programming language application to a single-chip IoT device, claiming it as a world first. “Rust is a very-high-performance alternative to systems programming languages such C and C++, which avoids the memory safety issues that plague those languages, and without the complexity and overhead of Java,” according to the firm. “It is the ...

Professor Robert Richardson becomes chair of the ESPRC UK-RAS Network.

UK manufacturing and technology sectors are vying for first and second place as the most cyber-attacked industry sectors, according to the 2019 Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR) from US firm NTT Security – the report is compiled from trillions of logs and millions of attacks, said NTT, whose data is analysed across 18 industry sectors. “While manufacturing took top billing in ...

Rolling stock maker Bombardier Transportation has appointed Ricardo and Roke Manor Research to study the digital security risk profile of Aventra, its latest train type, soon to go into service with Crossrail, Transport for London and on various UK over-land services. Ricardo brings knowledge of rail operations, rolling stock design, systems engineering and passenger interaction, while Roke has for many years ...

French lab Leti will attempt to bring model predictive control (MPC) algorithms to microcontrollers and low-cost DSPs, teaming up with automotive parts firm EFI Automotive. According to Leti this will allow equipment to perform better than is possible with standard control techniques like PID (proportional integral derivative) feedback. However, MPC requires complex computing – solving optimisation problems under constraints. “The ...

techUK has welcomed the government’s electric vehicle initiative