Information Technology

Scottish Enterprise is funding prizes of up to £10,000 to technology firms forming collaborative ventures in Scotland. Called the Collaboration Prize 2016/17, it is inviting local companies to pitch an idea for a new collaborative enterprise that will help them to access new markets. This could be a new sector or a geographical market including international markets. To be eligible ...

A secure online marketplace for the buying and selling of small cell wireless basestation installation locations has been set-up by a US-based firm. The small form factor basestations, which can be installed on apartment roofs, shopping centres, are being used by mobile operators to augment their networks in areas of high traffic density. Initially targeting the North American market, the ...

If 5G mobile phone services launch in 2020 it is being predicted that there could be 24 million 5G subscriptions worldwide by the end of 2021 for mobile and fixed broadband services, according to Ovum. To put this into perspective, there are over 5 billion mobile phone users today. So this prediction indicates a modest take-up of the new 5G ...

With billions of  wireless devices expected to be connected to the internet over the coming years processor firm ARM has worked with Intercede, Solacia and Symantec to assess the IoT security challenges of connecting devices across multiple sectors; including industrial, home, health services and transportation. As a result the companies have collaborated on the Open Trust Protocol (OTrP) to combine a ...

Roke Manor Research is opening a new office in the UK specialising in cyber security. The office in Gloucester will initially employ 20 new staff. It will work with defence, government and commercial customers in the region. David Cole, managing director of Roke, said: “As a key cyber security adviser to UK Government, we are at the sharp end of ...

Ten IoT startups have been selected to join the Startupbootcamp business accelerator which provides finance and office space in the London. The programme received 425 startup applications from 61 countries, and the 10 successful start-ups were selected last week following a three-day selection process that included expert workshops, pitches to programme partners such as Cisco, DLL and Premier Farnell, and ...

Ipswich and Cambridge-based mobile application and software development company Coderus has become a Microsoft Silver Application Development Certified Partner and has also been awarded ISO 9001 certification. The ISO certification defines international standards for quality and control. Coderus started a 6-month process in December 2015 to achieve the 2015 edition of the ISO 9001 certification. Coderus had to demonstrate effective ...

Stumped for a way to evaluate programmes that purport to find bugs in other software, US researchers have created a programme that adds thousands of bugs to other software. LAVA (Large-scale Automated Vulnerability Addition) is the result, a technique of intentionally adding vulnerabilities to a program’s source code, which has revealed that “many popular bug finders detect merely 2% of ...

London is to get a small cell backhaul network which will provide businesses in the city with up to 1Gbit/s internet access. The network will be created and managed by Luminet and will deploy small cell wireless basestations developed by CCS. The advantage of a backhaul network of small cells it is more spectrum efficient and will provide operators with ...

Applied Micro has announced Mudan – a full Ceph storage reference platform built on 64-bit ARMv8-A technology using Applied Micro’s X-Gene to coincide with the upstream release of Ceph 10.2.1 (Jewel) and runs on RHELSA7.2. Mudan is a fully-featured storage reference platform with a total of 14 storage disks in a 12+2 configuration with a total memory capacity of up ...