ScotlandIS News Feed

Digital Britain: the spectrum implications

Karen Meechan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:55:42 +0100

Lord Carter’s recently published Digital Britain report outlines two bold projects to ensure the widespread availability of high-speed broadband: the universal service broadband commitment of 2Mbit/s for all households by 2012, and the Next Generation Final Third project.

Digital Britain : Tax shock funds fibre

Karen Meechan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:53:37 +0100

Lord Carter’s GBP0.50 tax on copper lines to fund next generation broadband, announced in his recently published Digital Britain report, has certainly been a shock for the market.

Crime does pay for firm behind intelligence-gathering software

Polly Purvis — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:39:36 +0100

It sounds like every schoolboy's dream: working for a company that combines computers with intelligence gathering for the police and the military. For David Carrick, chief executive of East Kilbride-based software firm Memex, it's just another day at the office

ScotlandIS in the news

Polly Purvis — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:43:19 +0100

Our recently launched software exporters group hit the press with an article in this week's Scotland on Sunday.

Robots encourage children's interest in computing science

Polly Purvis — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:06:33 +0100

'It was 50 per cent fun, 50 per cent interesting'. The wonders of robots and what computers can do held a class of P6 pupils entranced.

Hudson launches complimentary psychometric test

Polly Purvis — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:57:44 +0100

In a market where companies cannot afford to make mistakes with new hires, Hudson (Nasdaq: HHGP), a global provider of recruitment and talent management services, has launched a complimentary psychometric test for candidates as part of its standard permanent recruitment offering.

EC rules new net-neutrality law is unnecessary

Polly Purvis — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:57:05 +0100

There is no need for a pan-European net neutrality law because national laws already ensure citizens cannot be disconnected from the web without a court order, the European Commission has said.

Boys' iDeal shopping solution

Polly Purvis — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:38:23 +0100

Four schoolboys devise a computing tool to help shoppers find cheapest supplier in their location

Ice air con system aims for cool on the cheap

Polly Purvis — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:32:25 +0100

Why not use cheap off-peak energy at night to freeze a tank of water (or "distributed energy storage system"), then use that great block of ice to cool your data centre in the daytime. Refrigerant would circulate from the tank to the Data Aire equipment, eliminating the need to run the energy-intensive compressor and condenser during peak daytime hours.

9-20 recruitment can lower your recruitment costs

Karen Meechan — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:29:50 +0100

When 9-20 began as a business we listened to our clients and the challenges they faced when working with recruitment companies and recognised that what they needed was a delivery of higher quality IT resource.

Well we’ve now listened to our clients once again and it’s clear that cost savings and part