A Freedom Of Information (FOI) request has revealed the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) lost 83 BlackBerry devices and 17 laptops over the last three years. The FOI also showed 16 incidents of BIS issued mobile phones ...
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Structured Materials Industries Inc (SMI) of Piscataway, NJ, USA, which provides chemical vapor deposition (CVD) systems, components, materials, and process development services, has been awarded a $150,000 Small Business Innovation ...
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a Phase I small business innovation research (SBIR) grant to TriLink BioTechnologies to use its expertise in nucleic acid chemistry and develop an approach to RNA sample preparation for ...
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The Cabinet Office will on Friday call for industry to contribute to new Organisational Cyber Security Standards. Industry will have a window of six weeks to express an interest in contributing and four months thereafter to submit their ...
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Small and medium-sized companies around the country are being invited to a series of one-day workshops on Government support for business, research and development (R&D) and innovation. One such event takes place at the ATRiuM, Cardiff on 6 ...
Despite politicians promoted in last year's government reshuffle quickly grasping the key issues in food and drink, MPs are still using the sector as a "whipping boy" over public health issues, say its bosses. Too often politicans ...
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Collaborative work management provider Mindjet announced today that Christian Stack has been named one of UBM Tech Channel's CRN 2013 Channel Chiefs. This prestigious list of the most influential and powerful leaders in the IT channel ...
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Epic Sciences, a developer of diagnostic tests, has received a Phase II small business innovation research (SBIR) contract from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the development of a lung ...
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The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have announced a Phase II small business innovation research (SBIR) contract to Epic Sciences for the development of a lung cancer diagnostic blood test. The ...
A Cornish pasty firm has secured a government investment of pound 1.5M, which it will use to expand its business and create 50 jobs. The government has invested pound 1.5M in Proper Cornish The investment came from the Business ...
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Technology development firm Versatilis LLC of Shelburne, VT, USA has spun out VerLASE Technologies LLC, a new venture in lasers and solid-state lighting that aims to further develop and commercialize technology that it has been developing ...
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The UK Defence Committee is urging the Government to be more vigorous in its approach to cyber threats. A new report released by the Committee says that the British military is now too dependent on information and communications ...
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The inventor of the Dyson vacuum cleaner, Sir James Dyson, has urged the government to do more to help engineering and science firms and focus less on the "glamour of web fads" coming out of Silicon Roundabout. Dyson believes that ...
IDG News Service-The U.S.Federal Trade Commission may be headed toward an"unwarranted"power grab in its antitrust investigation of Google,two lawmakers from Silicon Valley have said. Media reports have suggested the FTC may accuse Google ...
Prime minister David Cameron and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer met with five technology apprentices as part of the launch of Microsoft's"Get On"initiative at Downing Street on 7 November. The initiative replaces Microsoft's"Britain ...
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