Technology Mashup

Important commentary from Philip Virgo on the reduction of ICT skills in the UK market. This has a potential to not only impact IT business, but right across science, engineering and other industries...

MADE IN IBM LABS: IBM Cools 3-D Chips with H2O - In IBM’s labs, tiny rivers of water are cooling computer chips that have circuits and components stacked on top of each other, a design that promises to advance Moore’s Law in the next decade and significantly reduce energy consumed by data centers.

[IBM Newsroom]

Boeing breaks UAV world record - Boeing claims to have broken a world record for the endurance of an unmanned aerial vehicle weighing 500kg to 2,500kg

[News from The Engineer]

10 Genius Inventions We're Still Waiting For - PM's resident roboticist imagines new tech that will transform our lives, from OnStar for your kids to cords that won't get tangled-even a life simulator. Now all we need is someone to invent it.

New law targets corporate killing - A law comes into force aimed at easing prosecution of negligent firms for manslaughter. [BBC Business News]

NanoDynamics exhibits nano-scale metals at Printed Electronics Europe - NanoDynamics will display its selection of metal flakes and powders for printed electronics industry applications at Printed Electronics Europe, April 8-9, 2008 in Dresden, Germany. [Printed Electronics News]

Leading South American Telecom Company Selects
IBM For IT Services - IBM and Telefónica Argentina, Chile, Colombia y Perú, a leading private company in the global telecommunications market, today announced they have extended their information technology (IT) services contract. [IBM Newsroom]

IBM Builds State-of-the-Art Data Center for Telecom Egypt - IBM and Telecom Egypt today announced the construction of an innovative, state-of-the-art data center for Telecom Egypt that includes the world's most sophisticated energy-efficient green technologies. [IBM Newsroom]

Microsoft nears bottom of Greenpeace league table - In the campaigner's latest green league table of electronics companies, Samsung and Toshiba have stolen Nokia's top spot and Microsoft comes third to last [ZDNet UK Green IT Toolkit]

California lowers goal for zero-emission cars - Read full story for latest details.

BAA's Terminal 5 baggage woes - Could Terminal 5's first-day baggage-handling troubles accelerate adoption of RFID?

David Bicknell [Tune in to RFID]

Boost for medical engineering - The Wellcome Trust and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council have launched a joint £45m initiative to boost UK medical engineering innovation [News from The Engineer]