HybridCluster, the Bristol firm described as among the most exciting to come out of the city for years, has secured a $1m (£650,000) investment to fund a new version of its web-clustering software. The firm’s products help users’ systems automatically recover from hardware or software failures without loss of...
A hi-tech consortium led by Filton-based OC Robotics has secured £5.8m to develop ‘LaserSnake’ – a robot-controlled laser cutting tool that can be used to decommission nuclear structures. The investment is co-funded by the Technology Strategy Board (£4m), DECC (£1m) and the NDA (£1m). The LaserSnake combines robot technology...
SciSys, the West-based specialist IT group, today blamed foreign exchange movements and a reduction in low-margin resale activity for a fall in annual revenue. However, operating profits at the group, which supplies a range of sectors from space and defence to media with high-end systems, climbed 13% to £2.7m...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com A prototype vehicle designed to explore the surface of Mars will make a starring appearance in Bristol this weekend at one of the largest space conferences held in the UK. ‘Bridget’, pictured below in an artist's impression, is due to play a pivotal part in...
Bristol-based digital marketing firm Smart Traffic has been named as one of the UK’s fastest-growing tech companies for the third time in two years. Revenues at the firm, the UK’s largest SEO (search engine optimisation) specialist, soared by 1,468% over the past five years, earning it 11th place in...
Bristol Green Capital Group has staged its first blogfest, bringing together more than 25 people from sustainable organisations across the city who blogged and tweeted for more than four hours. Taking the theme ‘I’m dreaming of a green Christmas’, the event, hosted by the science attraction At-Bristol, garnered much...
Bristol is in the running for £24m Government funding to make it the UK’s most-advanced digital city with a publicly-accessible IT system that brings together essential information for citizens from bus times to energy use. Bristol is bidding for the cash under the Government’s Future Cities Award scheme –...
Bristol has strengthened its position as the UK’s leading hub for research into cyber attacks with the opening of a dedicated centre at the University of Bristol. The Bristol Security Centre will lead a network of bases across the UK studying all areas of cyber warfare to protect the...
Making the UK the tech hub of Europe will form the theme for discussion at a business breakfast in Bristol this morning hosted by Julian David, the director general of Intellect, the trade body for the UK’s technology industry. The meeting, at the offices of law firm Burges, will...
Bristol firms Smart Traffic, the UK’s largest SEO (search engine optimisation) specialist, and IT development consultancy Mosaic Island, have been named as two of the UK’s fastest-growing hi-tech businesses. The firms appear in the Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 rankings which is published this Sunday. The table, sponsored...
A 7,000 year old technique, known as Egyptian Paste (or Faience), could offer a potential process and material for use in the latest 3D printing techniques of ceramics, according to researchers at UWE Bristol. Professor Stephen Hoskins, director of UWE’s Centre for Fine Print Research, and David Huson, research...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Computers and mobile phones that run on technology that spooked Albert Einstein could be on sale within a few years, thanks to work led by scientists in Bristol. Quantum computing, which uses circuits that operate with light instead of electricity, could lead to far faster...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Bristol’s digital and creative firms are to get a greater chance of bidding for a share of the city council’s £25m annual ICT (Information Communications Technology) budget. The council is changing its strategy on the way it delivers ICT services with smaller packages of work...
