Vertu, the completely owned luxury phone brand of Nokia which sells basic mobile phones with stylish cases, is planning to go on the market. It has as yet, not been confirmed but it is assumed that Goldman Sachs has been appointed to oversee the sale. This will probably land the UK based Vertu into the […]

 
Microsoft is embracing most, but not all, open-source apps into the Windows 8 Windows store.
Utilising any open-source licence which has been approved by the Open-Source Initiative (OSI), the Store’s App Developer Agreement permits developers to build their apps for download and installation on Windows 8 machines. The OSI is the organisation that keeps an eye […]

 
The French national competition authority, Autorite de la concurrence, has initiated an enquiry into the decision by Oracle to halt software development for future versions of Intel’s Itanium processor family.

The complaint against Oracle was filed with the French authorities by HP in July 2011, soon after the initiation of legal action. In a statement, translated […]

 
Clinicians and engineers are building a diagnostic micoarray chip for Alzheimer’s disease that will provide a vital early warning of the condition.
 
They are hoping to make a handheld or a small desktop device using surface plasmon resonance (SPR) — a relatively new technology — coupled with high-sensitivity complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) imaging.
 
Unlike other detection techniques, […]

 
Engineers are in demand despite looming cuts in the UK that will hit public sector projects hard. But recruiters may have to think differently.
 
Despite the spectre of public sector cuts as the government implements a £6bn package of savings in the sector this year, demand for engineers is spread over a wide array of sectors […]