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Cambridge to trial latest telecare technology
This is my third report following my interview with Chris Curry and describes an innovative telecare scheme which his company, Critical Data Ltd, will soon be launching - Care with Canary: Cambridge is to trial the very latest sensory telecare technology which will...
Raspberry Pi will launch this week
Britain could be heading for a new generation of young creative computer progammers - thanks to the launch of Raspberry Pi, a mini computer board which is hoped will help revitalise computer science in schools. The very same day that I met Chris Curry, joint founder...
Chris Curry on suing IBM, that Micro Men drama and the Brighton bombing
This is the second in a series of anecdotal stories told to me by Chris Curry, and I find them absolutely riveting. Chris and the Acorn days are at the very heart of the Cambridge Phenomenon, a term first coined by Peta Levi in a Financial Times article in November...
How Olivetti stitched up Acorn
I bumped into Chris Curry last week, a Cambridge legend and visionary innovator who, along with Hermann Hauser, founded Acorn Computers in 1978, an era which still holds a fascination for many. Acorn dominated the Cambridge technology scene in the 1980s and 90s, and...
The death of a heroine, Marie Colvin
I was stunned to learn of the death of Marie Colvin, whose war reports I avidly read in awe, always thinking about the risks she took to tell us about the terrible atrocities she witnessed in war zones. Fearless journalists, men and women alike, pay the ultimate price...
Cambs police withhold migrant crime figures
What are the migrant crime figures for Cambridgeshire? You would expect our police force to have this answer at their fingertips. Apparently not. So how, I wonder, can they strategise their crime busting operations for the county - and Wisbech, in particular? I've...
Abcodia announces collaboration with VolitionRx
Congratulations to my client Abcodia following the announcement today of its collaboration with VolitionRx to advance the discovery of blood based biomarkers for cancer. The partnership will discover and develop nucleosome-based diagnostic tests for lung, colorectal...
Why impersonating a barrister became an offence
I sadly went to the funeral of an old boyfriend this week where he was regaled for being a witty raconteur, for his joie de vivre and his talent for mimicry - especially those with a pomposity. There were so many crazy anecdotes about Martin's life that his friends...
Research within the NHS – life science companies invited to share their thoughts and experiences
I'm planning to attend a fascinating One Nucleus Bench to Boardroom event in Newmarket on 6 March which will scrutinise how life science companies can can work successfully within the NHS, an increasing developing market, for example, the recent collaboration of the...