The Engineer
15 June 2001
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IT growth slumps to ten-year low
21 Jun 2001
Last year was the worst on record for the UK's software and IT services companies. The bursting of the internet bubble left the sector with a nasty hangover.
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Making plastic pay its way
21 Jun 2001
Stuart Nathan describes how two companies see specialised application and process improvements as routes to improved profits.
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Mangusta deal drives MG Rover to luxury lane
21 Jun 2001
MG Rover is to enter the luxury performance car market following its surprise acquisition this week of the manufacturing operations and design rights for the Qvale Mangusta sports car.
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MoD in wait and see over Meteor launch
21 Jun 2001
The Royal Air Force's Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile (ASRAAM) is experiencing a superficial period of calm after the storm that broke over the programme in April. But behind the scenes, it is politics and protocol, not technical progress, that seem to be the main concerns.
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More nuclear power plants in UK
21 Jun 2001
A decision to build more nuclear power stations in the UK seems certain to be one outcome of the government's review of energy policy, which was disclosed this week.
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NewLogic rolls out Bluetooth baseband processor core
21 Jun 2001
NewLogic's new BOOST Lite Bluetooth baseband processor core has been developed for use in Xilinx Virtex II and Virtex-E FPGAs.
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Nortel cash crisis set to cost more telecoms jobs
21 Jun 2001
The UK telecoms sector faces a second wave of job losses following Nortel Networks' shock announcement of a £14bn quarterly loss and plans to shed 10,000 staff worldwide.
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Poor reception
21 Jun 2001
Where next for mobile phone technology? Wap was a flop. And with phone companies having overpaid for third generation licences, many experts seriously doubt whether there will be sufficient demand to make 3G services viable.
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Price fears over gas plans
21 Jun 2001
Energy-intensive manufacturers fear that stringent impending price controls on Transco, the national gas transmission operator, could stifle supplier competition and keep prices high.
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Project turns on heat to find a better jet engine
21 Jun 2001
Researchers at Sussex University have landed a £500,000 grant from the European Union to investigate the efficiency of aircraft jet engines.
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Rolls signs $1 billion helicopter contract
21 Jun 2001
Rolls-Royce Turbomeca has signed a $1 billion contract at the Paris Air Show to supply RTM322 engines for the 399 NH90 helicopters ordered by Germany, Holland and France.
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Shell and International Fuel Cells establish fuel processing joint venture
21 Jun 2001
Shell Hydrogen and International Fuel Cells have formed HydrogenSource LLC, a 50-50 joint venture that will develop, manufacture and sell fuel processors and hydrogen generation systems.
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Tide turns for BAE in warship row
21 Jun 2001
BAE Systems looks likely to win a crucial victory in its battle to change the way the MoD hands out contracts to defence suppliers and prevent hundreds of job losses at its shipyards on the Clyde.
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Beyond the fringe
20 Jun 2001
Companies developing new products may be able to generate success by appealing to a disgruntled minority rather than by pursuing broader customer satisfaction.
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Big? It's absolutely enormous!
20 Jun 2001
Maxtor Corporation has announced DiamondMax 536DX: the highest capacity ATA drive on the market, it can store a whopping 100GBytes.
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Bringing the Internet back home
20 Jun 2001
IBM and National Semiconductor are creating a complete development platform for home gateways, which will enable Internet access throughout the home.
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Nice things come in small packages
20 Jun 2001
Consumer portable electronics will benefit from a 70 percent reduction in size from the SC-70 (DCK) logic package size with the introduction of NanoStar packaging, announced by TI.
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$2.2 billion worth of power
19 Jun 2001
Panda Energy and Teco Power Services have closed on bank financing for what they claim are the two largest independent power projects in the US. A $2.2-billion transaction, which includes $1.7 billion in non-recourse debt and a $500-million equity bridge loan, will cover construction costs for the TPS/Panda joint venture's Union Power Station (also known as El Dorado) and Gila River Power Station. The two plants represent more than 4,500 megawatts of generating capacity.
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A new way to text
19 Jun 2001
Anyone who has tried to use a mobile phone to text his friends knows just what a pain it is. Now there's a better way to do it.
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X-rays help make the MEMs
19 Jun 2001
X-rays produced by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will play a key role in allowing MEMS structures for optical networks to be fabricated.
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Rolls Royce forecasts $465 billion civil aero engine market
18 Jun 2001
Rolls Royce is in buoyant mood after predicting a demand for more than 100,000 civil aero engines over the next twenty years.
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Faster RAMs catch the bus
15 Jun 2001
Rambus and its partners have disclosed that they are to deliver RIMM module solutions with a bandwidth of up to 9.6 GB/sec by 2005.
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mp3PRO rocks out of the box
15 Jun 2001
To the delight of audiophiles everywhere, mp3PRO, the next generation audio compression format, has made its debut.
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Speechless
15 Jun 2001
Texas Instruments is to exit the speech-synthesis business at the end of the year and transfer the production of its speech chips to Santa Clara, CA-based Sensory.
