The Engineer
22 June 2001
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Battling it out to net the top talent
28 Jun 2001
The recent downturn in the fortunes of the high-tech economy and resulting job losses have done little to calm the IT sector's fears over weaknesses in its skill base.
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Cammell future still in a fog as buyout deal drags
28 Jun 2001
The waiting game game continued this week over the future of the insolvent UK shipbuilder Cammell Laird.
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Final MoD radio bids emphasise job creation
28 Jun 2001
Defence contractors bidding for a £1.7bn army radio contract have each claimed they would create large numbers of jobs in the UK.
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Oil firms act to stave off impending skills drought
28 Jun 2001
Fears that the oil industry could be hit by a serious shortage of skilled labour over the next five to 10 years have spurred UK companies to launch a big recruitment drive for technicians.
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Old allies are a cold comfort to New Labour
28 Jun 2001
Unions are getting tougher and less willing to keep the peace for a Labour government.
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Rolls-Royce joins Exostar team
28 Jun 2001
e-marketplace Exostar completed a formidable line-up of industry heavyweights when Rolls-Royce joined as its fifth founding partner.
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The French attraction
28 Jun 2001
Why would British firms brave the higher tax levels, militant and powerful unions and a wealth of workers' rights to set up business across the channel?
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UK trade gap widens as industry takes pounding
28 Jun 2001
Hopes for renewed industrial growth look set to wilt during a long, hot summer for manufacturing, according to a batch of surveys to be published in the coming weeks.
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Unions to oppose schools plan
28 Jun 2001
A group of professional engineering bodies have joined forces to pioneer a new generation of specialist secondary schools.
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75 fuel cells connected to US grid
27 Jun 2001
The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) today announced that it will connect 75 fuel cells to its electric grid at its West Babylon substation this summer.
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DWDM optical components market declines
27 Jun 2001
The worldwide market for optical components used in optical networking applications will decline 11% in 2001 from spending levels recorded in 2000.
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EM fibre absorbs microwaves
27 Jun 2001
EM fibre is a new woven-sheet composite metal and glass fibre that absorbs unwanted or reflected microwave radiation.
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Free weapon helps fight e-mail viruses
27 Jun 2001
Taking a step in the fight against global e-mail viruses, UK-based DERA is offering a version of its SyBard/Mail software as a free download.
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Intelligent headlights
27 Jun 2001
We have all been blinded by the headlights of on-coming cars whilst driving at night. Or, we may have blinded others. Now, there's a much smarter way to see in the dark.
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World's highest-resolution monitor
27 Jun 2001
IBM has announced the world's highest-resolution, flat-panel computer monitor - enabling photograph-quality imaging.
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A reconfigurable Web camera
26 Jun 2001
IMEC has developed an Internet camera with both hardware and software components that can be reconfigured over a network at run-time.
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An integrated design environment for FPGAs
22 Jun 2001
Actel Corporation has introduced Libero, its next-generation integrated design environment for field-programmable gate array (FPGA) development and design.
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Can fuel economy be increased using existing technologies?
22 Jun 2001
Automakers have a major solution to soaring gas prices, worsening global warming, and the growing dependence on foreign oil: existing technologies.
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Design on the crest of a SLwave
22 Jun 2001
Ansoft Corporation has released SIwave; a new tool designed specifically to solve the power delivery and signal integrity problems prevalent in high-speed printed circuit boards and complex IC packages.
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Gravititate gravitates towards dreaming spires
22 Jun 2001
CA-based Gravitate has signed a strategic alliance agreement with Cambridge Positioning Systems Limited to accelerate the deployment of its 'Gravitate' wireless Internet platform in Europe.
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SigmaRAM consortium announces fast SRAMs
22 Jun 2001
The SigmaRAM Consortium has announced the availability of high-speed 18-Mbit synchronous SRAMs with a data throughput rate of up to 24 Gb/s at a 333-MHz clock speed.
