Incubator/accelerator programme The Difference Engine has extended it’s deadline for applications, for various reasons, the most important being that it gives applicants worldwide longer to apply.
As Jon Bradford, the founder, explained, he’s had endless invites to talk at events that he can’t attend ahead of the closing deadline
So it makes sense to push things back, as he explained on The Difference Engine news blog.
Claire Thompson, freelance PR Consultant, Waves PR
According to Hitwise, since England’s World Cup knock out, online traffic to websites sites has increased as follows: banking (+23%), travel agencies (+11%) and employment (+23%).
I wasn’t initially convinced it was all the England game – the government announced its cutbacks at the same time.
However, the figures hold up across the technology sector as well it would seem: the UK’s largest IT jobs site, The IT Job Board, www.theitjobboard.co.uk, has undertaken its own research. Comparing the week before and after the match, the site saw an 18 percent increase in natural traffic, a 10 percent rise in total site visits, a 20 percent increase in new CVs being uploaded to the site, and 25 percent of existing documents were updated.
Not quite sure what this tells us: people preparing for the storm ahead, or genuine movement in the market?
Sharing the slides from the Talk on The Difference Engine given at Reading Geek Night last night:
Applications should be made via the website: http://thedifferenceengine.eu/apply/ by 23 July, 2010
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July 12, 2010 – European in-car communications specialist, Funkwerk Dabendorf (FwD) has become the latest specialist supplier to join the rapidly growing portfolio of smartphone accessories’ distributor, Z-Three. Funkwerk Dabendorf has been helping phone owners go ‘hands free’ when driving for more than a decade, and Z-Three is the first distributor to bring its hands-free car kits to the UK.
“We now boast one of the widest ranges of high quality Smartphone accessories available to resellers and corporates in the UK,” said Phillip Gutzwiller, Commercial Director, Z-Three.
Funkwerk Dabendorf’s Audio 2000 range boasts a wide variety of cradles for different smartphones, including the BlackBerry, which allow phones to charge and to operate hands-free in a car. Holders are simply placed on a base plate in the cabin, making replacing them quick and uncomplicated. A connected exterior antenna ensures good reception and voice quality, and radiation levels are reduced to a minimum. Radio mute, echo and noise suppression are included as standard. Read more »
The Difference Engine, news, tech & telecoms | claireatwaves | 
July 21, 2010 10:37 pm | 
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