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
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
Who funds it?
This times programme is funded and supported by a variety of organisations including One North East, Middlesborough and Sunderland City Councils.
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 »
Nope – this isn’t a post about how technology has brought us the World Cup, but how technologists are reacting – in England at least.
A friend of mine, Katrina, works with the ITJobBoard, which ran a survey amongst IT professionals about the World Cup.
I had a giggle when I read it. Only 21 percent of respondents said their employers had put plans in place to enable them to watch key games during working hours. (15 percent also thought their companies were stricter this year than for the previous World Cup in 2006 - unsurprising in so many ways – the fever was crazy and it was almost impossible to get any work done!)
But ask the employers and 80 percent were offering flexible hours. It was a fair sized sample as well. Maybe people don’t know their employers have this option – they have an hour to find out!
Only 14% of IT folk had prebooked time off, and only 8% were planning sickies. But hold on – 8 plus 14 is 22, so that’s 22% of folk planning to take the time – one in five IT workers by my calculations.
So there you have it – one in five IT workers won’t be at their desks. And given that today is the first England match that this can be tested at, and this was just what they were prepared to confess to, better hope you don’t need the IT department this afternoon.
Claire Thompson, freelance PR Consultant, Waves PR
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July 21, 2010 10:37 pm | 
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