This article first appeared in the Cambridge Tech Quarter 2012 Review.
Innovation is great, but adoption is better. When it comes to machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and the Internet of Things (IoT), Cambridge is at the heart of both, a healthy place to be for an industry that promises to erupt into something very big very soon.
Cancer focused drug discovery firm, Domainex, is looking for a second close on a £1.5 million fundraising round to allow it to select a drug candidate to license out to a pharmaceutical partner.
Neil Davidson, one of the most prominent supporters of technology startups in Cambridge and founder of the original Springboard accelerator is to step down from his position as joint CEO of Red Gate Software, the company he founded with school friend Simon Galbraith in 1999.
The recurring theme in almost any conversation about the Internet of Things is devices, what will be the breakthrough product, which will be the dominant protocols, 50 billion M2M devices by 2020, but in all of this, where's the discussion about what will be the winning business models?
Two former ARM directors have broken cover on a new startup that promises to deliver video conferencing at a fraction of the cost of the dominant systems on the market and with none of the set up pain.