Category Archives: Technology

Ideas & Information on new, emerging and future technologies…

R&D tax credits – Every little helps…

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Cagri Yilmaz

R&D tax credits are an incentive in the form of tax relief for companies of all sizes to raise their investment in R&D. The tax credits work by allowing companies to deduct qualifying expenditure on R&D activities when calculating their … Continue reading →

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The Seventh Annual Public Conference of the European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Cagri Yilmaz

The Seventh Annual Public Conference of the European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing will take place from 29 to 30 March 2012 in Brussels, Belgium. The event will feature presentations from a wide variety of textile … Continue reading →

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New Innovation Partnerships – the key to the competitive European Union

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Cagri Yilmaz

The European Commission suggests redoubling the efforts on innovation, in three key areas for future growth and employment: the supply of raw materials, sustainable agriculture, and active and healthy ageing. To do so, the Commission has set up two new … Continue reading →

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Apple iCloud – How does it work?

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Cagri Yilmaz

In its simplest form, iCloud is merely a special folder. It lives on the iOS device in /private/var/mobile/Library/Mobile Documents/. That folder hosts all application material that applications share to the cloud. Applications have partial permission to read from and write … Continue reading →

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Enterprise Zones in the UK – How can your business benefit from it?

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Cagri Yilmaz

Enterprise Zones are the latest government incentive to get businesses growing. Within the Enterprise Zone you can get superfast broadband, lower rates & taxes, and low levels of regulation & planning controls. That can only be a good thing – … Continue reading →

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About CO2 capture and storage technologies for zero emission power generation

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Cagri Yilmaz

This activity pursues research, development and demonstration of technologies to drastically reduce the adverse environmental impact of fossil fuel use aiming at highly efficient and cost effective power and/ or steam generation plants with near zero emissions, based on CO2 … Continue reading →

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Emerging Technologies – Wireless Energy Transfer / Wireless Power

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Cagri Yilmaz

Wireless energy transfer or wireless power is the transmission of electrical energy from a power source to an electrical load without interconnecting wires. Wireless transmission is useful in cases where interconnecting wires are inconvenient, hazardous, or impossible. The problem of … Continue reading →

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Emerging Technologies – Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells (DBFC) Technology

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Cagri Yilmaz

A fuel cell is a device that generates electricity by a chemical reaction. Every fuel cell has two electrodes, one positive and one negative, called, respectively, the anode and cathode. The reactions that produce electricity take place at the electrodes. … Continue reading →

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The Emerging Technologies – Augmented Reality

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Cagri Yilmaz

What is Augmented Reality or AR? Well, the simplest way to explain it is the new way of displaying a computer generated content over a live view of the world by using a technology device. It is a new way … Continue reading →

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Amazon Kindle 3 – The E-Ink Technology

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Cagri Yilmaz

If you are new to Amazon Kindle, I suggest you go to a high street shop and try one. You will be amazed with the e-ink technology. I wasn’t a big fan of Kindle until I have seen one in … Continue reading →

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