Qinetiq drives towards wireless cars
News Defence technology company Qinetiq has signed a £6.2m contract to develop technology that could eventually lead to wireless-enabled cars. The contract with UK wireless content delivery firm LastMile Communications extends a partnership signed last...
[June 5, 2006, 16:30]
MoD completes sale of QinetiQ stake
News The privatisation of defence-technology firm QinetiQ has been completed. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) sold its remaining 19 percent stake in QinetiQ, previously the UK's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, on Tuesday, raising £254m for the...
[September 11, 2008, 0:01]
IT 'needs women'
News Qinetiq, a former arm of the Ministry of Defence that now provides scientific and technological research and solutions to private industry, said this week that scientifically trained women are choosing not to pursue careers in science and...
[October 17, 2003, 12:10]
Consortium pushes train Wi-Fi
News The group, made up of the likes of Cisco and QinetiQ, has teamed to sell Odyssey — a high-speed Internet service that they say can provide real time digital television and telemetric information onboard moving trains.
[April 20, 2005, 15:45]
Lampposts to provide location-based services?
News On Tuesday, Last Mile announced that it will work with consultancy firm QinetiQ to commercialise its plans. The results of Last Mile's proposition, developed in partnership with QinetiQ, would allow you to communicate instantly, quickly, and very...
[March 23, 2005, 16:55]
Intel unveils next-gen transistor plans
News The transistor, designed by Intel and QinetiQ, is similar in structure to a traditional transistor in that it comes with a source (the place where electrons start) and a drain (their final destination) connected by a channel.
[December 8, 2005, 10:00]
Smart seats get to bottom of in-flight woes
News Future hijackers may find that their buttocks betray them, if UK defence firm Qinetiq has its way. The company has developed a smart chair stashed with "a thicket of seat sensors", according to New Scientist magazine this week.
[June 12, 2003, 14:46]
Vista gets a cautious welcome
News The London Stock Exchange and QinetiQ have also been testing Microsoft's new offerings. Business users from a range of UK organisations have welcomed the launch of Microsoft Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007.
[December 1, 2006, 14:50]
More train stations get wireless
News The Cloud, which has installed Wi-Fi across some stations in Sweden, is also working with security company QinetiQ to provide Wi-Fi on moving trains. Wireless Internet access will soon be on offer to rail customers at another eighty-five UK train...
[May 9, 2005, 16:25]
Countdown to CeBIT
News Other events this week include a speech from Sir John Chisholm, chairman of QinetiQ Group, who will talk creating value from technology innovation at the UK Technology Innovation and Growth Forum on Tuesday.
[March 13, 2007, 7:46]
Skills not money needed to fight cybercrime
News Neil Fisher, director of security solutions at science and technology firm QinetiQ, said public sector organisations should make more use of private sector expertise. Law enforcement agencies require a bigger pool of skilled investigators and...
[May 18, 2004, 16:45]
Cahoot bank accounts in security scare
News The Abbey spokeswoman said during that time the previous system was put in place and independently tested by Qinetiq and found to prevent this particular breach -- confirming it was the systems upgrade which was responsible.
[November 5, 2004, 13:58]
Terahertz camera takes snapshot of the future
News The project has released images of a hand taken through 15mm of paper, while related work by UK technology company Qinetiq shows pictures of the human body imaged through clothing. StarTiger, a European Space Agency project, has taken the first...
[February 11, 2003, 13:35]
MOD: Military spending to favour tech
News The £50m project, based in Farnborough, will see the MOD working alongside firms including BAE systems and defence and research company QinetiQ to develop system integration and interoperability technologies under the so-called Network Integration...
[December 11, 2003, 16:45]
Military spectrum eyes civvy street
News These currently include research and development firms such as Qinetiq, Roke Manor Research and ERA Technology. Large swathes of radio spectrum bandwidth currently managed by the military and other key services should be opened up to other...
[September 18, 2006, 17:20]
Muni Wi-Fi - can we build it?
Blog One of its main backers is the "defence" firm QinetiQ, which was also involved in the Exeter trials. News comes from LastMile Communications that it has smashed the £3m target in its latest private equity funding round, pulling in £4.1m from...
[September 17, 2007, 16:46]
Government pushes forward with e-Borders
News Raytheon Systems, the prime contractor for Trusted Borders, will work with Accenture, Detica, Serco, QinetiQ, Steria, Capgemini, and Daon. A single agency and a multi-billion-pound passenger-screening system will strengthen the UK's entry points...
[November 19, 2007, 12:14]
MoD on hunt for 'budding Qs'
News Obviously we work with QinetiQ, BAE systems and all the big companies — we'd like to work with as broad a range as possible. The Ministry of Defence is on the hunt for "budding Qs" to keep it supplied with the latest gadgetry, the department...
[November 17, 2008, 7:24]
Thursday: Getting to the bottom of smart seats
Blog Thank you, Qinetiq, whose massive taxpayer subsidies -- ostensibly for defence research -- has led to this happy turn of events. Thursday 12/06/2003 It doesn't happen often, but when it does it's enough to make you believe in the fundamental...
[June 13, 2003, 13:16]
Northern Ireland tipped to be top UK tech hub
News ECIT hosts technology companies, such as TDK, and also provides services to boost the research capabilities of big names such as BT, Nortel, QinetiQ and SAP. Northern Ireland is making a name for itself as an emerging UK technology hub.
[June 3, 2008, 8:27]
