Are businesses feeling the force of the Forth Road Bridge closure? British weather has always been unpredictable during winter, but no one foresaw the additional burden on Scottish commuters and businesses affected by the recent Forth Road Bridge closure. For the 100,000+ daily commuters who travel into Edinburgh for work, their 30-minute trip over the […]

  2015: Embedded Systems Design at ByteSnap   As 2015 draws to a close, let’s look back on an eventful year of growth and embedded systems design innovation at ByteSnap.     EMC prequalification   2015 kicked off with clients making further development time and cost savings through our Early EMC Testing service which launched […]

Making bimodal IT a reality Matt Kingswood of ITS UK examines the challenges and opportunities around this new style of IT service delivery. A recent survey by Gartner found that 45 per cent of CIOs currently use a bimodal IT service management strategy. This method of service delivery allows IT teams to split their focus […]

Two postgraduate students from China have completed internships with Warwick Ventures, working alongside Business Development Manager Melody Stokes. The experience has supported Zhengzhi Guan (‘Guan’) and Yating Zhou (‘Alice’) to develop their research topics in technology transfer as part of their Marketing and Strategy MSc course with the Warwick Business School.

Five top tips to protect your business from a disaster Although there’s no one right way to go about protecting any business from disaster, there are certain steps that apply to pretty much all businesses keen to ensure that critical business systems are up and running as soon after a disaster strikes as possible. Matt […]

ByteSnap’s Linux User Interface Development Framework and Remote Monitoring System at L22 It’s been a busy, brisk start to the Electronic Design Show for ByteSnap Design. On the ByteSnap stand – L22 – yesterday we had a very good response to the launch of our new, Linux-based SnapUI user interface development tool.   Following on […]

Latest release of SnapUI brings Linux development to speedy business-class interface design for embedded systems ByteSnap Design, www.bytesnap.co.uk, a specialist in electronics hardware and software development, will be launching its new Linux OpenGL SnapUI user interface framework amongst its exciting developments on Stand L22 at this year’s Electronic Design Show. Rewritten from the ground up, […]

Video-game events are usually about noise, crowds, darkness and heavily marketed blockbuster titles. But it doesn’t have to be that way This summer, the picturesque Birchcliffe Centre, a converted baptist church in the West Yorkshire village of Hebden Bridge, hosted an unusual festival. Guests danced across the sunlit floor to the music of Johann Sebastian […]

Birmingham businesses team up for IT support Two of Birmingham’s oldest businesses have teamed up for a large IT collaboration. Long standing financial experts Wesleyan, have formed a partnership with managed service provider ITS, for their IT support. This partnership has generated local interest, as both businesses have been a part of Birmingham’s history since […]

ByteSnap Design is delighted to have made the finals of two prestigious industry competitions; this year’s British Engineering Excellence Awards (BEEAs) and the Elektras (European Electronic Industry Awards), in extremely competitive, high-calibre fields. The embedded electronic consultants are up for the BEEAs Consultancy of the Year accolade, which they won in 2013. “We are thrilled […]

Three Common Cloud Myths That Scare Financial Firms Away Author: Brandon Tanner – Senior Manager at IT Specialists (ITS). 21st May 2015 In response to consumers’ demand for instant, always-on service, UK financial firms are showing a growing interest in cloud services. Alan Grogan, chief analytics officer of the customer services group at RBS, even suggested […]

ByteSnap Design will be showcasing its latest innovative projects, and discussing industry developments and trends at the UK’s premier trade exhibition for electronic design, EDS 2015, in October. Organisers are bracing themselves for their biggest ever show, and are expecting record visitor numbers. Here’s a sneak peak at some of what you’ll see from ByteSnap […]

PC Revolution Architects It’s 47 years since the launch of silicon chip giant Intel – sparking the 1970s personal computer revolution with the world’s first microprocessor. Left to right – Andy Grove, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, 1978   Image credit: Intel Free Press The semiconductor pioneer has dominated first the RAM, and then the CPU […]