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Plextek has picked up the top accolade at the Cambridge News Business Excellence Awards, being named Business of the Year. The award caps off a fantastic 12 months for Plextek after receiving two Queen’s awards and celebrating its 20th birthday last April, being named ‘Consultancy of the Year’ at the British Engineering Excellence Awards (BEEAs) and being ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA.

Plextek, the leading Cambridge design house and technology innovator, today announced that PneumaCare has won two highly sought after healthcare and business accolades at the Medical Futures Innovation Awards – a Dragon’s Den-style assessment of new healthcare ideas from around the world. PneumaCare’s PneumaScan(tm) device, which monitors patients breathing without any contact with their body, received Best Business Proposition ...

Plextek has launched its customisable core processor module which combines a robust hardware platform, Microsoft WinCE 6.0 R2 operating system and comprehensive Board Support Package (BSP), is designed to provide the processing power and interfacing capability to support rapid integration into a range of automotive and consumer applications. Plextek is also able to customise the module’s form factor and connectivity for other target solutio...

Plextek Limited and RedCloud Technology Limited today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Intellectual Property Rights of Iceni Mobile Ltd including the mobile payments system (the I2S platform) developed by the same team that created the world’s most successful mobile money service, M-PESA.

Plextek has been acknowledged by the European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, part of Europe’s leading Radio Frequency and Microwave conference. This follows the acceptance for publication of a Plextek paper at this year’s conference, describing a sub-harmonic E-band Image Reject Mixer (IRM).

Plextek has extended its range of ICE platforms to bring the benefits of the Android mobile operating system to the car. Currently, car entertainment systems typically use Linux- or Windows-based operating systems and are missing out on the connected functionality offered by Android. A head-unit based on the Plextek Android platform can link with any smartphone or tablet to provide a data connection, call support and play audio wirelessly via Blu...

Plextek, the Cambridge-based electronics and communications design consultancy, has become a supplier within the 3rd iteration of the UK MoD's Framework Agreement for Technical Support (FATS 3). Plextek's broad range of services can now be easily accessed by the MoD and other government departments and organisations including the Home Office, Metropolitan Police Service, Forensic Science Laboratory, Meteorological Office and HM Revenue and Custom...

The Location Based Services (LBS) market is now being driven by application developers rather than the technologies. This was one of the conclusions from the Cambridge Wireless event, ‘How do we make location a desirable experience?’ that was hosted and sponsored by design consultancy Plextek Ltd.

Plextek is championing a special Cambridge Wireless Security & Defence Special Interest Group (SIG) event focussing on security issues within next generation public safety requirements. Attendees will be given a valuable insight into potential improvements to public safety services and the technology in use today, in order to alleviate the increasing demands on service personnel. The event takes place at Peterhouse in Cambridge on 14th Octobe...

Plextek, the Cambridge-based specialists in electronics design and supply of surveillance products, will be showcasing its expertise in situational awareness for ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance) at the DSEi 2009 exhibition. In addition to announcing a series of performance enhancements to its Blighter surveillance radars, Plextek will also be showcasing the company’s product design capabilities for ...