<I>Wall Street Journal</I> awards gold for mobile innovation

Oxford-based company gets the glory in European tech awards...

Celoxica, an Oxford-based computer company, has won the gold prize in the Wall Street Journal's European Technology Innovation Awards category for network and internet technologies. Celoxica scored top marks for a perfectly executed way to programme computer chips that can be reconfigured so any device installed with the chips can be a telephone one hundredth of a second and an MP3 player the next. The company also won bronze in the large overall technology innovation category with the same technology. LTU Technologies AG from France scored the silver in the overall section for a design that can recognise and catalogue images according to their visual features. Gold was swept up by GlycArt Biotechnology AG from Switzerland for its anti-body enhancing technology that may help defeat diseases like cancer and auto immune diseases.