A new £1.4m investment from the Technology Strategy Board this week kicks off the FABRIC project: Fashion and Apparel Browsing for Inspirational Content. This major initative is a collaboration between Calico Jack, the University of Dundee, SSL Ltd., Liberty of London and the Victoria and Albert Musuem. Calico Jack will be bringing its expertise in mobile communications to provide mobile interaction with FABRIC resources and algorithms.

In an exciting new departure, Calico Jack’s track record in healthcare IT development has paved the way for a new contract to build software to support detoxification programmes. Mobile devices can play a key role in helping individuals through the process of detox, and Scotland Against Drugs has funded a pilot project in which Calico Jack’s software plays a key role.

Calico Jack today signed a contract to undertake R&D work building on the company’s expertise in applying multi-agent systems to solve practical problems in health-care. The “SARMA” project will construct a tool to facilitate the recruitment of patients to clinical trials, solving a serious problem in the testing and evaluation of new drugs in Scotland and the UK.

Wanadoo has become Calico Jack’s latest customer, signing a contract for a programme of R&D work in the area of converged communications. The project will involve harnessing the power of Jackdaw in the newly emerging IMS enabled world.

The exciting new deal between Calico Jack and mobile telecommunications giant Orange made the Sunday Times today.