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Linux lab draws more big names
News The companies said this week they had signed up to the OSDL, which is funded by a group of companies that includes IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sun Microsystems and Red Hat. Novell and Network Appliance have joined the Open Source Development Labs...
[December 11, 2003, 11:10]
Surrey, London and Peking get a yuan for spintronics
Blog It's a three year project funded jointly by UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the National Science Foundation of China. Researchers from the University of Surrey, the London Centre for Nanotechnology and Peking University's...
[July 2, 2009, 16:37]
Micro generators pick up power
News The experimental device, created by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is part of a battery replacement project funded by the US Army Research Laboratory, and is expected to have applications for a wide variety of electronic...
[November 25, 2004, 14:55]
Cookieless Web monitoring tool 'nearly undetectable'
News The technology came to light when it was chosen as one of 40 technologies funded this year by Scottish Enterprise, Scotland's economic development agency. Researchers in Scotland are developing a new kind of Web monitoring software that they claim...
[May 13, 2002, 10:14]
Thursday
Blog The affair is funded by PR firm Hill and Knowlton, who seem curiously keen to pour beer down the throats of people who are in many cases no longer directly connected with the business of writing about H&K's clients.
[February 14, 2003, 17:03]
Tech missionaries spread the Net
News The San Francisco-based company, founded by a former Microsoft executive and funded largely by donations from technology workers and venture capitalists, developed its "Computer Room" project with cash from Microsoft, Global Catalyst Foundation...
[May 23, 2002, 7:32]
Freebox to open phone lines Monday
News Few company details are available on the Web site, but ZDNet understands that Freebox is funded by British backers who are keen to move production to the UK. From Monday, it will be possible to phone up and order an application form for a free set...
[October 6, 2000, 14:09]
Bournemouth ready for first Fibrecity homes
News The super-fast seaside broadband network is being built by sewer fibre-laying company H2O Networks, and is wholly funded by private-equity investment. The first clutch of homes to be connected to the 100Mbps Fibrecity network currently being built...
[January 21, 2009, 8:14]
Automated Link 16 Testing Using DEVS and XML
White Papers The Automated Test Case Generator (ATC-Gen) funded by the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) captures Military Standard (MIL-STD) 6016C document and translates it into rules. Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition policy requires using...
[December 24, 2008, 0:00]
Somerset to get e-government broadband boost
News The project, to be launched on 24 January, has the support of Michael Eavis, organiser of the Glastonbury Festival, and is funded by Somerset's five district councils, the South West Regional Development Agency and the European Social Fund.
[January 25, 2005, 10:10]
SAP and IBM offer joint cloud migration
News The companies are developing the service as part of the Reservoir cloud-computing project, a European Union-funded and IBM-led joint research initiative of 13 European partners intended to develop technologies that help automate the demand for IT...
[March 5, 2009, 11:05]
Microsoft may open Office door
Talkback Rather than leaving Microsoft a choice, governments need to step in and force Microsoft to either adhere to open and VISIBLE standards or not be able to participate in any bidding for publically funded software sales and contracts.
[January 19, 2004, 16:08]
Date set for IR35 appeal
News The appeal, which has been funded by the membership of the PCG, will claim that IR35 contravenes European legislation on two counts -- illegal state aid and a barrier to free movement -- and therefore should be removed from the statute books.
[November 27, 2001, 14:15]
Broadband Britain 'must follow Korea path'
News This is one of the key conclusions of an investigation into the success of broadband in South Korea, which was led by Brunel University and funded by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The UK government must show more vision in its...
[October 11, 2002, 12:38]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog They're funded by Larry Ellison and…" Thursday 29/9/2005 It was the usual sort of call. Hello? I'm Sarah from Lewis PR. Have you got a moment? Uh-oh… Er, yes…" Good! I have an opportunity for you…" uh-oh times two… our client Pllr Data Systems is...
[September 30, 2005, 19:15]
Broadband group outlines fibre rollout costs
News Monday's report, The costs of deploying fibre-based next-generation broadband infrastructure, was part-funded by the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) and is the third report covering the issue released by the...
[September 8, 2008, 17:27]
UK scientists complete Grid foundations
News The project was carried out by scientists from the UK's E-Science Centres and was co-funded by IBM and Oracle, rival powers in the database market, which contributed both funding and the efforts of their own researchers.
[July 22, 2002, 12:45]
1-Click at 6
Blog Last June, Amazon lobbyist Paul Misener invoked the ghost of BountyQuest, asking Congress to believe that the Bezos-funded company's failure to declare an 'official' winner in an O'Reilly-underwritten contest to debunk Amazon's 1-Click patent...
[November 1, 2006, 11:32]
BBC unveils major online revamp
Talkback Add to this its loss of credibility on the sporting coverage front and you have a publicly funded dinosaur which is struggling to meet the needs of its paying customers through its television programming.
[April 27, 2006, 9:21]
Oxford University sets up Internet Institute
News The Institute will be funded by a £10m donation from the Shirley Foundation, set up by philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley. Internet research team will research the effects of the Internet on society
[May 4, 2001, 16:59]
