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The future of graphene

The future of graphene

...charge of putting together a bid for a billion euros of EU funding for a materials science research programme to rival Cern, or the European... Read more

15 June, 2011 by Lucy Sherriff

University cloud services get £12.5m injection

...resource brokerage via a £12.5m IT modernisation programme. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) announced the cloud investment, which will be made... Read more

7 February, 2011 by Jack Clark

Embedded Symbian scheme gets ?11m in EU funding

...The European Commission has assigned funding to a scheme that will see the Symbian mobile platform developed further... Read more

3 November, 2010 by David Meyer

Commission seeks bids for ?780m of IT funding

...Commission has requested proposals for IT projects that could draw on a funding pot worth €780m. The Commission is seeking proposals for research projects that... Read more

29 September, 2010 by Jack Clark

EU to double supercomputing funding to ?1.2bn

...get a boost after the European Commission announced plans to double its funding of high-performance computing. Annual investment in supercomputing equipment, training and research... Read more

16 February, 2012 by Jack Clark
NASA's 2013 budget boosts manned flights

NASA's 2013 budget boosts manned flights

...put a positive spin on the proposed budget for 2013, which cuts funding for Mars missions. Image credit: NASA It is aiming to double the... Read more

14 February, 2012 by William Harwood

Space observation and navigation promised EU cash

...finish the system and to fund it until 2020, while a new funding mechanism for an Earth environment monitoring project has also been announced. Europe... Read more

1 December, 2011 by Jack Clark

Geo attacks BT as it quits UK fibre-funding process

...Delivery UK (BDUK) framework, which seeks to parcel out £530m in government funding for the upgrading of the UK's rural broadband infrastructure. It also... Read more

17 November, 2011 by David Meyer
Tech schemes vie for massive EU <endeca_term>funding</endeca_term>

Tech schemes vie for massive EU funding

...projects have been selected to compete for millions of euros in European funding, aimed at using technology to solve social problems. The six finalists in... Read more

4 May, 2011 by David Meyer
Kickstarter breathes life into tech start-ups

Kickstarter breathes life into tech start-ups

...to be funded using a crowd-sourcing model. Each project sets a funding target and has a finite amount of time in which to raise... Read more

17 April, 2011 by Jon Yeomans

Cybercrime police aim to save UK £500m over four years

...The head of the UK's national cybercrime policing unit says fresh funding will help it prevent £500m of damage to the economy over the... Read more

29 March, 2011 by Nick Heath

Digital services research gets £7m boost

...that 10 projects have been allocated money in the first round of funding in the Collaboration Across Digital Industries (Cadi) competition, launched in July. "Co... Read more

22 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Whitehall official outlines cybersecurity funding plan

...has outlined how the government plans to spend £650m on cybersecurity. The funding, which was announced in October, will be spent on a number of... Read more

17 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Researchers win funds for semantic business intelligence

...Sheffield Hallam University has been given European Commission funding to help develop a platform that combines features of semantic technologies with... Read more

24 August, 2010 by Jack Clark

Scotland aims for five-fold speed boost by 2015

...40-80Mbps is not possible at this stage," the document reads. The funding for achieving the boosted speeds will come from a variety of sources... Read more

1 February, 2012 by David Meyer

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

4 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

6 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

9 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

9 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

10 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

12 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

13 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

15 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

17 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

17 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

1 day ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry