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Funding crisis threatens SETI@home
News The future of SETI@home, an Internet-based distributed computing experiment to find radio signals from intelligent alien life-forms, is in serious danger as academics behind the project face a funding crisis.
[October 15, 2002, 9:07]
BCS: Funding cuts will harm computing research
News Funding for research councils has been slashed by £68m this year, from £196m to £128m, the government announced last week, with science and technology councils bearing the brunt of the cuts. On Monday the British Computing Society (BCS) expressed...
[February 27, 2007, 11:50]
Self-Funding IT Governance: A Life Cycle Management Perspective
White Papers Download the CA white paper, "Self-Funding IT Governance: A Life Cycle Management Perspective," to read about the challenge of meeting regulatory compliance without the benefit of supplemental funding.
[August 25, 2009, 14:00]
Net leads in US venture capital funding boom
News While the number of new companies receiving funding rose slightly from the first quarter, from 1,627 to 1,695, the percentage of e-commerce investment plunged down around 44 percent. Fuelled by the Internet, venture capital investments nearly...
[August 7, 2000, 13:18]
SETI@home director denies funding crisis
News Werthimer recently emailed SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Australia chairman, Frank Stootman, informing him that the US-based academic research group had stopped work to include Australia in the next generation of the project...
[October 18, 2002, 10:09]
OpenBSD founder makes funding plea
News OpenBSD developers have admitted that the organisation is running at a loss and want to increase annual income to continue funding the development of the project's open source operating system. OpenSSH, a secure network connectivity tool project...
[March 23, 2006, 10:10]
Bletchley Park disappointed by funding rebuff
News Bletchley Park, the home of British code-breaking during World War II, has called Number 10's refusal to provide it with additional funding "disappointing". The prime minister's office said while it recognised the historical significance of the...
[August 28, 2009, 16:58]
Gov't rejects call for Bletchley Park funding
News In a debate on Tuesday in the House of Lords, the chamber was told funding is needed to help keep the site financially viable while restoration work to the home of the World War II codebreakers is carried out.
[May 20, 2009, 9:10]
Worldpop lands £5m funding
News The funding includes £3m from investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, and other investment from 3i Group and Amadeus Capital Partners. It may be getting more difficult for new-media startups to find financing, but Worldpop, for one, has pulled...
[January 15, 2001, 12:54]
VoIP in K-12 Education: Leveraging Data Networks and E-Rate Funding
White Papers Phone systems in schools across the country are undergoing a major transformation, fueled by E-Rate funding and VoIP technology. Phones and advanced applications are being deployed to every teacher and classroom at minimal cost, by leveraging data...
[October 2, 2008, 9:43]
Funding boost for new technology firms
News An existing company will be able to win up to £3m in funding through InvoRed, while a previously unfunded organisation is eligible for between £15,000 and £500,000. Small technology companies and individuals based in the East Midlands could benefit...
[June 3, 2003, 14:59]
Red Hat doubles JBoss funding
News The first wave of funding around JBoss went into the field, improving sales and support. Yeaton claimed that the decision to plough more funding into JBoss was not an attempt to boost internal and external perceptions of the organisation after the...
[March 15, 2007, 12:34]
Bletchley Park secures £600k funding
News Speaking to ZDNet UK on Wednesday, Bletchley Park Trust director Simon Greenish welcomed the funding. The site of British code-breaking efforts during World War II is to get £600,000 from Milton Keynes Council and English Heritage.
[March 12, 2009, 11:24]
MP calls on government for Bletchley funding
News A Liberal Democrat MP has asked the government for funding for Bletchley Park, the home of UK code-breaking during World War II. In an early day motion filed on Monday, MP Phil Willis called on the government "to provide operational funding whilst...
[July 24, 2009, 13:15]
VC funding rains down on The Cloud
News Wi-Fi hot spot 'wholesale' provider The Cloud has received venture capital funding from 3i and Accel Partners Europe. The deal sees The Cloud emerge from under previous parent Inspired Broadcast Networks and is the first round of VC funding.
[July 12, 2004, 16:10]
E-crime unit 'on track' despite funding delay
News Plans for a national UK cybercrime policing unit remain on track despite the government stalling on funding, according to the Metropolitan Police Service's e-crime chief . Funding for PCEU has been slow to arrive, with the government still not...
[June 16, 2008, 8:39]
Joseph Brant Hospital Supports Performance Reporting and Funding Decisions With SAS
White Papers The challenge was to ensure accurate reporting of patient care in order to secure government funding for added services and continued operations. Joseph Brant deployed SAS that integrated data from multiple sources and delivers performance...
[September 19, 2009, 1:22]
Rural broadband conference sunk by funding squeeze
News But the organisation announced late last week that the event has been pulled, due to lack of funding. Rural campaigners have failed to persuade government and industry that the non-availability of faster broadband services across the UK is a...
[November 21, 2005, 10:30]
Nova Scotia Department of Health Secures Funding With Evidence-Based Decision Making
White Papers The challenge was to the Continuing Care Branch of the Nova Scotia Department of Health that needed modeling and analysis capabilities to accurately determine the funding requirements for its long-term bed care facilities.
[September 19, 2009, 1:22]
Ofcom: No public funding for 21CN competitors
News In an interview with the regulation-related blog Ofcomwatch, Richards denied that a serious competitor to BT's 21st Century Network (21CN) would need any kind of public funding. The market might go to 60 percent but there'll have to be government...
[April 11, 2007, 17:49]
