UK and India to establish virtual R&D school
News BT is leading a consortium that it hopes will drive collaborative research between the UK and India, with a strong focus on new fixed and wireless networking technologies. The consortium will set up a virtual graduate research school called the...
[December 3, 2007, 10:51]
Software Scrabble: D.E.V.E.L.O.P.E.R.
Blog Comment Hi Jamie, Yikes! I missed an obvious one there - but can you program for sarcasm? I guess not huh? Hmmm, computers and language. It's a great subject, I've studied language translation tools before as I was writing on the subject and there are just...
[August 22, 2008, 13:20]
Software Scrabble: D.E.V.E.L.O.P.E.R.
Blog Comment Adrian, You DEFINITELY need to get out more.and stop making me feel inadequate, because I can't come up with a single line to fit your criteria.hmmm. Can I write a program to do it, choosing random words from the dictionary?
[August 22, 2008, 8:47]
Motorola opens European wireless R&D centre
News The aim of the centre is to consolidate the company's personal communications product development strategy for Europe. This will allow Motorola to develop products specifically tailored to European consumers.
[September 29, 1999, 13:01]
Sendo's R&D snapped up by Motorola
News Motorola is buying UK-based competitor Sendo's patents and 200-employee research division in an effort to strengthen its mobile phone sales in Europe and elsewhere. The deal, announced on Wednesday, will add 50 existing Sendo patents, plus 40 that...
[June 30, 2005, 9:50]
EC doubles robotics R&D investment
News The European Commission has announced it is to double the amount of funding given over to robotics research and development. Between 2008 and 2010 the Commission will provide almost €400m (£316m) to support European robotics research, it stated on...
[June 12, 2008, 13:09]
Cisco IP+Optical Networking Solution Selected for GrangeNet Project to Build Australia's Largest R&D Network
White Papers Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, has been selected as the networking equipment provider for the GrangeNet project, to create Australia's largest Research & Development network.
[August 29, 2006, 0:00]
Infineon Singapore Standardizes on Network Appliance for High-Growth, Semiconductor R&D Environment
White Papers For Infineon Singapore, staying on top in the semiconductor industry means continually fine-tuning the company's IT infrastructure to keep pace with rapid growth. Storage capacity requirements, for example, have doubled in each of the last three...
[July 20, 2007, 1:00]
Sendo's R&D snapped up by Motorola
Talkback I just hope motorola take the good work sendo have done and put it to good use. The motorola UI sux.
[June 30, 2005, 12:07]
News Burst: Microsoft R&D to hit $3 billion
News This is an increase from $2.5bn (£1.55bn) in its last fiscal year.
[July 24, 1998, 9:29]
Gates: We're spending $10bn on R&D
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates touted advances in development tools, Web services and other technologies on Thursday during a speech to top business executives. Gates opened Microsoft's Chief Executive Summit, a two-day gathering of more than 100...
[May 21, 2004, 9:25]
FranceTelecom R&D White Paper on SAT+WiFi Experiment
White Papers This white paper describes a bi-directional broadband access composed of a satellite link coupled to Wifi access developed by FranceTelecom in order to provide high bit rate access to areas not covered by terrestrial ADSL technologies.
[October 20, 2005, 3:00]
D.I.V.O.R.C.E. on the Net
News A self-help Web site that aims to guide surfers through the trauma of divorce has been launched at divorce-online.co.uk The site's guidelines explain the personal and financial implications of divorce and cover the legal process in some depth.
[July 18, 2000, 12:04]
Software Scrabble: D.E.V.E.L.O.P.E.R.
Blog Here’s a bit of software application development scrabble for you to serve as Friday down time. Hopefully this comes with enough of a thought-provoking nudge that you might even like to play. Free image source: Wikimedia
[August 21, 2008, 23:04]
Google signs R&D alliance with NASA
News The NASA Ames Research Center and Google have signed a formal agreement to collaborate on projects ranging from studying scientific-data search technology to using Google Earth flyovers for the moon and Mars.
[December 19, 2006, 9:05]
R&D takes backseat during HP's IT revamp
News Despite the fact HP's recent IT consolidation slowed down research and development for almost three years, the bitter pill needed to be taken, according to a senior vice president. The company is just finishing a major IT transformation, including...
[April 17, 2008, 10:42]
Microsoft pledges £3.3bn to R&D
News Microsoft plans to increase its research and development budget by 20 percent and hire 5,000 new workers in the coming year, Chairman Bill Gates said on Thursday. Gates, speaking at Microsoft's annual meeting with financial analysts at its Redmond...
[July 26, 2002, 7:32]
Government to put £39.5m into R&D
News Technology companies are being given the chance to compete for £39.5m government funding for research and development. Business minister Lord Mandelson is scheduled to tell a Technology Strategy Board conference on Tuesday that the funding will be...
[October 13, 2009, 1:00]
Real World Disaster Recovery: A disaster like Hurricane Katrina raises important IT questions
White Papers From the article in IBM Systems Magazine: "Disaster recovery (D/R) planning and testing has been a large part of my career. I've been involved in D/R exercises for a variety of customers, and I was also peripherally involved on a D/R event that...
[April 17, 2008, 17:36]
UK firms' R&D spending slide continues
News Government tax incentives have failed to halt a decline in research and development investment by UK businesses, according to the latest global league table. R&D spend by UK companies has fallen for a second successive year, this time by one...
[October 25, 2005, 11:15]



