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. With $3m (£1.46m) in funding already secured, the IU-ATC will see PhD and...
[December 3, 2007, 10:51]
Software Scrabble: D.E.V.E.L.O.P.E.R.
Blog Comment 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 so many idioms and twists to accommodate for. IBM has something called NLP Natural Language...
[August 22, 2008, 13:20]
Software Scrabble: D.E.V.E.L.O.P.E.R.
Blog Comment 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. Adrian, Can I write a program to do it, choosing random words from the dictionary?
[August 22, 2008, 8:47]
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]
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]
Cisco IP+Optical Networking Solution Selected for GrangeNet Project to Build Australia's Largest R&D Network
White Papers GrangeNet (GRid and Next GEneration Network) has been awarded a A$14 million, 3-year grant by the Federal Government to develop and operate a very high-speed backbone network, linking universities and other public and private research facilities...
[August 29, 2006, 0:00]
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. We're going to keep up the momentum - and this team will be a vital part of that...
[June 30, 2005, 9:50]
Infineon Singapore Standardizes on Network Appliance for High-Growth, Semiconductor R&D Environment
White Papers Faced with ever-greater chip complexity, a constantly increasing number of projects, and an expanding corporate presence in Singapore, Infineon's continued success require the ability to rapidly support multidimensional growth.
[July 20, 2007, 1:00]
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]
Motorola opens European wireless R&D centre
News The centre is in the process of being populated," said a spokesperson, "and we expect to see the first wireless products shipped from there early next year. The aim of the centre is to consolidate the company's personal communications product...
[September 29, 1999, 13:01]
FranceTelecom R&D White Paper on SAT+WiFi Experiment
White Papers The aim of these experimentations is to provide service cost and performance comparable to terrestrial technologies for both forward and return link. This white paper describes a bi-directional broadband access composed of a satellite link coupled...
[October 20, 2005, 3:00]
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]
D.I.V.O.R.C.E. on the Net
News The site's guidelines explain the personal and financial implications of divorce and cover the legal process in some depth. Just to ensure you know what you're letting yourself in for there's a resident team of experts including family law...
[July 18, 2000, 12:04]
Software Scrabble: D.E.V.E.L.O.P.E.R.
Blog I was listening to F.E.A.R.by Ian Brown (he of Stone Roses fame naturally) this afternoon and revelling in the fact that he sings the whole song with each line simply composed of four words each starting with the letters F.E.A.R.
[August 21, 2008, 23:04]
Google signs R&D alliance with NASA
News The R&D partnership was announced by Google chief executive Eric Schmidt in September 2005, but a year later representatives from both Google and NASA Ames acknowledged that there were roadblocks. The NASA Ames Research Center and Google have...
[December 19, 2006, 9:05]
R&D takes backseat during HP's IT revamp
News Every dollar that gets allocated to the IT P&L [profit and loss] is a dollar I can't spend on R&D," he said. Despite the fact HP's recent IT consolidation slowed down research and development for almost three years, the bitter pill needed to be...
[April 17, 2008, 10:42]
Microsoft pledges £3.3bn to R&D
News Gates, speaking at Microsoft's annual meeting with financial analysts at its Redmond, Wash.headquarters, said the company's R&D budget will grow from $4.3bn (£2.7bn) last year to $5.2bn (£3.3bn) in fiscal 2003, despite the stagnant economy.
[July 26, 2002, 7:32]
Government to put £39.5m into R&D
News Seven-million pounds of the £39.5m funding for R&D will come from the Innovation Platform's £50m total. Technology companies are being given the chance to compete for £39.5m government funding for research and development.
[October 13, 2009, 1:00]
Mixed reception for new R&D tax credit
News The government's decision to redefine the rules governing research and development (R&D) tax credits has been welcomed by some in the high-tech sector, but others have claimed that the changes don't go far enough.
[April 10, 2003, 13:01]
BT looks to China for developer talent
News BT is stepping up its operations in China by setting up a new Technology and Service centre and R&D facility in the country. The R&D centre in Shanghai will deal with a wide range of technologies, and help customers and partners use new technology...
[September 10, 2007, 12:42]



