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Oracle opens research centre in China
News Oracle announced the official opening of its new Beijing research and development centre on Wednesday, part of the database software maker's ongoing expansion into China. In July, Oracle announced plans to double its work force at two research...
[October 30, 2003, 11:35]
Microsoft opens German research centre
News Microsoft on Monday officially opened a research centre in Aachen, Germany, a move that makes the company eligible to take part in projects funded by the European Commission and by individual European countries.
[April 27, 2004, 8:55]
IT research centre faces tough rebuilding task
News The Mountbatten Building, which opened in 1991, houses research laboratories and offices for the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), and the microelectronics fabrication facility operated by...
[November 2, 2005, 16:15]
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Reduces System-User Content Creation Time by 50%
White Papers VTT Technical Research Centre wanted to save time and money by establishing an easy-to-use tool to enable staff to create the necessary user manuals and instructions in-house and provide management with competence evaluation and talent management...
[August 28, 2009, 1:22]
Microsoft announces Chinese search research centre
News Microsoft Research Asia (MSR Asia), Microsoft's fundamental research arm in Asia Pacific, has launched the Search Technology Center (STC). The new Search Technology Center is a natural next step for Microsoft Research, building on our lab's steady...
[October 31, 2005, 11:20]
IBM creates 'social software' research centre
News IBM has announced the creation of a research centre for the development of "social software", from consumer web apps to enterprise communication tools. IBM plans to collaborate with government agencies, businesses, universities and other research...
[September 18, 2008, 11:30]
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Advances Its Growth Strategy With a Cost-Effective ERP Solution
White Papers VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is the largest multidisciplinary research organization in Northern Europe, providing versatile technology and research services to domestic and international clients.
[June 30, 2007, 1:00]
Climate research centre compromised
Blog Comment Well well what to make of this one, a plant? a sleeper? or a crusader?
[November 20, 2009, 20:14]
Climate research centre compromised
Blog One of the UK's leading climate change research centres has had a security breach. The Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA) suffered a compromise of information, a UEA spokesperson said on Friday.
[November 20, 2009, 16:12]
IBM opens new research centre
News IBM has opened a new centre designed to combine supercomputing, advanced maths, data mining and management consulting to tackle complicated business problems. Big Blue appointed William R. Pulleyblank to lead the new Center for Business...
[September 29, 2004, 8:40]
Radar grid homes in on weather warnings
News A $40m (£24m) research centre is being set up to explore whether a distributed "grid" of lightweight radars can forecast the weather better than traditional radar systems and multimillion-dollar supercomputers.
[October 2, 2003, 10:00]
Nokia shows off nanotech handset
News Nokia Research Centre (NRC) and Cambridge University have unveiled a concept phone they say shows the potential benefits of nanotechnology. NRC established a research centre at the University's West Cambridge site last year, collaborating with...
[February 25, 2008, 14:59]
Europe's most powerful supercomputer launched
News A German research centre has begun operating what is though to be Europe's most powerful computer. Speaking at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover last week, Dr Thomas Lippert, head of the Jülich Research Centre, explained that JUBL will be used to...
[March 14, 2006, 7:25]
Linux-based PlayStation grid is no game
News A US research centre has clustered 70 Sony PlayStation 2 game consoles into a Linux supercomputer that ranks among the 500 most powerful in the world. A Sony spokesman previously said the firm is working with IBM to apply Big Blue's research in...
[May 28, 2003, 8:52]
Novell Case Study: Nanjing University
White Papers The Research Centre of the Department of Electronics Science and Engineering at Nanjing University is the university's main research and education facility for electronics information, science and technology.
[April 5, 2007, 1:00]
Want to buy Symantec's nuclear bunker?
Blog For some odd reason a photo story we did a couple of years ago on Symantec's UK research centre was our most popular story this weekend. The explanation, it turns out, is that said research centre was housed in a former nuclear bunker - and now the...
[February 11, 2008, 14:39]
Tiny plastic tube helps computer communication
News Researchers at the Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre have developed a small multichannel optical fibre that has the potential to improve the way that computer chips communicate with each other.
[January 6, 2004, 11:15]
Intel to set up visual-computing lab in Europe
News Intel has teamed up with the University of Saarland, Germany, to create a visual-computing research centre in Europe. The new centre will collaborate with Intel's tera-research programme, which explores how multiple computing cores can be used to...
[May 13, 2009, 15:55]
Anti-cybercrime centre opens for research
News A new £30m IT security research centre, which officially opened in Northern Ireland on Wednesday, is working on anti-cybercrime technology to better protect people online and offline. The centre's research into converged approaches to information...
[September 24, 2009, 9:58]
Intel applies chip tech to disease detection
News Intel and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre are going to try to find out. The chipmaker will construct a device, called a Raman Bioanalyser System, at the research organisation that will be able, ideally, to detect chemical anomalies in...
[October 23, 2003, 10:30]
