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Internet continues to lose its founding network partners

With the explosive commercial success of the internet, the founding builders and users of the Internet are using an alternative network for bandwidth when it requires mission critical applications to operate for research and development projects. by Doug Hanchard

Tags: R&D, Network, Internet, Research & Development, Networking, Business Operations, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Krakow - Poland: An emerging R&D center for US companies

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Tags: Research & Development, R&D

Discussion threads 2009-10-04

Krakow - Poland: An emerging R&D center for US companies

Krakow, in Poland, is emerging as a key R&D center for many US firms . . . by Tom Foremski

Tags: R&D, Poland, Research & Development, Business Operations, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Gallery: What's in the R&D pipeline?

Artificial neural network?If I could remember who's working on it, but there's a group that's taking a huge supercomputer to create an artificial neural network; then shrink it onto a microprocessor.That's impressive.

Tags: Research & Development, R&D

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

Gallery: What's in the R&D pipeline?

R&D Magazine recently named its R&D 100 Awards, a compilation of the most innovative products in the pipeline. We've compiled a gallery of the lineup. Here's a look at a few of my favorites. You can find the entire list of winners here. ...

Tags: R&D, Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Photos: Loaded with promise in the R&D pipeline

Before fax machines, ATMs, and LCDs became everyday tech, they were recipients of R&D 100 awards. Here are some of this year's winners. by CNET News.com

Tags: R&D, Photograph, Research & Development, Fax, ATM, Business Operations, Networking, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-08-19

What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search)

What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search)Typo"Business Productivity Online Services, Windows Azure, desktop virtualization, storage Data Protection Manager and identity ser[b]v[/b]ices."Me: I would really work much harder on mobileI think Microsoft is doing the right thing in the Enterprise space. I even think it is a...

Tags: Research & Development, Collaboration, Groupware, Content management, Enterprise software, NOW IT, Microsoft Corp., billion-dollar business, R&D, Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Gauging the return on R&D: Do tech giants spend too much?

Gauging the return on R&D: Do tech giants spend too much?Microsoft spend too much on R&D for the return, IBM spend right amountIBM has always been a set of collective businesses with a management that is without technology bias. This is a powerful formula for long term success.Microsoft by comparison...

Tags: Research & Development, R&D, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

Gallery: What's brewing inside Microsoft Research?

Microsoft Research recently opened the doors to its research and development facility in Cambridge and silicon.com went along to take a look at the technology being worked on - from augmented reality and Microsoft's Surface technology, to making disk drives more efficient. by Andy Smith

Tags: R&D, Microsoft Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations, research and development, Microsoft, Andy Smith

Image galleries 2009-05-14

Gauging the return on R&D: Do tech giants spend too much?

Tech giants are spending heavily on research and development, but it's difficult to follow the bouncing return on investment ball. The research and development return topic was brought up by my ZDNet UK colleague Rupert Goodwins earlier this week. Rupert went on a tour of Microsoft Research...

Tags: R&D, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., IEEE Spectrum, Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Broken promises: your maintenance dollars

Every once in a while someone comes out of left field and produces a piece of information that is startling in its simplicity and elegance. The chart above says it all. Jason Carter has been tracking the relationship between maintenance revenue and R&D spend for five...

Tags: R&D, Promise, Jason Carter, Research & Development, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Shenyang Machine Tool Improves Cash Flow Management With Integrated Budgeting System

Shenyang Machine Tool Group Co., Ltd SMTCL is China's largest machine tool manufacturer. With the domestic market conquered, SMTCL then set out to extend its range of services. Its aim was to move from a pure manufacturing business to one that undertook Research and Development (R&D) and offered customized services....

Tags: Oracle Corp., R&D, Budgeting, Tool, Research & Development, Manufacturing, Productivity, Business Operations

Case studies 2009-04-01

Medical Technology Company BD Gains Strategic View of $400 Million R and D Portfolio

Medical technology company BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) serves healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, the pharmaceutical industry, and the general public. While R&D spending at BD grew rapidly, the company's ability to analyze projects and investments lagged behind. BD needed a tool that would provide a companywide view...

Tags: Technology Company, R&D, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., View, BD, Research & Development, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Roi/Tco, Investment, Business Operations, Human Resources, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Case studies 2009-04-01

Churchill Club podcast: The innovation economy, R&D and a crisis

Churchill Club podcast: The innovation economy, R&D and a crisisThe biggest problem facing humanity is computer virusDeans of university Computer Science departments are yet to address this problem.How could their staff even teach computers with virus in the machine?The first push would be to eliminate virus the second to make...

Tags: Podcasts, Research & Development, Cyberthreats, PRODUCTIVITY, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, innovation economy, Churchill Club, podcast, R&D

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

Churchill Club podcast: The innovation economy, R&D and a crisis

In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of experts talk about innovation and the need for a technology breakthrough.  Is there an innovation drought on the way or will the Valley cook up the next big thing? Speakers on March...

Tags: Innovation, R&D, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-09

In a time of cutbacks, Planview unveils a whopper of a new release

[caption id="attachment_343" align="alignnone" width="330" caption="Enterprise 10 screen shots"][/caption]Planview’s Mega Announcement: Enterprise 10 Checking the news these days is often depressing with the words ‘cutbacks’ and ‘recession’ being in most headlines. What we hear too little of are words like ‘expansion’, ‘bigger’, ‘more’, etc. Planview...

Tags: Accounting, Financial, R&D, PlanView, PPM, StageGate Integration, Planview Enterprise 10, Research & Development, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-18

IBM consulting aims to aid with carbon conundrum (yes, another service)

IBM's green business consulting group is at it again. This time, they're launching what is being positioned as the company's Strategic Carbon Management Offering. The service is focused on helping companies develop a corporate-wide plan for managing and reducing carbon emissions. It focuses on all the different things that could...

Tags: R&D, Consulting, Carbon Emission, IBM Corp., Transportation, Research & Development, Business Services, Data Centers, Business Operations, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-02-13

FieldOfView 1.1 (Mobile)

The "Download Now" link directs you to the iTunes App Store, where you must continue the download process. You must have iTunes installed in order to open the link, and you must have an active iTunes account to download the application.FieldOfView is a simple application for people who like to...

Tags: R&D, Mobile, Apple iTunes, Research & Development, Digital Music, Digital Media, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-02-13

KyberVision Consulting Patterns 1.0 (Mobile)

"Patterns" is a tool to create 2D patterns based on mathematical expressions. "Patterns" can help students improve their math skills by getting some visual intuition of 2D mathematical expressions as function of cartesian (x,y) or polar coordinates (r, theta). Graphic designers can take advantage of "Patterns" by using mathematical expressions...

Tags: R&D, Mobile, 2D, Expression, Research & Development, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-02-12

Clinical Trial Management: Enabling Operational Efficiency

The way the biopharmaceutical industry conducts clinical trials is undergoing a remarkable transformation. Coupled with this much needed evolution are new challenges specific to the increasing role that information technology will play to enable the new clinical development landscape. Of the many challenges facing the biopharmaceutical industry today, the critical...

Tags: R&D, Clinical Trial, Research & Development, Healthcare, Business Operations

White papers 2009-02-06