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- R&D
- Research and Development Refers to the effort required to create a new product. It includes the exploration phase that determines the viability of the project and methods for...
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- Apple sets gag rule for iPhone app makers
- Apple sets gag rule for iPhone app makersApple pricing?I thought developers could charge what ever they wanted? Many are free; some are .99; others are 4.99; some are 7.99; there's at least one that's 69.99.Unless you mean that apps have to end in .99, I don't think Apple is setting...
- Tags: Research & Development, app maker, Apple-set, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- 40% of global R&D spendingis done by the US
- 70% of foreign scientists and engineers who received PhD’s from US universities remained in the country after receiving their degree. US accounts for 40% of all scientific R&D spending in the world, employs 70% of the world’s Nobel Prize winners and houses 75% of the world’s top 40 universities, Rand...
- Tags: R&D, University, Research & Development, Business Operations, AM
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Seagate files suit against STEC for SSD patent infringement
- Seagate files suit against STEC for SSD patent infringementOK ?>>As Watkins says, this isn’t about money. Companies have spent a substantial amount of money on SSD R&D and Seagate is not looking for acknowledgement and cross-licensing opportunities to reduce future R&D costs. This not only makes sense for the bottom...
- Tags: Research & Development, STEC, SSD, Seagate Technology LLC, R&D
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- USAF ready for cyber offensive
- ZDNet UK has an exclusive interview with LTGEN Robert Elder Jr., who said that the Air Force Cyber Command is set to become operatational Oct. 1. Cyber Command will not just fight off "cyber" attacks from foreign countries (read "China") and terrorist groups but will go...
- Tags: Ars Technica, R&D, Adversary, Air Force, Research & Development, Government, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
- Time to regulate drug prices?
- Time to regulate drug prices?Some time ....ago I read an interesting article that gave the facts on this.I stated:The people in the US PAY the MOST for drugs effectively underwriting the cost of the R&D and obscene profits for ALL global drug manufactures. While In the rest of the world,...
- Tags: Research & Development, Branding, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Benefits, R&D
- Discussion threads 2008-03-05
- Gates+explains+why+Microsoft+needs+Yahoo
- Gates+explains+why+Microsoft+needs+YahooGates explains why Microsoft needs YahooGates always has a good vision and plan of the future. This vision of Microsoft acquiring Yahoo will help them tremendously. Although they do not have to fear losing any of the Yahoo engineers. A lot of those guys are top...
- Tags: Research & Development, Yahoo! Inc., R&D, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- Wikinomics 3: Ideagoras
- The more I read of Wikinomics, the more it's borne upon me that I can't do it justice in a dozen short articles. I'd originally hoped to "read Wikinomics so you don't have to," but I'm afraid I've been persuaded that that's hubris. I now think of myself as an...
- Tags: R&D, Problem, InnoCentive, Research & Development, Leadership, Business Operations, Management, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- A Major Electronics Manufacturer Realigns Its R&D Activities to Respond to Market Demands and Encourage Innovation
- The electronics maker needed to improve its innovation capabilities to achieve its goal of becoming a world-class leader that is capable of creating and leading new markets instead of remaining a fast follower. IBM Research and IBM Global Business Services worked in partnership with the client to transform its R&D...
- Tags: Innovation, R&D, IBM Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- A Model-Driven Approach to Analyzing and Capturing Pharmaceutical Research Processes
- Despite year-to-year increases in research and development budgets, the number of successful new chemical entities continues to decline. IBM Research teamed with Bayer HealthCare Research, a leader in the health care and medical products industry, to develop an innovative approach to industrializing drug discovery. The collaboration involved formal modeling of...
- Tags: R&D, Pharmaceutical Company, Modeling, IBM Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Photos: The birthplace of Pleo
- At Ugobe's research and development lab in Boise, Idaho, the animatronic dinosaur gets ready to roar. by CNET News.com
- Tags: R&D, Photograph, Research & Development, Business Operations, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-12-17
- Europe sees rise in R&D spending
- Europe sees rise in R&D spendingIf they buy from America, it'd cost them less thanks to our droppin' dollarSadly, we're also offshoring all our jobs. Kooky, huh?
- Tags: Research & Development, R&D
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- We interrupt your green tech propaganda for a low-tech eco-ramble
- Spent the day today hiking the environs of the Mohonk Mountain House, a resort established 138 years ago on the Shawangunk Ridge. I actually intended to submit this entry as a plea for better solar chargers yesterday, since midway through the first draft, my iPhone battery...
- Tags: Resort, Green Technology, R&D, Scientist, Ridolfo, Research & Development, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Photos: IBM lifts lid on Web 2.0 tech
- Go behind the scenes at Big Blue's U.K. research lab to see what's up with projects like DIY Shopper and QEDwiki.IBM has been showing off some of the tech at its research and development labs at Hursley, near Winchester, England. Silicon.com popped over to take a look at, among other...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, photograph, DIY Shopper, Second Life, mashup, IBM Corp., Web, mobile, Web 2.0, buddy list, vessel, coast, tablet PC, ATM, tablet, retail application, vicinity, banking, occupant, shipping company, monitor, lid, withdrawal, bar code, avatar, Silicon.com, aircraft
- Image galleries 2007-08-08
- Intel R&D on slow boat to China
- Intel R&D on slow boat to ChinaEnd of the empireIf you can't bust the unions, move the work to countries with no labor laws. Hollow out the economy and let it fail. Old Vulcan proverb, "Only Nixon could go to China."Communist ChinaHas everyone forgot the government is still...
- Tags: Government, Research & Development, Vertical industries, Communism, R&D, Communist China, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-16
- Got innovation? Partnership is the key
- Bill Gates says the US is falling behind in innovation. So what country is the best innovator? According to Forrester Research, the US is still among the tops, but other countries include Sweden, Finland, Ireland, and Switzerland, the San Francisco Chronicles Technology Chronicles blog notes. International cooperation...
- Tags: Inter-government cooperation, International, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Boeing Tests High-Performance Computing Cluster, Improves Processing Time
- The Distributed Software and Systems Integrations DSSI group in the Phantom Works advanced research and development organization at Boeing, a global aerospace company, wanted faster processing of finite element analysis projects and a platform that could handle a spectrum of applications. Engineers processed jobs on local workstations and sought a...
- Tags: R&D, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Boeing Co., Research & Development, Microsoft Windows, Aerospace & Defense, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2007-03-01
- The problem at Dell wasn't the CEO. It's the commodity R&D
- The problem at Dell wasn't the CEO. It's the commodity R&DNot buying itI'm sorry, but the notion that:"the Dell brand was a sham from square one. Michael Dell would have been better off selling toasters for the damage he has done to computing. This decline was inevitable."isn't flying with me....
- Tags: Research & Development, PRODUCTIVITY, pedegree, R&D, gravity, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-02
- The problem at Dell wasn't the CEO. It's the commodity R&D
- Michael Dells reassumption of the CEOs post at Dell is a shell game that can do little more than temporarily assuage Wall Street. Lets be honest. As chairman of the company, Michael Dell had whatever opportunity and access he needed (to the now-ex CEO Kevin Rollins as well as other...
- Tags: General, Vista, Hardware Infrastructure, Mobile, Dell Computer Corp., DSi
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Does the planet need only five computers?
- Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos says that the world only needs five computers. In an interview conducted by news.coms Stephen Shankland, Papadopoulos listed more than five--Google, eBay, Amazon.com, Microsoft, Yahoo, Salesforce.com, and the Great Computer of China--to make his point that the earths compute resources will resolve into about "five hyperscale,...
- Tags: computer, Sun Microsystems Inc., eBay Inc., Datacenter, Web Technology, Hardware Infrastructure, Software Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- Bandwidth on Demand Services for European Research and Education Networks
- The Joint Research Activity 3 of the European project GN2 aims to specify and develop a prototype for a Bandwidth on Demand service destined to operate in a multi-domain environment using heterogeneous transmission technologies. This paper reviews the project's key achievements general architecture and early prototyping results and reports on...
- Tags: Education, Bandwidth, R&D, Network, GARR, Research & Development, Networking, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-10-31
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