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News hopes to attract both entrepreneurs and researchers - it has formal Boss partnership with Stanford University in the US, the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other educational sites. [10 Jul 2008]
Loyal techies value ethics over pay
News This goes against the view that today's young managers are self-absorbed, disloyal and impatient, according to the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). Young "Generation Y" managers working in the tech sector are loyal and prepared to work hard in... [11 Jun 2008]
IBM gets chips to chill out in water
News Scientists from the IBM Zurich Research Lab and the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin are working on a microchip that uses micropipes of water to cool itself, IBM announced yesterday. Researchers at Ireland's Tyndall Institute and University of... [06 Jun 2008]
Northern Ireland builds high tech credentials
News And Conor Quinn, business development executive at Queens University's Institute of Electronics, Communication and Information technology (ECIT), said: "We have a very strong economic remit. Northern Ireland is making a name for itself as an... [02 Jun 2008]
'Huge' Apple update plugs 40 Leopard security holes
News Security research and training organisation the Sans Institute commented in a blog post that the Apple update was "huge", and wished everybody "happy patching". Apple has released an update to Mac OS X patching more than 40 security holes, as... [30 May 2008]
Google - the best workplace in the UK
News Google topped the list of the 50 best workplaces in the UK, compiled by research and management consultancy The Great Place to Work Institute, which uses employee surveys to evaluate the level of trust between staff and their employers - so it's... [28 May 2008]
OLPC's Sugar gets sweeter with Windows
News Microsoft was not part of the project started by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nicholas Negroponte to develop an inexpensive laptop computer for school children in developing countries. [16 May 2008]
Security - vendors must take some responsibility
News Alan Paller of the SANS Institute said: "Applications have become the new target for attacks," and referred to one Oracle user he claimed had suffered 80,000 attacks on its systems. While companies may go to great lengths to ensure their IT... [23 Apr 2008]
Critics label Microsoft's OOXML a 'marketing tool'
News Mason, who represents the US Department of Energy in US national body the American National Standards Institute, wrote that, rather than building an abstract model and then trying to implement it, Microsoft has built a product and then attempted... [21 Apr 2008]
Security threats revealed: Beware the metasploit
News Hacking expert at the Sans Institute, Ed Skoudis, said most security threats stem from the fact so many applications are now linked to the internet. 'Pass the hash' and metasploit are two of a new breed of emerging security threats facing corporate... [09 Apr 2008]
Mobile phones: A public health time bomb?
News Khurana, a Mayo Clinic-trained neurosurgeon with an advanced neurosurgery Fellowship in Cerebrovascular and Complex Tumor Surgery from the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, and a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of... [31 Mar 2008]
Thin clients the route to skinny emissions?
News Thin clients have already reduced global CO2 emissions by 166,521 tonnes over the last four years - the equivalent of 504 return flights from London to New York -according to research produced by the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany for thin-client... [28 Mar 2008]
Killer robots terror warning
News The expert at the University of Sheffield - who was formerly a judge on cult BBC TV show Robot Wars - warned the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) of the beginning of an international robot arms race. [28 Feb 2008]
IBM to use DNA to shrink chip size
News The work, which builds on the research on "DNA origami" conducted by the California Institute of Technology's Paul Rothemund, is only in the preliminary stages. Photo stories Check out silicon.com's latest photo stories here… [21 Feb 2008]
Long-hours tech culture hits morale
News According to research by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), 83 per cent of managers in the IT sector regularly work more than their contracted hours. Working long hours is having a negative impact on many UK tech workers as it hits morale... [18 Feb 2008]
