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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Furthermore, better tax incentives for investment, corporate venturing, R&D support and so on could all help young software companies flourish in the UK. Question: What do Britain's hairdressers and IT technicians have... [06 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News The analysts said improvements to the teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths needs to be improved in order to create the next generation of software developers, while better tax incentives for investment, corporate... [03 Nov 2009]
UK software industry - alive and kicking
News The analysts said improvements to teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths needs to be improved in order to create the next generation of software developers, while better tax incentives for investment, corporate venturing,... [23 Oct 2009]
Photos: New BlackBerry Bold-ly goes for European design
Photo The BlackBerry Bold 9700 was unveiled today and has something of a European flavour too - being the first device from RIM entirely designed in its R&D facility in Bochum, Germany. "A little less bold" is how RIM's co-CEO... [21 Oct 2009]
Telecoms worker? You're in demand. Techie? Not so much
News Other techie sectors are also suffering: engineering and R&D vacancies fell five per cent and six per cent respectively. ICT workers looking for a new job should keep their eye on the telecoms sector. [14 Oct 2009]
Could hackspaces hold the key to business innovation?
Comment Hackspaces provide a form of bottom-up R & D that is entirely separate to corporate efforts. The company's strategy employed the insight of many hundreds of outside partners, while a 'use it or lose it' approach to their... [14 Oct 2009]
Downturn means fewer outsourcing workers saying 'I do'
Comment Industry veteran Sridhar Mitta, formerly Wipro's CTO and head of Global R&D and currently a venture adviser at e4e, recalls the days when his HR team had to field queries ranging from work experience and salary and... [07 Oct 2009]
Applying Predictive Analytics to Physician Detailing
White Paper Producers of prescription drugs face high R&D, and sales and marketing costs. This three-page technical paper describes how predictive analytics can help them optimize their sales and marketing efforts to improve the... [07 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo Chip manufacturer Intel unveiled the latest technology from its R&D labs at the Intel Developer Forum. Bonhams previewed some vintage tech last month as the London auctioneer prepared to put a selection of classic... [02 Oct 2009]
(R)Evolutionary Bootstrapping of a Global PKI for Securing BGP
White Paper Most secure routing proposals require the existence of a global Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) to bind a public/ private key-pair to a prefix, in order to authenticate route originations of that prefix. [02 Oct 2009]
Small Data Center Service With Big Data Center Capabilities
White Paper When RipCode - the first company to address video transcoding as a true network appliance - identified the need for a hosted data center environment to place its products for client trials and internal R&D, the company... [02 Oct 2009]
R.B.F.A. Scores High Points on Security Thanks to VASCO's Digipass GO1 and VACMAN Controller
White Paper The R.B.F.A.represents all football clubs of Belgium. Thanks to its convenient size, Digipass GO1 can be easily distributed by the R.B.F.A.and the members can take it with them, wherever they go. It is a... [30 Sep 2009]
Erik Huggers
AS Profile As part of this, Huggers has shaken up various parts of the BBC technology group including a renewed emphasis on BBC R&D. Since becoming director of the BBC's Future Media and Technology division in July 2008 following... [29 Sep 2009]
Application Switching Enhances Unix Environment for R&D
White Paper At Nortel IT is centrally host and manage a Unix server environment for approximately 12,000 R&D employees running CPU-intensive design applications that produce high transaction volumes. The challenge was to provide a... [19 Sep 2009]
Anti-Lock Brake Systems Manufacturer Grants Employees Remote Access to Critical Systems Via VeriSign Unified Authentication
White Paper SABS chose to implement VeriSign Unified Authentication and today, many employees have been given One-Time Password (OTP) tokens and can access SABS's SAP R/3 enterprise resource planning system, as well as the company's... [19 Sep 2009]