Archive for the 'R&D' Category
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Microsoft is stepping up efforts to improve online search, where it considerably lags market leader Google, by establishing a three-center research facility in Europe. LONDON–Microsoft is stepping up efforts to improve online search, where it considerably lags market leader Google, by establishing a three-center research facility in Europe, it…
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Search, Microsoft, Google, Internet Search, Europe, R&D, Microsoft Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations, Google Inc., Reuters |
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Microsoft is stepping up efforts to improve online search, where it considerably lags market leader Google, by establishing a three-center research facility in Europe. LONDON–Microsoft is stepping up efforts to improve online search, where it considerably lags market leader Google, by establishing a three-center research facility in Europe, it…
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Search, Microsoft, Google, Internet Search, Europe, R&D, Microsoft Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations, Google Inc., Reuters |
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Researchers at PARC, famed for its computing innovations, say printers and copiers have a lot to offer on the eco-tech front.Photos: PARC prints green tech Dust, heat, bright light, chaos. The inside of copiers share a lot of characteristics with the outside world. The Palo Alto Research…
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
The mainframe stands as a telling case in the larger story of survivor technologies and markets. An old technology or business often finds a sustainable, profitable life.(From The New York Times) In 1991, Stewart Alsop, the editor of InfoWorld and a thoughtful observer of industry trends, predicted that…
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
IBM has figured out how much force it takes to move atoms. Next, it will try to build things with those atoms. Seventeen piconewtons: that’s the force required to move a cobalt atom over a copper surface. It takes 210 piconewtons to move a cobalt atom over a…
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Michael Kanellos, R&D |
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
The research uses DNA molecules to arrange carbon nanotubes into a grid that might function as a data storage device or to perform calculations. Will the building block of life become the building block of the semiconductor industry? It’s possible. Scientists at IBM are conducting research into…
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Michael Kanellos, R&D |
Friday, February 15th, 2008
Atomic clock outperforms the official clock used by Commerce Department and has 430 trillion “ticks” per second. U.S. physicists have made a clock so accurate it will neither gain nor lose even a second in more than 200 million years, a finding sure to please even the most…
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R&D, Reuters |
Friday, February 8th, 2008
Machine that vaporizes samples, then analyzes them in a second, has wide-ranging health and security applications. A new detector combines a laser with a mass spectrometer to provide on-the-spot analysis that researchers hope will have applications ranging from evaluating a tumor as it is removed to quickly detecting…
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R&D, Reuters |
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Nanoradios may end up outperforming current silicon-based electronics, University of Illinois researcher says in PNAS study. Transistor radios tinier than a grain of sand, made using nanotechnology, cannot only tune in to the traffic report, but they may end up outperforming current silicon-based electronics, U.S. researchers said Monday….
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Electronics, Nanotube, Researcher, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, R&D, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Radio Frequency, Radio, Reuters |
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
With 3D scanners and high-speed cameras, scientists studying the biomechanics of sport can detect subtle differences that can push athletes to the top of their game. Three-dimensional images, which helped to show that double amputee Oscar Pistorius receives considerable advantages from carbon fiber blade attachments, have become a…
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Player, R&D, Athlete, Fewtrell, Peripherals, Scanners, Hardware, Utility Computing, Productivity, Tool, Network Technology, Networking, Blade Servers, Servers, Reuters |
