The new building's outside walls are almost all glass, making the building glow at night
MIT has expanded the footprint of its Media Lab with a new US$90 million, 163,000-square-foot modern building.
The company says it spends more than any other on research and development
Microsoft plans to spend $9.5 billion on research and development this year, which a senior executive said Thursday is more than any competitor.
World’s biggest tax advisory firms come out against the Government, claiming it is “decimating” Australian ICT research
The Government has been forced to defend itself as a wall of opposition emerges from major financial firms against planned changes to Australia’s research and development tax concessions.
Offices in Finland and Denmark are affected, it said.
Mobile phone giant Nokia on Friday said it will cut up to 330 people from its research and development staff.
Improvements in sales, R&D seen by IT and business managers
A recent global survey of business and IT managers found that their companies got back benefits perceived as equal to four times their investment, on average, in unified communication and collaboration technologies.
MindTree, an Indian outsourcer, will now deliver development services to Kyocera Wireless
Kyocera Wireless is selling off its Indian development subsidiary to an Indian services company, MindTree, which will take over development and design work for Kyocera.
Private equity firm looking to counter Nokia Siemens bid for Nortel wireless assets
A private equity firm bidding for all of Nortel is reportedly assembling a management team for the company led by a former Nortel executive.
The initiative is led by the director of the company's India lab
IBM is allocating US$100 million to research in mobile communications over the next five years.
Some $57.8 million would go to setting up Science and Technology Centers
The National Science Foundation is looking to spend a good chunk of its proposed $7.045 billion budget for FY 2010 on advanced network technologies.
Intel is giving $12 million over five years to Saarland University in Germany to use multicore computing for graphics
Intel on Tuesday said it was granting US$12 million over five years to Saarland University in Germany to research graphics technologies.
At a lab at the University of Cambridge in England, Microsoft is studying networking, energy use and home broadband
Even as the world economy languishes, Microsoft is putting an increasing focus on its research efforts in areas well beyond its traditional desktop and office software domain.
Program focuses on health IT and reducing cost of medical devices
General Electric will spend US$6 billion over the next six years in an effort to improve health-care quality and drive down costs to consumers, the company announced Thursday.
Schmidt and Mundie named to science and tech advisory council; Obama calls for increasing research spending in the U.S. to 3% of GDP
As US President Barack Obama moves to hike spending on research and development in the U.S., two of the people who will help him shape the government's science and technology policies are top executives from Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc.
The company will boost R&D by $1 billion this year
In remarks addressed to a public safety conference on Wednesday, Microsoft's chief operating officer defended the company's increased investment in research and development.
