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IBM has launched a new IBM Innovation Center in Dublin, Ireland, and announced plans to open four new IBM Innovation Centers across Europe in Finland, Norway, Switzerland, and Denmark.

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Posted by Jon Erickson at 02:50 PM  Permalink |

Microsoft is extending its software development activities across international borders again, following a pattern it set with development centers in Ireland, Denmark, and Israel, and research centers in the U.K., India, and China. But not as far this time around, because the new software development center Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Microsoft Canada Development Centre will open in the fall of 2007 and will be home to software developers from around the world.

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Posted by Jon Erickson at 01:33 PM  Permalink |

IBM has announced its vision for community-driven development and introduced new software to help in software delivery projects. The roadmap centers around IBM's software development portfolio which helps geographically and/or organizationally distributed development teams collaborate in real time.

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Posted by Jon Erickson at 11:50 AM  Permalink |

IBM and Kingdee International Software, an ERP and e-commerce solutions provider in China, have teamed up to enhance the competitiveness of their clients in China and global markets, and help Kingdee International become a global software provider.

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Posted by Jon Erickson at 09:14 AM  Permalink |

Game developer Codeplay Software has demoed an automatic parallelizing compiler for C++. The Sieve C++ Parallel Programming System is a scalable programming system for building C++ code suitable for use on multi-core processing platforms. The Sieve System consists of an extension to a C++ compiler, a multi-core linker, and a runtime to schedule the processes.

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IBM has launched its first-ever public ThinkPlace Challenge, a three-week open forum designed to foster global collaboration on innovation opportunities and economic development issues facing the African continent.

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Posted by Jon Erickson at 02:49 PM  Permalink |

At its PartnerWorld 2007 Conference, IBM announced initiatives to promotes global expansion for its business partners through online collaboration and networking.

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Posted by Jon Erickson at 09:31 AM  Permalink |

Proving once again that whether the bottle is half full or half empty depends on where you sit. According to the U.S., the country is falling behind in terms of broadband communications connections when compared to other countries. But according to those "other" countries, they are simply moving ahead.

Continue reading "Broadband Ups and Downs"

Posted by Jon Erickson at 02:19 PM  Permalink |

by Jonathan Erickson

Matsushita Electric has opened another -- its third -- R&D center in southeast Asia, this on ein Vietnam. The research center will focus on embedded software development, primarily software for digital consumer electronics and home electric appliances, and will collaborate with Hanoi University of Technology to train embedded software engineers.

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Posted by Jon Erickson at 10:04 AM  Permalink |

Great blogpost by John Fortt over on Business 2.0, about how 3D design tools are finding new niches in the rush to develop content for virtual realities, notably Second Life.

Continue reading "Huanying Ni Lai Virtual China!"

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