Global Developer Blog /blog/globalblog/ Copyright 2007 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:50:00 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.14 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss More IBM Innovation Centers Launched 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.

]]> /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/07/more_ibm_innova.html /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/07/more_ibm_innova.html Editors Blog Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:50:00 -0500 Microsoft Software Dev Center to Open in Canada 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.

]]> /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/07/microsoft_softw.html /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/07/microsoft_softw.html Editors Blog Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:33:17 -0500 IBM and Global Collaborative Software Development 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.

]]> /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/06/ibm_and_global.html /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/06/ibm_and_global.html Editors Blog Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:50:16 -0500 IBM and Kingdee Team Up 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.

]]> /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/06/ibm_and_kingdee.html /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/06/ibm_and_kingdee.html Editors Blog Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:14:49 -0500 C++ Compiler for Multi-core 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.

]]> /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/05/c_compiler_for.html /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/05/c_compiler_for.html Editors Blog Tue, 22 May 2007 14:36:04 -0500 IBM Launches Africa Initiative 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.

]]> /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/05/ibm_launches_af.html /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/05/ibm_launches_af.html Editors Blog Tue, 08 May 2007 14:49:42 -0500 IBM Promotes Global via Online Collaboration At its PartnerWorld 2007 Conference, IBM announced initiatives to promotes global expansion for its business partners through online collaboration and networking.

]]> /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/05/ibm_promotes_gl.html /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/05/ibm_promotes_gl.html Editors Blog Tue, 01 May 2007 09:31:03 -0500 Broadband Ups and Downs 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.

]]> /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/04/broadband_ups_a.html /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/04/broadband_ups_a.html Editors Blog Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:19:38 -0500 Japanese R&D Expands into Vietnam 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.

]]> /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/04/japanese_rd_exp.html /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/04/japanese_rd_exp.html Editors Blog Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:04:00 -0500 Huanying Ni Lai Virtual China! 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.

]]> /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/02/huanying_ni_lai.html /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/02/huanying_ni_lai.html Editors Blog Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:45:03 -0500 Cultural Backlash Against Outsourcing? InformationWeek's Outsourcing Blog, by Paul McDougall, this week wonders if there's menace in the growing rumble, by Indian commentators, that outsourcing threatens traditional Indian values (e.g., by obliging workers to adopt a Western holiday schedule, assume 'Western-sounding' names for telemarketing work, or simply by exposing Indian workers to 'Hallmark Holidays').

]]> /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/02/cultural_backla.html /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/02/cultural_backla.html Editors Blog Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:19:01 -0500 Cockburn to Keynote at SD Best Practices, Russia The program for SD Best Practices Russia (April 3-4 at the Radisson Slavianskaya Hotel, Moscow) continues to fill out -- the XML and Agile Development tracks look particularly strong. But what caught my eye, today, is the fact that development-best-practice-for-real-and-lasting-human-benefit and use-case-writing guru, Alistair Cockburn, principal of Humans and Technology, Inc., will be keynoting on Day 1.

]]> /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/02/cockburn_to_key.html /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/02/cockburn_to_key.html Editors Blog Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:41:22 -0500 Oooooh ... Grava! Global (developer) education is a subject dear to our hearts. So we were pleased and provoked to note that, at a UK educational technology trade event, about two weeks back, Microsoft quietly announced that it had entered Beta on its "Grava" project.

]]> /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/01/oooooh_grava.html /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/01/oooooh_grava.html Editors Blog Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:58:42 -0500 Second Life to Le Pen: Non! By now, everybody who reads global geeknews has heard about the more or less spontaneous protest, by francophone residents of the Second Life virtuality, against the appearance, the week before last, of a virtual office connected to the ultra-rightist Front Nacional party of Jean-Marie Le Pen. If not, a very good account can be found here -- comprising not only original reportage by militantgeek, but solid quotes from (and links to the work of) SL journo Wagner James Au, whose analysis of the events is both lyrical and acute.

]]> /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/01/second_life_to.html /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/01/second_life_to.html Editors Blog Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:54:57 -0500 It's Showtime! (In India) This past weekend, Jon Erickson (Editorial Director of the portal and Editor in Chief of Dr. Dobb's Journal) and other CMP colleagues journeyed to Hyderabad for the first stop on this week's Dr. Dobb's SD Expo India three-city tour. In Jon's case, it was a little like watching an America's Cup race via telemetry -- at every intermediate airport (and on the WiFi-equipped Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Hyderabad), he'd sign on and update us via instant messaging, file a few blog entries, etc. His most recent dispatch, from the seventh-floor atrium restaurant of the Taj Krishna hotel, informed us that he'd tasted all the available local coffees, and that Chennai was currently leading the pack. Watch for Jon's news updates on the show, over the next several days, in our Architecture & Design department, and elsewhere.

]]> /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/01/its_showtime_in.html /blog/globalblog/archives/2007/01/its_showtime_in.html Editors Blog Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:05:28 -0500