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Gallery: What's brewing inside Microsoft Research?

May 14, 2009 5:41am PDT

Microsoft Research recently opened the doors to its research and development facility in Cambridge and silicon.com went along to take a look at the technology being worked on - from augmented...

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Photos: Inside the Palo Alto Research Center

February 10, 2009 1:12pm PST

A tour through the halls and labs of this center of research and development where laser printing and Ethernet networking got their start.

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GE Research looks to the future (photos)

August 11, 2010 4:10am PDT

Road Trip 2010: CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman gets a chance to visit General Electric's global R&D facility in Niskayuna, N.Y.

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Describing the OutSystems Agile Platform Service Studio experience

May 19, 2010 6:28pm PDT

Part three of this six-part developer diary focuses on the OutSystems Agile Platform's Service Studio, which is where the application and data modeling occur.

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2010 survey about classic software development mistakes

April 9, 2010 11:57pm PDT

Construx is looking for participants for the 2010 update to its popular survey about classic software development mistakes.

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Agile development is a method, not a goal

August 26, 2008 11:12am PDT

Author Amr Elssamadisy talks about how his addiction to Agile development began nine years ago. He also explains why so many efforts to adopt Agile fail.

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Surveying the mobile development landscape

July 9, 2010 1:06pm PDT

Keeping up with the rapidly changing mobile development industry can be a challenge. This developer's overview of the mobile market will get you up to speed.

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Quantifying qualitative data in product development

December 9, 2009 7:19am PST

Jay Rollins discusses what a product development team can accomplish when they use an Affinity exercise to link the team's ideas with the customer's needs.

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BlackBerry Java devs need to change

October 20, 2011 8:21pm PDT

The clock is starting to tick for Java developers that target the BlackBerry platform.

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Seven reasons to turn down business

November 28, 2007 1:10pm PST

When I first started consulting independently, I was a software prostitute: any opening, name your position, I'd do any job that came my way if the price was right. Now that I'm older and...

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Researchers at Arizona State University develop new massive memory technology

October 30, 2007 10:31am PDT

Researchers at the Arizona State University's Center for Applied Nanoionics (CANi) have developed new memory technology that could be 1,000 times more efficient than today's USB and flash memory...

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Photos: The future, someday, from China

May 30, 2007 4:11am PDT

At a tech expo in Beijing, big names like Nokia vie with as yet unknown companies to get attention for their wares.

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Poll: How do you prefer to get your caffeine?

June 14, 2010 6:38am PDT

Justin James is curious to know how his techie peers prefer to get their caffeine: coffee, soda/energy drinks, candy, or some other way. Take this poll to let us know.

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Oracle adds zest to SQL Developer with standalone data modeling tool, stirs the SQL market pot

July 1, 2009 9:55am PDT

The Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler, which integrates with Oracle SQL Developer, is a standalone tool that supports logical, relational, multi-dimensional, and data type modeling. It is...

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Raspberry Pi: are you one of the lucky 57?

May 15, 2012 9:38pm PDT

If you've been lucky enough to receive your Raspberry Pi, then well done; you've beaten the gauntlet that is the Pi supply chain.

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Adaptive Project Framework: A new level of agile development

June 23, 2010 6:59am PDT

Robert Wysocki's Adaptive Project Framework focuses on the proposition that, since most current IT projects evolve as they go and begin with uncertain requirements, traditional project methods are...

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A developer's guide to copyright and trademark in Google Play

November 16, 2012 2:31pm PST

Android app developer William J. Francis interviews attorney Suzy Fulton, an IP and due diligence specialist, about trademarks, copyrights, and patents. She advises app developers to maintain a...

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Palm posts losses in first quarter results

October 1, 2007 4:02pm PDT

The U.S. smartphone maker Palm has reported a loss of $841,000 in the quarter ending August of 2007. Faced with recent competition from Apple and Blackberry, sales of the company's smartphones...

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IBM earmarks $1.5 billion for security in 2008

November 1, 2007 9:02am PDT

IBM has detailed its plans to spend $1.5 billion on security product development in 2008, reflecting an intensifying focus in this area. This figure it independent from what IBM is spending on...

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Why Google's Place Pages had to change and what that means for your business

July 26, 2011 1:33pm PDT

Google recently removed the text of reviews from sites like Yelp, TripAdvisor, and Urbanspoon, among others, from its Place Pages. Kevin Purdy tells us what that means for your business.

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