Asus e Intel hanno realizzato il progetto “WePC.com”, una community che raccoglie le idee degli utenti per realizzare un PC nei segmenti netbook, notebook e “gamer”.
I membri della community, oltre a proporre le proprie idee possono discutere quelle di altri e votarle.
Come spiegato nella sezione “about” del sito:
Your designs, feature ideas and community feedback will be evaluated by ASUS and could influence the blueprint for an actual notebook PC built by ASUS with Intel inside.
R&D investment by EU companies has increased by 8.8% compared to the increased R&D investment by US companies of 8.6%, according to the 2008 edition of the European Commission’s annual Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard published today.
Three EU companies feature in the top ten: Nokia in 5th place (up from 17th), with an R&D investment of €5.3 billion, Volkswagen in 9th (up from 14th) and Daimler in 10th (down from 5th). The world’s biggest investor in R&D in 2008 is Microsoft, with €5.6 billion. Trends show increased sales and profitability for EU companies and for the first time since records began in 2004, R&D investment growth in the EU companies is greater than that of their US counterparts.
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In una press release del 14 ottobre, Gartner elenca le 10 tecnologie ritenute strategiche per il 2009 e presentate durante il Symposium/ITxpo 2008 tenutosi ad ottobre in Florida.
Virtualization Cloud Computing Servers – Beyond Blades Web-Oriented Architectures Enterprise Mashups Specialized Systems Social Software and Social Networking Unified Communications Business Intelligence Green IT
Qui un commento video dell’analista David W. Cearley, che sul suo blog spiega anche come vengono selezionate le tecnologie.
