Life Science
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Five tips for startups to secure capital funds
News update Despite downturn, Asia's promising startups can look forward to funding, but they need to do their homework before knocking on investors' doors, say experts.
Tags: Funding, Venture capital, Angel investing, Investments, Business, Chip, Investor, Asia-Pacific, life science, Israel
Next big step for the Web--or a detour?
News Tim Berners-Lee and company make a pitch for new ways to get the most out of the Internet. Skeptics abound.
Tags: Web sites
RFID: How does it help business?
Insight In 10 years almost everything will be tagged, say experts. So how will these little chips that are soon to be so pervasive take over your business?
Tags: RFID
Adobe puts LiveCycle into the cloud
News New version of Adobe's web application development tool includes developer productivity improvements, accessibility from mobile devices and integration with Flash Builder.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web 2.0, Web sites, Adobe LiveCycle, Adobe Systems Inc., mobile, electronic filing, Web 2.0, Web sites, LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2
Aussie university supercomputer looking for cancer cure
News The University of Melbourne and the Victorian government are planning to invest AU$100 million (US$94.2 million) in a supercomputer devoted to the life sciences.
Tags: Supercomputing, Disease, Information And Communication Technology, life science, supercomputer, University of Melbourne, Supercomputing
Bioscience deal spurns HP for rivals
News The companies nail hefty contracts from Applera and leave the new HP smarting--the life-sciences company had originally used equipment from Compaq.
Mayo Clinic logs on to Blue Gene
News IBM supercomputer drafted to help do the math on genes connected to cancer, other diseases.
Tags: Supercomputing
IBM, ETH Zurich to build joint nanotech research lab
News The Swiss university and chipmaker's joint US$90 million investment marks a major move forward for industry and academic collaboration.
Tags: Nanotechnology, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Small And Medium Enterprise, Geothermal Energy, Environment, intellectual property, Switzerland, ETH Zurich, researcher
HPC for the Rest of Us - Part 2
Insight In the first part of this article, we explained some HPC fundamentals and described how HPC is expanding beyond research and academia into mainstream businesses. In this second, we examine the nature and future of the HPC industry, and at HPC applications to selected business scenarios.
HP M'sia embarks on "customer-centric" strategy
News Hewlett-Packard Sales (M) Sdn Bhd announced a new strategy that it described as being more “customer-centric”, as part of an ongoing “reinvention” exercise.
IBM sees green in environmental tech
News Big Blue is going green with an initiative that focuses on environmental technologies and services.
Intel gets inside life sciences
News Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.
Web censorship muddle can hurt Malaysia
News Confusion over government's plans to implement Web filtering system will affect foreign investment and confidence in Malaysia's policies, say industry players.
Tags: Web sites, Regulations, Politics, Censorship, Malaysia, Government, Internet Service, CEO, Internet Service Provider, Prime Minister
CSC inks US$1.35 billion deal
Insight The US tech consultant signs a 10-year contract to manage Ascension Health's IT infrastructure.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Networking technology
HPC for the Rest of Us - Part 1
Insight The term supercomputing typically conjures daunting images of large and expensive computer systems, coupled with complicated technology for scientific and engineering "number crunching". This article provides the first steps towards helping the rest of us in understanding what HPC involves, and what it means to us.
