Global Developer Blog

More IBM Innovation Centers Launched

jerickso — 2007-07-17T14:50:00-05:00

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.

Microsoft Software Dev Center to Open in Canada

jerickso — 2007-07-05T13:33:17-05:00

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.

IBM and Global Collaborative Software Development

jerickso — 2007-06-11T11:50:16-05:00

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.

IBM and Kingdee Team Up

jerickso — 2007-06-04T09:14:49-05:00

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.

C++ Compiler for Multi-core

jerickso — 2007-05-22T14:36:04-05:00

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.

IBM Launches Africa Initiative

jerickso — 2007-05-08T14:49:42-05:00

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.

IBM Promotes Global via Online Collaboration

jerickso — 2007-05-01T09:31:03-05:00

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

Broadband Ups and Downs

jerickso — 2007-04-24T14:19:38-05:00

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.

Japanese R&D Expands into Vietnam

jerickso — 2007-04-08T10:04:00-05:00

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.

Huanying Ni Lai Virtual China!

jjainsch — 2007-02-27T12:45:03-05:00

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.

Cultural Backlash Against Outsourcing?

jjainsch — 2007-02-20T14:19:01-05:00

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').

Cockburn to Keynote at SD Best Practices, Russia

jjainsch — 2007-02-06T11:41:22-05:00

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.

Oooooh ... Grava!

jjainsch — 2007-01-30T11:58:42-05:00

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.

Second Life to Le Pen: Non!

jjainsch — 2007-01-23T13:54:57-05:00

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.

It's Showtime! (In India)

jjainsch — 2007-01-16T11:05:28-05:00

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.