Glasgow University’s landmark 25-year partnership with the intellectual property commercialisation firm IP Group, which last week aimed at improving the commercialisation of the university’s research base, is the latest example of a growing trend. It became the 10th UK university...
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Another record label has unchained its content. Can iTunes take it? Iain S Bruce reports
Canada's leading privately owned record label and artist management company, Nettwerk, has announced that it will give users on-demand access to listen freely to the labels’ content. Responsible for managing Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne and some of North America's biggest...
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Iain S Bruce on the announcement that Sony won't launch PS3 to Europe until March 2007
According to the BBC, Sony have admitted that their flagship Playstation 3 console now won't hit Europe until March 2007. Adding a further six months to what has already been a long and tedious saga won't please the people who've...
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Kirk Ewing on the potential power of Google Earth and the corporate dash to (mis)use it
I’m flying over Nevada trying to find Las Vegas. Even though Vegas is generally considered a major metropolis, I seem unable to pinpoint its whereabouts and spend my time instead drifting aimlessly across bleached deserts and rusty mountains until I...
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John McAleenan believes recent innovations could see the iPod makers challenge Redmond
Apple must feel like its time has finally come. Long considered the preserve of “arty-types” and children, Apple’s current line-up of Mac desktop and laptop computers finally looks capable of puncturing the old myths and emerging as a serious contender...
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Former Sony chief Chris Deering on the latest challenge to iTunes' download dominance
If Spiral Frog, the service to be launched next month in US and December or January in UK, gets as much support from all record companies as they did from Universal Music (the company with the biggest worldwide market share),...
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Iain S Bruce wonders whether the electronics giant can recover from a spate of recent issues
It invented the transistor radio, the walkman and the compact disk, but despite the company's impeccable track record as an electronics innovator, Sony seems to have more than its fair share of problems at the moment. As we discuss in...
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Polly Purvis asks how we can master the sales skills that will drive the technology sector
We had a great discussion at this week's Technology Leaders Lunch around how to tackle the shortage of sales skills, long recognised as one of the "missing links" for many high tech businesses. Software and ICT businesses in Scotland are...
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Cisco's Caledonian chief believes we have a golden opportunity ... but only if we act now
High-value, long-term jobs and a return on the investments made in Scotland’s skill-base and telecoms network is what we are all looking for – and the mounting technical and governance challenges, associated with managing exponential growth in business data, provides...
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