Annually, IBM sends out a press release about how many patents it was awarded in the past year, and it’s always many more than any other company. How does IBM get that many patents? It encourages innovation among employees, rewards them and gives them a lot of latitude. Employees have invented everything from a prosthetic eye to a system for predicting which Web pages you’ll want to see next. This week’s A Wider Net story takes you behind the scenes at Big Blue’s idea factory. Big Blue makes the most of its gray matter http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0119patent.html?net
Annually, IBM sends out a press release about how many patents it was awarded in the past year, and it’s always many more than any other company. How does IBM get that many patents? It encourages innovation among employees, rewards them and gives them a lot of latitude. Employees have invented everything from a prosthetic eye to a system for predicting which Web pages you’ll want to see next. This week’s A Wider Net story takes you behind the scenes at Big Blue’s idea factory.
Big Blue makes the most of its gray matter
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0119patent.html?net
Compression device handles 1,500 remote sites
If you can’t be with the WAN you love, love the WAN you’re with. That is, if a WAN upgrade is too expensive, you can get more out of the one you have – with compression. That’s the philosophy behind Expand Networks’ latest device.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0121expand.html?net
Microsoft to detail protocol licensing changes
Microsoft Friday plans to announce changes to a licensing program for software communications protocols it created as part of its landmark antitrust settlement with the U.S. government, the company said Wednesday.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0122msantit.html?net
LinuxWorld: Faster, stronger, better enterprise Linux on show floor
Several Linux hardware and software makers launched wares on the opening day of the LinuxWorld Expo here. The vendors’ goal: make Linux faster, stronger, better, for large enterprise application deployments.
