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For those who study earthquakes, one major challenge has been trying to understand all the physics of a fault -- both during an earthquake and at times of "rest" -- in order to know more about how a particular region may behave in the future. Now, researchers have developed the first computer model of an earthquake-producing fault segment that reproduces the available observations of both the fault's seismic and aseismic behavior.

Scientists have overcome a major hurdle facing quantum computing: How to protect quantum information from degradation by the environment while simultaneously performing computation in a solid-state quantum system.

SAP wants to be the biggest cloud player by 2015, but has a lot of catching up to do.

Accenture prepares to grow its global workforce at a rapid pace this year as it signs on for more collaboration with Salesforce.

Virgin is due to tell a Lord's select committee that rival BT is being subsidised by government cash.

A 6,200 tonne building is being moved 60 metres to make way for the expansion of a railway in Zurich.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. - Dave Parnas

Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match. But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role. The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them. In our industry, Bill Gates owns the table until someone proves otherwise. - David Moschella