This cooperation has taken many forms, from scientific and technical collaboration and work sharing to collaboration in standards setting and regulatory alignment.

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The shift from planar to FinFET-based 3D transistors is a significant change that requires close technical collaboration between tool developers, foundries and early adopters to deliver a strong solution.

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Kevin Cavanaugh, VP, Business and Technical Strategy, IBM Collaboration Solutions, said that there will be native activity stream applications on mobile devices and tablets that will communicate with a cloud-based service that does the aggregation and helps figure out which activity streams are important to you.

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While the drivers that make collaboration vital are technical, the solutions are not.

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Kevin Cavanaugh is vice president, Business and Technical Strategy, IBM Collaboration Solutions.

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Many technical challenges have been addressed through unlikely collaboration.

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Based upon my own experience negotiating with the Japanese, however, I am convinced that the sound technical reasons that made them opt for collaboration with the United States in the first place will prevail in the future.

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The objective of the arrangement between IBM and the Asean Secretariat is to put in place a long-term program of collaboration in which IBM will serve as the technical adviser on information technology matters.

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Achenbach explains each step in this highly technical story adroitly, walking readers through both the morass of industry jargon and the confusing collaboration between BP and the government.

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