Our language, much like everything these days, has been hacked. Fuzzy, contentious, and complex ideas have been stripped of their subversive connotations and replaced by cleaner, shinier, and emptier alternatives; long-running debates about politics, rights, and freedoms have been recast in the seemingly natural language of economics, innovation, and efficiency.
BMBF stellt gemeinsam mit BDI, ver.di und Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft das Programm für Produktion, Dienstleistung und Arbeit von morgen vor [Pressemitteilung 085/2014]
Producing a lightweight projection display aimed at PDA's and cell phones using laser-based computer-generatede hologram technology. Great potential for use in healthcare IT.
IBM engraves silicon at 29.9 nanometer resolution. Moore's Law hold true, one more time around... expect chips with twice the density of current 65nm technology
Bekannt wurde Wind River mit seinem Echtzeitbetriebssystem VxWorks, das unter anderem von der NASA zur Steuerung der Mars Exploration Rover "Opportunity" und "Spirit" eingesetzt wurde. Seit 2005 engagiert sich das 1300 Mitarbeiter zählende Unternehmen aus Alameda (Kalifornien) auch im Open-Source-Bereich: Es ist "Strategic Developer" im Rahmen der Eclipse Foundation und hat eine eigene Embedded-Linux-Distribution im Angebot. Im Februar dieses Jahres übernahm Wind River seinerseits die Rechte an dem Echtzeit-Linux RTLinux von FSMLabs.
Sun will mit seinem neuen Programm Open Source Community Innovation Awards in den nächsten Jahren mehrere Millionen US-Dollar als Preisgelder für Open-Source-Entwickler aussetzen. Dabei geht es vor allem um die Weiterentwicklung von Sun-Projekten: Im kommenden Jahr sollen Preise für Commmunity-Entwicklungen im Rahmen von GlassFish, NetBeans, OpenJDK, OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris und OpenSPARC in Höhe von insgesamt "mindestens einer Million Dollar" vergeben werden. Details will Sun Anfang 2008 bekannt geben.
Who in the hell is Asustek, and why does Microsoft hate them more than any other company in the industry? Why does Apple, Dell and Palm Computing hate them?
And why does Intel love them?
Taiwan's Asustek -- better known as ASUS -- is one of the most interesting, innovative and fastest-growing companies in technology.
At its core, Asustek makes motherboards -- more than any other company. Asustek motherboards are the heart of Sony's PlayStation 2 consoles, Apple MacBooks, Alienware PCs, and some HP computers.
Join the InnoCentive Open Innovation community to earn money while solving some of the toughest problems facing the world today
Open Innovation Challenges
In our Open Innovation Marketplace, we have Challenges in a wide variety of disciplines, from Business and Entrepreneurship to Engineering and Life Sciences
Solve any of our Challenges to win awards from $5,000 to $1,000,000. Challenges are posted by Seekers (corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations) who are looking for your help with product development and other business and science problems.
You can use your knowledge and expertise to make a real difference. In addition to listing our Challenges by discipline, our Innovation Pavilions organize Challenges around specific causes or global issues:
* The Rockefeller Foundation
* Clean Tech and Renewable Energy
* Global Health
* Public Policy and Citizens in Action
Each Challenge has a significant cash award associated with it and Solvers have been earning money since 2001 - here's a list of our winning solvers.