At the Tokyo Motor Show 2011, Mitsubishi took the wraps off EMIRAI, a near-future concept that will become reality in about 10 years (if the company is to be believed). The core element is a large-sized, curved dashboard that combines rear-projection to display various operations with touch control support. The steering wheel features shape-changing...
Startup Weekend Delhi Being an entrepreneur in India is finally becoming cool, say the founders and investors in the burgeoning startup tech scene in Delhi. That new caché is in contrast to decades of the mindset that young business people should strive to work for large branded conglomerates and avoid taking risks creating new...
The new SAP Social Media Analytics service aims to bring more consumer-centric smarts to SAP customers by pairing NetBase semantic search and analytics capabilities with SAP’s own business intelligence expertise. The cloud-based service will let “business users look at Facebook, Twitter, news feeds to get insight on market trends, what people are talking about, perceptions and...
Last week IBM announced that it has taken chemical data from various patents and made this information available to researchers online. It is just the latest in an ever widening of publically available information concerning patents and intellectual property. But online patent access has had an interesting history, and even though it dates to...
The BBC has today released its BBC iPlayer app for Apple iPhone and iPod touch devices, introducing 3G streaming across all mobile networks. The mobile app also offers enhanced features to help improve the live TV and radio experience. With ‘Live Channel Hopping’, users can switch between live channels just like on their TV....
Chicago-based personal styling and retail platform for men Trunk Club has brought on former Greylock EIR and eBay VP Rob Chesney as COO. In his role as an Executive-in-Residence, Chesney advised Greylock’s early-stage consumer-focused businesses looking to scale. Prior to Greylock, Mr. Chesney was Vice President of eBay’s Buyer Experience team, overseeing the fashion,...
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Image: Wikimedia Commons Good morning! Here’s the news: Google’s top three executives own a surprising number of private jets. A Hungarian entrepreneur commissioned a bronze sculpture of Steve Jobs as a way to thank him. Today’s Google doodle commemorates Robert Noyce, a man who played a huge role in computing history. Actually, the Facebook-Gowalla...
Image: Screenshot Google’s doodle for today commemorates what would be the 84th birthday of Robert Noyce. Noyce is one of the inventors of the integrated circuit, something as important to modern computing as electricity. He founded Intel in 1968 and was even called the “Mayor of Silicon Valley.” Born December 12, 1927 in Burlington,...
1. Google Does Social: Google+ Back in January, nobody expected any company to challenge Facebook’s dominance of social networking. Next to Facebook’s All-American quarterback, MySpace was too flakey, Twitter too geeky and Apple too snobby. As for Google, when it came to social it was like the class nerd who kept asking girls out...