Achieves 21st Straight Year of Patent Leadership
IBM inventors received more than 6,800 U.S. patents in 2013
ARMONK, N.Y. – 14 Jan 2014: IBM today announced that its inventors received a record-setting 6,809 patents in 2013 – the 21st consecutive year the company topped the annual list of U.S. patent leaders. (more…)
Partnership gives small-business owners Office 365 productivity advantage coupled with award-winning customer service.
REDMOND, Wash., and SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Jan. 13, 2014 — GoDaddy, the Web’s top platform for small business, and Microsoft Corp. announced on Monday a long-term strategic partnership to offer Office 365 as GoDaddy’s exclusive core business-class email and productivity service to its small-business customers. This partnership supports GoDaddy’s ongoing push to deliver premium small-business management solutions. Serving 12 million customers worldwide, GoDaddy has created a simple experience for small businesses with industry-leading productivity tools backed by best-in-class customer support at an affordable price. (more…)
The robot gripper invented by researchers at the University of Chicago and Cornell University is now available commercially. Empire Robotics, the company founded to commercialize the invention, is taking orders for the limited first release of its product called VERSABALL, scheduled to ship later this month.
“When we first started with the universal jamming gripper we did not think about industrial applications,” said Heinrich Jaeger, the William J. Friedman and Alica Townsend Professor in Physics at the University of Chicago. “But soon there were inquiries from various companies and in those early days we had to tell them that we are in basic research rather than R&D and that therefore we could not really make robotic grippers for sale.” (more…)
Im Koalitionsvertrag zwischen Union und SPD wurde ein ständiger Internet-Ausschuss vereinbart, doch kurz darauf wurde die Einrichtung erst einmal auf unbestimmte Zeit verschoben. Seitdem ist es um das Thema ruhig geworden. politik-digital.de fragt bei Netzpolitikern der Koalition nach dem Stand der Verhandlungen. Laut Bundestagsmitglied Lars Klingbeil (SPD) wird der Ausschuss sicher kommen. Er mache aber nur Sinn, wenn er die gesamte Bandbreite der netzpolitischen Themen abdeckt.
politik-digital.de: Der geplante Ausschuss für Internet und Digitale Agenda konnte als einziger Ausschuss vorerst nicht eingesetzt werden und wurde bis mindestens Februar auf Eis gelegt. Was sind die Gründe dafür?
Lars Klingbeil: CDU und CSU haben hier zusätzlichen Gesprächsbedarf angemeldet. Dieser Ausschuss wäre ein Novum in der Geschichte des Bundestags. Von daher ist es auch normal, dass einige strukturelle Fragen gründlich diskutiert werden müssen. Der Ausschuss wird aber kommen. Da bin ich mir sehr sicher. (more…)
Wireless technology and real-time Big Data analytics boost hand hygiene 20%
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. & COLUMBUS, OH. – 10 Jan 2014: OhioHealth andIBM today announced a collaboration to aid in the prevention of infections using a first-of-a-kind network of wireless sensors and real-time Big Data analytics that measure hand-washing practices. OhioHealth will use the technology to provide hospital administrators with real-time data that can be used to reduce healthcare associated infections (HAIs) like methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile, which affect 1 in every 20 patients in U.S. healthcare facilities. (more…)
Headquartered in NYC’s “Silicon Alley,” New IBM Watson Group to Include Watson Innovation Hub, Fueling New Products and Start-ups
Watson Group Introduces New Cloud Solutions to Accelerate Research, Visualize Big Data and Enable Analytics Exploration
ARMONK, N.Y. – 09 Jan 2014: IBM today announced it will establish the IBM Watson Group, a new business unit dedicated to the development and commercialization of cloud-delivered cognitive innovations. The move signifies a strategic shift by IBM to accelerate into the marketplace a new class of software, services and apps that think, improve by learning, and discover answers and insights to complex questions from massive amounts of Big Data. (more…)
Lady Gaga enables followers to embrace their awkwardness while deepening the perceived relationship they feel they have with the celebrity
COLUMBIA, Mo. – According to recent statistics, more than 175 million tweets are sent daily, and 11 accounts are created every second on Twitter. One celebrity who boasts the highest amount of global subscribers is singer Lady Gaga who enjoys more than 40 million Twitter followers. Now, University of Missouri communication researchers have found that online social media gives users an outlet to embrace their differences and provide emotional support to others while deepening perceived relationships they feel they have with celebrities. (more…)
LAS VEGAS — Today at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Yahoo! Inc. unveiled new products and media sites across smartphones, tablets and the web, as well as a new suite of advertising technology to help advertisers, publishers and partners get more return from their online advertising campaigns. (more…)
