Innovation

Thu, May 17, 2012 - Israel is where the USB flash drive was invented and where innovative companies such as Anobit and XtremIO are drawing American companies to their shores in droves to get a piece of the intellectual property pie.

Wed, May 16, 2012 - VMware wasn't just looking to save money when it launched a BYOD plan with the mandate that all of its U.S. employees use their personal mobile phones for work. It was taking a crash-course that would help shape its vision of post-PC era computing.

Wed, May 09, 2012 - It's been a couple of years and a couple of million dollars. Finally, researchers and graduate students who have spent years developing intelligent water sensors released them into the Sacramento River on Wednesday, about 80 miles east of San Francisco.

Wed, May 09, 2012 - A pair of projects from Microsoft Research called Humantenna and Soundwave present a unique method for gesture recognition

Wed, May 09, 2012 - HP's CEO and president Meg Whitman has announced a commitment to boosting investment in research and development (R&D), declaring that innovation at the company was "alive and well".

Mon, May 07, 2012 - The Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems plans to explore social computing and innovative interactivity.

Tue, April 24, 2012 - AT&T Labs and Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a vibrating steering wheel that they say can help drivers keep their eyes on the road and off of distracting GPS screens.

Tue, April 17, 2012 - The question is, why would you want one?

Sat, April 07, 2012 - The technology might be great, but do you really want to drive a flying car, wear augmented reality glasses play with virtual reality PC?

Fri, April 06, 2012 - When David Richter took over Kimberly-Clark's infrastructure solutions group in 2008, morale was at an all-time low. Since launching a program that allows employees to freely pitch him new ideas and receive VC-like funding, morale is up, costs have been reduced and processes streamlined.

Tue, April 03, 2012 - In the course of our careers, there are occasionally confluences of events. Those moments should be seized.

Wed, March 14, 2012 - NASA and GM developed a prototype glove that aims to reduce repetitive stress injuries

Wed, March 07, 2012 - CIOs and IT managers need to focus less on cost reduction when renewing contracts and more on innovation, according to Ovum analyst Evan Kirchheimer, who was speaking at a BT roundtable on intelligent networks.

Tue, March 06, 2012 - Gamification, or the use of game mechanics in applications to engage users and solve problems, is something humans today are wired to love. And video games are creating a generation of multitasking young adults who are not only smarter than past generations but are better problem solvers and innovators.