Coca-Cola has already launched accelerators in Sydney and San Francisco.
When you think of Coca-Cola do startups come to mind? The beverage giant has plans for accelerator programs in nine cities including Berlin and Istanbul by the end of the year.
Continue reading… “Coca-Cola to open startup accelerators in nine countries around the world”
The growing popularity of video streaming and the emergence of more and more connected devices means that our need for bandwidth is going to grow.
Thanks to a slew of new technologies, optical networks are getting bigger, beefier and faster. It has now become commonplace to hear about optical networks, mostly in the Internet’s backbone, supporting speeds of 100 gigabits per second (Gbps). And to add some context, in 1990 the state of the art was 2.5 Gbps.
Continue reading… “Internet’s core getting bigger and faster to meet global bandwidth demand”
Game-based learning focuses on teaching knowledge to kids or general consumers.
A new research report by Ambient Insight finds that educational games, also known as “serious games,” are going through a renaissance in part because of the acceptance of learning apps on mobile devices.
Continue reading… “Mobile learning game market will grow from $1.5 billion to $2.3 billion by 2017”
The Arctic Ocean shipping route will cut thousands of miles off the journey from China to its key European market. (The Northeast Passage is in blue)
A Chinese merchant ship has made its maiden voyage to Europe through the “Northeast Passage.” This route will help the world’s biggest exporter speed goods to market and is a symbol of Beijing’s strategic ambitions in the Arctic.
Continue reading… “Chinese shipping firm begins using new arctic shipping route to Europe”
Futurist Thomas Frey: Consider the following scenario.
In 2035 a heinous criminal escapes in the city of Dallas, Texas and the local police department acquires a court order to conduct a thorough search of the metro area. Within 15 minutes a fleet of twelve surveillance drones is deployed to begin an ultra high-res flyover.
Six years before the Homebrew Computer Club had its first meeting in 1969, Honeywell launched its kitchen computer – the Honeywell H316. It looked like this:
Continue reading… “Co-creation is the future of innovation”
Brad Feld, the investor-turned-author who co-founded Techstars in Boulder, Colorado in 2006, stated on his website three years ago that Colorado might have the highest “entrepreneurial density” in the entire country.
Continue reading… “The most densely-packed startup areas in the U.S.”
Horizon
Students at the University of Glasgow have come up with a radical idea for cutting journey times in 2050 – aircraft that collect and drop-off passengers in moving pod-like carriages. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Horizon Mass Transit System: Planes that can pick up trains”
The new CTO – Chief Transformation Officer.
IT leaders today have known about the exponential growth of processing power, storage, and bandwidth, but they didn’t notice the the changes that have been happening over so many decades. These three change accelerators are what lie behind today’s avalanche of business transformation, and they are directly affecting the roles of CIO and CTO.
Continue reading… “Chief Transformation Officer is the new CTO”
Young tech companies create more jobs than they destroy.
There is some cause for alarm in the startup world. On the whole, young companies destroy more jobs than they create. That’s because so many of them fail. But there is some solace: Young tech companies create many more jobs than they destroy, even taking into account a high failure rate.
Continue reading… “Young businesses destroy more jobs than they create except in the tech industry”
Benedivz performers donate a percentage of proceeds to a charity of their choice.
Benedivz has debuted its site where live webcam entertainers broadcast to viewers who buy “helping-handz credits” to see live performances and “requested” activities. Performers donate a percentage of proceeds to a charity of their choice. Benevidz will match 50 percent of their earnings and donate that amount to their selected cause. The company is currently raising $15,000 on crowdfunding site Rockethub for this noble endeavor.
Continue reading… “Benedivz – now you can have webcam sex for charity”
Global energy storage market share chart via Navigant Research
Due to government funding, energy storage technology is seeing serious returns on investments around the world with distinctly focused industries taking shape in Europe, North America, and Asia.
Continue reading… “Worldwide there are 633 energy storage projects now underway”
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