THE BUSINESS OF TECHNOLOGY
by MATT GALLAGHER, Red Herring California became the third state to legalize self driving cars, thanks to a special visit to Google's Mountainview headquarters by Governor Jerry Brown, who signed the legislation after taking a “test drive” in a Google driverless vehicle, according to Tecca. Though Google has had robot cars on California … [Read more...]
Google's self-driving robot cars have now clocked over 300,000 miles, the equivalent of driving 12 times around the world's 25,000 mile equator circumference. And they've done it without an accident, or at least one caused by the self-driving computer. Drive around the world often enough, and eventually someone will hit you, even if you are R2D2, … [Read more...]
Perhaps the flying car is next. Nevada recently passed regulations for self driving cars that were approved by insurance companies, police, car companies, and others, making Google's computer driven robot car one lane closer to your rush hour and that sizzling best seller you'd rather be reading than the bumper in front of you. Nevada's DMV is … [Read more...]
Proview Shenzhen Technology, a Chinese company based in the city Shenzhen, has accused Apple of patent infringement over the iPad. "We ask the court to stop selling and marketing for Apple’s iPad in China. We also demand an apology,” said Xie Xianghui, a lawyer representing the Proview Technology Shenzhen told China Daily. It's an … [Read more...]
Mobile shopping continues to accelerate, and free shipping offers have added to its agility. Consumers spent $161.5 billion on ecommerce in 2011, including $49.7 billion in the last three months alone. Ecommerce spending improved 13 percent in 2011 compared to 2010, with online shopping surging 14 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter, … [Read more...]
Rather than cloud computing, it is Apple products that will drive the computer equipment market in 2012, according to a recent report from Forrester. While analysts have been predicting that cloud computing will reshape the server and storage market, actual adoption remains limited, the report stated. Plus, in leveraging financial woes, many … [Read more...]
The Internet continues to become increasingly mobile as usage jumps from the desktop to people's pockets, and social networks like Facebook are likely adding to that agility, according to research recently released by Flurry, the analytics firm. The use of moble apps continue to rise in popularity, with the average user spending 94 minutes a day … [Read more...]
Everspin, the only company shipping production quantities of magnetic RAM chips, recently announced it had tripled its orders in 2011. Magnetic RAM chips work like permanent flash memory chips but with the speed of dynamic RAM. The MRAM use the spin or directional facing of a magnet to store data digitally. Based in Chandler, Arizona and a … [Read more...]
Stretching the limits of possibility, IBM has taken data into the realms of the infinite, right down to the atom in theory at least. Scientists at IBM Research have demonstrated the ability to store information on as little as 12 atoms, the company claims, taking data capacity to a new order of magnitude. Until now, it's taken at least 1 … [Read more...]
Reinventing textbooks and the classroom itself, Apple unleashed iBooks 2, an updated iPhone and iPad app that enables highly interactive digital textbooks. The company also announced a new textbook section in the its iBookstore. At an education event at New York City's Guggenheim Museum, Apple demonstrated how the new app goes beyond text to … [Read more...]