http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/ Innovative Insight - Staying ahead of tech's next curve. en-us Copyright 2009 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:02:30 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Reports are starting to emerge about innovation taking a hit due to budget cuts. This is a disturbing development. As The New York Times reports, companies are struggling to stay afloat in the present, and the future is taking a... http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/11/innovation-threatened-by-econo.html http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/11/innovation-threatened-by-econo.html economy innovation New York Times Silicon Valley Innovation Institute Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:02:30 -0500 The Tech Museum of Innovation, in San Jose, California, has announced the winners of its UCanTu virtual exhibit competition -- but are they real or virtual? The museum says the exhibits benefit humanity and will be displayed in the virtual... http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/10/open-source-museum-in-second-l.html http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/10/open-source-museum-in-second-l.html innovation Open source Second Life Tech Museum of Innovation Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:31:46 -0500 In June, I wrote about new touch pad "gestures" such as momentum from Synaptics. The company recently rolled out these upgrades in touch pads, which are coming from various laptop manufacturers. One new gesture is called a pinch, in which... http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/10/the-flick-of-a-touch-pad.html http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/10/the-flick-of-a-touch-pad.html gestures Synaptics touch pad Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:12:15 -0500 NEW YORK -- Last night at the Pepcom Holiday Spectacular I learned about a new way to store your data in the cloud. A startup company called Cucku (seriously!) is pushing what it calls social backup. It entails automatically backing... http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/09/the-storage-cloud-goes-cucku.html http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/09/the-storage-cloud-goes-cucku.html cloud Cucku data Pepcom social backup Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:05:21 -0500 Apparently a crash in Los Angeles last week between a commuter train and a freight train was preceded by the engineer exchanging text messages. According to reports, cell phone records are being examined to see if texting did play a... http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/09/texting-and-tragedy.html http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/09/texting-and-tragedy.html cell phone records crash technology texting train Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:26:35 -0500 Two years ago, InternetNews.com reported that Google's acquisition of biometric technology company Neven Vision could lead to innovation in face-recognition technology for its Picasa photo-sharing site. Today the search giant finally unveiled this functionality in Picasa 3 by adding a... http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/09/googles-picasa-puts-a-name-to.html http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/09/googles-picasa-puts-a-name-to.html biometric technology face recognition Facebook Google Picasa Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:43:55 -0500 In his keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) on Tuesday, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett announced a contest to award four $100,000 checks for innovation. The competition focuses on four areas: education, health care, economic development and environment.... http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/08/intel-shells-out-the-bucks-for.html http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/08/intel-shells-out-the-bucks-for.html Craig Barrett IDF innovation Intel Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:07:58 -0500 In its August 18 issue, BusinessWeek shows how companies are testing out innovative technologies at the Olympic Games in Beijing. This year's innovations include motion sensors to guard against false starts in track and field, GPS systems to locate rowers... http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/08/olympicsize-innovation-in-beij.html http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/08/olympicsize-innovation-in-beij.html Beijing BusinessWeek China GPS Olympics Xinhua News Agency Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:04:24 -0500 There's been a lot of buzz this week about the bionic eye. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University have developed an electronic camera (left) the shape of an eye. This could be heaven for for... http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/08/the-bionic-eye-on-its-way.html http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/08/the-bionic-eye-on-its-way.html bionic eye Northwestern University University of Illinois Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:46:03 -0500 It's been reported that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., would appoint a technology czar to keep the government current with tech. Meanwhile, Sen. John McCain, R.-Ariz., hasn't announced anything similar, but perhaps both candidates should stir up more... http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/08/secretary-of-technology-for-th.html http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/08/secretary-of-technology-for-th.html innovation McCain Obama White House Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:35:39 -0500 As we close in on the Beijing Summer Olympics this Friday, it's worth noting the innovative technology that will be present at the Games. EE Times has put together a cool slide show exhibiting innovations of note, such as the... http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/08/innovative-tech-on-display-at.html http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/08/innovative-tech-on-display-at.html Astrovision Beijing Olympics Panasonic RFID Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:24:45 -0500 Wireless innovation will be brewing at Georgia Tech, as the university opens a new wireless-technology laboratory with Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. at the university's campus in Atlanta. At Georgia Tech, Samsung will expand its work with researchers to focus on... http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/07/samsung-opens-chip-innovation.html http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/07/samsung-opens-chip-innovation.html CMOS Georgia Tech innovation Samsung wireless Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:11:27 -0500 In 1997, I bought a state-of-the-art Pentium II Gateway desktop direct from the manufacturer. I was proud of myself at the time for going direct and customizing the system according to my desired specifications. But today, more than 10 years... http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/07/direct-pc-vendor-gateway-goes.html http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/07/direct-pc-vendor-gateway-goes.html Acer Gateway PCs Pentium II Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:39:38 -0500 Chalk one up for print in the battle to stay alive in the world of online media. Esquire magazine will put out a cover featuring E Ink electronic, foldable display technology on the newsstands this October. The 100,000-copy distribution of... http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/07/e-ink-in-esquire-magazine-tech.html http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/07/e-ink-in-esquire-magazine-tech.html E Ink Esquire Ford magazine online media Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:15:56 -0500 There's been talk of a second Internet in the works for years -- yes we do have Web 2.0 -- and just as the original Internet started at the university-level, so does a project from technology solutions firm BBN Technologies... http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/07/will-a-geni-build-the-next-int.html http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/07/will-a-geni-build-the-next-int.html BBN Technologies GENI Internet National Science Foundation spam Web 2.0 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:26:56 -0500