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Accenture's King Of Blue-sky Thinking
News What other blue-sky areas of research is Accenture involved in? Apple and Google, for example, claim to thrive on leaving no stone unturned when it comes to innovation. For instance, the search giant tries to ensure its developers have 20 percent...
[October 30, 2007, 10:55]
Infront Systems And EMC Corporation Take A 'Blue Sky' Approach With IT For Queanbeyan Council
White Papers Queanbeyan is now a commercial centre for high-tech local companies producing laser optics, printed circuit boards and solar cells while others produce fashion, commercial display systems and office furniture.
[December 7, 2004, 23:00]
Amazon Book Ban Backfires
News The move to withdraw the book, "A Piece of Blue Sky," comes a day after a report published in Wired News triggered a rash of postings on Internet newsgroups. While competitors reaped a PR windfall, Amazon was taking a PR pummeling: Newsgroup...
[May 21, 1999, 8:06]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In the red corner, Rupert Murdoch and his band of merry Sky men: in the blue corner, British Satellite Broadcasting. Sky ignores the official wishes of the European broadcasters and sets up shop transmitting good old fashioned PAL format from its...
[April 27, 2001, 17:51]
IBM Sews Up Second Blue Gene Deal
News Instead, it's planned to use an array of about 20,000 to 30,000 sensors that gather data from the entire sky. Computer control systems will process the information so that the array's attention can effectively be pointed to a specific patch of the...
[February 23, 2004, 9:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Talkback Microsoft needs to employ as many blue sky thinkers as it can lay its hands on. I think you're right. Home entertainment devices need simple, basic software for ease of use. Oh, and cheap too.go on, Bill, bite the bullet.
[April 29, 2005, 22:29]
Supercomputer Predicts Big Blue Skies
News It also follows the announcement of Blue Sky, a supercomputer to be used by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for climate modeling. The centre announced Friday that it has tapped Big Blue to build the world's most powerful weather...
[December 24, 2001, 11:08]
Countdown Begins For Bluetooth
News A couple of years ago, there was nothing but blue sky for Bluetooth, a standard for creating a powerful but short-range wireless connection. It's a question of time for Bluetooth companies that want to see blue skies -- a question of five minutes...
[December 10, 2002, 11:52]
Technology: Levelling Hollywood's Playing Field
News A handful of others, such as "Ice Age" and "Robots" creators Blue Sky Studios, fill in the gaps. Big Blue charges between 50 cents and 60 cents per CPU-hour for this time-sharing. This week, the product of that resolution will hit US screens.
[August 16, 2005, 13:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Sky Ear is a glowing cloud of a thousand helium balloons filled with mobile phones and electromagnetic sensors that emit blue, red and yellow lights when activated. At 19:00 hours that evening, there'll be a lunar eclipse -- and at the same time...
[April 8, 2004, 17:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Behind the presenter, one wall had been painted blue -- and it was onto this that the BBC was superimposing an old picture of the newsroom currently being gutted and tarted up ready for the battle with Sky News.
[November 14, 2003, 15:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The sky is a stark, clear blue as I climb out of the tube station: the route to the venue involves walking along the great congested artery of the A40, past endless car show-rooms, low-rise malls and bleak 1930s industrial units.
[June 18, 2004, 18:45]
IBM Stays Top Of The Supercomputer League
News IBM also won a $24m contract to build "Blue Sky" at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) by September 2002. In a research project, IBM will build a system called Blue Gene/L with 65,000 processors at Lawrence Livermore National...
[November 9, 2001, 12:07]
Vignette To Split 2-for-1
News Vignette announced Thursday a two-for-one split as it continues to see blue sky following a strong third quarter. Shares in the company that makes e-relationship software products and services closed Wednesday at 173, after being pushed to new...
[November 4, 1999, 14:24]
Asus Gets Futuristic With Modular PC
News Laptop manufacturer Asus on Wednesday unveiled a blue-sky design for a modular PC that stacks on a shelf. The separate modules would both communicate wirelessly and be powered wirelessly through inductive charging - something that isn't feasible...
[February 23, 2006, 16:25]
Put Safety First In The Rush To Get Hosted
Leader It's always exciting to see an idea make it through the life cycle from blue-sky concept to actual product you can play with. Google has just helped web applications through this metamorphosis, with the launch last week of its Google Apps Premier...
[February 26, 2007, 15:28]
HP Unveils Its Vision Of The Future
News In a blue-sky presentation at the HP Mobility Summit in San Francisco last week, Phil McKinney, chief technology officer for HP Personal Systems Group, presented the company's vision for a future where wrist watches connect to nearly any wireless...
[May 15, 2006, 15:00]
Wednesday
Blog The sun is high, the sky is blue, and the curious Mediterranean habit of the siesta becomes quite tempting. Wednesday 9/7/2003Ah, the lazy, hazy days of summer. Even the staunchest, most sclerotic Englishman born and raised under slate-grey skies...
[July 11, 2003, 15:06]
Expensive Gimmick Or Real Innovation
Talkback I am always a sucker for something new and flashy - and while Surface might turn out to be another Microsoft hardware white elephant - it's heartening to some degree to see Redmond sticking its neck out slightly with something a bit wacky and blue...
[October 3, 2007, 16:36]
IPhone Mania - Nuff Already
Blog No matter what the hardware is or isn't, whether it has two batteries or one battery or Steorn's Magic Magnet Ju-Ju Rotato-Potato sucking juice from the very fabric of space and time, whether it's white, black or sky-blue pink.it doesn't matter.
[December 11, 2006, 9:33]
