The Study on electric fish in 1800’s by Alessandro Volta, which mimics how electric fish store and release electricity was similar to how a modern battery works. Now a new study, by Kenneth C. Catania, a biologist at Vanderbilt University, reveals a remarkable sophistication in the way electric eels deploy their shocks. Similar to a taser, but studies show some remarkable features of the eel’s shock. Read More>>
Monthly Archives: December 2014
10 Best Social Media Wins of 2014
A lot of attention gets given to how brands fail on social media, but 2014 also saw some major brand wins. This article gives us a look into some of the successful branding through social media in 2014. Read More>>
Belden to buy cybersecurity firm Tripwire for $710 million
Tripwire, a Portland-based cybersecurity firm will be accquired by Belden Inc, a maker of networking and cable products or $710 million. This will allow the companies to deliver cybersecurity solutions across industrial and broadcast markets. The deal is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2015. Read More>>
Special Report: How Sony Systems Were Hacked
The hack into computer systems at Sony Pictures resulted in the release of numerous confidential corporate documents and email files. How these confidential data was released has been solved by investigators.
According to the investigators, The hackers apparently gained access to Sony’s systems by obtaining the login credentials of a high-level systems administrator in Sony’s I.T. department. Once the credentials were in the hands of the hackers, they were granted “keys to the entire building. Read More>>
Rothenberg Ventures Opens Virtual Reality Accelerator Offering 10 Startups $100K And A Clubhouse
Rothenberg Ventures has launched a VR accelerator called River to provide a shared office and $100,000 investments to 10 startups. Rothenberg hopes that the VR itechnology will transform every industry over the next decade or two. Read More>>
BAE Systems announces Eclipse Electronic Systems acquisition and closure of SilverSky deal
BAE Systems has announced that it would purchase Texas-based EES an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) products company for USD 28 million. This acquisition is described as a “strategy to invest in advanced technologies critical to US national security and defence needs”. Read More>>
Kleiner Perkins, Al Gore, Revolution Growth invest $50M in Optoro, a Lanham start-up
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm has invested $50 million on a start-up called Optoro. Kleiner is known to have supported some of the most iconic businesses in the world. The latest being Optoro, which began a decade ago in the Brown University dorm room of a Washington entrepreneur, builds software that enables big-box retailers to redirect their unsold or returned inventory, from laptops to blenders, to online sites such as eBay and Amazon.com. Read More>>
Should You Raise Venture Capital? This Litmus Test Will Help You Decide
Intel Launches Internet Of Things Platform
Intel’s Internet of Things (IoT) Platform consists of a device reference model for Internet-enabled devices that utilizes the company’s hardware and software. The market for loT is expected to reach $7.1 trillion in sales by 2020. Intel has partnered with a handful of consultancies, including Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, Capgemini, Dell, HCL, NTT Data, SAP, Tata Consultancy, and Wipro in order to ensure the continued involvement in IoT development and deployment. Read More>>
University Education: Convergence Analytics and the Internet of Everything
The skills taught in university classrooms and the skills needed and looked for in real-world JOBS have a stark and growing imbalance. The real challenge is whether university education is the next market to be disrupted in the U.S. economy.To land a good job position to make a college-worthy career is every student’s ultimate goal, and the same is being questioned with all their high-priced education and gargantuan debt LOANS that doesn’t yield the end result. Data and convergence aanalytic are embedded into each of our lives. And yet students graduate without the skill sets to even BEGIN to understand, or let alone build, the products. Read More>>
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