Technology
Mobile Marketing Terminology and Washington’s Mobile Marketing Companies
MOBILE MARKETING TERMINOLOGY Location-based services (LBS) refers to an applications ability to take advantage of a mobile devices abilityeither with GPS or triangulating between cell towersto pinpoint its users geo-location. The service can be used, for example, to bring up ads for nearby businesses and shops. MMS is picture messaging. It is an enhancement to…
F5 Networks Added to S&P 500 Index. Stock Soars
F5 Networks was added today to the S&P 500 Index, joining an exclusive club of Washington companies already listed including Amazon, Costco, Expedia, Expeditors International, Microsoft, Nordstrom, PACCAR. Starbucks, Nordstrom, Plum Creek Timber and Weyerhaeuser. F5’s shareprice has been on a tear boosted by the growing popularity of cloud computing. The company’s shareprice soared by…
Washington Ranks Second as Innovation-based Economy
Washington ranked second as an innovation-based economy in a report released today by ITIF and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Surprisingly, the prestigious report placed Massachussetts in 1st place and California in 8th place. Washington’s high ranking came in part from the diversity of its economy with strong performance in a range of areas from…
Gates Foundation to Spend $500 Million to Help Create Savings Systems for the World’s Poor
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced today it would spend $500 million over five years to help develop institutions that enable the poor to open savings accounts. The program to encourage financial inclusion targets the two fifths of the people in the world who earn less than $2 a day. These poor arent served…
Got Kinect? Hacked it yet?
It shouldn’t be a surprise when new products get hacked almost as soon as they are released. “Hacked” is a relative term with many possible meanings. In this case, New York-based Adafruit Industries recently offered a bounty of $2,000 to anyone who could deliver “Open source drivers for this cool USB device.” That device is…
Dell Kicks Out Blackberry in Win for Microsoft
Dell is making the move in an effort to promote it’s own phones as well as to cut costs, the Wall Street Journal reports. Blackberry phones made by Research in Motion are expensive to use because they require payment for RIM servers. The move shows the vulnerability of RIM and a possible opening in the…
Top Innovators: University of Washington/Zensi
You probably dont know it yet, but each appliance in your home sings its own particular song. Recognizing that song could help households cut their energy consumption. Shwetak Patel and his students at the University of Washington have developed intelligent in-home sensors that are able to differentiate between different appliances drawing gas through a line…
Top Innovators: Nanocel Inc.
Washington state is full of large data centers operated by the likes of Google and Microsoft. And just like your laptop or home computer, these data centers need to stay cool to keep running. In fact, keeping data centers cool is one of the biggest problems the industry faces. The cost of powering infrastructure to…
Top Innovators: LaserMotive
From left: Jordin Kare, Tom Nugent and Dave Bashford of LaserMotive, with a model of an experiment in remote refueling. LaserMotive is revolutionizing energy with a technology called laser power beaming, a method of transferring energy from an electrical power supply to a receiver using a laser beam instead of a wire. President and CEO…
Top Innovators: Pacinian
Think your phones touchscreen keyboard is too futuristic for your taste? Jim Schlosser and Cody Petersen have a way to give it that old-fashioned feel youre used to. They founded Pacinian in 2007 to tackle a tough tactile problem. Cell phone keyboards made a rapid jump from physical to virtual when they began using touchscreen-based…
Top Innovators: Optify
If youre a B2B marketerif not a CEO in your own rightyou understand the importance of social media. Understanding social media is one thing, but harnessing its power is another challenge altogether. So how do business owners implement tools like Facebook, Twitter and Digg to bolster their companies growth? And how does one measure the…
Top Innovators: B.E. Meyers Electro Optics
In 1974, Brad Meyers began selling optical equipmenttelescopes, for the most partto astronomers and hobbyists. Thirty-six years later, B.E. Meyers Electro Optics is at the forefront of electro-optical technology, manufacturing laser-targeting systems, weapons-mounted and handheld lasers, and long-range, night-vision optics. So how did this Redmond-based firm grow from a one-man show into a booming, 180-employee…
Top Innovators: Microvision
Alexander Tokman and Sid Madhavan are the driving force behind Microvisions ShowWX, a pocket-size, laser pico projector that allows you to view your photos, videos and presentations anywhere, anytime. The ingenious ShowWX is barely larger than an iPhone, and can project images up to 100 inches away with laser-sharp 848×480 resolution. The devicewhich never needs…