Google Glass more than the sum of its parts

Teardown analysis is a useful tool for understanding the component and manufacturing cost of electronics devices – but it doesn’t always tell the whole story of the value of a product. Case in point is Google Glass, which sells for $1 500 – but has...

New polymers pack a punch

Scientists from IBM Research have successfully discovered a new class of polymer materials that can potentially transform manufacturing and fabrication in the fields of transportation, aerospace and microelectronics. Through the unique approach of combining high...

Customer-centric firms will thrive in future

Companies need to become customer-centric to meet new market expectations. This is one of the messages from an International Data Corporation (IDC) report, IDC MaturityScape: Social Business, designed to help companies assess competency and maturity in the use of...

Application infrastructure, middleware grows

The worldwide application infrastructure and middleware (AIM) software revenue market totalled $21,5-billion in 2013, a 5,6% increase from 2012, according to Gartner. “Application infrastructure and middleware projects are becoming the cornerstone of the digital...

Seasonal decline for storage sales

The worldwide personal and entry-level storage (PELS) market was down -6,9% year-over-year, with nearly 19-million units shipped in the first quarter of 2014 (1Q14). This is according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Personal and Entry Level...

Intel Science prize goes to cancer project

15-year-old Nathan Han of Boston has been awarded first place for developing a machine learning software tool to study mutations of a gene linked to breast cancer at this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Using data from publicly available...