The commercialization of emerging technologies is no easy feat. These are lessons in how companies large and small meet the challenge of getting new technologies to market. Sometimes they are success stories--and sometimes they're not.
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 - The Secret of Apple Design
- The inside (sort of) story of why Apple's industrial-design machine has been so successful.
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Apple, Inc. has made an art of not talking about its products. Fans, journalists, and rumormongers who love it or love to hate it have long had to practice a sort of Kremlinology to gather the merest hints as to what is coming next out of Cupertino. Read More
- Mining for Cheap Flights
- Farecast claims to offer cheap tickets based on science, not marketing.
- The "New" Apple
- It's only not a computer company in name. Apple remains true to its roots.
- Faster Mapping Speeds Up the Search for Oil
- New algorithms are helping Shell to map possible oil reservoirs deep below the Gulf of Mexico.
- An Artificial Heart That Doesn't Beat
- A new concept for an artificial heart could solve some problems with older models--and test the idea that we don't need a pulse.
- Putting Patent Trolls on the Defensive
- Attorney Dan Ravicher is campaigning against overly broad software patents and the companies that use them to threaten or eliminate the competition.
- A Better Memory Chip
- Freescale's new product could outperform the competition and usher in a new breed of electronic devices.
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- A Practical Internet for Your Phone
- A new startup combines multiple Web services in order to painlessly glean a simple answer from the Internet.
- Servers for Hire
- Amazon.com is selling the computing resources originally developed to handle its own business. CEO Jeff Bezos explained why, after his keynote at the Emerging Technologies Conference yesterday.
- Putting Pictures in Their Place
- The popular photo-sharing website Flickr has made it easy to place pictures on a map--potentially changing Web search, travel, and local news.
- Turning Slash into Cash
- A portable plant might make it economical to transform huge amounts of logging "waste" into energy -- right in the forest.
- The $1 Million Netflix Challenge
- VP Jim Bennett discusses how recommendation systems suggest your next movie and the challenges of building a better one.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology