Outlook for Bangalore: Cloudy. Experts on cloud computing -- that fancy term for using supercomputers and amped-up servers for remote services -- will gather in India. Ahead of the meeting, we called Ramnath K. Chellappa, the ...READ»
Seventy products. Six minutes each. No PowerPoint. "Those are the rules," says DEMO exec Neal Silverman. "We're looking for real products, not canned presentations." For almost 20 years, this Gong Show -- style approach has helped ...READ»
The last time kids paid to watch crazy things fall from the sky, Disney's Chicken Little gobbled up $135 million stateside. We think that bodes well for Sony's Meatballs, the latest in the genre, in which a goofy scientific experiment ...READ»
Did anyone really expect the United Nations to have a serious, implementable plan for climate change by mid-December's convention in Copenhagen? We were skeptical after negotiations in Bali and Bonn, and apparently we're not alone. A ...READ»
There's a lot of disagreement about how best to move toward a sustainable future, but most everyone agrees on one particular point: our electricity grid, as it stands, is outdated and horribly, horribly inefficient. D.C.'s GridWeek ...READ»
NASA recently leveled with the Obama administration: without a lot more funding, we're not going back to the moon. It's straight to Mars for the United States, and that's not going to be a cheap trip either. With that news in mind, ...READ»
While Washington spends yet another day failing to reform health care, New York is hosting 250 companies that are actively pushing the envelope in the pharmaceutical, medical, and biotech fields. The UBS Global Life Sciences ...READ»
Back when information transport systems were but networks of hard wires moving telephone signals, Building Industry Consulting Service International pulled itself together from a handful of small telcos looking to discuss concerns in ...READ»
Ben Bernanke says the recession is "very likely over." We remain respectfully skeptical. But to shed a some light on the view from the captain's chair, BusinessWeek editor in chief Steven J. Adler will host a live interview Citigroup ...READ»
Cryptografreaks and booksellers, rejoice! Brown's newest novel, which covers a 12-hour period in the ever-puzzling life of Da Vinci Code protagonist Robert Langdon, hits shelves with an initial print run of 5 million. That's only half ...READ»
