Topic: Boeing Company

Jatropha World 2010

Could a homely succulent save the planet? Maybe. Oil squeezed from the Jatropha curcas plant helped fuel a train from Delhi to Mumbai and a 90-minute Boeing jet ride in Houston last year. Some scientists grouse that years of ...READ»

Now: October 2010

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• Read: How Did I Get Here?
• Protect: Convention on Biological Diversity
• Veg Out: 100th Anniversary of the Cathode-Ray Tube

NASA Finds Cash to Fund Fast, Clever, Unusual Tech For Future Space, Air Missions

NASA's revealed three projects that give us insight into some of its future plans: The watchwords are innovative, fast, new. Is NASA trying to shed its lumbering institutional ways?READ»

Real-Time Space Weather Forecasting Now Possible, Innovation Front Sweeping in From the Far North

Space weather affects your life more than you may think, and now some new science experiments, leveraging Iridium's array of satellite phone spacecraft, may let scientists measure it in real time to better understand the phenomenon.READ»

Major Companies Are Downloading the Data From Those 100 Million Public Facebook Profiles

Yesterday, a white hat hacker (the good kind) made the public data from 100 million Facebook profiles available to everyone. Today, somebody found out who's interested in it. The names include Apple, Disney, the Church of Scientology, Halliburton, and the UN.READ»

What Will Commercial Aircraft Look Like in 2050?

Boeing's 747-8 jumbo jet may represent the best of what engineers have to offer now, but Airbus has reached 40 years into future and come back with a design that barely resembles the aircraft of today. The Concept Plane, revealed ...READ»

Space Shuttle Winds Down, Project Orion Winds Up

Just two scheduled Space Shuttle flights remain before the most complex machine ever made is grounded, and support companies are now restructuring their staffing levels. Good thing, then, that Orion is on track. The United Space ...READ»

MIT Designs Ultra-Efficient, Flying Fishlike Planes

The next major replacements for the Boeing 737 and 777 models might not come from Boeing at all. MIT researchers recently presented NASA with two models for efficient, low emissions planes--part of a $2.1 million research contract ...READ»

Boeing Rapid-Prototypes Its Phantom Ray Spy Plane Into Flight

Boeing's newest research aircraft got a public unveiling yesterday, which is interesting for such a future-facing aircraft that's surely destined for a ton of cloak-and-dagger work. It's an unmanned spy plane, and even its looks are ...READ»

A History of America's Military-Industrial Complex

Highs and lows in the relationship between the U.S. armed forces and the corporate world.READ»

• Joint Venture
• Mullen on the Move
• Military Time

Green Business Sustainable Economics

Currently, over 34-million Americans regularly telecommute, working from a virtual wireless platform reports the U.S. Department of Commerce. Fueled by high-speed broadband adoption, better collaboration tools (SaaS), and growing ...READ»

USAF's Little X-37B Space Shuttle: More Military Than NASA's

The fuss about NASA's future and the end of the Space Shuttle overshadowed one fact: NASA's not the biggest space agency in the U.S. The military is test-launching its own tiny space plane today, in fact, and it's damn creepy.The ...READ»

Get Real By Looking Outside Your Organization

Bob Lutz, the 77-year old veteran car executive, said that when he joined General Motors in 2002, the company’s culture was “inwardly focused not customer focused.” As Lutz who will retire next month explained in an interview on ...READ»

How Ford's Sync Technology Will Turn It Into America's Most Surprising Consumer Electronics Company [Update]

The next generation of Ford's Sync technology will turn its cars into rolling, talking, socially networked, cloud-connected supermachines. Introducing America's most surprising consumer-electronics company.READ»

• Have You Talked to a Ford--Lately?

3D TV Virtual Worlds

How much do you know about new “virtual worlds and 3D TV” technology developments? Maybe, you thought they were just a lot of online video game hype for kids but look deeper into today’s virtual world platforms like Second Life ...READ»

Cindy Padnos, founder of Illuminate Ventures

By the time Cindy Padnos founded venture-capital firm Illuminate Ventures in 2009, she'd pretty much done it all. She had worked the tech circuit in corporate America, provided management consulting for companies from Apple to Boeing, and even launched her own software as a service company, Vivant. She felt her foray into venture funding was the natural next step.READ»

Why You Should Start a Company in... Portland, Oregon

Long known as one of the most livable cities in the country (with plenty of high-octane coffee to be had), Portland is now building a reputation for innovation, as well. READ»

The Fast Company Guide to Boeing's Jumbo-est Jumbo, the 747-8

Late yesterday, Boeing's 747-8 freighter prototype number three lumbered into the Spring sky above Everett's Paine Field on its maiden flight. It then flew about successfully for two and a half hours before swooping heavily down on ...READ»

Cleantech: Can David Learn to Love Goliath

Traveling around Silicon Valley last week, I heard the David vs. Goliath story over and again, but in surprisingly different versions. In some, David (in the form of a cleantech start-up) aims to kill incumbent market giants, in ...READ»

Why You Should Start a Company in… Chicago

President Obama is not the only leader who has thrived in the Windy City. READ»

Most Innovative Companies - Defense

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Most Innovative Companies - Transportation

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Most Innovative Companies - Company Index

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Most Innovative Companies - All Stars

These companies, featured on our 2008 and 2009 honor rolls, fought a dour economy with renewed creativity and bold initiatives. (Alas, not all fared ...READ»

It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's...an Infographic?

South African airline Kulula launches a new fleet of conveniently labeled jets.READ»