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Archive for February, 2007

putting your request into words

Posted by maz on February 14th, 2007

Powerset, Inc. is licensing PARC’s “natural language technology” and want’s to use it for a new search engine. The basic idea is to make searching processes easier by using quite natural language instead of special “search language” with keywords exclusions and so on. The explicit target of Powerset is to rival Google one day. There [...]

digital scroll

Posted by maz on February 13th, 2007

This week the 3GSM World Congress takes place in Barcelona. In this setting Polymer Vision announces it’s mobile device “Readius” with a rollable touch screen display. It has also been nominated for “The most innovative Technology Development”-Award. In co-operation with Telekom Italia the company want’s to market the first commercial model in 2007. Credit: Polymer [...]

blogging platform test

Posted by maz on February 11th, 2007

PC World conducted a test of five different blogging platforms. WordPress’ rating: 88 points – “Very Good” good option for anyone looking to host a blog on their own domain

show the innovation your appreciation

Posted by maz on February 9th, 2007

Jeffrey Phillips’ post “What kills innovation” concludes that missing feedback is one of the most powerful innovation killers. I agree that you can hush up new ideas and that this will cause the “fountain of innovations” to run dry sooner or later. But I think that we should abstract it one level. A company can’t [...]

clean energy

Posted by maz on February 8th, 2007

BMW initiated a plattform for “Pioneering Clean Energy” called Club of Pioneers. Although – or even because – it’s naturally that this is a part of the company’s marketing, it also an indication that the topic is attracting more and more attention. To my mind it will be one of the most challenging tasks for [...]


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