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The Future and Challenges of Technology for the Prosperity and Well-Being of the WorldThe powerpoint presentation of Michael Lightner, 2005 IEEE Presedent Elect. Includes the information about the emerging technology trends as well as challenges, the historical context and current data. Active
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Document Date: 10.11.2005
Source/Author: Michael Lightner, PhD

Disruptive Technologies: Semantic WebIt is 2010. Your company survived the economic downturn earlier in the millennium by smartly relocating product sub-assembly to Brazil, hiring third-parties to manage non-mission-critical IT functions and retraining your best production managers to oversee quality assurance. A service-oriented architecture (SOA) was also deployed to enable tighter integration of departmental and factory systems. Active
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Document Date: 04.22.2005
Source/Author: Managing Automation

New Technologies that Disrupt the 'Norm' Foster InnovationSuzy Barile of Triangle Business Journal traces the progress of disruptive technologies from 1864 to the current times. While "disruptive" in the music industry, "in the software development business, disruptive technology comes in the guise of offshore outsourcing. And that suits the business model of DataArt - an offshore software outsourcing company serving small to mid-sized clients in the United States and Europe - just fine," states the article. The story quotes the company President Eugene Goland, "While outsourcing has always been a part of everyday life for every organization, it is only now that businesses have access to (a) multitude of vendors around the globe and are no longer limited to choices of their geographical neighbors and local pricing". Active
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Document Date: 04.18.2005
Source/Author: Data Art

The Myth of Disruptive TechnologyPeople love a good, unified explanation for the ways things are. One current favorite is the concept of disruptive technology, a coinage and concept put forth by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen and explained in his book The Innovator's Dilemma. This guy has so many honors that apparently whatever he says is gospel. The concept of disruptive technology goes to the top of my list as the biggest crock of the new millennium. Active
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Document Date: 08.17.2004
Source/Author: John C. Dvorak

Disruptive TechnologiesIn 1894, when Italian Guglielmo Marconi invented a way to send messages through the air, the Italian government turned down his offer of first rights because it saw no use for the technology. After all, Marconi's crude prototype could only send signals a hundred yards -- hardly a match for the increasingly popular telephone. Active
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Document Date: 01.27.2003
Source/Author: Joab Jackson

Disruptive Technologies Can Be UsefulAttention, all you technology project managers: it's no longer just cool to be disruptive. Now, it's a business mandate. PDF Download ADVERTISEMENT Thanks to the popularization of the term by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christiansen, the delivery of a "disruptive technology" has become a badge of honor many vendors have tried to pin on their chests. Napster was disruptive—it changed the entire landscape of the entertainment industry, too much for its own good. Active
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Document Date: 11.01.2002
Source/Author: Sean Gallagher

Blogs: A Disruptive Technology Coming of Age?To blog or not to blog, that is increasingly the question for those of us supporting our academic communities. Lest you think the editor fell asleep and missed correcting that last sentence, some background is in order. In 1997 Jorn Barger coined the phrase Weblog to describe a site that combined links, commentaries, and personal thoughts and essays from the perspective of the Weblog author. Active
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Document Date: 10.01.2002
Source/Author: Phillip D. Long

Disruptive Technologies: A Credible Threat to Leading Programs in Continuing Medical Education?[no sample text is available] Active
Type: Technical Paper
Document Date: 11.22.1999
Source/Author: Clayton M. Christensen, DBA and Elizabeth G. Armstrong, PhD

Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Things Right Is Wrong Recently featured on the cover of Forbes with Intel chairman Andrew Grove, Associate Professor Clayton M. Christensen is the author of The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. His research on "disruptive technologies" - new products that make inroads into established markets - is sounding a wake-up call for corporate strategists. Active
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Document Date: 04.01.1999
Source/Author: Peter K. Jacobs

Disruptive TechnologyA disruptive technology is a new technological innovation, product, or service that eventually overturns the existing dominant technology in the market, despite the fact that the disruptive technology is both radically different than the leading technology and that it often initially performs worse than the leading technology according to existing measures of performance. Active
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Source/Author: Wikipedia

Disruptive TechnologyDisruptive technology is a term coined by Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen to describe a new technology that unexpectedly displaces an established technology. In his 1997 best-selling book, "The Innovator's Dilemma," Christensen separates new technology into two categories: sustaining and disruptive. Active
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Source/Author: SearchCIO.com-Definitions

Disruptive TechnologyThe Innovator's Dilemma - When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business School Press (1997), is a very perceptive analysis of the dynamics of technological advance - especially the introduction of radically new products. Active
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Source/Author: Access to Energy

Disruptive TechnologyA new technology that has a serious impact on the status quo and changes the way people have been dealing with something, perhaps for decades. Music CDs all but wiped out the phonograph industry within a few years, and digital cameras are destined to eliminate the film industry. The most disruptive technologies in history have been the telephone, the computer (and all of its offshoots) and the Internet. Active
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Source/Author: Answer.com

Disruptive Technology ChannelsGreat new technology products always disrupt. Think TiVo, Napster, iPod - these products have not only disrupted the consumer electronics market, but also the TV & music industries, changing the way we buy, share and consume content. Active
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Source/Author: Disruptive Technology Channels

Linux, the "Disruptive Technology," Gains New Champion Fresh From World of High Finance"We saw the promise of Linux early at Credit Suisse First Boston, so I am excited to be able to make a personal contribution to help drive this disruptive technology by participating on OSDL's board of directors," said CSFB's former managing director and Global CIO, Frank J. Fanzilli Jr., as it was announced last week that he'd be joining the board of directors of the Open Source Development Labs. Active
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Source/Author: LinuxWorld News Desk

Special Report: Disruptive technologiesReady for a change in the way you and your organization work? These 10 technologies beneficially disrupt the business world's status quo and make information more accessible. Active
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Source/Author: Info World

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Emerging & Disruptive Technologies | Gartner Perspectives
Chris has modified 'Emerging & Disruptive Technologies | Gartner Perspectives' on the calendar for September 18.
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IBM demonstrates light-emitting nanotube
Watson Research Center have demonstrated control of the spectrum, direction and efficiency of light-emitting nanotubes (LENs), bringing silicon photonics one step closer to reality. According to an IBM spokesperson, nanotubes usually ...
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Disruptive Technologies � Part 3: the Music Edit
Staunch critics of this defining evolution of technologies might still find neither Napster nor the.
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This week's calendar, Aug. 28 to Sept. 3
2 Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling Panel Representatives of three firms featured in the "Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling" exhibit on view at MoMA will present their views on "digital fabrication and mass ... (08-27-2008)
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The Synergistic Convergence of Multiple Disruptive Technologies
Xbox 360 + Connect360 + MacBook Pro + Airport Extreme + external 500 gig USB2 hard drive = media centre awesomeness! (I confess I stole the title from here because that title rocks. And fits.) (08-27-2008)
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Tinysaur!
... warnings, and expressions into various Apple products. Martin perfectly somes up the excitement of digital fabrication and the web on his blog with:. “Now we can e-mail THINGS from Berlin to New York and vice versa!” (08-27-2008)
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Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling event at the Center ...
... the Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling exhibition on view at MoMA through October 20 will present their views on digital fabrication and mass customization and engage in a panel discussion moderated by Peter Christensen. ... (08-27-2008)
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Gartner Identifies Top Ten Disruptive Technologies for 2008 to 2012
Gartner Identifies Top Ten Disruptive Technologies for 2008 to 2012 Following on from yesterday’s post ‘Information is Power’ here is an IT based forecast covering the next 4 years. Before you take it too seriously, there are plenty of ... (08-27-2008)
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Kerala Citizen Bloggers
Friends, I have started blogging in Kerala Citizen Bloggers. It is an effort from a group of passionate bloggers to blog for a cause. We are citizens and we we have a voice. This time we wont let it go unheard of. ... (08-27-2008)
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Nano, nano: Silicon photonics moves closer to reality
It's a light-emitting nanotube: IBM researchers have seized control of the spectrum, direction and efficiency of light-emitting nanotubes, or LENs, by putting a LEN inside an optical waveguide -- this allows the scientists to manage ... (08-26-2008)
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Asianet Selling Tears
Now read this post from a friend :- Idea Star Singer Sentiments and Foul Plays. Add to Del.cio.us, RSS Feed, Add to Technorati Favorites, Stumble It! www.sajithmr.com. Share This. Tags: asianet, idea star singer. Related posts ... (08-25-2008)
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Innovative Spamming Method From Kotak Mahindra Bank
I had an account with Kotak Mahindra Bank 6 months ago. I had closed the account and withdrew all the money because I was not operating the account. But the bank keeps sending me this message once every week. ... (08-24-2008)
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Intel Scientists Create World’s Fastest Silicon Photonics Device
Silicon Photonics research at Intel began in the mid-1990s with efforts to test and measure transistors switching inside microprocessors optically. Although silicon appears opaque to the naked eye, it is transparent to infrared light. ... (08-23-2008)
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The Real Singh (King) and The King Maker
Image Courtesy :- Rachel Chitra. Add to Del.cio.us, RSS Feed, Add to Technorati Favorites, Stumble It! www.sajithmr.com. Share This. Tags: BJP, congress, Manmohan, singh is king, Sonia. Related posts. No related posts. (08-23-2008)
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Disruptive Technologies Part 2: Music Editors And Steam Engines ...
John C. Dvorak, a very reputed columnist, fervently argues that there is no Clay Christensen disruptive technology in its very own coined definition: disruptive technologies are low performers, less expensive technologies that enter a ... (08-20-2008)
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Silicon Photonics Fast Becoming Commercial Reality
First-generation silicon photonics products are now available from a handful of suppliers, a development that promises to have major implications for a wide range of telecom and networking tec... (08-13-2008)
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Silicon Photonics Fast Becoming a Commercial Reality, Report Finds
As silicon photonics emerge in telecom and networking technologies, OEMs should understand new developments to better their businesses, says Light Reading Insider. (08-13-2008)
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Disruptive Technologies and the Innovator’s Dilemma
In 1995 Clayton Christensen coined the terms “disruptive technology” and “disruptive innovations” to describe technological innovations, products or services that use a “disruptive” strategy rather than “revolutionary” or “sustaining” ... (08-12-2008)
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DIGITAL FABRICATION EXAMPLES
Digital Fabrication Rip Elements. The whole object is made in Rhino and fabricated with Lasercutter Get the description here http://www.box.net/shared/dgcagb9qjz. (08-09-2008)
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Digital Fabrication: In Terms of Endearment
We now have the ability through the computer and digital fabrication to quickly create objects of stunning preciousness even with banal materials such as corrugated cardboard, concrete, and plywood. I offer this essay: ... (08-08-2008)
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Digital Fabrication Lab Manager
Summary The School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University seeks a motivated individual as the Manager for the recently created Digital Fabrication Lab. The Digital Fabrication Lab (dFAB) is a world-class ‘hands-on' rapid ... (08-07-2008)
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AA digital fabrication lab.
You can find some interesting images about the digital fabrication lab at this flickr set and more info and slides of the projects at this blog. I found Mattia in this set ;) In the first image above at the right you can see the DRL ... (07-31-2008)
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Temporary Digital Fabrication Technician
We currently have an opening for a Part-Time Temporary Digital Fabrication Technician who will provide training, orientation and instruction to users and lab monitors in the safe use of digital fabrication equipment. ... (07-23-2008)
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2 PhD Research Students in Silicon Photonics
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences - University of Surrey / Date of entry: 22/07/08. (07-22-2008)
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Germanium Photodetectors Enable Scalable Silicon Photonics
Silicon photonics has seen considerable activity over the last few years, with major breakthroughs in modulation, fiber-to-chip coupling, and wavelength-division multiplexing filters. These components have been integrated into complex ... (07-17-2008)
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quality & art 15: digital fabrication 3
crystal skull, british museum let's face it, fellow visual artists: digital fabrication is one of many upcoming technological developments that will shake the paradigms of art...without changing the essence of art, but with farreaching ... (07-07-2008)
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LaN takes off JULY 11
LaN focuses on DIGITAL FABRICATION as a means to forwarding composite processes/collaborations driving architectural development. LaN recognizes the power of digital fabrication, not merely as a toolset of of a high technical caliber, ... (07-07-2008)
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Intel silicon photonics chip for superfast 200Gbps networking
Intel has unveiled a test version of a silicon photonics chip that can encode 200 gigabits of data per second on a beam of light, that's twice as much as today's fastest optical networks. The advantage of Intel's chip is that it's made ... (07-03-2008)
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Intel Silicon Photonics chip
Hi,. This is one of the Worlds Fastest and prettiest chip by Intel. See the Details for more info :D. MIT’s Tech Review has the scoop that Intel’s wizards have come upwith a new chip entirely made out of silicon that “can encode 200 ... (07-03-2008)
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Intel Silicon Photonics Chip Is World's Fastest (and Prettiest ...
MIT's Tech Review ">has the scoop that Intel's wizards have come upwith a new chip entirely made out of silicon that "can encode 200 gigabits of data per second on a beam of light" versus the measly 100 Gbps that the fastest optical ... (07-02-2008)
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2008 Michigan Growth Capital Symposium Synopsis - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
2008 Michigan Growth Capital Symposium SynopsisStephen M. Ross School of Business, MI - 7 hours agoCompanies seeking venture capital dollars will need to identify disruptive technologies that are sustainable and offer more than incremental improvements ...
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Gartner says businesses should monitor social trends -- well, no duh - Computerworld
Gartner says businesses should monitor social trends -- well, no duhComputerworld, MA - Aug 27, 2008... not be so obvious is that CIOs are in a great poisition to play a leadership role in helping their CEOs spot new trends and "disruptive technologies. ... (08-27-2008)
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Replay Solutions Receives $11 Million Investment From Sigma ... - MarketWatch
Replay Solutions Receives $11 Million Investment From Sigma ...MarketWatch - Aug 27, 2008... demonstrating high return potential and disruptive technologies in the Software & Internet, Communications & Components and Healthcare IT sectors. ... (08-27-2008)
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KORE Telematics Machine-to-Machine Network Services Now Available ... - Wireless Developer Network (press release)
KORE Telematics Machine-to-Machine Network Services Now Available ...Wireless Developer Network (press release) - Aug 27, 2008... Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2025 report, which examines six potentially disruptive technologies that could emerge in the next fifteen years. ... (08-27-2008)
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Digital looking strong - Director of Finance online
Digital looking strongDirector of Finance online, UK - Aug 27, 2008... mushroomed with mounting venture capital investment moving in this direction anticipating the returns that these disruptive technologies will produce. ... (08-27-2008)
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Red Herring 100 Award recognizes BlueCat Networks' impressive IPAM ... - MarketWatch
Red Herring 100 Award recognizes BlueCat Networks' impressive IPAM ...MarketWatch - Aug 26, 2008"With venture capital flowing again, it's exciting to see technology innovators and business investors collaborate to create disruptive technologies," ... (08-26-2008)
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IT Spending Rises Despite Tough Economic Times - Enterprise Systems
IT Spending Rises Despite Tough Economic TimesEnterprise Systems - Aug 26, 2008What's surprising, according to Gartner, is that PC sales should continue to soar -- in spite of disruptive technologies such as virtualization and Web 2.0 ... (08-26-2008)
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Va. Tech braces for state's knife - New River Valley Current
Va. Tech braces for state's knifeNew River Valley Current, VA - Aug 25, 2008The program will focus on interactive new media and design and digital fabrication and imaging. If approved by the State Council of Higher Education for ... (08-26-2008)
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Justin Rattner, CTO of Intel, Agrees that the Singularity is near - Next Big Future
Justin Rattner, CTO of Intel, Agrees that the Singularity is nearNext Big Future, CA - Aug 25, 2008A silicon photonics demo transmitted data at 3.2 gigabits per second from and to a microprocessor using optical signals. - wireless transmission of 60 watts ... (08-26-2008)
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Intel CTO presents a glimpse of the tech future - EE Times India
Intel CTO presents a glimpse of the tech futureEE Times India, India - Aug 25, 2008He said silicon photonics would soon enable ultawide bandwidth communications both on-chip and off. Intel is focusing its photonics efforts on developing ... (08-25-2008)
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IBM demonstrates light-emitting nanotube - EETimes.com
IBM demonstrates light-emitting nanotubeEETimes.com - Aug 25, 2008s Thomas J. Watson Research Center, bringing silicon photonics one step closer to reality. IBM Research (Yorktown Heights, NY) previously demonstrated ... (08-25-2008)
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IBM demonstrates light-emitting nanotube - EETimes.com
IBM demonstrates light-emitting nanotubeEETimes.com - Aug 25, 2008s Thomas J. Watson Research Center, bringing silicon photonics one step closer to reality. IBM Research (Yorktown Heights, NY) previously demonstrated ... (08-25-2008)
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Intel touts progress toward intelligent computers - CNET News
CNET NewsIntel touts progress toward intelligent computersCNET News, CA - Aug 22, 2008... for shape-shifting devices such as resizable cell phones, and silicon photonics that enables chips to communicate with photons rather than electrons. ... (08-22-2008)
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Intel Research and Development: 40 Years Over the Rainbow - InformationWeek
Intel Research and Development: 40 Years Over the RainbowInformationWeek, NY - Aug 21, 2008Silicon photonics is another project Intel R&D is working on. Brian Koch from UC Santa Barbara said “Photons move almost losslessly and require very little ... (08-21-2008)
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Intel CTO demos building blocks of shapeshifting robots - Register
Intel CTO demos building blocks of shapeshifting robotsRegister, UK - Aug 21, 2008The vendor also wheeled out its usual update on silicon photonics, with a researcher demonstrating a laser based system where data was being modulated at ... (08-21-2008)
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IDF's Coolest Demos: Robotics, Wireless Power, and More - PC Magazine
PC MagazineIDF's Coolest Demos: Robotics, Wireless Power, and MorePC Magazine - Aug 21, 2008For signaling, Brian Koch, UC Santa Barbara showed a silicon photonics demo of aa new hybrid silicon laser that integrates mirrors to modulate the signal. ... (08-21-2008)
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Power of the Dream Ventures Grants License to FireSAFE Technology - MarketWatch
Power of the Dream Ventures Grants License to FireSAFE TechnologyMarketWatch - Aug 21, 2008... developing the product and marketing, University spin-off technologies, and ideas from the very early stage that represent "disruptive technologies. ... (08-21-2008)
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Open Source ECM Growing Through Disruption - ECM Connection (press release)
Open Source ECM Growing Through DisruptionECM Connection (press release), PA - Aug 18, 2008Many pundits have recently identified two disruptive technologies in the ECM space — Microsoft SharePoint and open source ECM software. ... (08-18-2008)
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Silicon Photonics Fast Becoming a Commercial Reality, Report Finds - IT Business Net
Silicon Photonics Fast Becoming a Commercial Reality, Report FindsIT Business Net, CA - Aug 13, 200813 /PRNewswire/ -- First-generation silicon photonics products are now available from a handful of suppliers, a development that promises to have major ... (08-13-2008)
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Silicon Photonics Market is Potentially Enormous - AZoOptics.com (press release)
Silicon Photonics Market is Potentially EnormousAZoOptics.com (press release), Australia - Aug 13, 2008First-generation silicon photonics products are now available from a handful of suppliers, a development that promises to have major implications for a wide ... (08-13-2008)
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Resonance House LEED Silver Certified - UK News
UK NewsResonance House LEED Silver CertifiedUK News, KY - Aug 8, 2008... leading to affordable and sustainable residential design, and is well-known for applying his expertise in digital fabrication to building green homes. ... (08-08-2008)
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Irell & Manella Seeks to Drive Growth of 'Disruptive' and 'Green ... - TMCnet
Irell & Manella Seeks to Drive Growth of 'Disruptive' and 'Green ...TMCnet - Aug 8, 2008The goal is to advise companies on the best way to go about developing disruptive technologies. Klein, a partner in Irell’s Century City office, ... (08-08-2008)
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Prefabricated Architecture: Engineering the Modern Home - Design News
Prefabricated Architecture: Engineering the Modern HomeDesign News, MA - Aug 5, 2008"Digital fabrication and mass customization are on everyone's lips among young designers," he says. Many projects on display also made use of material ... (08-05-2008)
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Career Coach: Keep Up with Technology - Animation World Network
Animation World NetworkCareer Coach: Keep Up with TechnologyAnimation World Network, CA - Aug 1, 2008If you get to this year's SIGGRAPH, be sure to check out design & computation in Hall H, which explores design and digital fabrication technologies, ... (08-01-2008)
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MIT's Sass uses computer - and Crescent City inspiration - to ... - Boston Globe
MIT's Sass uses computer - and Crescent City inspiration - to ...Boston Globe, United States - Jul 30, 2008While Sass, an expert in digital fabrication, hasn't priced mass production of the house, he thinks his design - with its lacey, decorative arched porch and ... (07-31-2008)
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