Friday Five with Tim Rowe of Cambridge Innovation Center 11 Views Length: 17:47 Counting down the top tech stories with Tim Rowe of the Cambridge Innovation Center and New Atlantic Ventures, May 25th 2012. Continue reading →
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The closely watched SpaceX flight, the first private spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station, has been successfully captured by the robotic arm of the ISS. The capture occurred at 9:56 a.m. ET Friday and was broadcast by NASA on UStream. The mission took about 3 days and 6 hours to complete. Next up will be the ISS installing the capsule so it can access on-board supplies. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off carrying a Dragon capsule full of supplies on Tuesday morning. SpaceX hopes replace now-retired American Space Shuttles with missions to space, and eventually the private company hopes to send humans into space. The ISS has a robotic arm that reached out and grabbed the SpaceX Dragon capsule. (See photo above.) “We’ve ... Continue reading →
By Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist I'm starting a little experiment this Friday at noon: a weekly live webcast that'll run down the top five innovation economy stories of the week. Each Friday, I'll have a different co-host. And in addition to discussing that week's big stories, we'll talk about some of the events that we're looking forward to in the week ahead. I hope you'll tune in, or watch once it's archived, and serve up some feedback. If you're watching live, you can use the Ustream client to send us messages ��like suggesting stories that we've missed, or events that you're planning to attend. We'll try to weave those into the webcast, too. I've got a few hosts lined up, including: April 13: Antonio Rodriguez ... Continue reading →
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By Scott Kirsner, Globe ColumnistIn the days before Siri, one of the most innovative speech startups around was Boston's SpeechWorks International. The company mainly focused on bringing speech recognition to the phone systems of customers like Amtrak, United Airlines, and FedEx, helping handle calls more efficiently. But the company was also working on "multi-modal" technologies for mobile devices way back in 2001, thinking about how we might speak commands as well as punch buttons on our phones. (This was before most phones had touchable screens, young readers.) SpeechWorks went public in an IPO that saw its shares triple on the first day of trading, and then was acquired in 2003 for $132 million by the Burlington company that grew into Nuance Communications. Now, the former ... Continue reading →
