Launched in late 2013 by Aileen Lee from Cowboy Ventures seed-stage fund, the term unicorn designates those startups that rank over $ 1 billion dollars in value. The denomination caught on and became a hot term in the IT world, ending up on the cover of Fortune magazine in February 2015. By the
The PC-on-a-stick (Stick PC or Compute Stick) concept features an entire operating system on a small device that has a reduced energy consumption. Basically, we are talking about a particular variety of the System on a Chip (SoC) concept, as it was the case with PandaBoard , launched in 2010. Tiny
What does solar energy have to do with mobility? The long-awaited alternative energy availability comes with a twist, when an initiative envisions the entire glass surface of the office buildings converted into a huge energy factory. Considering all the tech equipment hosted by such buildings and
Middleware is basically software that enables separate software applications to connect. It is the software layer between the OS and the applications in a network, on each side of the computing system. The denomination as such appeared somewhere at the beginning of the 90s, although the concept of
As we mentioned in the first part of this article, we will try to estimate the adoption rates for a few innovative technologies, based on the latest trends. Last week we featured technologies that shared a common feature – the “smart” characterization. This week’s contestant technologies belong to
The technologies envisioned for the near future are based on meeting people’s needs, advancements in technological development and, ultimately, the public’s reaction. Somewhere between demands, costs, regulations and general feedback, lie the chances of innovation when confronted with reality. Of
