An organization that fosters the growth of new ideas or companies. An incubator generally acquires small companies and provides them with financing, management expertise, office services and possibly office space. Incubators may adopt a think tank approach and look for synergies between the ideas, products and technologies they are developing in order to grow faster. Many Internet incubators arose in the latter 1990s with the intention of creating more dot-com success stories.
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- Microsoft's Ozzie to head another new Microsoft lab
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- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Is Microsoft ready to move beyond Windows?
- Is it time for me to start hammering out an obituary for Microsoft Windows? The headline, "Microsoft sees end of Windows era" was enough to make me look twice and start imagining a world without Vista, system crashes and the blue screen of death. Software Development Times...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- The green tech edition of ‘what I did on my summer vacation'
- How would you like to spend your summer break doing some groundbreaking green technology research? IBM has hired a couple of hundred college students worldwide to lend their brains to projects across the company's 13 research labs, including several focused on solving problems related to making data...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Microsoft to show off a corporate Facebook-like prototype
- Office Labs -- an incubator within Microsoft testing business-focused technologies that may or may not end up part of future Microsoft products -- is showing off this week yet another of its ideas. The latest, known as "TownSquare," is a Facebook-like social-networking tool for business users. by Mary Jo...
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- GWT fireside chat
- I'm still wading through all the notes I took at the Google I/O 2008 conference last week. If you want to see pictures, check out my flickr photoset (183 photos). While I was there, I went to two sessions called "fireside chats". Although there was no fire...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Open source SOA infrastructure project CXF elevated to full Apache status
- After community incubation and development for nearly two years, the Apache CXF open-source SOA and middleware interoperability framework evolved last week into a full project of the Apache Software Foundation. CXF, with some 60,000 downloads since July 2007, takes its place alongside 60 other Apache projects. The...
- Blog posts 2008-04-20
- Non-profit OpenSocial Foundation formed as Yahoo jumps onboard
- Yahoo today announced their support for OpenSocial, the Google-led standard for developing applications that work across supporting social networks (e.g. OpenGadget). Except, technically at least, OpenSocial isn't the sole property of Google anymore, following the formation of the non-profit OpenSocial Foundation, whose custodiands MySpace, Google and Yahoo...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Eclipse launches super run-time project as alternative to Java and .NET
- Eclipse launches super run-time project as alternative to Java and .NETEquinox is a great ideea...but I'm wondering if Eclipse has the resources to pull it off. Afterall $un and M$ invested billions before their runtime became usable and accepted.No one trusts IBM...Eclipse has lost the trust of the community at...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-17
- EclipseCon 2008: Fake Steve Jobs, Microsoft, E4, and more
- EclipseCon 2008 opens Monday at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara CA. The schedule for the week includes a trio of interesting keynote speakers, a ton of technical sessions, and a tinge of controversy over the future of Eclipse development. The first day will be...
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- Bungee Connect beta goes public, adds oomph to development and deployment as a service
- Bungee Labs continues its march toward "platform as a service" PaaS with today's announcement that it has opened Bungee Connect as a public beta, inviting all developers to, in Bungee's words, "get inspired, get started, and get involved."Bungee Connect is an end-to-end environment that allows developers to build desktop-like applications...
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Google Health ready for action?
- Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped found some shreds Google's forthcoming Health offering. It's only a log-in page, but it outlines what to expect if you choose to make Google part of your digital healthcare program. With Google Health, you can: * Build online health profiles that belong to...
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Small business gives Obama a piece of mind
- Barack Obama posted a question on LinkedIn and got close to 1,500 answers: How can the next president better help small business and entrepreneurs thrive? Not surprisingly for a social network, many of the best answers highlighted the importance of...
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Sucking it up: Powerspan tests carbon capture technology
- Sucking it up: Powerspan tests carbon capture technologyPowerspan tests carbon capture technologyThe World Innovation Foundation is the voice of the world's 'INDEPENDENT' scientific community (3,500 eminent scientists, engineers and technologists and counting). It is not dictated too by governments or national academies of science. This independence of mind away from...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-25
- IPCC: it's hitting the fan right now
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- Discussion threads 2007-11-18
- I've seen the future and the Zune becomes a hit
- Microsoft launched its second generation Zune amid decent reviews, a good bit of press and even a few personalized devices. But the MP3 game is a marathon not a sprint. So after perusing the news a few reviews from CNET, Engadget and Gizmodo I just had to...
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- Fortify calls Apache tools insecure
- Fortify Software chief scientist Brian Chess and his team have published a white paper demonstrating how cross-build injection attacks could let criminals take control of programs as they are being written. In particular the paper says three Apache projects -- Ant, Maven, and Ivy (the latter is now...
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- Global Neighbor makes the grass greener
- Cutting the grass was one of those household chores that had a special significance for my brothers and me in high school: My father owned about eight acres in New Jersey, a full five of which were covered with grass. For some reason, I always pulled push-mower...
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- Ruling on Novell's Unix assets bolsters OSS, binds Novell and IBM
- So Novell really does now finally seem to own the Unix copyrights. Linux finds itself on a high-ground pedestal of long-term, low-risk use (unless Microsoft buys Novell [should have when they could have, eh?]). And IBM and Novell are closer than ever.Fun times.The folly of the SCO Group FUD fiasco...
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- Project Zero: IBM enables REST-based development
- By way of Webservices.Org, details have emerged on IBM's Project Zero, which is, to quote, "an incubator project started within IBM that is focused on the agile development of the next generation of dynamic Web applications."IBM's long-rumored RESTy WebSphere successor? The project provides free development code -- based on...
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- Google vs. Microsoft Office? NO: vs. Open Office (.org)!
- If we take Google CEO Eric Schmidt at his public words, Microsoft Office is welcome at the Google Apps table. But what about OpenOffice.org? Will the Google chief’s we can all get along in the cloud PR stance apply as well? "FREE OFFICE SUITE" is the succinct,...
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
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