Four years after Curt Schilling launched his video game company, 38 Studios LLC of Maynard, the former Red Sox pitching great has yet to bring a product to market. But he’s just landed a deal to have his first game published by one of the biggest companies in the games industry.
It’s called clean technology’s “competitive conundrum’’: how to get people to pay for cleaner energy when electricity produced from traditional sources like nuclear power, coal, or natural gas costs less.
A series of highly publicized errors in a landmark report about manmade global warming – and lingering controversy over hacked e-mails between climate scientists – is eroding public confidence in the research and could further stall efforts in Congress to pass climate legislation.
Home security It took years, but I’ve finally persuaded my wife, Lisa, to save a few dollars by killing our landline phone service. Some things can keep you tethered to landline service, however, such as your home’s security system. Not so with SimpliSafe Inc. (www.simplisafe.com).
The World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet standards group at MIT, is expected to announce today that Jeffrey Jaffe has been named chief executive.
Don’t bother asking Abe Stein whether he believes video games qualify as art. “The answer,’’ he said, “is an obvious ‘yes.’ ’’
HANSON – As the recession battered his machine shop last year, Jack McGrail cut hours, put off bills, and borrowed all he could to keep from laying off workers. By late fall, with business down sharply and few signs of a rebound, he prepared to do what he had tried so hard to avoid.
March 2005 Ray Ozzie sells his Beverly start-up, Groove Networks Inc., to Microsoft Corp. Microsoft had been a significant financial backer of Groove, which developed Internet collaboration software for businesses. Ozzie joins Microsoft as one of three chief technology officers.
Some would say we have hit a plateau in the realm of personal computing. Lately, it’s not so much about what you can do with a PC, but how you can do it. Interaction and creativity have overshadowed raw power and specifications.
The first of 450 controversial full-body scanners to be deployed at airports around the country this year will be put into use at Logan International Airport on Monday.