Going Number One Or Zero: This Japanese Company Just Brought The Binary Code...
Building a house or renovating an apartment typically involves brute force and noise, frayed nerves, busted budgets and, sometimes, poisoned relations with neighbors. But homeowners in Japan can now...
View ArticleFinancial Times: GE Healthcare To Improve Organic Growth With Digital Technology
John Flannery, GE Healthcare’s chief executive officer, told the Financial Times that when he started his job last year, he “didn’t come with a mandate to do big M&A.” Instead, Flannery, who held...
View Article2015 In Review: GE’s Digital Industrial Revolution
GE has been around for more than a century, but few years in its history have been as important for the future of the company as the one that’s just ending. GE started transforming itself into the...
View ArticleAre You Ready For Digital Oil?
GE Oil & Gas became the latest GE business to launch its own digital division. The unit launched a pilot project with BP to help the energy company reduce unplanned downtime by deploying software...
View ArticleReady For Prime Time: Intel Joins GE As It Opens Predix, Its Digital Platform...
Few people can fathom the sheer size of the World Wide Web, the most visible part of the Internet where we shop, meet friends, read news and watch movies. But the Web will soon be a minnow when...
View ArticleVideo: Predix Now Open For All Industrial Internet Developers
GE spent $1 billion over the last few years to develop Predix, the cloud-based platform that has allowed GE to securely collect data from jet engines, gas turbines and MRI scanners, analyze it and then...
View ArticleThe Power Of Predix: An Inside Look At How Pitney Bowes Is Using The...
GE opened Predix, its cloud-based operating system for the Industrial Internet, to all users at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday. As of now, companies of all stripes can start using it to...
View Article“We Have Grit,” Jeff Immelt Tells Shareowners In His Annual Letter
Speaking last fall from Studio 8H inside New York’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza — best known as the set of “Saturday Night Live” — GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt told a crowd of investors and analysts how he...
View ArticleHere’s How Digital Electricity Will Change The Power Industry All The Way To...
When the large Pakistani textile maker Sapphire Group wanted to secure a reliable supply of electricity for its mills recently, it didn’t just build a new power plant. The company used a technology...
View ArticleBloomberg Businessweek: How GE Became A 124-Year-Old Startup
The cover story in the new issue of Bloomberg Businessweek takes stock of GE’s transformation into a digital-industrial company and explains how “GE became a 124-year-old startup.” The magazine writes...
View ArticleHow The Third Wave Of The Internet Is Stoking The Second Machine Age
There are few people with better first-hand knowledge of the Internet’s history than AOL founder Steve Case. That’s why we should pay attention when he proclaims we haven’t seen anything yet. “The...
View ArticleJurassic Hardware: Steven Spielberg’s Father Was A Computing Pioneer
From Thomas Edison to former President Ronald Reagan and novelist Kurt Vonnegut, GE has employed a number of luminaries since its founding 124 years ago. One famous name missing from this list was...
View ArticleTimes Are Exponentially A-Changin’ — And You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, Says...
For futurist and X Prize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis, times have been always been a-changin’. But never as much as right now. “We are in a period when extraordinary things are starting to...
View ArticleThe Lazarus Project: How Software Brought To Life A Decommissioned Power...
If you want to see the future of electricity, grab an espresso and head to Northern Italy. There, just outside the industrial city of Turin, the combination of renewable energy, traditional generation...
View ArticleNew “Digital Foundry” In Paris Expands GE’s Global Software Footprint
When Credit Lyonnais built itself a grand new office near the Opera in the center of Paris in the 1870s, it used a piece of the Louvre as a model and commissioned Gustave Eiffel’s atelier to design its...
View ArticleFull Steam Ahead: This Software Brain For Coal-Fired Power Plants Could Help...
GE just picked up a head of steam and put it in the cloud. It was just in April that GE Power, the GE business that makes power generation equipment, acquired the Boston-based machine learning and data...
View ArticleTour De Force: This New Software Is Helping Digitize An Ancient Source Of...
The city of Briançon sits in a mountainous corner of France that has become a popular destination for cycling fans, who flock to the punishing Tour de France stages there. But it may soon become a...
View ArticleThe Rising Digital Tide Is Lifting GE, Industry
A brand-new GE factory in Florida is feeding production data into evolutionary algorithms built on Predix — GE’s cloud-based operating system for the Industrial Internet — to essentially apply the...
View ArticleCall Of Duty: This Woman Is Using Video Games, Kinect And VR To Make Actual...
Virtual reality became domesticated last year — at least in America — when the VR viewer Google Cardboard arrived for the first time with the Sunday New York Times. Today, you could use it to explore...
View ArticleElevator Maker Schindler Group And GE Digital Take The Industrial Internet To...
Swiss company Schindler Group may not be a household name, but the 142-year old company is one of the world’s biggest elevator, escalator and moving walkway companies. Its products haul millions of...
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