GE And Microsoft Join Forces In The Industrial Data Cloud
The industrial cloud is about to get a lot bigger. GE and Microsoft Corp. are uniting their cloud computing technologies in a partnership that will bring GE’s Predix platform for the Industrial...
View ArticleThe Airline Of The Future Will Be Powered By Data
The Industrial Internet is changing the way the world does business — and that includes at 35,000 feet. That fact is clearly on display at this year’s Farnborough International Airshow, which started...
View ArticleSoftware Will Light The Way To Cleaner Electricity: Q&A With GE Power’s...
Henry Ford’s Model T looks like no car on the road today and the Wright Flyer has been rightfully retired in the Smithsonian. And yet another piece of technology that predates them both—the electric...
View ArticleQ2 Results: GE Gets A Lift From Strong Performance By Aviation, Power Units
GE released second quarter results today. Industrial operating plus GE Capital verticals earnings reached $0.51 per share, up 65 percent compared to the second quarter of last year. GE Chairman and CEO...
View ArticleBrussels Is Sprouting A Digital Grid For A Green Boom
There is plenty of uncertainty in Brussels this summer, the home to a number of European Union institutions. But one safe bet in the Belgian metropolis is that the lights will stay on. That’s because...
View ArticleSam Likes It Hot: This Intrepid Explorer Just Connected Nicaragua’s Most...
Sam Cossman is the human version of a heat-seeking missile. In fact, he craves heat to the extreme. Cossman, perhaps the world’s most prominent volcano explorer of the moment, spent the early part of...
View ArticleGE Buys $500 Million Machine Analytics Firm
Since GE started building its digital business five years ago, it has pursued organic growth, combining a century of domain expertise in building big machines with asset management software and...
View ArticleBrains For Trains: How Software Is Making Trains Smarter
We fly connected planes and design self-driving cars, but what about smart trains? If you pay close attention, there is the faint sound of the whistle coming from around the digital bend. At this...
View ArticleEsperanto For Machines: GE And Bosch Partner To Help Machines Talk To Each Other
When the machines of tomorrow talk to each other, what language will they speak? Will a German car be able to communicate with traffic in America, and a jet engine from Cincinnati with a maintenance...
View ArticleHere’s Why Connecting Niagara To The Internet Is A Really Good Idea
The 1953 movie “Niagara” starred Marilyn Monroe as a honeymooner with a wandering eye taking a trip to Niagara Falls. But she was hardly the only one seduced by the power of the water flowing through...
View ArticleAn Office With A View: New “Digital Foundry” In Paris Is Forging GE’s...
Ping-Pong tables and foosball aren’t the sorts of things people typically associate with a 124-year-old company that builds turbines for power plants and engines for planes. But they are part of the...
View ArticleBack To The Future: This GE Software Engineer Used Code To Bring New Muscle...
Grease monkeys have been tinkering with Ford Mustangs — the most iconic of the classic American muscle cars — ever since the first one rolled out in 1964. But a car enthusiast in Germany has taken...
View ArticleService Economy 2.0: Big GE Digital Acquisition Uses Cloud Analytics To Keep...
GE Digital’s latest acquisition is going to make life easier for the people who fix the jet engines, power plants, medical scanners and other technology that we rely on every day. Pleasanton,...
View ArticleWhat’s Cooking? How Bit Stew, GE’s Latest Digital Acquisition, Spices Up The...
Thomas Edison famously said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Kevin Collins can relate. By fanning the embers of a promising idea for years, he built his powerful...
View ArticleThe First Spielberg Blockbuster: GE Computers [Video]
One day, when he was still barely a teenager, the film director Steven Spielberg came to visit his father, Arnold, at work. It was the late 1950s and the elder Spielberg was building computers for GE...
View ArticleThis Is What We Call Data Mining: Software Is Helping This Platinum Operator...
As operations manager at a South African platinum mine, Percy French has faced huge challenges over the past few years because of volatility in commodity prices. The price of platinum has dropped in...
View ArticleGE Takes Predix From The Cloud To The Edge
It’s been a year since GE opened Predix, its operating system for the Industrial Internet, to outside companies. Since then, it has enabled engineers to write apps, harvest data from trains, planes,...
View ArticleReliance Industries To Build Apps On GE’s Predix In India
Reliance Industries, the massive Indian holding and the country’s second-largest publicly traded company, said today it will start using Predix, GE’s cloud-based operating system for the Industrial...
View ArticleThis Astronomer’s Idea Just Opened A Universe Of New Opportunities For GE’s...
Before GE acquired Wise.io, the machine learning company saw the future written in the stars. In 2008, Joshua Bloom, a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, was struggling...
View ArticleThe Internet Of Electricity: GE And Exelon Are Crunching Data Generated By...
Every day, Exelon energy company produces up to 32,700 megawatts of electricity that supplies power to millions of customers across the United States. But the Chicago-based company produces more than...
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