At the moment only the US, the UK and Israel are using armed drones - but many others are building them - because they bring new capabilities.
One good example are the offerings from Cloud Sherpas, a small Georgia company that's been taking advantage of Google's programming tools to bring new capabilities to users of Google Apps.
The iPad works for a "beginner" tablet, and the next generation of tablets will bring new capabilities, new hardware, new tools, and so on.
Fernandes said by integrating with Docker, Red Hat is bringing new capabilities to its RHEL Gears, which will benefit OpenShift developers by providing greater portability and usability.
"M4 instances bring new capabilities to the General Purpose family through the use of a custom Intel Haswell processor and larger instance sizes," said Amazon's VP for EC 2 Matt Garman today.
Bradley noted that Rackspace can also bring new capabilities to current Datapipe users, including its services for Azure Stack and VMware Cloud on AWS, as well as its managed services on the Google Cloud Platform.
For example, they wanted to know when (a) the project question addressed new markets and new products or (b) the ideas and concepts could be translated into marketing, new product development, or acquisition plans, that bring new capabilities to the company.
"By combining Leaba's semiconductor expertise with the Cisco engineering team, we will accelerate our plans for Cisco's next generation product portfolio and bring new capabilities to the market faster," Rob Salvagno, head of Cisco's M&A and venture investing team wrote in a blog post announcing the purchase.
"With this investment, the Alexa Fund is helping fuel the development of Mojio's second generation Alexa Skill, which will harness the vast amount of automotive data being collected by Mojio's open platform and bring new capabilities to Alexa," Mojio writes in today's announcement.
