Technology: Signs of a Bubble?
Alternatively, the Europeans might cosy up to Japan, and a small, but significant, deal on supersonic technology signed between Japan and France at the Paris Air Show suggested that process has begun.
Tacit and In-Q-Tel, of Arlington, Va., a private venture backed by tax dollars to keep the Central Intelligence Agency abreast of the latest technology, signed a broad licensing deal in June to deliver Tacit's technology to selected customers in the United States intelligence community.
A multi-year license for Immersion's haptics technology signed by Samsung last week included a patent license covering "Samsung's prior and future use of simple forms of haptic effects, sometimes referred to as Basic Haptics, in its smartphones and other mobile devices", according to the company.
DirecTV and Invidi Technologies signed a deal that will allow DirecTV to serve specialized, local ads to customers.
Farmers who plant seeds with Monsanto's technology must sign an agreement not to save the seeds, which means they must buy new seeds every year.
UOP, a subsidiary of Honeywell, announced in December that it had acquired rights to the technology, a sign somebody thinks it could be profitable.
The goal is to use mobile technology to sign up 3.8 million members by 2014, up from 1.2 million in 2010 who were involved in at least one of the more than 50 "campaigns" Do Something runs each year.
BP will offer its expertise in deep-sea drilling and technology, a sign that last year's accident had not affected its ability or desire to continue to drill in deep water.
But the latest twist involves technology, a sign of our times, and there are computer professionals who are also sounding the Y2K alarm.
