The digitization of processes and products continues unabated as part of the fourth industrial revolution. Players from sectors as diverse as the automotive, consumer goods, chemicals and aerospace industry are increasingly reliant on digital processes to store and to share important data internally and with external suppliers. While this makes for faster and more efficient production processes, it does increase the risk of companies falling prey to online attacks. Data protection is therefore becoming an ever more complex, time consuming and costly business for companies. These are some of the aspects examined in the study by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants: "Cyber-security. Managing the threat scenarios in manufacturing companies".
La empresa Afypaida, la empresa matriz de Hiriko, el fallido coche eléctrico vasco, que recibió 17,4 millones de euros en ayudas para crear el proyecto automovilístico, ha entrado en concurso de acreedores.
Informe publicado por OCDE sobre Internet of Things, o la comunicación máquina-máquina (M2M) centrándose en redes móvil vía Wi-Fi. Se estima que hay 5.000 millones de dispositivos conectados mediante redes móviles y se prevé que esta cifra sea de 50.000 millones para el final de la década. El paper facilita ejemplos sobre algunos de los usos que se le da al M2M y su potencial para mejorar la economía y el desarrollo social. El informe concluye que para lograr ese impacto es necesario que haya cambios en las políticas de telecomunicaciones y en los marcos regulatorios.
Smartbike startup Vanhawks, part of the Y Combinator Winter 2015 class, has raised $1.6 million from Real Ventures, Olympic triathlon gold medallist Simon Whitfield, Brenda Irwin of Relentless Pursuit partners and various angels. The company will use the funding to help deliver its Valour smartbike, which raised over $820,000 on Kickstarter last year, to its first customers starting this spring. The funding will help the startup overcome some of the challenges it encountered going from concept to full production in Taiwan, and set the company up for future growth plans, which include becoming category leaders in bike-based software.
El próximo día 26 de marzo se llevará a cabo en Palacio de Otalora de Aretxabaleta nueva edición DREAMWORKS cuyo objetivo será identificar oportunidades de negocio en el sector del Gas y el Petróleo.
El formato de esta edición específica DREAMWORKS sobre oportunidades de negocio en el sector del Gas y el Petróleo será el siguiente:
1.- Ilustración de experiencias de negocio relacionadas con el sector del Gas y el Petróleo, a cargo de las entidades siguientes:
EDP – NATURGAS.
Grupo COBRA (ACS)
TÉCNICAS REUNIDAS.
2.- Ilustración de experiencias relacionadas con el suministro al sector del Gas y el Petróleo, a cargo de empresas de la Corporación MONDRAGON:
Engineers at jet engine proving grounds in Ohio are using a jet engine GE developed for Boeing’s Dreamliner to test engine parts made from a new ceramic super-material. The material could help pave the way to more fuel efficient planes.
Docker, the startup that has spearheaded a revolution in application development by popularizing container technology for packaging up application code, has added networking talent to its team by acquiring a months-old startup laser-focused on networking for containers, Socketplane, the company announced today in a blog post.
Socketplane came forth and talked about what it was doing just four months ago. The team included networking experts from Cisco and Red Hat.
