Categories: EmTech 2009

Case Study: How Facebook Scaled Up

Posted by: Jessie Scanlon on September 23

OK -- so it was more a chat than a case study, but Jason Pontin, the editor of the Technology Review and previous editor of Red Herring, grilled Mike...

Wow -- a New Approach to Vaccines

Posted by: Jessie Scanlon on September 23

I didn't know half of the words that Joseph Kim, the CEO & Director of Inovio Biomedical, used in his EmTech presentation but I walked away with a new appreciation...

OnLive -- Steve Perlman Demo's His Latests

Posted by: Jessie Scanlon on September 23

Today Steve Perlman, of Quicktime and WebTV fame, gave the EmTech audience a peak at his newest creation: an on-demand videogame service called OnLive. Here's the gist: OnLive offers users...

Health-Care Reform in Action

Posted by: Jessie Scanlon on September 23

Something a speaker said at this morning's EmTech panel session is still wringing in my ears: "For the last four months of his life, I Skyped with that patient every...

EmTech 2009

Posted by: Jessie Scanlon on September 23

I spent the morning at EmTech -- the annual conference put on by MIT Technology Review editor-in-chief Jason Pontin and his team. I'll be posting about the innovative ideas and...