Research and Markets has predicted a 50-percent compound annual growth rate for the global exoskeleton robots market over a four-year period ending 2020. The market research firm said Friday the market has seen increased commercial sale of exoskeleton robots built for the military and industry beyond the use of the technology for physical rehabilitation. A new Research and Markets report indicated that the […] More

Airborne Systems has developed a navigation software designed to help military parachutists reach their landing targets, Fedscoop reported Wednesday. Greg Otto writes the Airborne Systems-developed Pilot software is installed on Panasonic-built Toughpad ruggedized tablet attached to the parachute and works to measure distance, altitude and wind speed from the landing target. “[The tablets] cannot be […] More

Peter Romness heads the cybersecurity solutions division of Cisco‘s U.S. public sector business and is in charge of developing the company’s cyber portfolio for federal, state and local government customers. He brings 30 years of work experience at companies such as AT&T, Hewlett-Packard and Panasonic. Before he joined Cisco in 2010, Romness served as national sales manager […] More

Transparency Market Research has published a report that says the worldwide video surveillance systems and services market hit almost $15 billion in value two years ago. The market’s value is forecast to reach $48.32 billion by the end of 2020 at an 18.1 percent compound annual growth rate, Transparency Market Research said Thursday. The research […] More

A new ReportsnReports.com analysis projects the smart security market will experience a compound annual growth rate of 18.59 percent through 2019 due to increasing incidents of terrorist attacks. The online market research firm said Friday recent terrorism-related incidents have spurred several countries to adopt smart security products, including intruder alarms, video surveillance systems, perimeter prevention intrusion […] More

Verizon Terremark has joined a foundation that works to help accelerate the growth of Linux and collaborative development in the technology industry. Verizon joins The Linux Foundation as a gold member to help further the organization’s work on open cloud and virtualization technologies, the foundation announced Wednesday. “Linux, open cloud and open virtualization technologies support […] More

IBM said that in 2013, its inventors have received 6,809 patents, the 21st consecutive year that the company ranked first in the annual list of patent leaders in the country. Some of the company’s patents for 2013 include inventions for the Watson supercomputer, neuromorphic and synaptronic spiking neural network and an automated validation and execution […] More