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Fast Company
January 2006
Michael A. Prospero |
Fuel for Thought Philanthropist Peter Diamandis' $10 million X Prize proved that money can drive big ideas. Now he's looking for more of them in other fields, from nanotech to education.   |
Wired
June 2006
Adam Rogers |
The Challenger When Peter Diamandis gave the $10 million Ansari X Prize to the SpaceShipOne crew in 2004, he did more than build excitement about private space travel. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2008
Steve LeVine |
Can X Prizes Spur Innovation? Contests such as Peter Diamandis' X Prizes offer big purses for breakthrough ideas. But can prize money do more to stimulate innovation than existing incentives? |
Scientific American
February 6, 2006
Patrick DiJusto |
Winner Takes All New technology prizes are designed to spur innovation and challenge entrepreneurs to do something that outstrips the state-of-the-art in return for a sizable payoff. But is basic research being prized out of the market? |
Outside
April 2007 |
To the Victor Peter Diamandis will pay you to save the planet. |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
A Prize Beyond the Box? Prize money generates plenty of good publicity, but victory won't necessarily translate into good business. All are worthwhile quests, but what is the average investor to make of all of these contests? |
National Defense
January 2015
Stew Magnuson |
More Government Agencies Using Challenge Prizes to Tackle Tough Technology Problems The Obama administration, with bipartisan support from Congress, has accelerated prize offerings, setting up the website Challenge.gov as a one-stop clearinghouse for all the prizes being offered by the federal government. |
Fast Company
May 2008 |
Vision Quest: Contests Throughout History Technology innovation inspired by competitions past and future. |
BusinessWeek
September 13, 2004
Otis Port |
Gentlemen, Start Your Rockets The race for space is heating up as private outfits head for the launchpad. The business community is now starting to look hard at suborbital tourism to make sure they don't miss an opportunity. |
Entrepreneur
November 2009
Joe Robinson |
Is it Really Innovation? Peter Diamandis talks about what innovation really is while Tim O'Reilly calls the I-word era "dead on arrival." |
Wired
September 13, 2007
Spencer Reiss |
Google Offers $20 Million X Prize to Put Robot on Moon Google will award $20 million to the first private team to put a robot on the moon. |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
Otis Port |
Space Travel: Bringing Costs Down To Earth NASA should give startups room to maneuver |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2007
Courtney E. Howard |
Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge Opens, NASA Sponsors $2 Million Prize X Prize has opened registration and outlined the rules for the $2 million Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, which calls for teams to design and develop a vehicle to simulate trips between the moon's surface and lunar orbit. |
Fast Company
March 2005
Ryan Underwood |
60 Seconds on Doing the Impossible Peter Diamandis, the aerospace engineer and medical doctor, who created suborbital space competition, talks about the moon and nanotechnology. |
Bio-IT World
March 2006 |
News Blast X Prize... Junk Discovery... Susceptibility... Resistance... |
InternetNews
June 17, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Dell Bullish on Mac OS? Michael Dell wouldn't mind seeing Mac OS running on his PCs. |
Fast Company
May 2008
Anya Kamenetz |
The Power of the Prize Lo and behold, contests actually work to spur innovation. So should we use them for everything? |
BusinessWeek
August 6, 2007
Christopher Palmeri |
Space: The Private Frontier "Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots is Boldly Privatizing Space" is a worthwhile overview of the budding business of space travel. |
PC World
August 2005
Narasu Rebbapragada |
Intel-Based Macs May Run Windows Apple's decision to abandon IBM PowerPC chips in favor of processors from Intel raises the possibility of new, affordable Apple computers that could boot both Mac OS X and Windows. But Apple says it will stop the Mac OS from running on non-Apple machines. |
Chemistry World
June 11, 2012
Laura Howes |
Nobel Prize Amount Cut Recently, returns on the capital of the foundation have fallen short of the amount needed to support the prizes. |
Wired
June 22, 2009
Chris Hardwick |
Congratulations Human, You've Been Accepted to Singularity University Nine weeks of deep thought with eminent theorists and business leaders. |
Reason
November 2004
Ronald Bailey |
Build a Better Mouse If scientists can reliably lengthen the lives of mice, the Methuselah Mouse Prize organizers believe, they will be well on their way to finding out how to do the same thing for people. |
Macworld
November 2000
Stephan Somogyi |
Double Vision When it comes to the next generation of Power Macs, are two processors really better than one? |
Wired
December 20, 2007
Mathew Honan |
The X Prize Ecosystem Giving cash Prizes for solutions to thorny problems turns out to be a great way to tap the talents of geeks everywhere. |
Salon.com
December 19, 2000
Wes Simonds |
How Apple can be fixed It's time to join the PC world and make the Mac the universe's most compatible computer... |
AFP eWire
February 4, 2008 |
Nominations Open for Purpose Prize, Honoring Older Americans Involved in Charitable Work Americans age 60 and over who address critical social problems with their creativity, talent and innovation may be nominated for this prize. |
Macworld
November 2000
Andrew Gore |
Dawn of a New OS Mac OS X's Arrival Is Apple's Opportunity to Prove It Is Listening To Its Customers... |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2006
Rich Smith |
Intel to Dell: You Guys Stink Intel sponsors a $1 million contest to design a decent-looking computer. Basically, it is looking for an EBA iMac. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2, 2010
Jennifer Bogo |
X Prize CEO Thinks Obama's 2010 NASA Budget Good for Space The new approach NASA has taken has laid the foundation for the Google, Cisco and Apple computers of space to be born. And, ultimately, lays the foundation for the rest of us to have a chance to get to go to space. |
The Motley Fool
June 3, 2005
Steven Mallas |
Cola Star Wars: Episode I Cadbury Schweppes wants to send one lucky winner to space. How will Coke and Pepsi respond? Let's look at the stocks. |
The Motley Fool
September 14, 2007
Tim Beyers |
To the Moon, Google! Google puts up a $30 million cash prize to whoever can explore 500 meters of the lunar surface and transmit high-definition video back to Earth before December 31, 2012. |
The Motley Fool
April 29, 2008
Tim Beyers |
The Greatest Threat to Apple? Florida company called Psystar releases news of a working, though unauthorized, Mac OS X clone. |
Macworld
July 2001 |
What's Hot Special Mac OS X Edition... Applications seem to run slower in Mac OS X's Classic environment than in OS 9... Macromedia's FreeHand 10 runs natively in Mac OS X... etc. |
Wired
July 2003
Carl Hoffman |
The Right Stuff Forget cyberspace. Geeks are about to conquer outer space. And the $10 million X Prize is just the beginning. |
The Motley Fool
October 26, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Top Floor: Space NASA opens space elevator competition to private companies. But you needn't wait for investing opportunities. Carbon nanotubes are expected to play a major role here, and that's good news for small pure-play nano firms, such as Harris & Harris and Arrowhead Research. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2006
Jeff Wise |
Crash Test The Vertical Dragster, built by Armadillo Aerospace for the X Prize Cup, will lift off with 3000 pounds of thrust. In the pursuit of private spaceflight, a group of texas rocket enthusiasts aren't afraid to blow up a few engines. |
Macworld
December 2000 |
OS X Beta Survival Guide Running a prerelease OS is like rafting down an uncharted river or hiking through the back country--there's no telling what danger lurks around the next bend. Running the OS X beta has its upsides, however--including a sneak peek at an operating system that will soon radically reshape your Mac experience... |
PC Magazine
June 1, 2008
Loyd Case |
Mac Software on a PC? Is it possible to run Mac platform software on an Intel-based PC? |
Macworld
December 2000
David Pogue |
Explore with Care Once you've installed the beta, it's time to take your first steps into the future of the Mac. Just make sure you walk in with your eyes open... |
BusinessWeek
September 24, 2007
Ronald Grover |
Gentlemen, Start Your Rockets A group of space entrepreneurs is trying to get the Rocket Racing League off the launchpad. |
InternetNews
October 14, 2004
Michael Singer |
Cherry OS Sweetens Mac on Windows For years, Macintosh users have been resigned to using virtualization products to run Windows applications. Now, a startup in Hawaii has joined the short list of companies turning the tables. |
PC World
October 1, 2002
Matt Berger |
Apple Offers a Deal on Office for the Mac Customers will be able to purchase Microsoft's Office suite at a steep discount when they purchase a new computer. |
The Motley Fool
April 18, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Readers: Let the Pigs Fly Readers comment on the future of Windows on the Mac: Apple is a box maker that produces prodigious cash flow. Its shares should be valued accordingly. Investors who ignore this truth do so at their portfolio's peril. |
Home Theater
July 2, 2009 |
Better Netflix Brings Cool Million If it gets easier to find what you want on Netflix in the near future, you can thank a team of experts who came up with an improved search algorithm. |
PC World
December 2000
Alan Stafford |
The Joy of X Mac's Hot New OS Boasts Brains and Style to Spare... |
Geotimes
July 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Jetting Through Space President Bush announced on Jan. 4, 2004, his vision to return humans to the moon, Mars and beyond. Without the Cold War era impetus, however, NASA is searching for new ways to motivate development of innovative new vehicles to fly humans to the moon. |
BusinessWeek
June 21, 2004
Otis Port |
Private Space Travel: We May Have Liftoff If all goes well on June 21, the world's first private space plane will have shot 62 miles up into space before gliding back to land at the Mojave airport north of Los Angeles, launching a new revolution in space tourism. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 3, 2014
Carmen Nobel |
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize What makes the Nobel Prize so coveted? Stephen Greyser and Mats Urde discuss the first field-based study exploring the prize from a brand and reputation perspective. |
Macworld
June 2001
Henry Bortman |
Are You Ready for OSX? OS X is here at last, and you can't wait to begin using it. The impulse is understandable, but switching to OS X May not be prudent... |
PC Magazine
March 1, 2006
Robert Lemos |
Mac Attack! In 2006, Apple's operating system will likely see major attacks. |
