Technology

The University of Florida Office of Technology Licensing has dozens of newly developed technologies waiting for an entrepreneur to turn them into a viable commercial product. Here are a couple: New social media technology to help students gauge online reputation College students could get a better feel for how their online behavior affects job prospects...

The University of Florida Office of Technology Licensing has dozens of newly developed technologies waiting for an entrepreneur to turn them into a viable commercial product. Here are a couple: New social media technology to help students gauge online reputation College students could get a better feel for how their online behavior affects job prospects...

Simplified spinal implant to boost patient safety, comfort A UF research team has developed a new spinal implant that back-surgery patients can wear in lieu of complex and accident-prone screws, plates and cages. It is one piece and allows patients a greater range of motion that mimics natural vertebrae. Sliding and rotating parts common in...

By Kelcee Griffis When Kevin Blighe rides a train across Europe on a conference call with a client, you might not guess that he’s working for a successful startup based in the heart of Gator Nation. Blighe is one of about 25 contractors for Creative Bioinformatics Consultants, a young company rooted in Gainesville which provides...

Online retailer giant Amazon.com marked its foray into smartphone development when it launched Fire on June 18, but some Gainesville techies say the device isn’t for everyone. The Fire smartphone boasts six cameras and a sensitive sensor system that can recognize a wide variety of items such as phone numbers, addresses and QR codes –...

  With a heightened focus on professional development and career services, LinkedIn is becoming an essential tool for businesses. The social networking site signs up a new member every second, has more than 200 million subscribers across 200 countries, and has seen its stock rate more than quadruple since 2011. As the world’s largest professional...

“Just Google it” has become a catchphrase that is understood by most living in today’s society, but would have been particularly confusing 10 years ago. This mega-entity continues taking over the world – edging out Yahoo! in search capabilities and encroaching on Facebook’s territory in online social networking. Yesterday, Google announced that the confusing days...

The University of Florida Innovation Hub hosted the third Empowering Women in Technology Startups (eWiTS) business pitch competition on June 3, where 50 local women from all walks of life presented the culmination of nine weeks of classes and hours of work outside of the program to four successful female judges out of the biotech...