Dissecting information
Companies using big data to guide decisions
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Northern Virginia’s technology corridor contains some of the nation’s biggest players in big data.
Beyond paper
From tools to prosthetic limbs, 3-D printing is becoming more mainstream
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A plastic plumbing doo-dad might seem like a far cry from Captain Picard barking out an order for “Tea, Earl Grey, hot,” to the replicator on board “Star Trek’s” USS Enterprise, but, believe it or not, that’s where 3-D printing technology is ultimately headed.
2013 Virginia Business Person of the Year
Tonya Mallory wants to revolutionize the practice of medicine in the U.S.
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Tonya Mallory, Chief executive officer of Health Diagnostic Laboratory in Richmond is the 2013 Virginia Business Person of the Year.
Virginia Tech institute tests automated vehicle technologies
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The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute is road-testing and researching a variety of new vehicular technologies that are years ahead of what one can find in today’s auto showrooms.
Copper-line networks disappear as customers rely on wireless phones
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Like the telegram, movie rental stores and phone books, the landline phone is fast heading for technological extinction.
Cybersecurity is the most in-demand IT skill set
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The state’s servers contain a lot of confidential information about Virginia residents and taxpayers, and they’re hit by cyber attacks of one form or another about 120 million times each year.
Public-private partnerships
Developers and localities share in cost of high-profile projects
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Public-private partnerships can provide win-win scenarios for government and the private sector.
Pruning the branch
As foot traffic falls, banks experiment with streamlined offices
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As mobile and online banking increases, foot traffic at bank branches nationally is decreasing.
Remember Signet and Crestar?
Merger recalls heady days of Virginia’s big banks
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Richmond-based Union First Market Bank and StellarOne Corp. of Charlottesville, announced will merge.
‘The last mile’
Bringing broadband to Virginia’s most rural areas poses challenges.
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Blue Ridge InternetWorks began offering high-speed fiber-optic Internet in some areas of Nelson County this spring.