(Pivotal Commware Photo) In a statement, Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold said Pivotal’s holographic beam-forming technology “is the ultimate software-defined antenna able to improve ...

The technology consultancy and product-development firm, which is part of Capgemini, has built a functioning, scaled-down version of a wireless antenna designed to beam connectivity from the sky.

Based on the use of so-called metamaterials, which use microscopic components arranged in a specific way to achieve a given capability, the flat-panel antennas electronically orient the beam to ...