Bill Becken

Bill Becken is a freelance researcher and writer with more than 20 years of experience in B2B communications and publishing. Most recently, Becken has contributed stories and top-tier executive interviews to B2B outlets with a focus on technology, travel, transportation and healthcare. He can be reached at billbecken@gmail.com.

Articles by Bill Becken

• Tech firms vie against range of mobile retail payment systems from banks, others

  A half-decade or so since its introduction, Apple Pay continues to dazzle. It's the best-known of the…

  Tuesday, November 06, 2018

• New plastics and composites impact design, engineering across the world economy

  The productive versatility of modern manufacturing is evolving quickly — whether it comes to new processes…

  Monday, October 15, 2018

• Plastics, bioplastics augment and replace metal parts in farming machinery

  Quietly and without much fanfare, plastics and bioplastics are finding their way into the production…

  Monday, September 24, 2018

• Can bioplastics help solve the world’s plastic disposal problem?

  The world’s conventional polymers, derived from petroleum feedstocks, have outstanding benefits, such…

  Monday, August 27, 2018

• Apple Pay, NFC services face competitors that could disrupt payment processing

  Apple reached a milestone recently when it became the world’s first trillion-dollar company. It helped…

  Wednesday, August 22, 2018

• Medical-retail drugstore partnerships strengthen business, promote public health

  In the last decade or so, some healthcare providers have partnered with retail drugstore chains like…

  Friday, August 03, 2018

• Plastics innovations spur changes in medical device markets

  Plastics are playing their part in the disruptive medical device market, which is now subject to several…

  Thursday, July 19, 2018

• GIS plays expanding role at the Centers for Disease Control

  ​In the last few years, geographic information systems (GIS), geography, geospatial science and visualization…

  Friday, June 29, 2018

• GIS-savvy surveyors muster political will to lobby at multiple levels of government

  Surveying is daytime work — especially if it invokes today’s remarkable high-tech geospatial mapping…

  Monday, May 21, 2018

• Shootings propel new look at an old objective: Preparing youth for the inevitable

  The decades-long rise of gun-related violence in U.S. schools reached a zenith of sorts with the shooting…

  Wednesday, May 16, 2018

• Counselors’ role likely to evolve to help stop further violence on campus, comfort victims

  Earlier this year, a disaffected former high school student returned to his alma mater in Parkland, Florida,…

  Tuesday, May 08, 2018

• Rainwater harvesting comes of age across the (dry) land

  ​There are those in vehement denial of the research and data indicating that water resources across…

  Thursday, March 29, 2018

• Drones and LIDAR pump up aerial surveying and mapping

  ​One might think that maybe, just maybe, advancing technology would not disrupt the age-old, venerated…

  Tuesday, March 27, 2018

• As medical wearables find a home, usage concerns remain

  ​New wearable digital technology devices are certainly nifty and enticing. First-generation wearables…

  Thursday, March 08, 2018

• Midwest emerging as bustling tech hub

  ​Tech businesses are leaving Silicon Valley, literally and figuratively. But where to? As an initial…

  Tuesday, March 06, 2018

• Nuclear standoff with North Korea prompts interest in new weapons

  ​With rogue nations such as North Korea developing intercontinental ballistic missiles systems (ICBMs)…

  Friday, February 23, 2018

• Google offers global geospatial analysis for the masses

  ​A plethora of global remote-sensing technologies acquire terabytes of environmental data minute by…

  Tuesday, February 20, 2018

• Mapping degraded lands with applied geospatial knowledge

  ​Will the restoration of degraded lands come to the rescue of a world short on water, arable land and…

  Tuesday, February 13, 2018

• Scope of nanotechnology widens in 2018

  ​There's miniaturization, and then there's nanotechnology. Global markets are growing and multiplying…

  Monday, February 12, 2018

• Medication-assisted treatment gets a big expansion in California

  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and California's Department of Health Care Services…

  Friday, February 02, 2018

• Geographic information systems show their true economic value

  Consumers and businesses have embraced geographic information systems (GIS) as a huge boon in their lives.…

  Tuesday, January 30, 2018

• Hidden testimony: Substance abuse among attorneys

  Attorneys advocate adversarially for others. By doing so they hold their clients' trust and fate in their…

  Tuesday, January 16, 2018

• Boomers and millennials traveling more — and differently

  Baby boomers are traveling more than ever and certainly remain the global travel industry's cash cow.…

  Wednesday, January 10, 2018

• Cannabis habitats: Hemp as a building aid comes of age

  Despite the recent Justice Department ruling, the forward march continues toward pervasive legalization…

  Tuesday, January 09, 2018

• Anxiety and depression no longer lurk in the shadows

  The prevalence of anxiety and depression (A&D) is increasing worldwide. The impact of this illness —…

  Thursday, January 04, 2018

• What lies ahead for the travel industry in 2018

  Travel is becoming less a discretionary activity and more of a necessity, especially if you subscribe…

  Wednesday, January 03, 2018

• Transformative trips: 6 trends climbing the horizons of wellness travel

  In an increasingly chaotic world, it is not surprising that wellness travel should be the fastest-growing…

  Wednesday, December 13, 2017