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- Electricity from the Sea
- Irish companies that they say could harvest power from the turbulent waters off the country's West Coast in a few years. They want to bring it to the U.S. and New Zealand too. News.com's Michael Kanellos traveled to Galway, Ireland to check out their plans.
- Tags: Derek Robertson, general manager, North America, WaveBob
- Videos 2008-04-01
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- CERN demos giant 3D digital camera
- At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Derek Mathieson, project leader for the world's largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, shows off the Atlas detector, a six story high, 100-megapixel camera with 100 million data channels. Mathieson explains how the detector uses open-source Java applications to collect data and how grid...
- Tags: 3D, CERN, Digital Camera, Camera, Mathieson, Digital Cameras, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, JavaOne, Atlas detector, physics
- Videos 2008-05-12
- EU investigating OOXML vote
- The EU is investigating Microsoft's handling of the OOXML vote, in which Microsoft's problem-ridden format was approved by the ISO, CNET reports. In an ongoing investigation, the EU checked in with several European countries where there were allegations of irregularities. In...
- Tags: Standards Body, Microsoft Corp., European Union, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Interview with the Vista Pwn2Own contest winners
- Update 04/03/2008: I've updated the article as apparently the link to k2's blog was broken. Also, it's important to note that Derek Callaway was a part of this research and exploitation as well, and I neglected to mention that. So obviously our coverage of the Pwn2Own contest has...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Vulnerability, JavaScript, Microsoft Windows Vista, Exploit, Data Execution Prevention, Flaw, Nate, Programming Languages, Java, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- OOXML vs. ODF: Lessons learned
- The votes have been tallied but it's still not 100 percent certain that Microsoft's Office Open XML OOXML document-format is going to become an ISO standard. (Supposedly, the vote is still too close to call and neither ISO nor Microsoft is yet discussing the final results. But...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML, Government Contract, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Iso standards, Process Improvement, Emerging Technologies, Quality, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Vista falls in Pwn2Own contests final day to a flaw in Adobe Flash
- Update 3/29/2008: Just to clarify in case it wasn't clear, this is a flaw in an Adobe product, Adobe Flash, and not in a Microsoft product or in the Windows Vista operating system. This is important to note, as it's not quite as glamorous as the flaw that took down...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Flaw, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-03-29
- Microsoft OOXML standardization bid: The clock is ticking
- The politicking is almost over. At midnight Central European Time on Saturday March 29, voting regarding whether Microsoft's Open Office XML OOXML document format will get ISO standards approval will close. For the past month -- ever since the ISO Ballot Resolution Meeting BRM in Geneva ended...
- Tags: ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Standardization, Politicking, Iso standards, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- Healthcare clamors for iPhone treatments
- Healthcare clamors for iPhone treatmentsnot for me.My doctor shows up with an iphone, and I get a new doctor.nothing new! similar devices have been around for 5 years!Its amazing how a shiny animated new interface can help a concept sell something old...Yet another piece of poorly researched "so called...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, iPhone treatment, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-03-17
- Microsoft goes internal for new head of its app-platform business
- Microsoft has named Sheila Gulati, General Manager of the company's Developer and Platform Evangelism unit, as the new head of the company's application-platform and developer marketing business. Gulati is taking the post that was most recently filled by Steve Guggenheimer. Microsoft acknowledged in Febraury that Guggenheimer was...
- Tags: Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Blame Zuckerberg (and Twitter) for poor SXSWi keynote; Parents joining Facebook; Paramount movies go viral
- A Facebook special of The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… Blame Zuckerberg and Twitter for poor SXSWi keynote. By all accounts see Techmeme, Sarah Lacy's on-stage interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg...
- Tags: Facebook, Idea, Twitter, Washington Post Co., Sales Strategy, Social Networking, Sales Force Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Microsoft releases updated Office-OpenOffice XML translator, ramps up document interop efforts as ISO mulls OpenXML
- Microsoft today launched an update of its OpenXML and ODF translator for its Excel and Powerpoint applications and pledged to keep churning out more documentation to enable interoperability -- and more patents to protect that IP. Following its interoperability announcement on Feb 21, the...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Patent, ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenXML, Interoperability Initiative, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Open Source, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Emerging Technologies, Quality, Business Operations, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- From gas to solid, that's not just physics, that's green tech
- Courtesy: Carbon Sciences Every inspirational speaker will tell an audience to take a negative and turn it into a positive. Politically CO2 emissions have become a negative in many parts of the world. CO2 is deemed to be one of the greenhouse gases...
- Tags: Green Technology, Carbon Dioxide, CSA, CS, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Air pollution finds a home
- Carbon Sciences says it has come up with a relatively efficient way to turn carbon dioxide from smokestacks into chalk, which can then be used to make drywall or other products. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos checks out the company's mobile prototype with CEO Derek McLeish.
- Tags: news, michael kanellos, carbon dioxide, chalk, environment
- Videos 2008-02-19
- Google on Markey net neutrality bill:let's stop the "gatekeepers"
- Without mentioning Comcast's broadband Internet throttling by name, Google's Public Policy analyst and blogger Derek Slater has just made a post resoundingly in favor of the net neutrality legislation introduced this week by Congressmen Ed Markey and Chip Pickering: Today, Rep. Ed Markey and Chip...
- Tags: Google Inc., Broadband, Net Neutrality, Broadband Policy, Internet, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Bebo buyout rumor; Flock friends MySpace; Wikinvest and Dealipedia
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… Rumor: Google or MySpace to buy Bebo? The iPhone is real, Gphone turned into Android, and Microsoft is trying to takeover Yahoo -- so it must...
- Tags: Bebo, Apple iPhone, Investor, MySpace, Wiki, Financial Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Online Communications, Finance, Investment, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- NAC Best Practices: Three Simple Steps to Deploy Network Access Control
- You need network access control NAC--not just to ensure compliance of known computers whether managed or unmanaged--but also to exclude unauthorized computers. Having an enterprise-level strategy for security compliance and access control is essential to protecting your organization from a broad spectrum of potential threats. The key...
- Tags: Webcast, Network, Sophos Plc., Best Practice, Productivity, Networking, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts 2008-01-17
- Is 2008 the year the telcos crack SaaS?
- Is 2008 the year the telcos crack SaaS?Telcos Being Behind the Curve Worries MeDoes it worry anyone else that the Telcos, the underlying architecture of the Internet is so being the curve when it comes to emerging trends in technologies.The are so burdened by their traditional way of thinking they...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Software as a Service (SaaS), Mobile Phone Technology, Salesforce.com AppExchange, telecommunications company, British Telecommunications, software-as-a-service
- Discussion threads 2008-01-14
- At last, a tech company that can help you sniff out a life partner
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk takes a look at ScientificMatch, a site that claims it will find you that special someone with the help of a test tube. I have friends who tried match.com. They met people who frightened them. And only sometimes because they looked nothing...
- Tags: Partnership, DNA, Gene, Site, Scientificmatch.com, System Gene, Business Structures, Biotechnology, Litigation, Gender And Diversity, Finance, Business Operations, Human Resources, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Complex Event Processing and SOA: a 'beautiful thing'?
- The drums keep beating louder for the impending marriage of SOA with Event Driven Architecture and Complex Event Processing. This is top of the news for many analysts, and something IBM, Oracle, and other vendors are positioning future offerings around. Is this the year when organizations will start linking SOA...
- Tags: Business Process, BPM, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- Browser battle v2: Opera's complaint about Microsoft IE may fly in Europe
- It's the brower war v. 2.0. No doubt, Opera's antitrust complaint filed against Microsoft today to the European Commission is causing huge headaches in Redmond. The Norwegian company, whose pioneering open source browser rose to prominence on mobile devices, claims that...
- Tags: Web, Opera Software, European Commission, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Standards, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Quality, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Business Operations, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
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