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- The Lightbulb of the future?
- Silicon Valley's Luxim has developed a lightbulb the size of a Tic Tac that gives off as much light as a streetlight. News.com's Michael Kanellos talks to the company about its technology and its plans to expand into various markets.
- Tags: Lightbulb, Personal Technology
- Videos 2008-03-18
- Expert: LEDs could start replacing Lightbulbs soon
- Expert: LEDs could start replacing lightbulbs soonabout timeabout timeWouldn't compact fluorescent bulbs slow adoption?LED bulbs sound like interesting progress has been made. My point is that many energy conscience, early adopters like me transitioned to compact fluorescent years ago and their cost is pretty low now. It would be...
- Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode, lightbulb, lumen
- Discussion threads 2006-11-03
- On the joys of vegetable intelligence
- On the joys of vegetable intelligenceCreepierCarrying with you a piece of electronics that announces a lightbulb has expired.Daring words these days, It can wait.Better put them on pets!Why worry for something as robust as a lightbulb? The humble fridge needs some more attention! Hey better still put all those...
- Tags: fridge, lightbulb
- Discussion threads 2005-09-14
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- On the bleeding edge of platform-as-a-service
- At April's SaaScon show, Salesforce.com's head of platform development Steve Fisher demonstrated a vacation booking application he'd built with a colleague in a weekend using the since renamed as Force.com platform. As with all demonstrations, of course, what made it all look so easy was the preparation that had gone...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Intention, Application, Platform, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- Is the 50 watt PC possible using commodity parts?
- Is the 50 watt PC possible using commodity parts?These would be nice, but...How much do they cost when contributing to something like folding. Would I be better off at using a series of cheap Celeron systems.Or if I want to swat folding and rack up massive points, should I...
- Tags: Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Intel Corp., commodity part, motherboard, PC
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
- Vista SP1: Indictment of Vista 1.0?
- Vista SP1: Indictment of Vista 1.0?Message has been deleted.No pain, no gainIf Joe IT is worried about Vista breaking things then why bother upgrading?While Microsoft is tied down to serving corporate interests it will never be able to innovate.To be fair"When the SP1 lands in the first quarter of 2008...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista, SP1, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-30
- Father of the compact fluorescent bulb looks back
- Father of the compact fluorescent bulb looks backLED/CFL and DimmersThere are not many CFLs that are dimmable, but if they are, they don't dim well below 20% like at the home theater and when it comes to "sunrise" effect during the time I wake up around 5:30 AM. CFLs must...
- Tags: Vertical industries, CFL
- Discussion threads 2007-08-16
- Facebook infiltrating the enterprise: the ups and downs
- Facebook infiltrating the enterprise: the ups and downseverything in its placeDennis, I am a blogger - heck a 2 blogger -) so certainly part of the new world of social networking. But to put social media tools at center of universe and call them "Enterprise 2.0" is to insult all...
- Tags: Blogging, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2007-07-29
- Microsoft: Why the ODF vs. OOXML battle matters
- Microsoft: Why the ODF vs. OOXML battle mattersA question"As far as we know, the Translator does translate, open and save back and forth between ODF and Open XML."It doesn't sound like he's especially confident about this. Why would this person, out of all the people on the planet, not -know-...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Word processors, Microsoft Office, Country Codes, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word
- Discussion threads 2007-02-28
- Lights out for conventional bulbs in California?
- Lights out for conventional bulbs in California?Humming?I have CFL's throughout my home as well as at work. Although my hearing may not be that good, I have never heard them hum nor have I heard anyone complain about it.As for the environmental concerns of temperature and humidity, not as big...
- Tags: Engineering, CFL, mercury
- Discussion threads 2007-01-31
- Cheaper LEDs to light a green path?
- Cheaper LEDs to light a green path?Color Will Be the IssueThe problem with fluorescent and other forms of energy-efficient lighting is the color and flicker and how it they effect the eye. If they can adjust these to properly emulate the common light bulb, or better yet, the Sun, then...
- Tags: Engineering, sunlight, light-emitting diode, mercury
- Discussion threads 2007-01-19
- Internet Identity Workshop demonstrations steal the show
- One of the hallmarks of the Internet Identity Workshop IIW is the high ratio of getting-stuff-done to idle chat and marketing drivel. I remarked at the closing session that this wasnt a workshop in the usual sense of "conference not quite grown up." This really is a...
- Tags: Sxipper, Internet Identity Workshop, Internet Identity, Web Technology, Security, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- TinyURL.com: The next YouTube? Perhaps not $1.6B's worth, but...
- By now, youre laughing your ass off. With the $1.6B of Googles money that YouTube commanded, if youve ever even visted the simplistic and somewhat basic looking TinyURL.com most havent, youre probably thinking that David Berlind must have completely lost his mind. I havent. TinyURL is the next YouTube....
- Tags: TinyURL.com, TinyURL, Web technology, Personal Technology, Podcasts, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-01
- Google's latest moves also put the pressure on Apple
- Google's latest moves also put the pressure on AppleHuh? More software makes Apple less popular?A point that everyone seems to be missing is that every piece of "software as a service" over the internet increases Apple's appeal. The standard knock against Apple is that a Mac user doesn't have...
- Tags: SMB/SME, Web browsers, Apple Safari, Google Inc., small and medium enterprise, Apple Inc., SME Market
- Discussion threads 2006-08-29
- Is open source losing its center?
- Is open source losing its center?This is a sign of growthIf the worst of the growing pains F/OSS suffers is losing a way an inaccurate way at that to measure downloads, I think that's something we need to get over. Sourceforge will not go away, but it may have to...
- Tags: F/OSS, TIMES CHANGE, IS open source, open source
- Discussion threads 2006-07-28
- Google's emerging Web Office
- Google's emerging Web OfficeGoogle vs Microsoft - the battle is already overEveryone is hyping the potential for Google and Web 2.0 to eclipse Microsoft.Just like the DotBomb era of a few years ago, so-called analysts and everyday people are thinking not with their heads, but with their egos and emotion.Besides...
- Tags: Channel management, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web
- Discussion threads 2006-05-26
- MacBook Pro issues addressed with 'Rev. D' logic board
- MacBook Pro issues addressed with 'Rev. D' logic boardSo much for those low power Intel chips.Hot keys and hot palm rest, hmmm. Guess Intel still makes the incandescent lightbulb chip.Beta-testers for new Apples are wanted. Entry fee is as little as 2K. NTNTWill not awake after sleep at timesI...
- Tags: Notebooks, Network technology, entry fee, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook, logic board, serial number, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-04-04
- More on Microsoft and invention
- More on Microsoft and inventionIsn't that backwardsIsn't innovation taking what has been invented already and using it some new way?Again I would say that......invention and innovation are too easily confused. Invention to me is something that radically changes how something is done. Radical change requires discovery. Perhaps...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., tablet, industry, Dell Computer Corp., tablet PC
- Discussion threads 2005-10-04
- Microsoft brings roles to the mid-market
- Microsoft brings roles to the mid-marketWhat a surprise ;)With the memory of the last 30 years of the Microsoft existence, why won’t they go now that direction either?Starting with a simple development tool basic and now being on almost 90% of the desktop with an OS and an Office...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2005-09-07
- Amazon files for Web services patent
- Amazon files for Web services patentMay I patent the idea of reading this story?Makes as much sense.This whole patent thing is out of control.Next: Amazon patents method for exchanging money online for goods/servicesI, for one, welcome our new Economic Overlords.I'm sure this patent will go through too. @#$%!ing USPTO. It's...
- Tags: Web service, Web, Amazon.com Inc., patent, U.S. Postal Service
- Discussion threads 2005-07-28
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