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Images: Car tech for the masses

Telematics Research Group says that2008 will be the car-model year that sees high-tech navigation and communication make its way from luxury models to standard or optional equipment across the majority of car models.The Telematics Research Group announced in early August that2008 will be the car-model year that sees high-tech navigation...

Tags: Car, BMW AG, Telematics Research Group, Vibration Method, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2007-08-28

Photos: Russian air show aims high

The MAKS 2007 event has lofty aspirations, but is it ready yet to surpass the Paris Air Show? For hard-core aviation fans, it may not matter.The distance between France and Russia is more than just half a continent. You can see it in everything from drink (wine vs. vodka) to...

Tags: Aerospace & Defense, Food & Beverage, photograph, MAKS 2007 event, MAKS 2007, Paris Air Show, aircraft, Russia, theorist, aerospace company, Salon, magnet, pride, resort, aspiration, defense contractor, jet, toilet, blockbuster, spectator, wine, continent, staff writer, aerospa

Image galleries 2007-08-23

Photos: iRobot's new 'robust' Roomba

New Roomba 500 series vacuuming robot gets corners and takes direction without sucking in rug fringe or loose wires.On Wednesday, iRobot plans to release a new generation of vacuuming robots to the public.CNET News.com got a chance to test out iRobot''s new Roomba 500 series ahead of time and got...

Tags: Robots, photograph, iRobot Corp., iRobot Roomba, subsystem, robot, Roomba 500, modularity, dust, dirt, homeowner, firmware, staff writer, incarnation, C, CEO, battery, Web

Image galleries 2007-08-21

Photos: The one-of-a-kind wooden bicycle

A German timber technology student turned to an unlikely material--beech wood--for his two-wheeled creation.When most people think of bicycle frames, they have in mind materials running the gamut of aluminum, chrome-moly steel and carbon fiber. Not so a timber technology student in Germany. For his two-wheeled creation, he turned to...

Tags: photograph, Jens Eichler, bicycle, spin, oil, premier, coat, disc, Czech Republic, glue, tire, grain, brake, staff writer, aluminum, partnership, Web site, Web, tool

Image galleries 2007-08-15

Additional Resources

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

This is a purely text based tour of a data processing center - note the acronyms used to distance staff from users and the heavy reliance on secrecy and sharp job boundaries. by Paul Murphy

Tags: IBM Mainframe, Data Center, Data-processing, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Data Centers, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Managing growth - a followup to yesterday's guest blog

Yesterday, Dean Cycon of Dean's Beans wrote a guest blog for this column on "Starbucks' Dirty Little Secret". The blog is worthy of some followup, as well as some additional information that Dean shared with me about their corporate philosophy. Growth is good for a company,...

Tags: Trader, Blog, Dean Cycon, X2 Development Corp., Strategy, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Entellium puts a video game spin on CRM with a desktop RIA

Entellium puts a video game spin on CRM with a desktop RIAGreat news!Back in the day, practical folks used to talk well about Volvos. They said that Volvos were safe, reliable, family cars. There were however not many takers. People instead swooned over sexier, more stylish cars. This is precisely...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Java development tools, Desktops, video game, video, game, CRM, Web browser, iTunes client, Entellium, Apple iTunes, Sun Java Studio Creator, desktop, rich Internet application

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Judge refuses to reduce 'rogue' admin's bail

Breaking news: A San Francisco judge just refused to lower Terry Childs' bail from $5 million, the SF Chron reports. Prosecutors said that by rigging the network so that key programs were held in memory so that they would be deleted when the network was shut...

Tags: Bail, Administrator, Network, Sheriff, Prosecutor, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-23

'Spam King' escapes from federal prison

[ UPDATE:  Davidson was found dead, involved in an apparent murder-suicide that involved his wife and 3-year-old daughter. ] Edward "Eddie" Davidson, a notorious e-mail spammer who was sentenced to jail time in April, has escaped from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. Davidson...

Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Restitution, Davidson, Federal Prison Camp, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-23

How sick is Steve Jobs?

How sick is Steve Jobs?Not appropriate to ...discuss someone's health in a public blog. Privacy should remain private.how long before M$ goes belly up?with Gate$ gone, M$ is even in a worst position since he too was relying on brainless drones.RE: How sick is Steve Jobs?[i]Jobs has insisted to friends...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Steve Jobs, health care

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and morale

updated: VMWare, whose recent headlines have included an ousted CEO and a re-pricing of its employee stock options, reported second-quarter earnings of $92 million, or 23 cents per share, up from $52 million, or 16 cents per share, for the same quarter a year ago. Revenues were $456 million, an...

Tags: Revenue, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Zuora: the future business model?

I recently caught up with Tien Tzou, CEO of Zuora, the billing management company that offers Z-billings, an on-demand service. In his opinion, the business model of the future will be subscription based and this brings challenges of its own. "Pricing is a much more complex...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Billing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-22

The evolution of search over traditional BI

Today's business intelligence tools are great at tracking tradional numbers but fail to quench business's thirst for more information says Commentary--A recent Gartner report predicts that IT’s involvement in business intelligence BI will diminish in time as business users adopt new technologies to quench...

Tags: Payment, Data, Analyst, Information, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, business intelligence, search, Sid Probstein, Attivio

News items 2008-07-22

Updated:Will social media lead to user generated unemployment?

[Updated with video.] I'm spending a few days at Fortune Magazine's invite-only Brainstorm conference. It's an excellent lineup of speakers and the audience is full of top tech industry luminaries. Brad Smith, CEO of Intuit, was just on stage and he spoke about trying to harness...

Tags: Intuit Inc., Social Media, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-07-21

The key barrier to health care reform

The key barrier to health care reformReducing residenciesHey, at least Georgia [b]has[/b] residencies. Arizona's University Hospital has, thanks to Andrew Weil, turned all of its general practice residencies into NCCAAM-funded "alternative health care" training programs.If you think it's bad now, wait until your insurance only covers "therapeutic touch" and...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, barrier, health care, residency, physician

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddens!

600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddens!Good RiddanceGood riddanceZD Can't SpellIt's "riddance" not "riddens". If "riddens" was supposed to be a play on words or a joke or a reference to something having to do with coffee, I don't get it.Otherwise, since you guys write about tech, maybe use that there...

Tags: Starbucks Corp., bean, Riddens

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?

If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?OT but relevant: The heavy tread of IT.Quoting from the stern warnings about SharePoint from another Comment:“As many shops are discovering, SharePoint is also a development platform that people both inside and outside of IT use to create intranets,...

Tags: Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

3wgate Internet Cafe Billing Client Software (zip)

3wgate is an Internet cafe and billing software. Also good as a network management solution for businesses that want to control staff access to the Internet. Notable features of this software are browsing billing, site blocking, throway ticket/solo time, blocking/unblocking of sites, application, file download, usb devices, and control panel....

Tags: Billing, Internet Cafe, USB, Network Management, SIRL Technologies, 3wgate, Internet, Networking

Software downloads 2008-07-21

Proving Scoble wrong, Qik lives on and opens public beta to boot

Qik, a popular streaming mobile video service, has finally opened its public beta program and has released a slew of new features to go along with it. This is great news considering last month tech pundit Robert Scoble declared Qik all but dead in the wake newcomer Kyte. ...

Tags: Public Beta, Robert Scoble, Handset, Video, Integration, Qik, Kyte, Kyte.tv, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-07-20

Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja

Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninjaLiberties"Mr. Future President, while you’re at it, could you also do something about all of the civil liberties we’re losing because of the ‘war on terrorism’? That’d be great. Thanks!"that is the point of Cyber Czar - censor what...

Tags: SECURITY, cyber-security measure, comprehensive cyber-security measure, Obama, cybersecurity

Discussion threads 2008-07-18