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- Cement Company Automates Financial Systems, Streamlines Operations
- A-1 Cement has provided concrete installation services in the Calgary area of Alberta, Canada, for nearly 50 years. A family-owned business, the company offers commercial and residential services. Fragmented operations and the use of an outdated accounting program that relied on manual data entry were wasting employees' time and hindering...
- Tags: Accounting, Financial, Financial System, Microsoft Corp., A-1 Cement, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
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- Android has power of a clean sheet
- Android has power of a clean sheetMaybe Android is a big deal?When I first started seeing stories about Android, I figured it was an iPhone wannabe. But, more and more it sounds like my kind of device (os?).This could be the killer app (os?) for phones/PDAs/mp3 players/image viewers.Wow.The key...
- Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Programming languages, Nokia Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Is Apple out of ideas?
- Is Apple out of ideas?At this point they might not need muchApples' greatest growth prospect lies in computers, due to its smaller market share. There's a lot of room for growth there. Within that market, Apple has been able to cement a reputation, especially with consumers, of very good...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Linux Foundation launches new conference
- Linux Foundation launches new conferenceLinux Foundation launches new conferenceOh boy, yet another linux conference to try to rally the two users who actually use it. I'm guessing linux is doing so poorly that they just keep creating new conferences, then cancel them after the first one due to lack...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Linux Foundation, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- All that solar energy is wasted overnight, but now there's a way to capture it
- The folks at the Idaho National Laboratory say they've come up with a way to make solar energy work round the clock. The sporadic nature of solar energy and the need thus to store day-time solar for night-time use has long been one of the biggest bugaboos cited by...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-23
- Sub-$600 general purpose PC, complete with Blu-ray support
- Sub-$600 general purpose PC, complete with Blu-ray supportBlu-rayNero and others offer software that can play Blu-ray disks without a specialized drive for less than $30. Worth attention? And, if so, what would you spend the extra money on?Very similar to my rigI built a few months ago. I...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Blu-ray, Operating systems, Desktops, general purpose, Foxconn, disc, Linux, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone space
- Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone spaceMicrosoft Store in the works...My rep told me Microsoft is looking into significant retail space in higher end upscale shopping malls. In the mock-up of the store, boxes of Vista and Office 2007 were kept under lock and key. Customers will be...
- Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., PC phone, PC, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- LA sues Time Warner over service
- LA sues Time Warner over serviceTwo stories?Is it me or are there two different stories here? It starts off about Time Warner and ends up with Google and NASA.It's a conspiracy, I tell ya!This proves google is trying to take over EVERYTHING having to do with personal data!Or, yeah, I...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- fbOpen: Facebook open-sources its Platform
- Facebook has gone ahead and open-sourced major parts of the Facebook Platform, the means by which third-party developers write applications for the site. "This release is just a first step in providing you a look into Facebook Platform, and we hope you'll help us iterate on and...
- Tags: Developer, Facebook, Open Source, Facebook Open Platform, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Facebook to open source its developer platform?
- While it's not yet official, TechCrunch reports that Facebook is planning to open source its Facebook Platform, the means by which third-party developers can build applications for the social networking site. In a direct response to Google's 'combine and conquer strategy' with Open Social, Facebook will turn...
- Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Open Source, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Weeks before the Olympics, China collects its first gold medal, USA gets silver
- Courtesy OECD and IEA. It's official, China is #1, world champ, leader of the pack. The US, long the leader, has relinquished its crown. A new study to be published in May says China now emits more man-made CO2 per year than the...
- Tags: China, Carbon Dioxide, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Apple saved us when Google would not
- Had you told me a year ago that Verizon would win the big 700 MHz spectrum auction, and therefore cement the wireless duopoly it has with AT&T I would have been very gloomy. But this was before the iPhone. While all of us were...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Wi-Fi, Wireless, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Yahoo: Business is fine and we're worth more; Do you buy it?
- Yahoo: Business is fine and we're worth more; Do you buy it?Yes, but MS is still going to get themFrom an advertiser's perspective, I have little doubt they're going to do just fine. Between their search inventory and their display ads on a wide range of high-volume properties, they're...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- How Tough is Ozone Crackdown by Feds
- The E.P.A. actually says it is tightening rules against ozone, and that many urban counties in the United States now frequently have air that is unhealthy to breathe. Specifically 345 counties in California, the Northeast and scattered across urban parts of the U.S. will now have tighter anti-ozone regulations....
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ozone, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- the cement ebook (exe)
- Cement ebook explains the definitions, raw materials, manufacture, Hydration, compound composition, classification, types, field examination, lab tests & the role of cement in concrete. The ebook also contains answers to hundreds of Frequently Asked Questions FAQs & Frequently UnAnswered QuestionsFUAQs. The contents of the ebook are presented in an unique...
- Tags: Cement Ebook, E-books, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-02-19
- Microsoft-Yahoo! combination could yield an Orwellian Web world
- About 10 years ago, we used to ask Jim Barksdale, then head of Netscape, a stock question during news conferences. Did you bag any "default browser" deals lately? Inevitably Jim would demur and say they were still trying. Those were the days when the light was swiftly...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Yahoo! Inc., Fact, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Channel Management, Internet, Web Browsers, Authentication/Encryption, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- The polycarbonate all-in-one 22" LCD PC
- The last time I built a wooden all-in-one 19" LCD PC, my family wanted it in the kitchen and my mother wanted it in hers. To keep everyone happy, I built my mother another one pictured above and below out of 3/16th inch jet-black polycarbonate which...
- Tags: PC, Chassis, Motherboard, CPU, LCD, Computer, Productivity, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Med.Con Introduces New Paradigms for Cement Distribution With Integrated IT Infrastructure
- Med.Con wanted to support an integrated, flexible, secure, high-performance management system and optimize supply chain to establish direct, long-term relationships with customers and suppliers. The challenge was to accelerate business processes and improve operational efficiency through automation. The company implemented an information system, based on JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with support...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, High-performance, Med.Con, Leadership, Smart Cards, Management
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Microsoft's $300 million 'consumer product blitz' inches closer
- Microsoft's $300 million 'consumer product blitz' inches closer2M camera2 megapixels is *WAY MORE* than enough for great photos. You're mistaking the megapixel count as a measure of quality. Better optics and electronics are needed, not more megapixels on the sensor.Windows MobileBut first, I would make Windows Mobile sexier......
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, consumer product, Microsoft Zune
- Discussion threads 2007-12-27
- Just two words: Green plastics. Think about it.
- Why do many of the green tech stories I wind up cover have some sort of moral dilemma involved? I mean, come on, plastics have gotten a rap as one of the most heinous substances I our daily lives. According to the subject of this latest...
- Tags: Plastics, Novomer, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
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