atlantic continental shelf

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Prairie grass against global warming?

Prairie grass against global warming?More articles like this should told.Without energy, there would be no arguing over which technology would be best. Not to mention the economy would stop abruptly.Flawed premiseEveryone does NOT agree we need to replace fossil fuels in the near future. It's a shame the envirocommunist movement...

Tags: Atlantic Continental shelf, global warming, oil

Discussion threads 2006-12-10

Additional Resources

The future of... Ink [video]

Imagine a magazine that updates its articles whenever new information is available. A tablet that stores all the textbooks a university student will ever need. Or a supermarket shelf tag that automatically reflects price changes. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das shows us how electronic ink is turning the page on a...

Tags: Video, Tablets, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-21

The future of... Ink

Imagine a magazine that updates its articles whenever new information is available. A tablet that stores all the textbooks a university student will ever need. Or a supermarket shelf tag that automatically reflects price changes. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das shows us how electronic ink is turning the...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, electronic ink, e-paper, future, technology, Kindle, e-book, Sumi Das, Esquire, magazine

Videos 2008-11-19

Getting greener at home could be a gas

Courtesy: Lehr The folks at Lehr say they have a better idea for many of your home machines: lawn mower, wire trimmer (turns out "weed whacker" is a copyrighted name for Kenmore;s wire trimmer), leaf blowers, etc. Lehr is going to be selling those...

Tags: Gasoline, Lehr, Bernardo Herzer, Propane, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-16

Airline ticket sales by airline Web site

Supplier Sites Q2 2007 Q2 2008 Point Change American Airlines 12.8% 10.7% -2.1 AirTran 4.9% 4.9% 0.0 Continental Airlines 11.5% 12.3% 0.8 Delta Airlines 14.2% 13.3% -0.9 JetBlue 5.9% 7.1% 1.2 Northwest Airlines 6.8% 4.3% -2.5 ...

Tags: Airline, Web, Web Site, Sales Strategy, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Sales Force Management, Sales, Marketing, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Consumer sentiment towards a la carte price plans by airlines

Question: Are you in favor of “a la carte” pricing? Date: August 2008 Response Total Respondents American Continental Delta Southwest United Yes 48.5 56.5 48.6 48.6 50.1 53.8 No 37.3 31.6 37.8 40.1 35.3 29.7 Not sure 14.2 11.9 13.5 11.3...

Tags: Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Wave of the future for alternative energy?

Courtesy: Pelamis Get out your atlas, see if you can find Agucadoura, Portugal. Just three miles offshore there, these big metallic sea snakes are bobbing in the ever-restless waves of the North Atlantic. And they're generating electricity for over a thousand homes on...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Portugal, Pelamis Wave Power, Venture Capital, Telecom & Utilities, Outsourcing, Finance, Financing Startups, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Altec Lansing iMT702 inMotion Max

As the heir to Altec Lansing's venerable iM600 portable iPod speaker system, the iMT702 ($199) has some big shoes to fill. We're not thrilled with all of the changes Altec Lansing has made, but the net result is a great-sounding portable system with a compact design and balanced, detailed sound.DesignThe...

Tags: inMotion Max, Altec Lansing

Product reviews 2008-11-05

Election Day '08: Where to get live results

There's no better time in history to watch election results on the fly. Some, but not all, of us will have access to a television, where you can watch results stream in on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC or Fox. But for those of you...

Tags: Result, Associated Press, Election Day, Twitter, CNN, Palm Beach Post, Northwestern, Corporate Communications, Blogging, RSS, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Marketing, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-04

DreamForce clouds deluge San Francisco

Rock legend Neil Young surprised and delighted the audience at SalesForce's DreamForce conference today by having his electric and natural gas powered 1959 Lincoln Continental Mk IV convertible driven onto the stage silent and beautiful as the clouds above San Francisco unleashed intermittent torrential rain. ...

Tags: Facebook, Sales Force, Neil Young, Sales Force Management, Sales, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-03

FaceBook Virgin Airlines Fiasco

There was a fairly major example of how external social networks can spin out of control last week: Virgin Atlantic which despite its name is a major international airline that flies all over the world have a FaceBook presence, with 6,944 members as I write this. ...

Tags: Facebook, Virgin Atlantic, Social Networking, Corporate Governance, Marketing Research, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-02

HP Pavilion A6620f

The HP Pavilion a6620f desktop PC gives you plenty of features at a price that won't leave a smoking hole in your wallet. For $570, you get a dual core 2.5GHz Intel processor, 4GB of RAM, a low grade integrated video chip, and 500GB of hard drive space--a solid configuration...

Tags: Desktops, Video cards, Semiconductors, Memory, HP Pavilion, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion A6620f, Intel Corp., digital audio, hard drive

Product reviews 2008-10-31

Ncomputing: Sharing the power of a single computer

Do you remember Digital Research's Concurrent CP/M and Concurrent DOS? In this little walk down memory lane, how about MP/M? Ncomputing is walking down the same historical path. The goal of all of these operating systems was to take currently available off-the-shelf software designed for the single user operating systems...

Tags: PC, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Ncomputing, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Productivity, Software, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-28

Learn to love a 10 foot HDTV

When it comes to watching DVDs and HD video, bigger is a lot better. Moving from a 50" LCD to a 120" front projector has made me a believer. And it cost less than an LCD or rear projector of half the size. I spent 8 weeks...

Tags: Screen, DLP, HDTV, LCD, Basement Room, Projector Quality, DLP Projector, Projectors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Top aviation search terms in September 2008

Rank Search Term Volume 1. southwest airlines 8.84% 2. american airlines 3.67% 3. united airlines 3.21% 4. continental airlines 3.08% 5. delta airlines 2.32% 6. us airways 2.21% 7. northwest airlines 2.08% 8. southwest...

Tags: Airline, NB

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Dell Studio MT

When we looked at the customizable version of the Dell Studio Desktop a month ago, we were unimpressed with Dell's effort. This off-the-shelf model is much more compelling. Available at Best Buy, this $799 PC is faster than its competition, offers more useful features, and it's also better designed. Adding...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, DVD, Consumer electronics, Dell Studio, Dell Computer Corp., Dell Studio Desktop

Product reviews 2008-10-24

Dell Inspiron 530-115B

Dell's Inspiron 530 may be the best PC deal on store shelves. Thanks to an aggressive CPU and hard-drive selection, this $599 desktop outclasses its competition, delivering the best performance we've seen in a desktop for less $600. It also provides an instructive lesson regarding processor speed versus processing cores...

Tags: Notebooks, Dell Inspiron, Inspiron 530, hard drive, Dell Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2008-10-22

Amazon Kindle at the Continental President's Club Lounge

Jason Perlow takes the Amazon Kindle for a spin with a glass of Jack Daniels. by Jason Perlow

Tags: Jason Perlow, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, kindle, amazon, consumer electronics, gadgets

Image galleries 2008-10-21

Amazon Kindle: It's not for us, Jack

My grubby hands on the Amazon Kindle at Continental Airlines' Presidents Club Lounge at  Newark Liberty International Airport. See Jason's Amazon Kindle Gallery. As I've discussed in this column before, I spend about 4 days a week away from home and about 8...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Arthur C. Clarke, E-books, Wireless LANs, Personal Technology, Wireless, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-21

Desktop Unix: MacOS X and SUSE Linux

Desktop Unix: MacOS X and SUSE LinuxcorrectThe average wintel machine runs using MBR and BIOS... which is pretty primitive compared to EFI. I guess it gets the job done though. macs use EFI. Odd eh?Choice is good but......you can't run OS X on any hardware. The choice is use...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Open Office Base, Linux, Unix, Microsoft Windows, Desktop Unix, GNU/Linux, MacOS X, Apple Mac OS, desktop, hardware, Apple Macintosh, SuSE Linux, SuSE

Discussion threads 2008-10-21