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A $1 billion plan for car-charging network

BetterPlace founder Shai Agassi plans $1 billion network for electric charging network in California. by Richard Koman

Tags: Battery, Bay Area, BP Plc, Car, Engineering, Network, Richard Koman, Shai Agassi

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Bay Area mayors want to electrify their commuters

The three major cities in the San Francisco Bay Area want to lead the nation in electric autos. Today they took another big step in that direction. The mayors of San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland listed in order of population announced a plan to make battery-powered cars...

Tags: San Jose, Battery, Bay Area, Better Place, Coulomb Technologies, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Daily Debrief: California gets Tesla car factory

On Monday, Tesla Motors announced it would build its electric sedan manufacturing plant in Northern California. In the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi talks with CNET Car Tech Senior Editor Wayne Cunningham about why this decision is a win for the company and the state.

Tags: Manufacturing, News, kara tsuboi, wayne cunningham, tesla roadster, gavin newsom, arnold schwarzenegger, bay area, san francisco, electric car, green, global warming

Videos 2008-07-01

Using cell phones to track traffic

News.com's Erica Ogg reports on what happens when 100 volunteers with GPS phones start driving up and down a 10-mile stretch of freeway.

Tags: erica ogg, nokia, cell phones, traffic, bay area, san francisco, gps, internet, uc berkeley

Videos 2008-02-08

Abuzz over Microsoft's Yahoo bid

On the streets of Silicon Valley Friday, everyone from software engineers to grandmas was analyzing Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi speaks with one alum of both Microsoft and Yahoo about why he favors the deal.

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., News.com, Tools & Techniques, Management, microsoft, yahoo, kara tsuboi, internet, bill gates, silicon valley, bay area

Videos 2008-02-01

San Francisco in 100 years

The year is 2108. Here in San Francisco, water is a precious resource and the population has doubled--or even tripled. How will the city accommodate these challenges? And what it's going to look like? That was the task eight architecture firms had to tackle in the History Channel's Future Cities...

Tags: News.com, Robots, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management, san francisco, architecture, bay area, kara tsuboi, future, environment

Videos 2008-01-24

Why the titans of tech should start playing ball

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk yearns for the application of tech entrepreneurship to moribund sports franchises, following in the fancy footsteps of Mark Cuban. After all, sports is a social network of extraordinary proportions... “I’d run any company; it’s completely irrelevant to me. It’s really about this drive...

Tags: Bay Area, Champaign, Chris, Dan Farber, Gentleman, Management, Team, Team Management

Blog posts 2007-10-30

Photos: Transforming e-waste into art

Two Bay Area artists take found art to a new level by turning our consumer electronics into charming, thought-provoking sculpture.

Tags: consumer electronics, electronics, Bay Area

Image galleries 2007-01-28

Bay Area Wineries PalmCellar Data 1.2 (Mobile)

This a NEW wireies add-in for For PalmCellar 1.2 ! work with the unregistered and the registered Versions !!$1.00 Off until May 31st !!MORE WINERIES !!For For PalmCellar 1.2 You ask for them you got Em!!The Winery Listing now Includes the

Tags: Winery, Mobile, Bay Area, Jack Maddera, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2001-06-16

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Live: Cisco Live Blogger Meetup

Warning: This is a live blog. Words may be misspelled. Sentences, incomplete. But the photos will be plenty, so you can't be mad either way. Cisco Live is the ultimate networking event; literally, physically, and socially. Engineers from all over the globe have...

Tags: Meetup, Event, Cisco Systems Inc., Blogger, Cisco Live, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Apple thumbs nose at Palm, reports 1 million iPhone 3G S units sold in 3 days

Apple thumbs nose at Palm, reports 1 million iPhone 3G S units sold in 3 days"Think Again"?Like they're bragging about 1M for Palm's sake?What is Apple worried about, then?If they have to go out of their way to defend their sales of a device that has been on the market...

Tags: Sales strategy, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone 3G, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Pre, Palm Inc., developer

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Palm Pre beats iPhone 3G S in 2 out of 3 speed tests by CNET

Palm Pre beats iPhone 3G S in 2 out of 3 speed tests by CNETWhy measure boot timeHow often do you have to boot up a Pre?I would have called the last one a tie.On the third test, the iPhone user was faster better UI but AT&T network (typical...

Tags: 3G, Wireless LANs, Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, Wi-Fi, Boot-time, Apple iPhone, speed test, Pre, Apple iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G S, Palm Inc., Palm Pre, network

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Photos: iPhone 3G S launch day

CNET News team covers the launch of the iPhone 3G S at Apple and AT&T stores in Manhattan and in the San Francisco Bay Area. by CNET News.com

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 3G, Photograph, CNET News Team, Team Management, Management, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-06-19

2010 Mazda Mazda3 s Grand Touring 5-Door

Photo gallery:2010 Mazda Mazda3 s GTAt first glance, the 2010 Mazda Mazda3 s Grand Touring appears to be merely a face-lifted version of the first-generation model. The proportions and measurements are about the same. The previous generation Mazda3 received much praise from the automotive press, so we naturally expected the...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Mazda Mazda3, Mazda Motor Corp., automatic transmission

Product reviews 2009-06-18

Ireland: Shell's new Nigeria?

Just as Shell brings to a close a difficult chapter in its troubled relationship with the Ogoni people in Nigeria, its relationship with community groups in the west of Ireland appears to be reaching new lows. Shell is the senior partner with Statoil and Marathon in an effort to bring off shore...

Tags: Ireland, Community, Shell, Government, Vertical Industries, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Microsoft fumbles the digital TV transition

Microsoft fumbles the digital TV transitionHas the ATSC glitch affected you?If you?re a Media Center user, has this issue affected you? Leave a comment as a reply here. (If you have another coment to make, please start a new thread) I?ll be following up with Microsoft to see if I...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Media Center PCs, digital television, digital TV transition, TV, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Verizon Wireless MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot

Priced at $400 without a contract ($170 with a one-year contract or $100 with a two-year contract), the Verizon Wireless MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot isn't affordable, especially when you consider the data plans. There are two of them: either you pay $40 for 250MB a month or $60 for...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, INTERNET, mobile, Verizon Wireless MiFi 2200, Verizon MiFi 2200, router, Verizon Wireless MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot, Verizon Wireless, MiFi

Product reviews 2009-06-11

Billboard for WWDC is torn down; startup smells rotten Apple

updated: The co-founders of a small startup suspect something more than a dark subway stairwell prompted a billboard to be pulled from a downtown San Francisco wall before the crowd attending Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference could see it Monday morning. That billboard, which was leased by a...

Tags: Billboard, Advertisement, WWDC, Apple Inc., Conference, Wall, BART, Construction, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-09

Samsung JetSet SCH-r550 (Cricket)

Since we're new to reviewing Cricket phones, we wanted to seek out handsets that were unique to the carrier and were about more than just making calls. The Motorola Hint QA30 was one such model, and the Samsung JetSet falls into that camp as well. Also called the SCH-r510, the...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Samsung JetSet, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., phone, Cricket

Product reviews 2009-06-05

Five ways to keep the dust bunnies out of a PC

Guest post: This quite useful post by TechRepublic's Bill Detwiler originally appeared on the IT Dojo blog. Given this advice I'm going to go dust bunny hunting... If your users keep their PCs on the floor or they operate in dirty environments, the dust bunnies can quickly...

Tags: PC, Computer, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-05