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The mystery of Oregon's 'dead zone'

The mystery of Oregon's 'dead zone'Dead zoneThis area is immediately in shore of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and this may be some indication of what is happening in that area. We know that dangerous gases are released by volcanos and fissures beneath the surface of the ocean in these...

Tags: oxygen, Dead Zone, river, Chesapeake Bay, theory

Discussion threads 2006-08-26

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Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop

Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Toshiba Regza 42RV530U

During the last year flat-panel HDTV prices seemed to hit a plateau, where the standard bricklike downward trend leveled off somewhat. Now, however, prices are on the decline again, opening up bigger screen sizes to lower price ranges. For example, Toshiba's lowest-priced 1080p 42-inch LCD, the 42RV530U, can be purchased...

Tags: Monitors & displays, 1080p, Toshiba Corp.

Product reviews 2008-07-22

Telcos hurting national interest says Vint Cerf - Father of Internet

I spoke with Vint Cerf at the Fortune Brainstorm conference in Half Moon Bay. I asked him about net neutrality and the problems created by Telcos in trying to own the gateways to the Internet. Here is the video, the quality is very high contrast because of...

Tags: Vint Cerf, Internet, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Bookmark this: Three Web sites to aid the green cause

"EcoSearch this" doesn't have quite the same ring as "Google this," but the non-profit is hoping to harness the power of the Google search engine to help raise money for environmental non-profits including the Sierra Club, TreePeople, RainForest Alliance, National Resource Defense Council, Heal the Bay, Healthy Child, Healthy World...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-19

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

ZT Affinity 7221Xa

The $600 ZT Affinity 7221Xa is the cheaper sibling of the recently reviewed ZT Affinity 7225Xi-35. Its fixed configuration includes most of what we expect to find in a system in this price range. Like the 7225Xi-35, the 7221Xa is geared toward those who need a simple desktop with basic...

Tags: Desktops, DVD, Flash memory, Memory, Consumer electronics, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), ZT Affinity 7221Xa, ZT Affinity 7225Xi-35

Product reviews 2008-07-17

Dreams come true: network guy holds city hostage

Dreams come true: network guy holds city hostageMY HEROIt's about time that somebody had the JEWELS to do this, but it is not worth the jail time.I know an Island where they take people like him and make them cry or put him in with other folk to do some...

Tags: NETWORKING, Construction, Abbie, network guy, network

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

2008 BMW X6 xDrive35i

Photo gallery:2008 BMW X6Even after driving the 2008 BMW X6 for a week, we're still not sure what to make of it. BMW's marketing campaign calls it the coupe's evil twin, but with the 3-liter twin-turbo inline six-cylinder in our xDrive35i model, it doesn't feel particularly diabolical. It seems more...

Tags: BMW AG, BMW X6, Infiniti

Product reviews 2008-07-15

Sneak peek at the new Unicode-friendly PHP6

The following is a guest post from Andrew Mager, associate technical producer at ZDNet. This dispatch is from the Bay Area PHP Meetup. He can be found at Andrewmager.com. When Andrei Zmievski isn't busy building infrastructure for a social gaming startup, or processing photos from his Nikon...

Tags: Unicode, PHP, Internationalization, TextIterator, Transliteration, Zmievski, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Vox BlackBox (1TB)

The Vox BlackBox offers 1TB of storage and can be found online from roughly $310 to $340. Aside from its low cost per gigabyte, there's unfortunately little to recommend about this dual-drive Network Attached Storage NAS device. From the desktop application to the Web-based interface, the device is consistently confusing....

Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, NETWORKING, BlackBox, VoX

Product reviews 2008-07-11

VCs a glum bunch over economy, lack of exits

Venture capitalists are having a confidence crisis as dwindling exit opportunities and a weak economy conspire to put the kibosh on returns. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index the second quarter registered a reading of 3.07 on a 5 point scale, down from the...

Tags: Entrepreneurial, Confidence, VC, Mark Cannice, Venture Capital, IPO, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Financing Startups, Financial Services, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

What's next for the MacBook Air?

Brook Crothers at CNet's nanotech blog has posted an interesting piece about what upgrade options might be coming for the MacBook Air. Drives Apple dropped the price of the 64GB Solid State Disk SSD option by US$400 on Thursday but Crothers points to higher capacity, 128GB...

Tags: Processor, Disk, MBA, Apple MacBook, Battery, Apple Inc., Solid State Disk, Intel Corp., MLC, Engineering, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-07

2009 Acura TSX

Photo gallery:2009 Acura TSXBecause of its solid and comfortable everyday driver demeanor, buyers of the new 2009 Acura TSX will probably opt for the five-speed automatic transmission, for ease of driving in traffic and urban settings. And that's unfortunate, because to appreciate Honda's capability to build truly efficient engines that...

Tags: Acura, Acura TSX

Product reviews 2008-07-03

WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al Gore

WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al GoreApple's Jonathan Ive helped with robot designApparently Apple's lead designer Jonathan Ive helped with the design of the futuristic robot Eve.Fortune magazine:" A call from Stanton to Jobs in 2005 resulted in Johnny Ive, Apple's behind-the-scenes design guru, driving across the San Francisco Bay to...

Tags: Robots, Noah, Wall-E, Stanton, Steve Jobs, Al Gore, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

HP Media Vault MV2120 (500GB)

The HP Media Vault MV2120 is a two-bay network-attached-storage device with 500GB of storage and room to expand. It keeps things simple and serves up basic NAS features, including an iTunes server, remote Web access, and scheduled backups. While the device is a snap to set up, we found the...

Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, Media Vault, hard drive, MV2120, Media Vault MV2120, NAS, HP Media Vault MV2120, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Product reviews 2008-06-27

Fired up for new coal plant in Virginia

Fired up for new coal plant in VirginiaCoal in Tampa BayWe've got coal here as well. Since moving here, they've put scrubbers on it and other sort of things to clean the exhaust. It's not my favorite type of power generation, but it has the benefit of buffering...

Tags: Middle Eastern Oil, coal

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Sue Decker's super powers

Yahoo's not-so-secret reorganization got its official nod today, with three new divisions created to centralize operations and report to Sue Decker. Yahoo's not-so-secret reorganization got its official nod today, with three new divisions created to centralize operations and report to Sue Decker. ...

Tags: Reuters, Yahoo, reorganization, management, Sue Decker

News items 2008-06-27

Gateway FX7026

Continuing in their line of desktop computers with quad-core processors, the Gateway FX7026 offers a loaded computer that can go head-to-head with other high end gaming and media heavy machines. The $1,099 price tag is more than fair for the amount of high performance features and comparable to a similar...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DVD, Consumer electronics, Gateway FX7026, Gateway Inc.

Product reviews 2008-06-25

MIT students making solar power realistic

MIT students making solar power realisticno kiddingIn fact, the researchers believe that, because they can concentrate the heat from the sun so intensely, any water run near the focus could easily be vaporized to run a turbine and generate electricity.For crying out loud.I'm getting so tired of this.Here's all you...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, UCSD, Peak-Power, solar energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SolarCity

Discussion threads 2008-06-22