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Robots working 6,000 meters below sea level

MercoPress, a news agency based in Uruguay, reports that German engineers are using an aquatic robot able to work 6,000 meters below sea level. This remotely operated vehicle ROV, dubbed Kiel-6000, is operated by the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences from the University of Kiel. The robot weighs 3.5 tons...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Remotely Operated Vehicle, Kiel-6000, Colin Devey, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-17

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IBM claims 'Quicksilver' flash sets data-speed record

A project under development from IBM is setting new records for data-transfer speeds using solid-state technology with one million input/outputs per second. IBM has said its 'Project Quicksilver' is setting new records for data-transfer speeds on solid-state technology, with its tests showing a disk-storage solution hitting one million input/outputs...

Tags: IBM Corp., Storage, Virtualization, Performance Management, Ip storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, IBM, Project Quicksilver, SSD, solid-state drive

News items 2008-08-29

China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'

China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'Learn from M$, Google and YahooThey cooperated with the local bully, they were allowed to run business over there. Don't p*ss of their government, that's the key in China. Yahoo went so far they handed in evidence to China government to help...

Tags: Tibetan family, Han, census, Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

U.K's most spammed person receives 44,000 spam emails daily

U.K's most spammed person receives 44,000 spam emails dailyMost embarrased male in UK now... is"Orange customer, Colin Wells – Workshop Foreman for Stagecoach buses – has the most spammed UK inbox and ClearMyMail blocks more than 44,000 emails from entering Wells’ inbox every day, amounting to around 16 million every...

Tags: E-mail, Colin Wells, U.K, spam email

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

U.K's most spammed person receives 44,000 spam emails daily

When you get so much spam that your anti-spam provider decides to use you in a marketing campaign, your spam problem turns into an asset for the community, and researchers running honeypots can only envy you for the sample of spam emails you receive on a daily basis. According to...

Tags: Orange PCS, Internet Service Provider, U.K, Spam Email, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Here comes the video conferencing boom

Gas is high. Airlines are nickel and diming you to death. And your employees are getting squeezed. This state of travel could put video conferencing over the top. We've all heard this video conferencing rap before. It goes like this. Video conferencing is like a real-life meeting...

Tags: Video Conferencing, Surcharge, Video, US Airways Group Inc., Definition Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-13

The physics of flocking in 3-D

You might think that bird watchers are only amateurs armed with binoculars. But biologists have also been studying flocks of birds for a long time. And now, they're helped by physicists, according to this New Scientist article about how European researchers are capturing flocks in 3-D. With a couple of...

Tags: 3D, Animal, Physicist, Handbook, Analysis, STARFLAG, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-12

UFO News (gadget)

Direct links to George Noory of Coast to Coast Am reaching 20 million listeners each night, Jeff Rense his radio show reaches 15 million listeners each night and 78 of the top UFO, Alien abduction, Cattle mutilation and Crop circle researchers on this planet starting with Mar Allin, Colin Andrews,...

Tags: Horn, Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-04-16

A 100-million-year dragon killer

Komodo dragons are one of the largest living species of lizards, growing to a length of up to 3 meters and weighing around 70 kilograms. They're living on several central Indonesian islands for more than 100 million years. Why are they still alive? According to an international team of researchers,...

Tags: Researcher, Species, Komodo, UNSW, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-15

IBM and Linden Partner on Enterprise-Class Second Life

IBM and Linden Labs are partnering to develop a version of Second Life that will live behind the corporate firewall. As I mentioned in my previous post, Second Life is far too fat and clumsy to be taken seriously in the enterprise. Add to that concerns around...

Tags: Second Life, IBM Corp., SL, Firewalls, Branding, Groupware, Network Security, Networking, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-04-03

Nanotechnology-based clean hydrogen for cars

According to EE Times, a California-based company called QuantumSphere has developed nanoparticles that could make hydrogen cheaper than gasoline. The company says its reactive catalytic nanoparticle coatings can boost the efficiency of electrolysis the technique that generates hydrogen from water to 85% today, exceeding the Department of Energy's goal for...

Tags: Fuel Cell, Electrode, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Nanotechnology, Hydrogen, QuantumSphere, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-27

Is Obama campaign a model for the future?

TechPresident takes note of the Obama's campaign integration of online methods into its overall campaign strategy. Colin Delany refers to a Post article that looked at the campaign's operations in Iowa. Depending on the voter, they follow with Facebook reminders, telephone...

Tags: Operation, TechPresident, Internet, Social Networking, Productivity, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-03

Leapblogging: The Salesforce.com Ecosystem Debate, Round II

Leapblogging: The Salesforce.com Ecosystem Debate, Round IIEnterprise Rule of ThumbJosh, the typical rule of thumb to measure the revenues generated in the SAP ecosystem is 10x. Take SAP's license revenue for any given quarter and multiply them by 10 to get a pretty good estimate of how much money...

Tags: Sales force management, SunSHINE, Salesforce.com Inc., Leapblogging, Round II, SFDC, revenue, AppEx, ISV

Discussion threads 2007-11-30

The top 10 IT disasters of all time

There are plenty of recorded examples where faulty hardware and software have cost organizations dearly, both financially and in terms of reputation -- and resulted in some near misses for the public. This list, written by ZDNet UK's Colin Barker, describes some of the worst IT-related disasters and failures.

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Disaster, Strategy, Management

Download resources 2007-11-28

The top 10 IT disasters of all time

The top 10 IT disasters of all timeWhy omitions?(Note: We have purposely omitted incidents that resulted in loss of life.) Why omit these incidents??? THESE are the ones that count!If some flacky software kills hundreds or thousands I would want to know.Purposely omitted errors that cost lives?Errors like the Therac-25...

Tags: Operating systems, Imperial unit, GOODNESS, IT disaster, Microsoft Windows, information technology

Discussion threads 2007-11-27

Living green in Manhattan: no toilet paper, no elevator

This is the story of one man and his family. Living on the Ninth Floor of a Manhattan apratment building. And it is a test of will. No toilet paper. Nothing wrapped in plastic. No rides in the elevator. This is real-life research being done...

Tags: Toilet, Elevator, Global Warming, Manhattan, Beavan, Food & Beverage, Leadership, Blogging, Manufacturing, Management, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-22

Singularity Summit 2007: How to be a Singular boy scout

It's day two at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. Today's topics include the risks of artificial general intelligence AGI and what preparations are necessary to stack the odds in favor of humans. Our extensive day one coverage from myself and guest poster...

Tags: Robot, Chris Matyszczyk, Thiel, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-10

Building nanowires to connect future chips

As computer chips are getting smaller and smaller, it becomes crucial to find new ways to connect them. Canadian researchers have developed a method to produce self-assembled nanowires that are 5,000 times longer than they are wide. They've been able to obtain nanowires measuring only 10 nanometers in width, but...

Tags: Nanoparticle, Electronics, Chemistry, Molecule, Chip, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-31

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

Broadband over powerlines gets a boost

Broadband over powerlines gets a boostMessage has been deleted.Who Needs BPL First?It amazes me when I see the roll-out of a service that hundreds of thousands of us probably millions of us have been impatiently waiting for too many years now. Broadband over Power Lines. When I read...

Tags: Ham, Broadband-Over-Powerline, broadband over power line, radio

Discussion threads 2007-08-16