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Webcor Builders CIO - Transcript

Dan Farber: Greg, Thanks for joining me. Gregg Davis: Thank you. Appreciate being here. Dan Farber: Webcor builders is a major force in the construction industry especially in California and yet I don’t often think of the construction industry as...

Tags: Andrew Mager, Construction, Construction Environment, Human Resources, Issue, Job, Job Site, Project, Recruitment & Selection, RFI, Technology, Wireless, Workforce Management

Blog posts 2007-07-17

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Uncle Sam: less wasteful?

At first thought, the idea of ......disconnecting elevators to the first six floors sounds like a great idea, but what about the handicapped - there would have to be a way to let them use the elevator ... universal access to all places and all that jazz ...LudoThis blog is...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, Uncle Sam, dictator

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Asus UL30A-A1 (Core 2 Duo Su7300 1.3GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Vista Home Premium)

Whether CULV thin-and-light laptops will ever fully find a spot between the Netbook world and the full-featured laptop world, they are most definitely a category that's growing every day. Dropping an optical drive and throwing a low-voltage processor alongside a long-lasting battery is the trend of 2009, although the low-voltage...

Tags: Processors, Notebooks, hard drive, Intel Core 2 Duo, laptop computer, ASUS, battery, processor

Product reviews 2009-09-30

Oregon Scientific ATC5K Waterproof Action Camera

Usually extreme sports helmet cameras are ruggedly simple affairs that have to forgo complications such as LCD viewfinders in favor of compact and durable designs. The Oregon Scientific ATC5K Action Camera avoids that compromise by squeezing a small full-color LCD screen onto its smallish body, while still preserving its waterproof...

Tags: Corporate communications, Monitors & displays, Memory, Flash memory, Oregon Scientific ATC5K, video, photograph, camera

Product reviews 2009-08-07

Cloud Survey results - everything old is new again

My friends at Stratus brought my attention to a recent survey done by Laura Didido of Information Technology Intelligence Corporation ITIC that reminds me a great deal of surveys executed by my former employer, International Data Corporation IDC. Early in the adoption cycle of client/server computing, IDC...

Tags: Survey, ITIC, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Marketing Research, Hardware, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-22

Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. House

Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. HouseCap & Trade is corrupted from the get-goWithin a dozen years we'll revisit the whole concept and maybe do it right.Or...Try to work the unworkable until the die-off kicks in.RE: Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. HouseI'm sure the White House support...

Tags: Waxman-Markey, U.S. House, carbon dioxide, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Five ways to keep the dust bunnies out of a PC

Five ways to keep the dust bunnies out of a PCTypo?When you mentioned environments where stuff is bound to get dirty anyway, did you mean to say "these tips are [b]not[/b] for them" ?Aside from that, good article!RE: Five ways to keep the dust bunnies out of a PCIronically (to...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Telecom & Utilities, dust bunny, bunny, Five-Way, PC, tube, environment, computer

Discussion threads 2009-06-05

Nokia E75

Announced at GSMA 2009, the Nokia E75 is the latest Nokia E series smartphone to hit the market. Unlike the Nokia E71/E71x, the E75 features a more compact, cell-phone-like design, which is a welcome change from the recent deluge of slate QWERTY devices. In addition, the E75 includes the company's...

Tags: Cellular phones, Handhelds, alphanumeric keypad, Nokia E75, Nokia Corp.

Product reviews 2009-06-04

IBM Case Study: Oriflame Cosmetics

Oriflame Cosmetics is one of the world's fastest-growing cosmetics companies, selling high-quality natural skincare and cosmetics products through an independent sales force outside the traditional retail environment. To keep its complex business on track and maintain its rapid rate of growth, Oriflame Cosmetics needed a complete, integrated management platform. The...

Tags: Cognos Inc., Cosmetics, IBM Corp., Oriflame Cosmetics S.A., Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-06-01

Technological transmogrification: the evolution of language

Technology is an ever-growing and developing social construction - from the Archimedes screw to the Blu-ray disk. Not only with technology, our language has evolved to a point where entirely new dialects and words have been plucked out of nowhere and thrust into everyday life; unlike Icelandic which is one...

Tags: Word, Virus, Meat Product, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Spam, Security, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Spam And Phishing, Hardware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-23

Cobra BT 200 Heavy Duty Handset with Bluetooth Wireless Technology

The Cobra BT 200 is a heavy-duty Bluetooth handset that features a fairly limited list of features. It makes calls, and that's about it. During our time with the BT 200, we encountered a few inconveniences, such no automatic contact-list importing and an unintuitive interface for advanced features like inputting...

Tags: Cellular phones, handset, Bluetooth, BT 200, British Telecommunications, PTT

Product reviews 2009-05-01

Construction Firm Boosts Productivity by 30 Per Cent With Messaging Solution

Golden Pyramids Plaza is responsible for one of the most prestigious urban developments in the Middle East. Based in Cairo, it builds and manages commercial, hotel, and residential properties. Golden Pyramids Plaza GPP is a leading Egypt-based developer of highly prestigious commercial and residential urban projects. GPP needed to guarantee...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Golden Pyramids Plaza, Groupware, E-mail Servers, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-05-01

Cannon Design Increases Collaboration to Avoid Project Delays, Reduce Risk, and Improve Productivity

Cannon Design wanted to take advantage of the firm's uniquely distributed knowledge approach and share best practices via a more collaborative, virtual work environment and ensure timely responses to thousands of Requests For Information RFIs and submittals the process by which a contractor seeks architect approval for specific products to...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Environment, Service Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-05-01

How do we prepare kids for Obama's "Green Jobs"?

Earth Day may be drawing to a close or already over for most of the world, but ideally we should really be talking about Earth Lifetimes or Earth Millennia. Earth Day has always bothered me because one day of focusing on our environment will hardly "save the planet." ...

Tags: Job, Administration, Earth Day, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Salesforce's unspoken build and buy strategy

At this week's Cloudforce I was keen to understand what is happening on the Force.com platform. Narinder Singh,  Appirio's marketing strategist came on stage to talk about how they used the Force.com platform to set up MyStarbucksidea.com. This is an example of a situational application, built and designed for a...

Tags: Strategy, Salesforce.com Inc., Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Carolina hydrogen: heavy duty but lighter than air

The hydrogen revolution is taking place, right now...in South Carolina. I recently blogged the state's first H2 fuel station. Now they're unveiling a house powered by solar and a hydrogen fuel cell. It's in Aiken, South Carolina. The second hydrogen-powered house on earth. You can...

Tags: Hydrogen, Hydrogen Revolution, Greenway Energy, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-02

Amazon Web Services: No Open Cloud Manifesto for us

Amazon Web Services: No Open Cloud Manifesto for usIsn't the main advantage of "The Cloud" being Cross Platform Comp.The main reasons I can think of to use the cloud rather than a desktop app is being able to access from basically any web connected computer. If you have to have...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Amazon.com Inc., computer, Open Cloud Manifesto, Amazon Web Services, Web service

Discussion threads 2009-03-27

HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition

There are a lot of Netbooks on the market that are so similar in terms of hardware and software that manufacturers have to find other ways to differentiate them--usually with aesthetics and design. Although Netbooks started out with custom Linux shells such as the original Asus Eee PC, the vast...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, main-feature, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mini 1000, HP Mini 1000, Mini, mobile Internet, netbook

Product reviews 2009-03-18

Lovelock: the final warning

Lovelock: the final warningoverpopulation?Seriously now...overpopulated? on what grounds? Manhattan, L.A., New Dehli, Mexico City, Hong Kong? yes. Take a drive through Wyoming and see how long it takes you to pass a house. Wyoming is one of the least populated states in the USA, and it has nothing to do...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Lovelock, pessimist, food, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-03-13

ETech: Programming future habitats

This morning at ETech, Jennifer Magnolfi, the senior integration architect for programmable environments at Herman Miller presented an approach that allows for physical buildings to dynamically evolve and support change. Herman Miller is known for creating the widely popular Aeron Chair. The initiative, Programmable Environment, is a spatial system...

Tags: Environment, Infrastructure, Programming, Programmable Environment, Georgia Tech Library, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-03-10