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- Electricity from the Sea
- Irish companies that they say could harvest power from the turbulent waters off the country's West Coast in a few years. They want to bring it to the U.S. and New Zealand too. News.com's Michael Kanellos traveled to Galway, Ireland to check out their plans.
- Tags: Derek Robertson, general manager, North America, WaveBob
- Videos 2008-04-01
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- Time to blow up the software industry
- Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Financial, Software Company, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Teachers want more training...no kidding
- Teachers want more training...no kiddingThe new OpenSUSE 11 has an education software sourceYou may want to check out the new OpenSUSE 11 released yesterday: it has an education software source which you can turn on easily. :-)Important new feature: Yast has become a whole lot faster.It's standard long term...
- Tags: Workforce management, training and certification, Ning.com, Moodle, Novell OpenSuse, training, OpenSUSE 11
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- Social networking on the 'New York Times'
- CNET News.com reporter Caroline McCarthy talks with Derek Gottfrid and Nick Thuesen, who developed TimesPeople, a new feed that lets people recommend stories to other readers on 'The New York Times' Web site.
- Tags: Network, New York Times Co., Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, News, caroline mccarthy, New York Times, TimesPeople, social networking, news
- Videos 2008-06-18
- Hacking SCADA for terrorism and destruction
- SCADA scares me, and I've seen enough things on the Internet to be desensitized to many things, but attacks against SCADA threaten our national security in a very real and topical way by attacking power grids, water treatment plants, nuclear plants, etc. Hacking networks that SCADA devices reside on and...
- Tags: Device, Hacking, Internet, Network, SCADA, Terrorism, Attack, Enterprise Software, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Who's behind the GPcode ransomware?
- In one of these moments when those who are supposed to know, don't know, and those who don't realize what they know aren't reaching the appropriate parties, it's time we get back to the basics - finding out who's behind GPcode, and trying to tip them on the consequences of...
- Tags: Payment, Encryption, GPcode, John Dow-ish Daniel Robertson, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- MacBook Err
- MacBook Errcaption"This one goes to 11. 12. 13. 14..."Suggestion for a new function key....F-off :-)RE: MacBook ErrAs much as I like reading this blog, I sometimes think that some entries would be better not being written. Beside the second key would obviously lower down the volume (unlike what...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, F11, Nigel Tufnel, Spinal Tap, keyboard, Apple MacBook, St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls, heavy metal band, World-famous, metal band
- Discussion threads 2008-05-20
- CERN demos giant 3D digital camera
- At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Derek Mathieson, project leader for the world's largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, shows off the Atlas detector, a six story high, 100-megapixel camera with 100 million data channels. Mathieson explains how the detector uses open-source Java applications to collect data and how grid...
- Tags: 3D, CERN, Digital Camera, Camera, Mathieson, Digital Cameras, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, JavaOne, Atlas detector, physics
- Videos 2008-05-12
- EU investigating OOXML vote
- The EU is investigating Microsoft's handling of the OOXML vote, in which Microsoft's problem-ridden format was approved by the ISO, CNET reports. In an ongoing investigation, the EU checked in with several European countries where there were allegations of irregularities. In...
- Tags: Standards Body, Microsoft Corp., European Union, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Interview with the Vista Pwn2Own contest winners
- Update 04/03/2008: I've updated the article as apparently the link to k2's blog was broken. Also, it's important to note that Derek Callaway was a part of this research and exploitation as well, and I neglected to mention that. So obviously our coverage of the Pwn2Own contest has...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Vulnerability, JavaScript, Microsoft Windows Vista, Exploit, Data Execution Prevention, Flaw, Nate, Programming Languages, Java, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- OOXML vs. ODF: Lessons learned
- The votes have been tallied but it's still not 100 percent certain that Microsoft's Office Open XML OOXML document-format is going to become an ISO standard. (Supposedly, the vote is still too close to call and neither ISO nor Microsoft is yet discussing the final results. But...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML, Government Contract, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Iso standards, Process Improvement, Emerging Technologies, Quality, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Vista falls in Pwn2Own contests final day to a flaw in Adobe Flash
- Update 3/29/2008: Just to clarify in case it wasn't clear, this is a flaw in an Adobe product, Adobe Flash, and not in a Microsoft product or in the Windows Vista operating system. This is important to note, as it's not quite as glamorous as the flaw that took down...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Flaw, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-03-29
- Microsoft OOXML standardization bid: The clock is ticking
- The politicking is almost over. At midnight Central European Time on Saturday March 29, voting regarding whether Microsoft's Open Office XML OOXML document format will get ISO standards approval will close. For the past month -- ever since the ISO Ballot Resolution Meeting BRM in Geneva ended...
- Tags: ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Standardization, Politicking, Iso standards, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- Healthcare clamors for iPhone treatments
- Healthcare clamors for iPhone treatmentsnot for me.My doctor shows up with an iphone, and I get a new doctor.nothing new! similar devices have been around for 5 years!Its amazing how a shiny animated new interface can help a concept sell something old...Yet another piece of poorly researched "so called...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, iPhone treatment, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-03-17
- Microsoft goes internal for new head of its app-platform business
- Microsoft has named Sheila Gulati, General Manager of the company's Developer and Platform Evangelism unit, as the new head of the company's application-platform and developer marketing business. Gulati is taking the post that was most recently filled by Steve Guggenheimer. Microsoft acknowledged in Febraury that Guggenheimer was...
- Tags: Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Blame Zuckerberg (and Twitter) for poor SXSWi keynote; Parents joining Facebook; Paramount movies go viral
- A Facebook special of The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… Blame Zuckerberg and Twitter for poor SXSWi keynote. By all accounts see Techmeme, Sarah Lacy's on-stage interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg...
- Tags: Facebook, Idea, Twitter, Washington Post Co., Sales Strategy, Social Networking, Sales Force Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Microsoft releases updated Office-OpenOffice XML translator, ramps up document interop efforts as ISO mulls OpenXML
- Microsoft today launched an update of its OpenXML and ODF translator for its Excel and Powerpoint applications and pledged to keep churning out more documentation to enable interoperability -- and more patents to protect that IP. Following its interoperability announcement on Feb 21, the...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Patent, ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenXML, Interoperability Initiative, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Open Source, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Emerging Technologies, Quality, Business Operations, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- From gas to solid, that's not just physics, that's green tech
- Courtesy: Carbon Sciences Every inspirational speaker will tell an audience to take a negative and turn it into a positive. Politically CO2 emissions have become a negative in many parts of the world. CO2 is deemed to be one of the greenhouse gases...
- Tags: Green Technology, Carbon Dioxide, CSA, CS, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Air pollution finds a home
- Carbon Sciences says it has come up with a relatively efficient way to turn carbon dioxide from smokestacks into chalk, which can then be used to make drywall or other products. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos checks out the company's mobile prototype with CEO Derek McLeish.
- Tags: news, michael kanellos, carbon dioxide, chalk, environment
- Videos 2008-02-19
- Google on Markey net neutrality bill:let's stop the "gatekeepers"
- Without mentioning Comcast's broadband Internet throttling by name, Google's Public Policy analyst and blogger Derek Slater has just made a post resoundingly in favor of the net neutrality legislation introduced this week by Congressmen Ed Markey and Chip Pickering: Today, Rep. Ed Markey and Chip...
- Tags: Google Inc., Broadband, Net Neutrality, Broadband Policy, Internet, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
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