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Images: Google offers a Street View

Google's new street-level view offers a closeup look at reporter Elinor Mills' former dwelling.

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Image galleries 2007-05-30

Images: A look at Web-based calendars

CNET reporter Elinor Mills experiments with various Web-based calendar applications.

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Image galleries 2006-05-08

Images: A look at Web-based calendars

CNET reporter Elinor Mills experiments with various Web-based calendar applications.

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Image galleries 2006-05-08

Photos: Guided by Web maps

In San Francisco, CNET News.com's Elinor Mills tests out directions given by Yahoo, Google, MSN and America Online's MapQuest.

Tags: Elinor Mills, Mapquest, MSN, America Online Inc., San Francisco, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Web

Image galleries 2005-10-07

Photos: Guided by Web maps

In San Francisco, CNET News.com's Elinor Mills tests out directions given by Yahoo, Google, MSN and America Online's MapQuest.

Tags: Elinor Mills, Mapquest, MSN, San Francisco, America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Web

Image galleries 2005-10-07

Additional Resources

Fire Mills (zip)

This program plays the ancient Nine Men's Morris or Mills game. You can play against a human opponent or the computer, set the playing strength in ply's or seconds and take moves back and forth. The evaluation of the program can be shown and the graphical user interface is responsive....

Tags: Program, Jens Klausen, Games, Productivity, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-07-17

Rhode Island's novel approach to addressing budget gaps

Rhode Island's novel approach to addressing budget gapsRhode Island's novel approach to addressing budget gapsHooray for RI! I haven't heard of any energy crisis in RI. You can bet the naval base there would probably want to get on this.You knowif we actually built power plants this wouldn't...

Tags: Blackstone, mill, river, Blackstone River

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Do you need to be a programmer to run a software company?

Do you need to be a programmer to run a software company?It's back to square oneIn fact, the new Internet-based platforms (Google App Engine, Microsofts upcoming platform to complement SSDS) are creating an entirely new platform. This change is as profound as the change in the early 80's. To succeed...

Tags: Development tools, programmer, software, software company

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Millennials: Will they really reinvent IT?

Millennials: Will they really reinvent IT?Or are they brand name obsessed IT lazy mouse wielding monkeys?A fancy IDE is NO SUBSTITUTE for a talented programmer.Open Sourcers are changing the world, it all depends on how many choose to stay lazy and dumbed down, hanging on every press release from the...

Tags: Strategy, Branding, Open Sourcer, baby boomer, information technology, Millennials

Discussion threads 2008-06-17

Testing new transistors in space

Testing new transistors in spaceCIGS is already here.CIGS solar sheets are already printed to film. They need to build a mass producing facility to lower costs. Right noe they are mini-mills.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_indium_gallium_selenidehttp://news.cnet.com/CIGS-cell-makers-battle-it-out-for-efficiency-crown/2100-13840_3-6227812.htmlRE: Testing new transistors in spaceA detail that was left out. Current satalites and shuttles are using decades old...

Tags: Semiconductors, new transistor, Testing, transistor, CIGS

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

Free speech for students, revisited

Free speech for students, revisitedThe rockFreedom of speech is the mother of all freedoms. Because by using it, you can win all the other freedoms back. It's the rock upon which our democratic political systems are built.It destroys tyranny at every level: political, corporate, educational and even psychological (political correctness,...

Tags: Blogging, Avery

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

Free speech for students, revisited

When I was in high school (not so long ago, but quite some time in computer years), we tested the limits of free speech with t-shirts, the occasional flyer, buttons, and even editorials in the school paper. Freedom of speech was largely an issue of students speaking freely while...

Tags: Speech, Student, Blog, Blogging, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-06-01

From steam punk to the future, and how to plan for it...

I've been doing a lot of reading, most recently 'The Big Switch' by Nicholas Carr. There are plenty of reviews of this fascinating work available - in essence this is actually two books. The first focuses on the history of American public utilities and makes a very plausible case for...

Tags: Collaboration, Information Technology, Nicholas Carr, Nicholas, Collaboration Initiative, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-05-28

In the beginning (and the end) there was the mainframe

Mainframes never go away--they just find a new use. One thing that has always amazed me about the mainframe is how IBM has managed to cram it into any new technology frontier. Cloud computing? Mainframe. SaaS? Mainframe enabled. Centralized IT? You guess it: Mainframe. What's more notable...

Tags: IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-01

As SOA hype turns five, IBM turns to Smart SOA Social Network to bind communities of users

The global WebSphere ecology has trooped to Las Vegas this week for the IBM Impact 2008 conference, with a kick-off rally of sorts in the MGM Grand arena this morning. I saw Fleetwood Mac here at a Comdex, must have been 12 years ago. IBM has sure...

Tags: SOA, IBM Corp., WebSphere Ecology, PT, Smart SOA Social Network, Lotus Connections, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-07

Semantic Web Gang forms, debates Semantic Web 'readiness'

With the increasing cacophony from 'semantic' players in the technology space, it can be extremely difficult to work out what's important, to identify the trends, and to make informed decisions about how any of this affects you and your business. As part of our contribution to bringing some clarity to...

Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-25

Computer Software Company Enhances Remote Connectivity and Its Own Data Security

Titan Public Safety Solutions, LLC is based in Lake Mills, Wisconsin, and specializes in the design, development, installation, and support of computer software for small-to mid-sized public safety agencies, such as police departments. TiPSS hopes to offer a third choice: it wants to provide an affordable mobile solution that gives...

Tags: Mobile, Officer, Data Security, Computer, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Terminal Services, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Tools & Techniques, Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing, Management

Case studies 2008-03-06

Google's Schmidt talks (about nothing you care about)

Update: Elinor Mills and Dan Farber have more on this would be Eric Schmidt interview. Also see Techmeme. Here's my rant from before: Life is just so tightly scripted for the technology bigwigs. Google CEO Eric Schmidt sat down with News.com and wouldn't stray far from the...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Health Care, CEO, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-28

Inhale some of that good, clean country air...hah!

Many of the environmental issues involve systems so large, and complex and far-reaching, you can feel irrelevant. Really, how much can one person or even a small business do to change the U.S. dependence on fossil fuels for transport and electricity? Chnage a few light bulbs, walk more....

Tags: Factory, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Food & Beverage, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-02-26

Radar Networks raises additional $13 million in Series B round

A rumoured additional investment in San Francisco-based Semantic Web startup, Radar Networks, has become clearer over the weekend. Late last week, Dan Primack broke the story on PE Hub, reporting on a lunch he'd had with Ross Levinsohn and Roland Van der Meer of Velocity. VentureBeat's Chris...

Tags: Network, Investment, Radar, Radar Networks, VentureBeat, Spivack, Twine, Nova, Aerospace & Defense, Semantic Web, Manufacturing, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-02-24