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Winds of change creating a gale in Washington

Winds of change creating a gale in WashingtonI wonder what Harry's take on this isAs this should be impossible, according to Harry's blogs.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31363631/ns/us_news-environment/RE: Winds of change creating a gale in WashingtonYou think Dick Cheney had "long suppressed data" about global warming? Are you living in an alternate universe?That is a...

Tags: hypothesis, gale, global climate change, climate change

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Researchers strive for a universal translation device

The time is now for that Universal Translation Device that came in so handy on Star Trek, DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has decided. And so it is ready to spend gobs of money to achieve that holy grail - a machine that translates important non-Western languages like...

Tags: Government technology, Defense, Intelligence, BBN Corp., Gale

Blog posts 2006-11-09

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Infor Flex: innovation or fail?

Infor Flex Overview View more OpenOffice presentations from First Last. Infor today announced Infor Flex, a program designed to keep customers happy and keep those all important maintenance dollars flowing Infor's way. At first viewing, the Infor prgram looks exciting: Infor Flex makes it easier...

Tags: Innovation, Customer, SOA, Infor Flex, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Services, Managed Hosting, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-22

News to know: Android notebooks; Twitter bugs; Samsung, Nokia

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. John Morris: Five big issues with ARM and Android netbooks Ryan Naraine: Coming in July: Month of Twitter Bugs ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Notebook, Nokia Corp., Smart Phone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Smart Phones, TVs, Cellular Phones, Tv & Home Theater, Handhelds, Channel Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Winds of change creating a gale in Washington

Dick Cheney has been gone from power in Washington almost five months. In that time federal agencies have started to release long suppressed data and projections about the effects of global warming. Tomorrow NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is joining the parade. Their press release says...

Tags: Washington, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-15

My Awesome IT Job: IT Service Manager, University of Illinois

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...

Tags: University Of Illinois, Information Technology, Service Manager, E-mail, Strategy, Storage, Online Communications, Management, Hardware, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-08-15

User group night: Backup, Leopard and productivity rule

On Monday Sept. 24, I attended the monthly meeting of BMUGWest, a San Francisco group that's been meeting continually for about 18 years with skips for holidays that fall on meeting dates and the odd closures for major earthquakes. The Mac-centric discussion should make some folks down at Apple...

Tags: NAS, Apple Macintosh, Backup, LaCie, User, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-09-25

Hey guess what: trying to cancel Vonage service is a pain in the..

Hey guess what: trying to cancel Vonage service is a pain in the..Call it a "customer retention program"I've never subscribed to Vonage, but they appear to be quite confident that their customers will pay their bills, even if they really don't want the service (like maybe they use an autodraw...

Tags: Cable, Telecom & Utilities, Now Today, Vonage Holdings Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-07-10

Eco-friendly ice creams

According to The Scotsman, Mackie's of Scotland has bought 3 wind turbines for £2.5 million to produce ice creams made with 100% renewable energy. The two new turbines ('Ice' and 'Cream') will join the existing one ('Mackies') and make enough 'green' electricity to produce every tub of ice cream sold...

Tags: Leisure, Energy &, Environment

Blog posts 2007-07-07

On the Hardness of Decoding the Gale-Berlekamp Code

The Gale-Berlekamp GB code is the dual code of the binary product code in which the horizontal and vertical constituent codes are both the parity code. It is shown that the problem of deciding whether there is a codeword of the GB code within a prescribed distance from a given...

Tags: Code

White papers 2007-01-08

A solar boat to cross the Atlantic

A solar boat to cross the AtlanticSolar ships? Old tech.Marine engineers have long utilized solar power for propulsion. It's long been known that uneven distribution of solar energy over the planet's surface results in the displacement and redistribution of atmosperic gases. The kinetic energy of the migrating gases can be...

Tags: sun21, Rhine

Discussion threads 2006-09-18

Google News Archive Search released today

The Google [News] Archive Search was launched today -- it is a service similar to the one I predicted after some domains were registered by the company last Friday. I originally though the service would allow users to look into the history of the web like the WayBackMachine, but...

Tags: SEARCH, Google News, Google Inc., Web

Blog posts 2006-09-06

New, improved Answers.com

One of my favorite tools just got better. Answers.com provides answers not search result listings to queries, covering about 3 million topics. It has about 100 data sources, such as Wikipedia, Houghton Mifflin, Columbia University Press, Thomson Gale, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, MarketWatch, Investopedia, and AccuWeather. Alt-clicking on a word takes...

Tags: Answers.com, AnswerTip

Blog posts 2006-05-16

Welcome to the Enterprise Web 2.0

Welcome to the Enterprise Web 2.0Buzzword FatigueSeriously, am I the only one who is suffering from serious buzzword fatigue? IT vendors and managers need to start speaking in plain english about real ROI - for example it would be great to see more about how Web 3.0 and "Mashups...

Tags: Channel management, Web, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, ZDNet Bloggers

Discussion threads 2006-02-09

IBM publishes open source reference implementation for making more content searchable

IBM this week made its Unstructured Information Management Architecture UIMA reference implementation available as open source via SourceForge.net. The goal is to allow more UIMA compliant analytical approaches to work with cohesion, and so to help close the gap between tacit human knowledge and what search engines do so well,...

Tags: Unstructured Information Management Architecture

Blog posts 2006-01-24

Can Wi-Fi make it in Manhattan?

New York is taking hard look at municipal wireless services. City wants to bring affordable broadband to the masses. A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. If Wi-Fi can make it in New York, it can make it anywhere. ...

Tags: Philadelphia, City, Network, Broadband, New York, Wireless LANs, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Networking, Marguerite Reardon

News items 2005-12-13

Department of Defense funding decoder rings

Red Herring has a story about the Department of Defense funding three teams to create the mother of all decoders to monitor and recognize data sources of all kinds (text, audio, video) in multiple languages and translate the relevant info (with 95-percent accuracy) into a language the U.S. spooks comprehend--I...

Tags: U.S. Department of Defense

Blog posts 2005-08-05

Department of Defense funding decoder rings

Red Herring has a story about the Department of Defense funding three teams to create the mother of all decoders to monitor and recognize data sources of all kinds (text, audio, video) in multiple languages and translate the relevant info (with 95-percent accuracy) into a language the U.S. spooks comprehend--I...

Tags: U.S. Department of Defense

Blog posts 2005-08-05

Romance of Three Kingdoms (Nokia 6600/6710) 1.00 (Mobile)

The GameThis game basically refers to the famous Chinese historical novel: "Romance of Three Kingdoms", starting with the Rebel of Yellow Scarves, and taking the story of three heroes of Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei as the key line, including famous sections, such as: the Rebel of Yellow...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobile, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2005-07-07

SysStat Widget 2 (Mac)

Allows you to view memory usage, CPU usage, network stats, uptimes, load averages and the top 3 process s from one simple widget. Authors Brad Gale and Jonathon Zdziarski. Graphics by Marc Edwards. This version adds CPU graph, Virtual Memory Stats, the ability to hide widgets from process list, fixes...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Usage, CPU, iSlayer.net, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2005-06-15