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- Working with the wind
- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and CNET News.com�¢??s Kara Tsuboi tour a home that gets 40 percent of its power from the wind. After the homeowner installed a 45-foot-tall turbine in her backyard, not only was she the talk of the neighborhood, but her home was named one of the...
- Tags: News, kara tsuboi, gavin newsom, wind, solar, green, san francisco, environment
- Videos 2008-04-11
- Harnessing the power of waves
- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom believes tapping into tidal and wave power is a swell idea. But how feasible and realistic is this new renewable-energy technology? CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi sits down with the mayor to find out.
- Tags: kara tsuboi, gavin newsom, tidal power, golden gate bridge, bay, san francisco, waves, ocean, beach
- Videos 2008-03-21
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- Photos: San Francisco's greenest home?
- Mayor Gavin Newsom touts a showcase home that's powered by the sun and wind. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Home, Mayor Gavin Newsom, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-04-11
- Red Hat acquires consultants to push JBoss
- Red Hat acquires consultants to push JBossUsual mistakeRed Hat bought out JBoss and then tried to sell it like linux and ignored the formula that JBoss had used in the past. Unnessesary mistake but there you have it. Oh, all the JBoss people left with their skills and enthusiasim too....
- Tags: Java development tools, Development tools, Middleware, JBoss, Red Hat Inc., open source, open source software company, JEE App server
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- 'Give businesspeople a reason to care about SOA; give them BPM'
- 'Give businesspeople a reason to care about SOA; give them BPM'That's what I have been saying all alongI wrote a post in response to this article. I agree that BPM is key to SOA initiatives.http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek/archives/without-bpm-soa-is-sol-22704Business people will never care about SOAIt shouldn't be any surprise that business folks get...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Operational planning, Business process automation, Web services, Enterprise software, Middleware, Strategy, SOA, BPM, business process
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
- Realistically deploying Edubuntu
- I'm on an Edubuntu users mailing list where, more often than not, veteran users can answer questions for new users. I usually give it a quick skim for any new features or fixes and then leave it to accumulate like so many other pieces of information in my Gmail...
- Tags: Thin Client, Video Editing, Server, Video, RAM, Thin Clients, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Reader question: Edubuntu on the Eee?
- Reader question: Edubuntu on the Eee?Before you go pulling your hair out......try the latest NX Thin Client 3. There is no better Linux Thin Client out there--the best.I've been using it for about three years now to reach my home gateway system.Often I am in a rural area where...
- Tags: Thin clients, Network technology, Broadband Internet, Desktops, Edubuntu, thin client, Eee, Edubuntu 7.10
- Discussion threads 2008-01-07
- Guess what letter iPhone texters trip up on the most
- It's this letter [at left]. But read on for the details about how this assertion was proved. Chicago-based usability consultancy UserCentric is out with a new report that says iPhone users make more errors during texting than these same people do on traditional QWERTY-handsets. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Letter, Owner, Error, QWERTY, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Business ByDesign, SAP's slow-burning fuse
- Business ByDesign, SAP's slow-burning fuseExcuse me?"But on the other hand, as Gavin Clarke of The Register commendably reminds us all, SAP only showed us some powerpoint slides and a very limited live demonstration last night"That is a disingenuous and, quite frankly a statement of the kind yo'd expect from a...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Sales force management, SAP AG, Business ByDesign, slow-burning fuse, software-as-a-service, fuse
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
- Business ByDesign, SAP's slow-burning fuse
- Reading through the coverage of yesterday's Business ByDesign announcement, some contrasting impressions stand out. On the one hand, Zoli Erdos calls SAP's new SaaS offering "a game changer." I'm inclined to agree with him, personally. SAP is now backing SaaS, which is a huge validation — and...
- Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Business ByDesign, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- Singularity Summit 2007: How the artificial intelligensia thinks ahead
- Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...
- Tags: Face, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Microsoft kills its 'Get the Facts' anti-Linux site
- It was a long time in coming. But Microsoft has finally acknowledged that its anti-Linux site had gone past the point of usefulness.On August 23, Microsoft pulled plug on the "Get the Facts" site, replacing it with a new Windows Server "Compare" site.The goal of the site is to...
- Tags: Open Source, Microsoft Corp., Site, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- Statistics and deniers, or 1934=Barry Bonds
- Some recently revised official American meteorological data created some statistical blips in the weather records of past years. And that, of course, set off a global warming of the blogosphere, a veritable firestorm of conspiracy charges and "told-you-so" crowing from the "off-my-cloud" deniers of global warming. Today comes...
- Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-08-11
- Newsome takes SF Wi-Fi plans to the voters
- With the city's Wi-Fi initiative seemingly stuck, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is trying to turn up the heat by putting the proposal for an ad-based free Wi-Fi network to the voters, the Associated Press reports.The measure is nonbinding so passage wouldn't oblige the government to build the network but...
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., Wi-Fi, Newsome, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Enterprise 2.0 in a nutshell
- Having trouble grokking Enterprise 2.0? Scott Gavin put together a slideshow that makes it easy to understand the basics of applying so called Web 2.0 technologies in an enterprise. It's more instructive than the debate over the definition of Enterprise 2.0 on Wikipedia, which Zoli Erdos covers in his blog,...
- Blog posts 2007-08-04
- 2007 Kia Rondo EX
- Photo gallery:2007 Kia RondoAlthough it has its limitations, the 2007 Kia Rondo is a surprisingly functional people carrier. This odd-looking cross between a minivan and a sedan gets a very nice-sounding stereo as its only cabin tech offering. Its optional third-row seat gives it room for seven, as long as...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Kia Motors Corp., Kia Rondo
- Product reviews 2007-05-30
- Photos: San Francisco fuels up on biodiesel
- Mayor Gavin Newsom helps celebrate station opening and launch of effort to get all city vehicles running on biodiesel by year's end.
- Tags: biodiesel, San Francisco, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-04-24
- San Francisco CIO: Chris Vein - Transcript
- Dan Farber: Chris thanks for joining me.Chris Vein: It's my pleasure. Dan Farber: How did you end up in this role as CIO of San Francisco? Did you have a background in being a CIO?Chris Vein: Very accidentally, is how I came into my role.Dan Farber: So you are the...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- San Francisco CIO: Chris Vein - Transcript
- Dan Farber: Chris thanks for joining me. Chris Vein: It's my pleasure. Dan Farber: How did you end up in this role as CIO of San Francisco? Did you have a background in being a CIO? Chris Vein: Very accidentally,...
- Tags: CIO, City, County, Department, San Francisco, Difficulty, Government, Internet, Productivity, Wireless LANs, Network Technology, Strategy, Wireless, Networking, Management, ZDNet Editor
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- MyEclipse and JBoss spar over open source purity
- Genuitec CEO Maher Masri doesnt like what Red Hat employees such as Gavin King are saying about his companies use of open source in their MyEclipse product. Masri writes:I truly believe many people who wear the open source badge completely miss the intent and spirit behind it. And, in the...
- Tags: Java development tools, Middleware, Genuitec, JBoss, open source, GPL, Lesser GNU Public License, Red Hat Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
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