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Giant rubber snakes to capture wave power?

Giant rubber snakes to capture wave power?I for oneI for one welcome our new giant rubber snake overlords.RE: Giant rubber snakes to capture wave power?I woke up one morning and my friend was hitting my forehead with a giant rubber snake...at least I think that's what it was.1 MW powers...

Tags: rubber snake, snake, Giant rubber snake

Discussion threads 2008-07-06

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Purported aluminum MacBook leak video

Unlike previous blurry pictures of the new MacBooks, there's a new video of Tuesday's upcoming MacBook revision. It's very clear in spots and, if real, provides new angles at the unannounced machine. The video ("New Aluminum MacBook Ver. 1") clocks in at about 2 minutes and takes...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Video, Aluminum, Power Button, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-11

Making the giant health database work for you

Making the giant health database work for youSnake oilI see this as primarily snake oil pushed by peddlars of the DB applications themselves.Will it reduce physicians' need to order CYA tests? Not hardly.Will it reduce physicians' need to perform unnecessary procedures in order to be reimbursed at all? ...

Tags: Vertical industries, health database, health care

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Making the giant health database work for you

It's these medical records experts whose function has been lost in the translation from paper to magnetic ink, Damianakis concluded, and unless that is recovered digital systems will never work as well as paper. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Health Care, Health Database, Vertical Industries, Storage, Benefits, Healthcare, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Human Resources, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UAC

Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UACSo I don't have to wait for Windows 7?The need to wait or upgrade to Windows 7 is looking more dim for Windows Vista users. Microsoft just yesterday announced their intention to improve the user experience for UAC in Windows 7. But with third...

Tags: SECURITY, Web browsers, EXPLORER, UAC, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM

A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Medical tourism to Mexico gets more organized

Medical tourism to Mexico gets more organized"... your only hope."?Quoting:These groups are actively signing-up companies and insurers and soon, if you need an operation, they may be your only hope.[End quote]Not disagreeing, but wondering what you believe is soon to happen.RE: Medical tourism to Mexico gets more organizedHi Dana -...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Health Travel Guides, health care, tourism

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

JBL On Stage IIIP

Though they are portable devices, the iPod and the iPhone can make a wonderful source for headphone-free music when connected to a speaker. If you have a player full of great music and personalized playlists, you might as well play it out loud every once in a while. Unfortunately, several...

Tags: stereo separation, JBL, Stage IIIP, speaker, Apple iPod, Apple iPhone

Product reviews 2008-10-08

Does this make me a member of the mile-high club?

Does this make me a member of the mile-high club?Uh.. No... It doesn't... n/tn/tHaHa....and Josh opens himself for a giant left hook. :-)

Tags: mile-high, N/T

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Symantec buys MessageLabs for $695 million; Bolsters SaaS lineup

Somebody is finding some values out there in techland. Symantec on Wednesday said it is acquiring MessageLabs for $695 million in cash. MessageLabs, which offers messaging and Web security services, had about $145 million in revenue for the fiscal year ending July 31. Symantec...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Symantec Corp., MessageLabs Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Security, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Matrix Arcade (zip)

Matrix Arcade is a collection of classic arcade games remade in the signature style of the Matrix. Green techie graphics and the immensely popular streaming lime-colored text characters all make appearances in this fun, yet challenging arcade collection. Games remade include: Asteroids, Missle Command, Snake, and Pong. All games have...

Tags: Cubex Digital Entertainment, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-08

Google is NOT your friend

Google is NOT your friendthe old call the enemy of my enemy is my best friendas long as google will pick on MS im willing to live with it happily .... when MS will be out of the picture will trun to the next monsterRE: Google is NOT your friendSure,...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

A question about web server volume failures

A question about web server volume failuresWrite heavy loadI don't think you can compare a write-heavy do-not-call registry to a mostly static wordpress site.It wouldn't hard to mock-up a simple registry site and test it.The question you seem to be askig is.. how do i make my site scalable.Lets start...

Tags: Web servers, Firewalls, Storage, Web server, server, database, router, firewall, Web

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital

AMD said Tuesday that it will split off its manufacturing operations in a deal with the Advanced Technology Investment Company of Abu Dhabi. AMD will also receive a capital infusion from Mubadala Development Company, which will wind up owning more than 19 percent of Intel's smaller rival. ...

Tags: Asset, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATIC, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Canon EF 70-200mm f4 IS USM L

You want a medium telephoto lens for your Canon dSLR, something with a constant aperture, solidly built with pro quality, yet light enough to carry on adventure to some far away part of the world. You have looked at the f2.8 models but didn't think you could afford them or...

Tags: Mode 1, Canon Inc., lens, aperture, f4 IS USM L

Product reviews 2008-10-06

CEATEC Roundup: Sony's 0.3mm OLED display, Sharp's solar-power TV, Panasonic's LifeWall concept

While we all wait around until January for the Consumer Electronics Show, an event like CEATEC Japan can give us a taste of the future for home theater. And since ZDNet didn't offer to fly me over there to check it out first-hand (cough, next year, cough), I had to...

Tags: Sony Corp., 3D, Panasonic, Organic Light-emitting Diode, Sharp Corp., TV, Wall, Construction, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-06

eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000

EBay on Monday revamped its corporate portfolio laying off 1,000 workers, or 10 percent of its workforce, and buying online payment company Bill Me Later as well as a Denmark classifieds company. The layoffs were largely expected, but the Bill Me Later purchase for $820 million in...

Tags: Payment, Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., Bill, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Citizen journalism might try to kill you

Citizen journalism might try to kill youDouble edged swordCitizen journalism almost sounds like a contradiction. One one hand, so many people nowadays carry a device that can at least take snapshots, but more are taking video. Real journalists can't get to where a story is very fast so it takes...

Tags: Citizen Journalism

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Put your PC on an energy diet!

Put your PC on an energy diet!The wonders of USB and Firewire...Almost all of my new "toys" are either USB or Firewire; I don't know how much power these things draw when they're not in active use, but the really infrequently used ones can at least be hot-plugged on demand.But...

Tags: Desktops, Network technology, PC, chip, CPU, USB

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

California Governor urges Silicon Valley Companies to go to Germany for Cebit

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was in Silicon Valley Thursday morning at Intel's HQ to make an announcement about California's partnership with the giant Cebit trade show in Hannover, Germany. California is offering its high tech companies money to attend the show in early March 2009. Here is...

Tags: Germany, California, CeBit, Governor, Business Structures, Corporate Communications, Finance, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-02