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Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World

Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New Worldsmart & clean: grid parity within 24 monthsGiven the fact that the price for fossile fuels are constantly rising, solar energy is one of the most promising solutions to our dwelling energy problem. Within the Solar Market Thin film applications...

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Discussion threads 2008-07-01

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Math Studio 2.6 (Windows)

Math tool for high school teachers and students. Function graphing and analyzing, sequence of number, analytic geometry and solid geometry. Creating 2D function graphs and animations. Analyzing functions--extrema, roots, parity, inverse, limit, derivative and integral. Creating 2.5D function graphs and animations. Analytic geometry. Sequence of number. Solid geometry. Ability to...

Tags: Geometry, Animation, Microsoft Windows, GraphNow Software

Software downloads 2008-12-09

Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World

The high tech gear needed to turn out precision solar panels. Courtesy Oerlikon. Oerliklon is a venerable corporation among the Alps, publicly-traded on the Zurich stock exchange for a long time. They manufacture precision machine tools, textile equipment, other traditional industrial products. But they're...

Tags: Photovoltaics, Oerliklon, Chris O'Brien, Oerlikon, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Forrester: Forget Macs. In business, it's still all about Windows

Forrester: Forget Macs. In business, it's still all about WindowsCanna get a big Duh ?NTHave to be careful with "business" and "enterprise"I assume that the research focuses on LARGE companies. Apple's best shot is small companies that do not have or want and IT dept. There are millions...

Tags: Desktops, Strategy, Selling PC, Apple Macintosh, Forrester Research Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Red shift meets event horizon

Red shift meets event horizoncentralization risksPhil, Excellent post - much food for thought. I actually agree that there are dangers in too much centralization of the computing grid, though I think that, for economic reasons, we're going to see considerably more centralization for the foreseeable future (though far from total...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Strategic planning, Greg, Amazon.com Inc., data center, centralization, event horizon, Subodh

Discussion threads 2007-12-13

Silverlight 1.0 debuts and supports Linux to boot

Silverlight 1.0 debuts and supports Linux to bootMicrosoft shift on the Linux frontI think that the most interesting part of this article is that Microsoft is including Linux support within its product. This support may be limited, but it is clear that it represents a realisation that Linux on the...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, .NET, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Linux, supports linux

Discussion threads 2007-09-05

Did you hear the one about how Google Apps doesn't compete with Microsoft (from Google's CEO)? Guffaw.

Did you hear the one about how Google Apps doesn't compete with Microsoft (from Google's CEO)? Guffaw.And OpenOffice is going to rule...Ummm, not in this life time...I was going to read this article,I was going to read this article, but then I noticed at the bottom: "Pages: 1 2 3...

Tags: Linux, OpenOffice, Channel management, OPEN SOURCE, Web Apps, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., life-time, Google Apps

Discussion threads 2007-04-23

News to know: Windows for $3; Home Server; Google data seepage

Notable headlines:Microsoft, Samsung in patent swap deal. Microsoft aims to reach next billion PC users.Mary Jo Foley @ Microsofts "IT Pro community leaders" confab:Microsoft delivers a new Windows Home Server test build.Ballmer: SaaS to have a major impact on businesses, not just consumers.Exchange Server 2007 Rollup 1 ready to roll.Microsoft...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-04-19

Iomega StorCenter Wireless NAS 1TB

The Iomega StorCenter Wireless NAS drive is a 1TB network attached storage drive that you can set up via Gigabit Ethernet or wirelessly. We don't think you'll find a need to connect it wirelessly, especially given the performance we saw from it while running over an Ethernet connection. It's the...

Tags: RAID, Network-attached storage (NAS), NETWORKING, Network technology, Storage, Iomega Corp., Iomega StorCenter, Discovery Tool, network, Ethernet, tool

Product reviews 2006-06-30

Hey Bulldog

Ran into Sun's most authoratative blogger at OSBC this morning: Jim Grisanzio. Although some would point at Tim Bray (too partisan around Atom to sustain deserved linkcred from pre-Sun days) or Simon Phipps fragmented his Webmink brand into multiple feeds Jim's combination of OpenSolaris mission and personal naiviete about his...

Tags: Nick, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan

Blog posts 2006-02-14