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Sound goes faster than light!

According to Physics Web in Sound breaks the light barrier (Free reg. required), a professor of physics in Tennessee has designed an experiment which proves that sound can move faster than light. This looks like impossible -- and it is. In fact, the physicist has tweaked some scientific definitions. No...

Tags: Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation, group velocity, velocity

Blog posts 2007-01-20

Additional Resources

Simple Hydraulic Calculator 2.0 (Windows)

Powerful and affordable hydraulic calculation software for automatic fire sprinkler systems. SHC has all the features you need to enter system data, evaluate results, and produce professional hydraulic calculation reports. Calculations use the Hazen-Williams or Darcy-Weisbach friction loss formula. Wet, dry, preaction, tree, loop, gridded, and custom systems may all...

Tags: Window, Calculation, Microsoft Windows, Igneus, SHC, Construction

Software downloads 2009-11-16

MConvert 7.8 (Mac)

MConvert currently includes the following 23 conversion groups: Acceleration, Angle, Area, Base, Consumption, Currency, Data, Density, Energy, Energy/Mass, Force, Length, Mass, Permeability, Power, Pressure, Radioactivity, Temperature, Time, Torque, Velocity, Viscosity, Volume. Support of multiple conversions. Currency update online from IMF server. Export function for all results to Excel. All units...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Group, White Wizard Productions, Microsoft Excel, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Seven post holes and one thought

Seven post holes and one thoughtFixed Flow RateMaybe my reasoning is not on form at the moment due to the copious amounts of beer I had last night but surely changing the diameter of the pipe doesnt make a difference. If you have a flow rate of 10 litres per...

Tags: quantum computing, post hole, Point-A

Discussion threads 2009-06-20

Visceral Experiences

There's a world of difference between watching the amazing in-car footage from this race car during April's Portugal World Rally Championship event and actually experiencing it. Driver Jari Matti-Latvala and navigator Miikka Anttila plunge their BP Ford Focus RS off the road near...

Tags: Team, Car, Enterprise 2.0, World Rally Championship Team Analogy, Team Management, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-05-02

The new physics for IT shops: PPM

What would Newton tell today's CIOs Sir Isaac Newton’s Second Law of Physics posits that Force is equal to Mass times Acceleration (F=M x A). While this factoid is something many of us learned in high school, it is one of those laws that is bedeviling...

Tags: Group, Information Technology, PPM, Mass, Strategy, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-16

Linking processes and apps in 2008 â€" A new urgency

Talk to me â€" please! Talk to me! Inc. Magazine this month has an interesting article ("Missing Link Getting Programs to Work Together" by Nitasha Tiku) that talks about the value derived from integrating applications with other applications. I know, BORING, but very relevant in today’s economy....

Tags: Firm, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Channel Management, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Velocity Micro Edge Z-55 (Intel Core i7-920)

Velocity Micro's Edge Z55 is the second PC we've seen with Intel's new Core i7 processor. This $2,499 gaming desktop is not quite as ambitious as the $8,000 or so Falcon Northwest Mach V, but thanks to the new chip and a smart configuration, the Edge Z55 holds its own...

Tags: Desktops, Processors, Intel Core Microarchitecture, Velocity, Velocity Micro, Edge Z55

Product reviews 2008-11-12

Velocity 103

We've seen plenty of Windows Mobile devices in our day, and at times they all start to blur together--same story, just different packaging. However, back at CTIA Spring 2008, a new company called Velocity Mobile caught our eye, impressing us with a fresh approach to the user interface. Recognizing that...

Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Cellular phones, Monitors & displays, Handhelds, Velocity, Velocity 103, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch

Product reviews 2008-10-03

AOL's ousted CEO being considered for Yahoo seat

Can Jonathan Miller do for Yahoo what he tried to do for AOL? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Investor Carl Icahn, who reached a compromise with Yahoo this morning to avoid a nasty proxy battle for seats on the company's board of directors,...

Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Miller, Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Team Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Mobius Seattle 2008: SE, MWg, and HTC show off their devices

I was very pleased to be invited to the first Mobius event of 2008, that is actually being held here in the Seattle area. Thus, I had no travel to get to Mobius and that may have made the decision to invite me to this event...

Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobile, Mobius, XPERIA, SE, Panel Technology, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-15

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

Harry, the robotic bowling ball thrower

It's Saturday and you might plan to go play bowling this evening. But do you know that the design of bowling balls influences scores? This is why the United States Bowling Congress USBC has started a two-year study of bowling ball motion. USBC engineers have used a seven-foot tall robotic...

Tags: Lane, Ball Thrower, Super C.A.T.S. System, Games, Personal Technology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-26

Content M&A: Credit crunch crimps landscape

Media company deals will get done but there are potholes ahead. On a panel about dealmaking in the content space at the Future of Business Media conference, the consensus seemed to be that deals will get done, but the big fish will struggle with financing--especially if an...

Tags: Acquisition, M&A, Financing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-30

Envelope 2007 110 (Mobile)

Avila Software, Inc. For more info: www.avilasoftware.com Envelope 2007 is a chemical engineer's tool for estimating feasability of future equipment or estimating the efficiency of existing equipment. Change the way you perform "back-of-the-envelope" calculations. With this envelope, you can perform flow checks, pump specification, relief valve sizing, verify sensible heat...

Tags: Mobile, Property, Calculation Detail, Calculate, Investment, Finance

Software downloads 2007-09-16

Office 2.0: The future of applications

The application as we have known it is being redefined. During the Office 2.0 Conference, a panel of software vendors discussed the future of application and rise of Web-based applications with collaboration at the core. The panelists included Mark Bagley, vice president of technology at British...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Application, Office 2.0, Coghead, OpenSAM, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-07

Microsoft tweaks the Live side of the house

On July 1, Microsoft's new fiscal year started with a new slate of Live executives -- or at least a bunch of existing execs with new titles and responsibilities.Brian Arbogast, who had been running Microsoft's Windows Live Developer & Communications Platform for the past few years, is now the Corporate...

Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Live, Office Live, Database, CRM Live, Corporate strategy, Code names

Blog posts 2007-07-06

Minky Starshine 1.0.6 (Mac)

Minky Starshine is at heart an additive synthesiser, augmented with possibilities for subtractive synthesis (i.e. filtering) and pulse width modulation. A waveform is created by summing 16 independently controllable 'partials'. By setting the relative levels of the partials appropriately you can create familiar waveforms such as sawtooth and squarewave, but...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Velocity, Waveform, Expert Sleepers, Minky Starshine, Modulation Section, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-04-10

Cee? a Friday pop quiz!

Cee? a Friday pop quiz!Isn't life grand?Those researchers who broke the terrahertz barrier should celebrate! Yes, they should plan a party. Go to the store, pick up a case of beer and catch a cab. OOoops the hack is a muslum and will not transport you with your alcohol! You...

Tags: Cable, Network technology, Fiber optics, Optical networking, William Robertson, velocity, pulse

Discussion threads 2007-01-26

Cee? a Friday pop quiz!

Heres a challenge: which, if any, of the following five headline summaries taken from recent research reports is legitimate? and what do they have in common? From Physics.org: For the first time, scientists have experimentally demonstrated that sound pulses can travel at velocities faster than...

Tags: photon

Blog posts 2007-01-26