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Get Smart: Researchers call results of GridWise energy demand-response project encouraging: If this blog takes the form of a news story, that's because it kinda is. In some ways this is a phenomenon I've been writing about for years -- the fact that headless devices like sensors and meters and intelligent appliances will start driving more traffic on the Internet than...; Tags: Homeowner, Grid, Technology, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-01-09
Homeowners Insurance Buddy (exe): Homeowners Insurance Buddy 2.1 is a Free Tool to a Find Homeowners Insurance Quote. It is a free tool to help someone find homeowners insurance; It is a nice free tool to use. So if you want homeowners insurance try this. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Homeowner, Tool, Insurance, Financial Planning, Productivity, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance; Software downloads 2007-12-04
Photos: Solar festival as green as it gets: Alternative energy and culture were on display last weekend at an off-the-grid learning center in Northern California.Madison Avenue advertisers and Silicon Valley venture capitalists may be pushing all things green into the mainstream these days, yet the countercultural roots of the sustainable-living movement are alive and thriving. More than 10,000...; Tags: photograph, SolFest, Solar Living Institute, dome, alternative energy, photovoltaics, hydrogen, dump, Santa Cruz, wall, greenhouse, tent, automated teller machine, homeowner, Northern California, nonprofit, technique, festival, pump, showcase, pyramid, California, Sharp Corp.; Image galleries 2007-08-23
Photos: iRobot's new 'robust' Roomba: New Roomba 500 series vacuuming robot gets corners and takes direction without sucking in rug fringe or loose wires.On Wednesday, iRobot plans to release a new generation of vacuuming robots to the public.CNET News.com got a chance to test out iRobot''s new Roomba 500 series ahead of time and got...; Tags: Robots, photograph, iRobot Corp., iRobot Roomba, subsystem, robot, Roomba 500, modularity, dust, dirt, homeowner, firmware, staff writer, incarnation, C, CEO, battery, Web; Image galleries 2007-08-21
The homeowner's guide to systems development: The homeowner's guide to systems developmentProof ReadMurph, this really needs a proof read cause it's a bit nonsensical at the minute.Rules four and five:Rule four:You don't know what you want until you decide you don't like what you've done.Rule five:Ask: What will the neighbors think? Be sincere and...; Tags: Construction, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, homeowner, nail, wall; Discussion threads 2007-08-03

The homeowner's guide to systems development: When it comes to do it yourself home improvement projects I find myself in the position the typical small business ownerin with respect to computer systems: full of confidence that I understand what I don't and a bit bewildered that things turning out badly.These things always look easier than...; Tags: What users care about, Productivity, Development; Blog posts 2007-08-03
Mortgage Manager 2000 (exe): Since 1995 we've been assisting real estate investors and homeowners to save 100's of thousands of dollars in interest and principal on their home loans. Why pay back three times the amount your borrowed. Get the Facts. A simple three-minute download could save you 100's of thousands of dollars on...; Tags: Homeowner, Mortgages, Real Estate, Financial Accounting, Finance, Capital Structures, Business Operations; Software downloads 2007-02-25
Home Improvement Project (zip): This tool will enable expert contractors calculate quick project bids and homeowners to get a clear understand of project cost make up. This tool is part of HomeInitiative.com - World's Largest Marketplace for home professionals. What eBay has done to transform the auction concept for purchases of products, HomeInitiative.com is...; Tags: Homeowner, Home Improvement, Productivity; Software downloads 2006-11-09
Security flaw knocks La. site offline: Louisiana's Road Home site, which allows residents to apply online for home repair grants, was yanked offline last week, because of a security flaw that allowed other users' information to be displayed to applicants. The site is back online now, said the technology vendor, ICF International. Times-Picayune reports: ...; Tags: Road Home; Blog posts 2006-09-01
New Orleans: a digital city?: New Orleans city government, just as overwhelmed as its citizens, turned to the Internet to respond to a crushing demand for building permits in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the New York Times reports. "We had to inspect 110,000 homes in six weeks, and I had nobody to...; Tags: Greg Meffert; Blog posts 2006-04-21
Mortgage Manager (exe): Since 1995 we've been assisting real estate investors and homeowners to save 100's of thousands of dollars on their mortgages. Why pay back three times the amount your borrowed? Get the Facts. A simple three-minute download could save you 100's of thousands of dollars on your home loan interest. The...; Tags: Homeowner, Mortgages, Real Estate, Finance, Capital Structures, Business Operations; Software downloads 2005-12-15
All tomorrow's services...: It's easytoget lost in the technical minutiaeassociated with SOA and Web Services. Presented with a blizzard of acronyms (SOAP, SOBA, XML), business decision-makers might even be tempted to roll their eyes and walk away. But that would be a terrible mistake. As Accenture's Anatole Gershman has written, the challenge for...; Tags: Web service, Web, homeowner; Blog posts 2004-12-22
Lead Time Turnaround Improves by 180 Percent With IVR Solutions: ServiceMagic is an online marketplace where homeowners can find residential contractors and home service professionals. The company needed to speed up lead turnaround time, find a more efficient way to schedule contractor appointments and match to homeowners, quickly orient new contractors and improve fee collection. The company and Gold Systems...; Tags: ServiceMagic, Homeowner, IVR, Microsoft Corp., Interactive Voice Response (IVR); Case studies

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Texas oilman strikes blow for wind, predicts ever higher oil prices: T. Boone Pickens has made a little money in the oil business. According to Forbes in 2007 Pickens was one of the 117th richest people in America, worth about $3 bills, in as in billions. That's only about one-fourth of what he reportedly intends to invest in wind...; Tags: Oil, Texas, T. Boone Pickens, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-04-27
Working with the wind: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and CNET News.comÃ?Â¢??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
I've been fired!: A security guard met me as I was leaving last night: took me straight to Personnel where some slimy "consultant" asked for my ID card and made me wait while security (poor Bert, he was so embarrassed) packed a box of personal stuff from my office and brought it down....; Tags: Team, Payment, Billing, Operational Accounting, Finance, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-04-01
In the a-ha department: Little-known facts about lighting: I went outside about an hour ago to put out the trash, and was astonished to see how bright the house looked from the road. We have some family arriving shortly for the holiday week, so we are lighting a beacon for them to find the way. ...; Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2007-11-18
Woooooosh: Wind. Air moving energetically across the face of the Earth. Air moving sailing ships, turning windmills, forming sand into dunes, snow into drifts. Now it's wind as source of electricity. Needless to say green tech uses of wind are far advanced in countries other than in the...; Tags: Turbine, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-10-15
Cutting solar panels' high price tag: Cutting solar panels' high price tagI want to see more of this.. with even more indepth analysisI am really interested in deploying these the home i plan to build in a few years.I want to see easy installation, reduced cost, high efficiently, upgradabilityswap out old for new or plug and...; Tags: high price tag, solar panel, grid, Citizenre, Solar Electric; Discussion threads 2007-09-25
Will Windows Home Server be Microsoft's next flop?: Although you don't hear about them too often, Microsoft has had its own share of flops in the market. Perhaps the most legendary of these was the ill-fated Microsoft Bob. But one of the other flops that comes to mind -- one that required a good deal of investment from...; Tags: NAS, Text Message, Network, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Microsoft Windows, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-09-25