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Does the 'Halo 2 effect' threaten broadband?

Does the 'Halo 2 effect' threaten broadband?I tend to agree...When the grandson plays Halo for the PC, his one and constant complaint is about "lag" and how it ruins the game. I can see where a person paying for on-line gaming is going to get pretty upset if they...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Games, Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Houston Texas, Internet Service Provider, broadband, fibre, bandwidth, game, Halo 2

Discussion threads 2004-12-07

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Texas may ride you out of town on a rail

There's open rebellion brewing in Texas, again. Not against Santa Ana this time. Not on behalf of the Confederacy. This time it's a plot to install trains. Trains in the home state of Big Oil. It's got the makings of a great Hollywood thriller. Big...

Tags: Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Texas Sports 2.0 (Mobile)

Texas Sports brings you college sports news from across the state of Texas. Listen to fight songs and cheers, follow the latest news, and access schedules, scores, rosters, and player biographies right from your iPhone. Coverage includes football, basketball, hockey, volleyball, baseball, softball, soccer, and more for the university of...

Tags: Texas, Mobile, Grataware, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-18

Pennsylvania has coal, may get first U.S. low emission coal burner

Future Power PA is seeking a federal grant to accelerate construction of "near-zero" emissions plant. This coal-burner is to be built near Good Spring, Pennsylvania, chosen not for its symbolic name but for its porximity to a large anthracite mine. Future Power says it aims to have the plant...

Tags: Pennsylvania, Houston, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-15

Houston Local News Free 1.0 (Mobile)

Houston Local News Free provides quick access to all the top news sites for the city of Houston. The current sites include Houston Chronicle, Houston press, Houston Business Journal, NBC Houston - KPRC, ABC Houston - KTRK, CBS Houston - KHOU, FOX Houston - KRIV, Outside.in Houston, Houston metblogs, H...

Tags: Houston, Mobile, Martian Technology LLC, Houston Local News Free, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-09

Houston Local News 1.0 (Mobile)

Houston Local News provides quick access to all the top news sites for the great city of Houston, including many that are specially formatted for the iPhone or iPod Touch screen. The current sites include Houston Chronicle, Houston Press, Houston Business Journal, NBC Houston - KPRC, ABC Houston - KTRK,...

Tags: Houston, Mobile, Martian Technology LLC, Houston Local News, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-25

Hey, baby, have I got a deal for you

Cayman Islands tax protection. An office in Houston, Texas. Run by a veteran of the Enron successes. Sound like a Hollywood plot? Nope, just a verrrrry rich IPO for the old energy crowd. Nearlya billion dollars expected to be captured. It's the IPO of AEI, Ashmore...

Tags: Natural Gas, AEI, IPO, Taxes, Financial Planning, Free Trade, Investment, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-19

To the Moon: The Integrators

The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...

Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-13

When Americans were well-trained

There was a time when Americans could take the train, and go places. Schedules then connected towns and cities more than once per day. Here's what one curious person discovered about travel in his area a century ago, before cars ruled. There currently is deep...

Tags: America, Texas, Mph, Real Estate, Blogging, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Talk about rotten infrastructure...

It is widely acknowledged that the most energy-efficient way to move a lot of people from point A to point B is by rail. Same goes for freight. Yet over the past half century the U.S. has made an art of dissing rail transit beyond a few major metro areas....

Tags: Train, Houston, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-30

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Secures New Data Center With End-to-End D-Link PoE Network Camera Solution

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston built a brand new, 7,500 square foot data center back in 2007. Part of their facility design included the need for security cameras. They wanted to see who's coming and going in this high-value facility. After exploring several IP camera vendors,...

Tags: D-Link Systems, Data Center, University Of Texas, Health Care, Camera, Home Networking, Data Centers, Networking, Personal Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2009-04-01

Google Mobile App for BlackBerry introduces Search by voice and My Location

A lot of newcomers and tourists to New York encounter the same problem: the pronunciation of the street, Houston. No, it's not pronounced the same way as the city in Texas, but instead is pronounced as "how-stun." Assuming you're not from the area and a friend...

Tags: Google Inc., Mobile, Voice, RIM BlackBerry, Google Mobile App, Handhelds, Hardware, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-03-25

PlayStation-based kiddie porn. What next?

It makes sense when you think about it, but I never did. Seems we have our first case of a PlayStation child predator. The Houston Chronicle reports that 24-year-old Anthony Scott O'Shea was arrested on charges of online solicitation, promotion of kiddie porn and sexual performance of a child. ...

Tags: Sony Playstation, Girl, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-14

We

Wethis is the stupides thing i have seen in a while......pretty much everyone knows that it was happening and when it was happening and for those that don't.. well, when their screen goes blank i'm sure they'll inquire and figure it out.. go down to the nearest best buy, problem...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Obama, TV, rabbit ear, depression

Discussion threads 2009-02-05

DTV delay bill fails in House. It

DTV delay bill fails in House. ItDTV is a redundancy in broadcastIf you shut off analog you will drive the inventors of digital right out of their mind.You're taking the pressure distributed to TV engineers and placing it right of the digital inventor's shoulders.It's just like the time change a...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, digital television

Discussion threads 2009-01-28

News to know: Macworld; Windows 7; Snow Leopard; Web 2.0 security; IT strategy

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: Five things Steve Ballmer won't tell you about Windows 7 Mary Jo Foley: Macs vs. PCs: Is it still a 'tax' if users happily pay...

Tags: Strategy, Security, Web, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, Twitter, Web 2.0, Software As A Service (SaaS), Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Managed Hosting, Open Source, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-06

It's a "guster": Oil town (Houston) flirts with wind power

It's a "guster": Oil town Houston flirts with wind powerMaybe we will come out on top....I was thinking we here in Houston would start to feel the pain of moving from oil. I guess we can remain the energy capital no matter the source.RE: a good place to locateI agree...

Tags: wind energy

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

It's a "guster": Oil town (Houston) flirts with wind power

Why focus on development around just one major fuel source, oil, when you can reap the benefits of two? Steamy Houston is beginning a new love affair with one of the most powerful companies in the wind-power industry, Vestas, the largest manufacturer of wind turbines. The company...

Tags: Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Wind Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-01-05

University of Houston's Advanced Computing Research Laboratory (ACRL) and Texas Learning and Computation Center (TLC2) Uses a Server Cluster Based on the AMD Opteron Processor for Leading-Edge Scientific Research Studies

The University of Houston's Texas Learning and Computation Center is a promising research center within the university, supporting the computational sciences and engineering, and computer science as cornerstones of the university's most innovative research. There was a shift of emerging disciplines within the life sciences (i.e., bioinformatics), from being largely...

Tags: University Of Houston, Server, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Server Cluster, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Case studies 2009-01-01

Baylor College of Medicine Finds New IT Muscle With an IBM Power Systems Solution

Baylor College of Medicine, located in Houston, Texas, has a clear organizational mission-to be a national leader in advancing healthcare. Baylor needed an economical, energy-smart consolidation solution that would enable them to virtualize their IT environment and set the stage for a major SAP upgrade. The Baylor IT team considered...

Tags: Information Technology, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management

Case studies 2009-01-01