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- Let 'er blow, whales to wind, Hulluva idea!
- Hull, Mass. is a windy place. Southeast of Boston it faces north, toward those winds that often come blasting down the Atlantic Coast. Lemons=lemonade, they say. And Hull's making that wind energy pay off. They put up their first municipal wind-driven electricity generator in...
- Tags: City, CNET Networks Inc., Resident, Hull, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-09-01
- Hull Equips Its Students for the Real World With New Leading-Edge MSc Degree Course
- Hull University was founded in 1928. The University has prided itself on being able to offer a unique blend of traditional teaching and research coupled with real-world theory and practice. In April 2002, The University attended a Microsoft conference where the Microsoft Shared Source Code and Shared Source Common Language...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Hull, University, Business Structures, Finance
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- Cleaning ship hulls with a robot
- This is the goal of a EU-funded project called HISMAR Hull Identification System for Marine Autonomous Robotics. European researchers and engineers are working on an automated robotic cleaning system that removes marine growth from the hull of a ship. By cleaning a ship's hull, this robot will allow ships to...
- Tags: Vessel, Ship, HISMAR, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- The 2008 Google(tm) Democratic Convention
- The 2008 Googletm Democratic ConventionBloggers?More like 200 BS artists, I would surmise...RE: The 2008 Googletm Democratic ConventionToo bad McCain and a lot of his supporters don't know how to operate a computer.RE: The 2008 Googletm Democratic ConventionTHE DEMOCRATIC WOMEN WHO WILL NOW VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICANS JUST BECAUSE OF HILLARY,COULD...
- Tags: Democratic Convention, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Vivaty rolls out 'student friendly' development platform
- I've written about Vivaty before, the new add-on to your existing social network, modelling your entire network in three dimensions. Before, they gave you your own blank scene and avatar, allowing you to mix and match your own virtual 3D "profile page" which interacts just...
- Tags: 3D, Vivaty Studio, Party Creator, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Unfold Surface For AutoCAD (exe)
- Unfold Surface For AutoCAD is an AutoCAD plugin that can unfold any developable surface to a flat 2D surface. Besides, it can also handle surfaces with double curvatures like hull surface for ship. User can also select points or curves that are on the surface to be unfolded to get...
- Tags: surface, autocad, solid3dtech software
- Software downloads 2008-08-05
- Hull City Council Leverages Spatial Assets to Boost Responsiveness and Transform Disaster Management
- Hull City Council wanted to maximize use of location-based asset information for users within council departments and the general public and comply with the "Transformational Government - Enabled by Technology" initiative to build services around the needs of citizens while releasing resources for "Frontline" services. The challenge was to accelerate...
- Tags: Asset, Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Disaster Management, Asset Management, Disaster Recovery, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- AMD loses $1.77 billion in December quarter
- AMD loses $1.77 billion in December quarterKind of worriedWe need AMD in the silicon chip industry. They are the only competition to Intel. And while they may have broken even for the quarter once you discount the charges they cannot continue with those kins of quarters.I still feel that their...
- Tags: Processors, AMD loses $1.77, AMD Loses, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., December-quarter
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
- Ballmer comments reflect deeper problems
- Ballmer comments reflect deeper problemsWell, Balmer does not want any infringing IP to be removed, that wouldkill his FUD campaigns. He of course also does not want a court reviewing all of those junk patents and having a lot of them invalidated.Kind of funny to watch him squirm.Glass houses, etc...You...
- Tags: Network technology, OPEN SOURCE, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., IP, deeper problem
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- EDS, Sabre extend IT services deal
- EDS and Sabre Holdings extended and renegotiated a long running information technology services deal to 2014. Under the extension, EDS said Wednesday that it will garner new revenue of about $630 million. The new agreement requires that EDS support "Sabre's continued business transformation, including its move to open systems."...
- Tags: IT Services, Information Technology, Agreement, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Sabre Holdings, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- Photos: The shape of 'community wind'
- Hull, Mass., one of the few communities that has installed wind turbines to serve its power needs, plans to be totally wind-powered within a few years.
- Tags: Community, Photograph, CNET News.com
- image galleries 2007-08-30
- To simplify software's access to multicore parallelism, AMD proposes new x86 spec. Will Intel accept?
- To simplify software's access to multicore parallelism, AMD proposes new x86 spec. Will Intel accept?Chip performance vs software"If you think chips have outpaced the performance needs of software so far"Anybody who is under such an illusion needs their head checked. I receive more complaints than ever from people about newer...
- Tags: Network technology, Semiconductors, Tools & Techniques, multi-core, specification, Intel x86, chip, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., 64-bit, software
- Discussion threads 2007-08-14
- Security firms on police spyware, in their own words
- Security firms on police spyware, in their own wordsWell, I knew there'd be a price to pay for my *free* McAfeeLooks like I'll have to pony up for some [i]real[/i] protection.Spyware, Copware ...whatever!?The question is not whether a MSSP would inform their client of a law enforcement effort, it's more...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Vertical industries, spyware, government, MSSP, security, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-17
- Oracle faces long, hard road to prove SAP charges
- Oracle faces long, hard road to prove SAP chargesOracle Likely Has Evidence AlreadyLarry Ellison built Oracle from its CIA and other government clients. I imagine that once it became obvious as to what SAP was up to, Oracle involved the appropriate authorities who monitored the situation. SAP is toast on...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, SAP AG, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-05
- NetSuite, integration and the local loop
- NetSuite came to London this week to launch its 2007 edition. Choosing to launch the product outside of the US was a neat way of emphasizing the newly extended language support and other globalization features of the new release. Perhaps, who knows, it was also a convenient way of sidestepping...
- Tags: NetSuite, Integration, Customer experience, CRM
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- Dell, Ubuntu and the driver details
- Dell outlined some of the technical details surrounding its use of Ubuntu 7.04 on its desktops. Judging from Dell's post, the main takeaways appear to be: Dell is choosing peripheral options based on what hardware has the most "mature and stable" Linux drivers. Dell will use open source drivers where possible....
- Tags: Open Source, Linux, Hardware Infrastructure, Dell
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Smart fabric mimicking knights armors
- Smart fabric mimicking knights armorsWOW.. i am impressed.i could think of a few useful applications. Sensor nets for ships, vehicles, etc, so they can detect damage, water temp, foreign attached to a hull or body. (seaquest?) Depending on the type of damage, possibly self healing or temporary cover for...
- Tags: knights armor
- Discussion threads 2007-03-29
- Now public: newspapers are dead
- How much do we really want the average person to contribute to the newsgathering process, to politics and to the culture itself?" Bambi Francisco of MarketWatch asks. I met La Bambi this week at the iHollywoodForums Digital Media Summit in Hollywoods grand old Roosevelt hotel. She was on Michael Strouds...
- Tags: Blogging, La Bambi, Pluto, Brody-Trotsky
- Blog posts 2007-03-17
- Astro Hunter 3D Deluxe (exe)
- Astro Hunter 3D Deluxe is the ultimate Asteroids game for your PC. If you liked the classic arcade game Asteroids, then you'll love Astro Hunter 3D deluxe. It features rendered and textured asteroids that roll, tumble, and explode just like real asteroids. There are all kinds of powerups that you...
- Tags: 3D, Asteroid, Astro Hunter 3D Deluxe, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-01-25
- Engineering Bureau Muhlhoff, a Pioneer in the Use of 3D for Ship Design, Uses NX to Advance the State of the Art in Europe
- Engineering Bureau Muhlhoff wanted to speed the design of complex ship hulls and improve the accuracy of hull shapes delivered to customers. The challenge was to win new business. Muhlhoff replaced three standalone design programs with NX, used NX' integrated wireframe, surface and solid modeling capabilities to design hulls and...
- Tags: 3D, Siemens AG, Modeling, Research & Development, Sales Tools, Business Operations, Sales
- Case studies 2007-01-01
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