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And you thought the Humvee was tough?

And you thought the Humvee was tough?Where have I seen a similar design....Canyonaro!

Tags: HUMVEE

Discussion threads 2005-09-16

GM drives Hummer-branded laptop

GM drives Hummer-branded laptopCentrino Pentium?"1.86GHz Intel Centrino Pentium"...by chance do you mean a Pentium M? I expect more from ZDNet then to fall prey to marketing lingo and actually use it in a story.How can Hummer drivers afford laptop?How much does it cost to fuel one, these days?BrilliantGM can't give...

Tags: Processors, laptop computer, General Motors Corp., Hummer, HUMVEE

Discussion threads 2005-08-30

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Humvee v.s. Hummer -- Photos

In light of GM's decision to sell the Hummer brand to a Chinese company, the military wants to make it clear that the Humvee, the original vehicle that inspired the creation of the Hummer, will continue to be be made in the States by a American company. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Branding, Marketing, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-06-04

Car makers now LIKE higher emission standards?

Car makers now LIKE higher emission standards?US Manufacturing is overThe USA is now officially an importer of everything. If it is not made in CHINA, assembled in CHINA, or have CHINA origins I don't think people would know how to react.Just wait till the ripple effect the hundreds of thousands...

Tags: Government, Manufacturing, emission standard, car, automobile company, Obama, job

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Robotic Humvees in the sky?

According to Computerworld, a Colorado-based company has developed a prototype of a 'flying Humvee' robotic aircraft to ship supplies to military troops. This robotic aircraft, dubbed the V-STAR, short for "VTOL Swift Tactical Aerial Resource,' should be operational around 2010. If calling it a 'flying Humvee' is a figure of...

Tags: Aircraft, Computerworld, V-STAR, Aerospace & Defense, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Business Operations, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Rule change: we're playing corporate greenmail now

Canada is the first to offer a ransom. The government there will give GM money if GM will keep Canadians employed. So the rush to subsidize what might be a viable efficient new car from GM...or might not be, is clearly on. It's not expected the current...

Tags: Canada, Clean Technology, General Motors Corp., Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Mac clones to rise again? (updated 3x)

I remember fondly the heady days of the Mac clones. Cloner Power Computing promoted their 225MHz PowerPC tower at Macworld Expo in Boston by offering free bungee jumps off a 225 foot crane tower outside the Hynes Convention Center. I took the leap over the Boston bay...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Power Computing Corp., Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Desktops, PC, Hardware, Leopard, OpenMac, Psystar Web Site

Blog posts 2008-04-14

News to know: OpenWorld; IBM Roadrunner; XO support; Android SDK

Notable headlines: IBM's Roadrunner to smash supercomputing marks. Dan Farber: Charles Phillips: Fusion on track and SaaS for all. Oracle virtualization 3x better than the competition? At Oracle OpenWorld, the fruits of 'acquired innovation.' Video: Larry Ellison reflects on 30 years. Joshua Greenbaum: The...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., TomTom, Microsoft Zune, SDK, Computerworld, Laptop Computer, IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2007-11-13

Photos: Surviving a Humvee rollover

Roadside bombs in Iraq take a toll on U.S. troops, but a training system called HEAT can help them better cope with catastrophe. by CNET News.com

Tags: Training, Photograph, Workforce Management, Human Resources, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2007-11-10

Photo: Heat ray on a Humvee

The Air Force shows off a high-tech system that makes you feel like you just opened a pizza oven, but does no lasting harm. Really.

Tags: Air Force, photograph

Image galleries 2007-01-26

ThinkPad--now with Suse Linux

ThinkPad--now with Suse LinuxGood first stepBallmer is probably throwing more chairs around vowing to crush the Linux movement. Its got to be tough running M$ these days. More Vista and Office delays and competition coming from both Linux and Google. Ah, if only it was only the...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Notebooks, Linux, Microsoft Windows, IBM ThinkPad, SuSE, SuSE Linux

Discussion threads 2006-08-14

BomBots will save many lives

The first 200 BomBots will be shipped next week to Iraq before being joined by 2,300 other ones over the next 10 months. According to the Charleston Gazette, their mission will be to save lives of soldiers by destroying improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, which already can be blamed for...

Tags: robot, WVHTC

Blog posts 2006-04-21

Gunshot sensing tech blows law enforcement away

Gunshot sensing tech blows law enforcement awayShot spotter isn't newWe've had Shot Spotter in Redwood City since 1996 which makes the city one of the earliest customers. Shot Spotter, combined with extra patrol units on New Year's Eve called Operation Silent Night, helped eliminate celebratory gunfire which poses a...

Tags: Shot Spotter, Gunshot Software, Big Brother

Discussion threads 2005-10-19

Photos: Look out, Humvee

It isn't the sportiest design, but the Ultra Armored Patrol Vehicle aims to be both fast and strong.

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Image galleries 2005-09-19

Photos: Look out, Humvee

It isn't the sportiest design, but the Ultra Armored Patrol Vehicle aims to be both fast and strong.

Tags: photograph

Image galleries 2005-09-19

And you thought the Humvee was tough?

There are almost 200,000 Humvees military trucks at work for the U.S. military forces and its allies since 1985. But now, a concept vehicle, dubbed ULTRA AP Armored Patrol, has been unveiled two days ago at the "Modern Day Marine Expo" held in Quantico, Virginia. This vehicle has been designed...

Tags: concept vehicle, Georgia Tech Research Institute

Blog posts 2005-09-15

The blogs of war

Never before has a war been so immediately documented, never before have sentiments from the front scurried their way to the home front with such ease and precision. That's "milblogger" Chris Missick, a 24-year-old solider serving in Iraq, as profiled in John Hockenberry's article...

Tags: blogger, Pentagon

Blog posts 2005-08-26

Windows 2000 moves to the back burner

Windows 2000 moves to the back burnerWho cares!No need to upgrade to XP. Service packs? HABeen using Windows 2000 w/ Service pack 1 forever and yet to experience a worm, virii, or spyware.Want to know my secret? I installed Firefox and Thunderbird. Completely turned all the...

Tags: Operating systems, longhorn, Microsoft Longhorn, REAL Reason Microsoft, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2005-06-28

Gates gives CEOs peek at Xbox 360 games

Gates gives CEOs peek at Xbox 360 gamesDoes that mean only CEOs can afford them?Not some lowly grub like me..Besides, I'm waiting for the smaller, 2nd gen PS3 in a couple of years to mount in the Humvee.. LOL..at the end of the dayyou're 15, you want the uber console....

Tags: Games, Game players, Sony PlayStation 3, game, console, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp., Sony Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, hardware

Discussion threads 2005-05-19

Torvalds switches to a Mac

Torvalds switches to a MacWOW, finally!Some REAL news! ;)InterestingI got an Athlon64 last year to replace home computer #1, and I am seriously considering replacing computer #2 with a Mac. I really want a Mini, but the G4 is kind of keeping me away. I'm in no hurry though,...

Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Processors, Operating systems, UNIX, hardware world, processor, Apple Macintosh, Linus, IBM PowerPC, Intel Corp., Linux, Torvalds

Discussion threads 2005-03-09