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- Photos: Great Red Spot eats 'Baby'
- A recently discovered hurricane-like storm on Jupiter's surface, called Baby Red Spot, was sucked up by the Great Red Spot. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Hurricane, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-07-21
- Photos: Engineering New Orleans, post-Katrina
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is putting a great deal of money and effort into new hurricane protection systems that it hopes can reduce the risk of catastrophic flooding in the future. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Strategy, Management, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-07-03
- Part 2: Green tech and corporate ethics
- Just following up my post from yesterday about a new consulting service from IBM designed to examine the ethical weight of green technology practices. There's another white paper on the Web site for business process management software vendor Metastorm about the impact that surprise rethinking the way...
- Tags: Business Process, Metastorm, Green Technology, Ethics, Operational Planning, Business Ethics, Business Process Automation, Business Operations, Leadership, Management, It Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?
- How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?It took Mother Nature...millions of years to lock up the carbon into fossil fuels that we have managed to release in a hundred.Nature can not fix it as fast as we are polluting it. That is the issue. Take a...
- Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Cable: Act, Don't React
- Cable: Act, Don't React21-Hour coincidence?Isn't it amazing that the outage "happens" to get fixed just before the 24-hour point? After 24 hours, they would be stuck to give refunds, but it was fixed "just in time."Amazing.I've been through it many times.I dont quite understand what you mean here..."[i]If this household...
- Tags: INTERNET, Network technology, Telecom & Utilities, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Charter Cable, cable, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- Leaked Pentagon doc slams Lockheed
- Leaked Pentagon doc slams Lockheedwill it make any difference?Is this going to make any difference as faras Lockheed's ability to get contracts?How many of the Hurricane Katrina relief effortvendors are still doing business with FEMA andother agencies?EVMS sucks...I want you to think long and hard about EVMS for a minute...first...
- Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., EVMS, Pentagon
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- NASA IG: Scientists were muzzled
- NASA IG: Scientists were muzzledI don't think so!If this administration is writting his pay check, than they can control what the researcher is doing and saying.As for global warming, it seems to be limited to glaciers in the mountains and at the poles. The temperature did not changed much in...
- Tags: Workforce management, NASA, administration, NASA IG
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- The Folks at NTR say it's a small, but crucial, step from software to landscape
- I spoke with two execs at NTR recently, and they were talking software, of course. But they were really talking about the planet, energy conservation and taking some action. Now. Not waiting. Not expecting a magic fix. NTR, based in Barcelona, is a...
- Tags: Software, NTR Global, Tree, Harsch, Tools & Techniques, Telecommuting, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Survivor Buddy, a friendly robot rescuer
- The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida USF, 'plans to add a heart to robot rescuers.' As says USF, the goal is to develop 'a robot that will be a companion...
- Tags: Details, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- Where is the money going in health care, and why?
- I stumbled today upon an ADVANCE 2008 investment outlook for health care, and decided you might like me to hit some of the high points. The piece is written by James Brennan right, managing director of VirtualCDO, a medical merger outfit whose Web page describes him as the...
- Tags: Patient, Hospital, Health Care, James Brennan, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, E-health, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Images: Satellites follow killer cyclone
- Satellite images from NASA track a cyclone and the flooding it caused--which may end up killing over 100,000 residents of Myanmar formerly Burma.The government of Myanmar formerly known as Burma has reported that over 22,000 people have died so far, due to the effects of Tropical Cyclone Nargis which hit...
- Tags: Myanmar, Satellite, Image, Government, Network Technology, Networking, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-09
- Scientists in Europe: be afraid, but there may be hope from friendly phytoplankton
- The European Geophysical Union is meeting. Not that you could tell from any American mainstream media coverage. Bet we couldn't find a single news reader at ABC or Fox who could even decipher EGU European Geophysical Union. But the EGU does exist in that rarified world beyond...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Scientist, Ocean, European Geophysical Union, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- News to know: Salesforce and Google; LiveMesh; Cloud computing; Linux
- Notable headlines: Phil Wainewright: Salesforce and Google team to conquer the enterprise Garett Rogers: Google announces SalesForce integration with Google Apps Techmeme Mary Jo Foley: The big reveal: Live Mesh Statement: Blockbuster proposes to buy Circuit City ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Data Center, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Storage, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Improved hurricane forecasts with VORTRAC
- U.S. researchers have developed a new technique that provides a detailed 3-D view of an approaching hurricane every six minutes, helping to determine whether the storm is gathering strength as it nears land. The technique, known as VORTRAC Vortex Objective Radar Tracking and Circulation, has been tested in 2007 at...
- Tags: Hurricane, Radar, VORTRAC, NCAR, Aerospace & Defense, Productivity, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-13
- Global warming makes you sick
- Global warming makes you sickActually, reading blogs like this, makes me sick.Global warming is a farce, with last years average temperature down by a full degree, the same temperature average as 100 years ago.Climate changes happen...From ice ages to tropic ages. A couple of good volcano eruptions put out...
- Tags: global warming
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- Global warming makes you sick
- Global warming is also a health crisis, says the World Health Organization. Speaking as part of yesterday's World Health Day festivities, Director General Dr. Margaret Chan said the increased storms, floods, droughts and heat waves accompanying warming are already stressing health systems worldwide. Examples?...
- Tags: Health Care, Global Warming, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Microsoft Case Study: William Carey University
- Based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, William Carey University experienced Hurricane Katrina firsthand. The university's in-house e-mail service went down, and staff had no way to reach students. Determined to replace the old e-mail system with a reliable, hosted, Web-based e-mail service, William Carey chose Microsoft Live@edu. Today, William Carey students are...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications
- Case studies 2008-04-08
- Can Technology Meet the Challenge?
- I remember when there were population explosion predictions more than forty years ago: famine and global doom were touted as likely outcomes. Then farmng practics and crop varieties changed and much of the expected disaster fizzled into the continuing run of regional famines that plague poorer parts of the...
- Tags: Global Warming, Famine, Humans, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
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