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Cree LED lighting components get littler

LED lighting company Cree, active in the LED City movement, has shrunk the size of its LED chips with two new components: the XLamp XE-E and XP-C LED series. Both products are roughly 80 percent smaller than Cree's predecessor products, measuring 3.45 millimeters square by 2 millimeters...

Tags: Cree, LED Lighting, Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-11

Towards low-cost LED lighting

Towards low-cost LED lightingA terrific ideaThis is a great advance and I hope the technology proves practical. Now if Americans will just get their heads on straight and build about 50 nukes and shut down all oil and gas-fired power plants, The USA will no longer be held hostage...

Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode, LED lighting

Discussion threads 2008-07-20

Towards low-cost LED lighting

You all know that incandescent bulbs are pretty inefficient, converting only 10% of electricity into light -- and 90% into heat. Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, could soon replace incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs in our homes. They are more efficient and environmentally friendly. But LED lights are currently too expensive...

Tags: Purdue University, Silicon, LED Lighting, Light-emitting Diode, Silicon Substrate, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-20

Additional Resources

A virus in our genes, think about that....

Really fascinating news: Virus is passed from parent to child in the DNA. Researchers found that roseola, an infection that everyone apparently gets but only 20 percent of children develop the characteristic rash that gives it its name, is actually in our DNA. It co-evolved into us, which raises some...

Tags: DNA, Chromosome, Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds?

Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds?Where has this been?Oh, hello, MS, is that you? Did you remember that little OS side-project that you've had going on for a couple decades now? I'm so glad to see a renewed interest, please stick around to...

Tags: Operating systems, Boot-time, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Google's Chrome browser: It's all about the ads and cookie files stupid!

Google's Chrome browser: It's all about the ads and cookie files stupid!Yes, it is about ads and cookies, but also a whole lot more.With this, Google can bring us into the 21st century all based on standards and open source. Microsoft wants to keep the browser in the 20th century,...

Tags: Web browsers, Google Inc., cookie, Google Chrome, Web browser, advertisement, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Android Market is Google's competitor to the Apple iPhone store

I was sent a link to the Android Community site this morning that led to the Android Developers blog post on the upcoming Android Market that looks to rival the Apple iPhone store for Android-powered devices. They decided to call it a market rather than a store to try to...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Blogging, Internet, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-08-28

SaaS market will 'collapse' in two years

Lawson's CEO, Harry Debes says SaaS is the third attempt at "on demand" in his lifetime and predicts it will take the same path as the first two--to oblivion. Lawson's CEO, Harry Debes, doesn't believe in software-as-a-service SaaS. ...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Software as a service, SaaS, software, Lawson, Asia, Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia

News items 2008-08-28

Who's Dumber: Bad Guys … Or Good Guys?

Who's Dumber: Bad Guys … Or Good Guys?Bad guys don't need applauseJust money. So they'll modestly attempt to avoid receiving their due when they compromise systems. I wouldn't assume that not hearing about a success means the success has not occurred.Also, this statement is confusing:Now, we have the...

Tags: SECURITY, flaw, exploit code, Bad Guys, exploit

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Who's Dumber: Bad Guys … Or Good Guys?

In the old cowboy movies, the black hats were villains that created mayhem, until the white hats came along and ended their reigns of fear. Now, we have the spectacle of good guys seemingly educating the bad guys on how to exploit flaws or processes of the Internet, that...

Tags: Hat, Flaw, Internet, Social Security, BGP, Operational Accounting, Government, Networking, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Say goodbye to laser: Microsoft 'Blue Track' mouse discovered (with pic)

Is this the end of laser? Some eagle-eyed readers over at Engadget have stumbled upon a Microsoft Explorer Mini Mouse with "Blue Track" technology on Amazon.de. If you recall, Microsoft recently tempted fans with a "Say Goodbye To Laser" teaser touting new technology...

Tags: Mouse, Microsoft Corp., Laser, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-08-27

BlueAnt M1 Stereo Bluetooth Speaker

Most Bluetooth speakers we see here at CNET are of the speakerphone variety, which you can pair up with a phone to make and receive calls. Since the rise of stereo Bluetooth, however, there are a few companies that make stereo Bluetooth speakers without the ability to handle phone calls....

Tags: Engineering, speaker, Bluetooth, BlueAnt

Product reviews 2008-08-26

Dell XPS M1330-126B

Note: This review is part of our Back to School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.While 13-inch laptops make up only a small part of the market, Apple's popular MacBook has made this form factor, which we call thin-and-light, a staple...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, XPS 1330, Apple MacBook, Dell Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2008-08-26

LG 50PG20

The LG 50PG20 is the company's least expensive 50-inch plasma, competing against similar entry-level models from Samsung and Panasonic. It doesn't have the 1080p resolution of higher-priced plasmas, but we didn't really miss that extra detail. What we did miss with this LG, namely deep black levels and more accurate...

Tags: LG Electronics Inc., LG 50PG20, plasma

Product reviews 2008-08-26

Magna Charta: Welcome Back, Ross Perot

So, EDS is gone again, subsumed by HP. But, lo and behold, H. Ross Perot is back, just in time for the presidential elections. Now, you can view his slides about the dangers of the federal deficit and debt online, any time you want. Or, hear him posit...

Tags: Ross Perot, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP

The $2,000 Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP is a beautiful-looking display with a ton of features. Because of its 117 percent NTSC color gamut, however, we encountered many more color problems than we expected during DVD and Blu-ray playback. Be prepared to do a lot of color tweaking if you plan to...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell UltraSharp, display, Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP

Product reviews 2008-08-25

IDF and the new Mac notebooks

The Intel Developer Forum makes it clear what Apple's new notebooks - which I predict will be announced Tuesday, September 16 - will offer. Will it be worth the wait? If longer battery life and higher performance are important to you - yes. And if you weren't...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Graphics, IDF, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Something you're going to want to smack

Something you're going to want to smackBig Brother in a BoxFirst we had EZ Pass which provides authorities with a list of every place we've been (that involves a toll road, at least). Then there was GPS which can make you completely trackable. Now, we have a little black box...

Tags: reinforcement

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Belkin GoStudio

If you're a musician, amateur podcaster, or college student looking for a way to capture CD-quality recordings on your iPod, the Belkin GoStudio is an all-purpose solution with some impressive bells and whistles. The GoStudio is not without its flaws, but at $120 you're likely to take its shortcomings with...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Belkin Corp., Belkin GoStudio

Product reviews 2008-08-22

Adebis Photo Editor (exe)

The authors of Adebis Photo Editor had a concept of a simple, easy-to-use and intuitive application and did a really great job with that. Adebis Photo Editor enables you to color-correct your photographs color balance and saturation, correct lighting problems (exposition, brightness, contrast), remove the red eye effect, get rid...

Tags: Exposition, Adebis Software, Adebis Photo Editor, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2008-08-22