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- Photos: Happy developers in da house
- Some 150 people gather in a Los Gatos, Calif., mansion for SuperHappyDevHouse, a 12-hour marathon of coding, hacking and socializing.Participants of the 19th SuperHappy DevHouse hackathon session descended on Tom Harrison''s family home last weekend in Los Gatos, Calif. Harrison far left opened his house up to some 150 tech...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, SECURITY, photograph, Amit Patel, SuperHappyDevHouse, Los Gatos, Facebook, San Jose State University, hacking, chief technical officer, Ohio State University, University of Washington, online v
- Image galleries 2007-08-16
- A Firetide Wireless Instant Network Makes This the Hottest Ticket in Town
- It started with the Los Gatos Opera House and a desire to attract businesspeople for conferences, meetings, and events. The Chamber of Commerce was also interested in attracting visitors to the quaint town of Los Gatos. Only one thing was lacking - Internet access for business visitors. Running wires through...
- Tags: Opera Software, Los Gatos, Network, Business Structures, Wireless LANs, Finance, Wireless
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- Photos: Game on at E3: The sequel
- More scenes from the scaled-down game expo in Los Angeles. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Games, Personal Technology, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-07-17
- When proprietary companies go open source
- I've been burning the midnight oil yet again, working like a beaver on speed as I build my software castle on a server in Los Angeles not that beavers build castles. It's going well, and we are on the verge of starting trials in the UK. If any of you...
- Tags: Software, Netscape Communications Corp., Stallman, Open Source, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- TechForward advocates the cause of temporary ownership
- I have been MEANING to write about the Los Angeles-based start-up TechForward for weeks now, but felt like I didn't have enough time to write the truly thoughtful post that it deserved. Now, I'm forcing myself to get off my butt, strangely enough, because I'm having a moral dilemma over...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Electronics, TechForward, Lebovitz, Retail, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- Dirty Split (exe)
- Dirty Split is a classic point&click adventure game with a modern twist. You play as a private investigator who must prove a murder suspect's innocence. Your journey will take you to 1960ies Los Angeles, Las Vegas and New York.The game features a very distinct graphical style and an original jazz...
- Tags: Dreamagination, Dirty Split, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-07-03
- Care to spend your holiday weekend policing directory listings?
- I'm not a fan in general of sites that create a listing or profile for you, hoping you'll eventually claim and/or correct it. This tactic, neither user-centric nor user-driven, is insidious for at least three reasons: inaccuracies proliferate, privacy is frequently...
- Tags: Reunion.com LLC., Security, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Why computers fail
- Good failure data for PCs is hard to find: who knows how many times PC users are told to reinstall Windows? But in a recent paper, Bianca Schroeder and Garth Gibson of CMU found some surprising results in 10 years of large scale cluster system failures at Los Alamos National...
- Tags: Checkpoint, Multiprocessor, Failure, Computer, Desktop Computer, LANL, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- California to drivers: Drop the cell phone, dude
- Next week a California law will require the use of hands-free phones and ban cell phones entirely for drivers under 18--but there's a loophole that allows texting while driving. LOS ANGELES--Next week California will try to wrest cell phones from the hands of drivers, telling everyone from movie starlets...
- Tags: Phone, Cell Phone, Democratic Lawmaker, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Reuters, cell phones, legal, hands-free, text messaging, California
- News items 2008-06-27
- Chrysler to offer Wi-Fi in 2009 autos
- How about a router for your car? The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Chrysler will announce today that it will offer Internet access in its 2009 Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep models. As someone who has been chided for texting while driving, I'm not...
- Tags: Chrysler LLC, Wireless LANs, Manufacturing, Routers & Switches, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Rik Fairlie
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- 2009 Pontiac Vibe GT
- Photo gallery:2009 Pontiac Vibe GTWe found the economy car efficiency, the tight build quality, and the odd body style all appealing on the 2009 Pontiac Vibe GT. But once we started looking at the details, we realized it was a Toyota. The hard flooring in the cargo area and the...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Pontiac, Pontiac Vibe GT, Vibe
- Product reviews 2008-06-23
- Googlenomics, Shrugged
- Come the morning of September 7, you'll probably go to the Google search box and find a fun-loving in-house artist has replaced the first "o" in the company name with a symbol that looks like a "1" and the second "o" with a slightly altered version...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Google reports cause of App Engine failure
- Google reports cause of App Engine failureIt's PREVIEW RELEASEThere are plenty of better reasons to question cloud computing than an preview release of a free service crashing...This is just like Airplanes. Airplanes are much less likely to crash than acar, and you are about 10x safer in an airplane than...
- Tags: beta, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- The Apprentice Los Angeles (zip)
- Compete for the opportunity of a lifetime with the legendary Donald Trump and his children, Ivanka and Don Jr. Play against 12 of your favorite contestants. Battle it out in the boardroom. Combine Action and Strategy to Win! Serve customers efficiently. Oversee a team of helpers. Manage your time and...
- Tags: Legacy Interactive, Team Management, Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2008-06-20
- IT catfight in Portland, OR
- IT catfight in Portland, ORSacraficeMy company just finished an ERP release, successfully!It takes whole company sacrifice and requires separate Change Management groups to come to power to lead staff and executive management with the project and the temporary sacrifices in business process and political ownership. It takes years of...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Leadership, information technology, change management, ERP
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Can Silicon Valley's San Jose find its way?
- San Jose suffered a massive calamity just a few years ago that cost it 225,000 jobs - nearly one quarter of its entire population - the worst job loss anywhere in the US since the Great Depression. The dotcom dotbomb from 2001 to 2003 was a period...
- Tags: San Jose, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Verizon FiOS goes 50 Mbps across U.S.: Should I upgrade?
- Verizon FiOS goes 50 Mbps across U.S.: Should I upgrade?Can you evaluate it?If it does seem like you are achieving $100/mn more productivity with the additional speed, I'd say go for it. It comes down to a value issue for me.RE: Verizon FiOS goes 50 Mbps across U.S.: Should I...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, Mbps, Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon Fios
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC
- Supercomputers are like muscle cars for IT: Few of us have one, but boy they are fun to look at. IBM on Tuesday touted that its supercomputer built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Lab is the most powerful system in the world. It...
- Tags: Supercomputer, Blade, Sony Playstation, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Chip, Supercomputing, NNSA Supercomputer, Roadrunner, Roadrunner System, Intel Quad-core Blade System, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- There'a zero-emission car now, but you can't have one. BTW: the Pres doesn't wanna hear you "squawk" about gasoline prices.
- Clarity, courtesy Honda. Good news: Honda's now making a zero-emission car. Better news: they're shipping them from Japan to car-hungry Los Angeles. Bad news: even if you live in LA, you're not going to get one of these cars for a long time....
- Tags: Car, Honda Motor Co., Corn, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Lori Drew arraigned today
- Lori Drew, the psycho mom who set up a fake MySpace identity to toy with a teenage neighbor, is being arraigned on federal charges in Los Angeles today. She's charged with accessing protected computers without authorization and conspiracy. After the fictional Josh Evans told 13-year-old Megan Meier...
- Tags: Internet, Web Site Development, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
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