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- Biodiesel's future
- I recently spoke with Innovation Fuels CEO John Fox. His firm already makes biodiesel at plants in Milwaukee and New York Harbor. He says next year will see a growth in bodiesel production in the U.S. The 2010 federal requirement calls for all diesel oil--heating and vehicles--to...
- Tags: Biodiesel, Innovation Fuels, John Fox, Soy, Diesel, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Forget red or blue, is Washington turning green?
- More tax breaks for alternative energy could be in the offing. And one of the largest wind farms in planning stage awaits a Presidential yay or nay. A House committee has just approved a $20 billion dollar alternative energy package. Much of that money would go for...
- Tags: Turbine, Tax Credit, House Committee, Taxes, Personal Finance, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-01-26
- Want to own your own home generator?
- Want to turn your trash into treasure? This isn't some come-on about finding a Hank Aaron baseball card in the back of the garage. This is about regularly disposing of your trash by turning it into electricity. So IST Energy of Massachussetts says it's a got a...
- Tags: Trash, GEM, Customer Demonstration, Aerospace & Defense, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- GM makes headlines if not profits
- Chevy Volt. Courtesy: General Motors and U.S. Taxpayers. General Motors may not be making a lot of money right now, but they are making headlines. The Detroit Auto Show is in the throes of "press days" and today's announcements about the Chevy Volt (due...
- Tags: Car, Battery, General Motors Corp., Volt, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- The value in name patients
- The value in name patientsYour assuming of course ....... that the surgery is successfull. What if he dies on the table or within 60 days after? Will people still want to use Duke?Probably won't make any difference unless...Dr. Friedman severely blunders. According to this article:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060200926.html?hpid=moreheadlinesthis is very...
- Tags: Friedman, patient, Kennedy, surgery
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- OXML as Microsoft's swivel point
- OXML as Microsoft's swivel pointYes, but...There's always a but isn't there? Correct me if I'm wrong but from what I've observed Microsoft isn't really going to follow what the folk on the ISO committee are going to do to both fix and develop OXML.It is all just a deja vu...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Microsoft Corp., oXML
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- Who+is+the+open+source+candidate%3F
- Who+is+the+open+source+candidate%3FIronically......the only presidential candidate this year that strikes as having even partially "walked the walk" is the one that just withdrew. It was Mitt Romney's administration in Massachussetts that adopted ODF as their standard document format, and stood by the decision in the face of intense pressure from MS-lobbyists...
- Tags: open source, Mitt Romney, government
- Discussion threads 2008-02-08
- Website, email system pinpoints offenders' locations
- Website, email system pinpoints offenders' locationsTracking Sex OffendersI think when a person is convicted of a sex offence or any Felonythey should loose part of there civil rights and the part of the constitution that protects against invasion of privacy. They offended society and should forever loose the ability to...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Now IT, e-mail, offender, sex offender, Web site
- Discussion threads 2007-03-21
- Microsoft: Why the ODF vs. OOXML battle matters
- Microsoft: Why the ODF vs. OOXML battle mattersA question"As far as we know, the Translator does translate, open and save back and forth between ODF and Open XML."It doesn't sound like he's especially confident about this. Why would this person, out of all the people on the planet, not -know-...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Word processors, Microsoft Office, Country Codes, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word
- Discussion threads 2007-02-28
- How to alienate your government customers 101?
- How to alienate your government customers 101?It will be interesting...... to see how this affects other CIOs. Will theya) Not notice that this ever happened, orb) Be scared of Microsoft doing it to them -they'll only buy MS, orc) Be determined to eliminate Microsoft as a potential threat by buying...
- Tags: Government, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-05
- Mass. to use Microsoft Office in OpenDocument plan
- Mass. to use Microsoft Office in OpenDocument planWell, as long as they make a researched and reasoned decisionthey could do whatever. I'm sure OpenDocument will address any accessibility issues that crosses it path, and then govt agencies can either continue using MS, Corel, Lotus, or StarOffice and their native...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2006-08-24
- Microsoft bends on OpenDocument
- Microsoft bends on OpenDocumentWhat MS means is...MS Office Open XML MSOOXML is backward compatible with the XML format in MS Office 2003. Which I presume means any translator that can read MSOOXML can also read MS Office 2003 XML.Of course that is proposed as a bonus, but in order...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Linux threat, FUD, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, MSOOXML, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2006-07-06
- With state budget surpluses, a windfall for edtech?
- The federal government is cutting education funding but states - flush with cash for the first time since the 90s - may be ready to fund edtech in a big way. Relying on a collection of gubenatorial budget speeches compiled by the National Governors Association, eSchool News notes that several...
- Tags: edtech, education
- Blog posts 2006-04-11
- Red Hat growth tops estimates by a notch
- Red Hat growth tops estimates by a notchLinux Accelerated Training for Washington State EmployeesIn July and August of this year accelerated training for Washinton State employees on Linux will be provided at state cost. This in Microsoft's own state signifies how dissapointed Microsoft's largest customer the governement is and the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Desktops, Novell Linux revenue, Microsoft Windows XP, Linux, desktop, Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-03-28
- Does Google acquisition of Writely improve ODF standing in govt?
- Google's acquisition of Upstartle, the makers of Writely, the Web-based word processor, has interesting implications for government, especially in light of the battle royal over Massachussetts' attempt to standardize on the Open Document format. Taking for granted that documents with certain security levels would not be developed over...
- Tags: Writely
- Blog posts 2006-03-10
- OpenDocument News: Wordperfect ships sans ODF, ex-MA CIO interviewed
- OpenDocument News: Wordperfect ships sans ODF, ex-MA CIO interviewedPerhaps MA should have followed the savings angle?It's interesting to note that when Bristol City Council in the UK decided to implement StarOffice it lead with the cost argument - there was a small mention of the value of open XML formats...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office, public figure, Bristol, Corel WordPerfect
- Discussion threads 2006-01-24
- IBM cites local employee base in appeal to Massachusetts Governor
- IBM cites local employee base in appeal to Massachusetts Governorwhat nonsens is IBM talkingfirst they fire 14,000 people from developed countries major portion of which was from the USA and then hired 14,000 in India and China. They reason they gave was "they hired where skilled employees were". ...
- Tags: Workforce management, OPEN SOURCE, Market-Share, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-12-05
- Hidden OpenDocument agenda uncovered in Massachusetts
- Hidden OpenDocument agenda uncovered in MassachusettsThis is pathetic...NTUS News talked about Leadersand the bemoaning of not having any "good" political leaders. In 1776, we had at least a half-dozen extraordinary political leaders (in a country of 9 million people). Today we have 300 million people - and no good leaders.This...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Leadership, Sales strategy, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., leader, OpenDocument Format
- Discussion threads 2005-10-27
- InfoWeek: OpenDocument tangled in MA political showdown
- InfoWeek: OpenDocument tangled in MA political showdownI'm waiting for Quinn to ask"Senator, the Administration is open to suggestions. Could you please suggest a revision to the ETRM that would mandate Microsoft's file formats?"Yeah, I know, broken record (for those who remember where the phrase comes from.) Then again,...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, Office XML, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-10-26
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