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Your luxurious prefab green home

XtremeHomes builds dwellings that are green-conscious--both by using sustainable materials and by consolidating the labor under one roof to conserve resources. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos reports from the company's factory in Oroville, Calif.

Tags: News.com, XtremeHomes, Extreme homes, home, house, green, material, construction, contractor, building, truck, Michael Kanellos, Michelle Kaufmann, Tim Schmidt, lumber

Videos 2007-08-30

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Mystery Stories: Island of Hope (exe)

Top New York journalist Michelle Deanfield is finally taking a much needed Caribbean vacation. Join her on the white sands amidst the magic of the Mayan culture, steeped in legend and divinity. Not to mention, a good-looking diving instructor in her view. Everything is rosy for Michelle, that is, until...

Tags: Curse, SpinTop Games, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-07-17

Nothing stealthy about this Windows Update update

For years, Microsoft has occasionally updated its Windows Update client software automatically on systems that are configured to check for updates. This has been true even when Windows Update is set to simply check for (and optionally, download) updates but not to install them. That decision led...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Update, Update, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Obama benefits from the Net's election power

The Internet has fundamentally changed the second most important aspect of elections: money. In fact, writes Tom Regan in the Christian Science Monitor's "Innovation" column, if not for Internet fundraising, Barack Obama would not be the Democratic nominee. In a year when he continues to break all fundraising records,...

Tags: Network, Benefit, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-18

How healthy is John McCain?

How healthy is John McCain?Doesn't matter anyway.The question you should ask is how cranky are his policies and the viewpoints of his vice president. After all that person will step in if John keels over. Besides you should have blogged on his viewpoints on tech to make it related.The problem...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Obama, John McCain

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

Hillary nomination would unleash Obama's Net-driven third-party run

Marc Wagner offered a little political analysis in a comment on my post about Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina joining the McCain campaign. I joked that the two must be "getting used to losing." Marc responded: If they nominate Obama, they can beat McCain but...

Tags: Nomination, McCain, Democratic Obama, Team Management, Regulatory Compliance, Internet, Management, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-03-18

Fujitsu LifeBook A6120

There's not much to get excited about with Fujitsu's 15-inch LifeBook, the A6120. It features the same functional yet boxy chassis as its predecessor, the A6110, but adds an Intel Penryn processor and upgraded specs for a couple hundred dollars more, while shedding a bit of weight in the process....

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Fujitsu Ltd., LifeBook A6120, Fujitsu LifeBook, Intel Penryn, Inspiron 1525, laptop computer, processor

Product reviews 2008-03-14

Fujitsu LifeBook E8410 (2008)

From the outside, nothing has changed from when we last looked at the Fujitsu LifeBook E8410. Fujitsu's flagship business laptop uses the same chassis we saw last year, which for a 15.4-inch mainstream model is relatively attractive with its matte black lid, silver keyboard tray, and white keys. The system...

Tags: Notebooks, Fujitsu LifeBook, LifeBook E8410, Fujitsu Ltd.

Product reviews 2008-03-10

Health conspiracies usually aren't

Health conspiracies usually aren'tExonerated?Don't you mean implicated? If not, please explain.How old was Woody Allen in Sleeper?Remember the scene in "Sleeper" where Woody's character, a health food nut, is surrounded by doctors smoking cigarettes and drinking martinis?Don't think tobacco will be rehabilitatedThe health problems associated with tobacco usage over...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, statin, Health conspiracy, health care, Statins

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

MacBook Air: thinnest but not lightest (Updated 2x)

When Steve Jobs introduced the world to the new MacBook Air here on Tuesday he accurately referred to it as "the world's thinnest notebook." While that statement is true, it comes with a small caveat–it's the world's thinnest currently shipping notebook. In his keynote address Jobs showed...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple MacBook, Notebooks, Sony Vaio, Sony Corp., Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-01-18

Can a no-star movie move the stem cell debate?

Can a no-star movie move the stem cell debate?"Hope" a movie around stem cell controversyI actually liked the trailer and I think it sends an important message across. Many Independent movies are low budget movies...why are you surprised at that. I think it is a creditable that a lone doctor...

Tags: stem-cell, embryonic stem cell, movie, embryonic stem, activist, cell

Discussion threads 2008-01-08

Sophie Ellis Bextor Screensaver (zip)

Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor (born 10 April 1979) is a multi-platinum selling English pop singer and songwriter. Her music is a mixture of mainstream pop, disco and 1980s electronic influences. A must have screensaver for Sophie Ellis-Bextor fans.

Tags: Pop Singer, Wallpaper Screensavers

Software downloads 2007-11-20

Michelle Trachtenberg Cutie Screensaver (zip)

In the summer of 2000, Michelle Trachtenberg took up the role of Dawn Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She remained in the role until the show ended in 2003. Download this fantastic free screensaver today, with high quality full size wallpaper pictures.

Tags: Role, Wallpaper Screensavers

Software downloads 2007-11-14

IBM silicon rejects reborn in solar panels

Just a wafer thin. Yes, indeedy, when the Monty Python crew penned that infamous line in their movie, "Meaning of Life" that hadn't one iota of a clue what it could mean for the solar energy industry. And now, here's the point of this blog. There's word...

Tags: Wafer, Semiconductor, IBM Corp., Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-10-31

Halloween XII: What's really behind those Microsoft licenses?

Last night I stayed up late to watch a scary movie called The Grudge. It's a remake of a Japanese film, set in Japan, with English actors including Sarah Michelle Geller. It's not gory but it sure gave me the creeps. Tonight after all the trick-or-treating is done and the...

Tags: License, Microsoft Corp., Ms-RL, Nelson, Corporate Governance, Open Source, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2007-10-31

Greening buildings with solar, ice tech

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Davis, Calif., panel moderator Michael Kanellos, of CNET News.com, leads a discussion with executives on eco-friendly materials and technologies, and the future for green buildings. The panelists are: Malcom Davies, CEO of Michelle Kaufmann Designs; Lyndon Rive, CEO of SolarCity; Kevin Surace, CEO of...

Tags: CEO, Emerging Technologies, Green

Videos 2007-09-13

Living green, building better

The above picture shows one of the homes designed and built by Michelle Kaufman Designs. GoingGreen, Davis, CA--green building panel. Malcolm Davis, Michelle Kaufmann Designs. Lyndon Rive, Founder & CEO, SolarCity. Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious Materials. Frank Ramirez, CEO,...

Tags: California, CEO, Green, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-09-11

How to protect your online privacy

How to protect your online privacyGoogle mapsLucky I've been using the address down the street this whole time. ;-)Of course, banning those protocols altogether is overstating things. Most of what I read on the net does not need to be private. I also can understand companies who understand that ease...

Tags: E-mail providers, SSL/TLS, Authentication/Encryption, Internet service providers (ISPs), online privacy, Google Gmail, Google Inc., SSL, Yahoo! Mail

Discussion threads 2007-08-07

Something uncomfortable about DEFCON's treatment of Dateline NBC reporter

I don't know about you but after watching the video and reading the reports (George Ou, Techmeme, Threat Level) about DEFCON's outing of Dateline NBC producer Michelle Madigan, I came away with an uncomfortable feeling that it was rather childish, over-the-top and unnecessary.For starters, there's the irony of underground hackers...

Tags: Hacking, TV, Reporter, Hacker, Conference, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-08-06

Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007

Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007With all due respectsIt's good and rather funny to see them get caught with their knickers down. Hopefully the network will apologize to the attendees sure they will or at least show the outing on one of the news shows.more due respectYou're...

Tags: Undercover NBC Dateline

Discussion threads 2007-08-03