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- Senatorial sex life and the wild salmon: another fish story
- What do an airport bathroom in Minnesota, Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) and the wild salmon have in common? The future of each depends on what may have happened in that airport bathroom and what that means for the Idaho Senator's political clout in Washington D.C. Already...
- Tags: Minnesota, River, Airport, U.S. Senate, Conservation, Larry Craig, Federal Government, Regulations, Government, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-09-29
- Minnesota town leads way with solar-power city wireless
- The first nodes in the nation's first known solar-powered city Wi-Fi network are about to go live, after a delay related to the asthetics of the poles. City residents didn't like the color of the equipment white, so brown covers are being added to cover them. The price of being...
- Tags: Minnesota, Pole, Wireless, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- MinnesotaDoppler (widget)
- Keep a bird's eye view of your local weather on your desktop. View Doppler radar images for the state of Minnesota from a selection of Minnesota news stations: Access to local television station Web sites; Resizable Doppler images up to 1400x1600; Flexible automated refresh periods; Animated map display; Add your...
- Tags: Minnesota, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Aerospace & Defense, Internet, Marketing, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2007-06-21
- Justice Served: CriMNet Integrates Minnesota's Criminal Justice Systems
- CriMNet is not a software or hardware program, nor is it a centralized database. It is a secure intranet system that will link Minnesota's 1,100 criminal justice jurisdictions by using common business practices and a standard computer language. In the wake of Sept. 11, CriMNet serves as a model for...
- Tags: Minnesota, Computer Language, Intranet, CriMNet, Productivity, Homeland Security, Government
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- Environmental Systems Research Institute Case Study: City of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
- Detroit Lakes, Minnesota is located 45 miles east of Fargo, North Dakota. The purpose of acquiring GIS and GPS technologies was to establish a database which can then be used to better manage potential contaminants to Detroit Lakes' source water aquifer. Along with the database, maps can now easily be...
- Tags: Minnesota, Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., Contaminant, GIS, Storage, GPS, Databases, Software, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Data Management
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- Metro-Scale Wi-Fi as City Servicechaska.net, Chaska, Minnesota
- Chaska, Minnesota, outside of the Twin Cities area, has a track record of providing attractive services to its residents. In 1998, Incumbent telecommunications providers were ignoring the broadband data needs of the schools in the community. In order to eliminate this problem, the city formed chaska.net, a Wireless Internet Service...
- Tags: Minnesota, Tropos Networks, Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Wireless, Networking, Internet
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- Anytime, Anywhere Broadband: GoMoorhead!, Moorhead, Minnesota
- Moorhead sits at a natural Red River crossing point where Minnesota meets the Dakotas. In 2002, the city considered adding broadband WiFi to its menu of services. The goal was to provide lower cost Internet access to more residents and to aid economic development. Moorhead teamed with Tropos Networks partner...
- Tags: Minnesota, Tropos Networks, Broadband, Moorhead, Go Moorhead, Wireless LANs, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Telephony, Network Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
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- Hennepin County Streamlines Inter-Departmental Communication Through Infrastructure Consolidation and Business Integration
- The Hennepin County Department of Community Corrections' DOCC Adult Field Services AFS division provides probation, parole and pre-trial services to the Fourth Judicial District and the communities of Hennepin County, Minnesota. The challenge was to streamline data exchange, Web-enable systems, enhance disaster recovery capabilities and improve cost-efficiency for adult justice...
- Tags: Minnesota, Business Integration, Consolidation, IBM Corp., Integration, Disaster Recovery, Server Virtualization, Mainframes, Linux, Virtualization, Servers, Data Management, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software
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- Wireless Service Provider Streamlines Content Management, Accelerates Delivery of New Solutions
- Mankato, Minnesota - based Midwest Wireless is a wireless services provider with more than 390,000 subscribers in Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Midwest Wireless needed a solution that would free Web developers from having to service marketing-driven content changes. As a solution Microsoft Content Management Server freed developers from...
- Tags: Web Developer, Minnesota, Solution, Microsoft Corp., Wireless Service, Wireless, Content Management, Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Nokia 500 Auto Navigation
- First announced at SEMA 2007, the Nokia 500 Auto Navigation system is finally hitting the streets. It's the second portable navigation device we've seen from the Finnish cell phone manufacturer (the first being the Nokia 330 Auto Navigation) and it's a big improvement over the 330. The design is a...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Nokia 500 Auto Navigation system, power button, Nokia Corp., Nokia 500, Nokia 500 Auto Navigation
- Product reviews 2008-07-23
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.
- My mother and I chat a lot about different alternative energy options, mainly because she is lucky enough to live in Hawaii where solar hot water has been mandated for future construction. But one thing that has been ultra controversial on the Big Island has been wind power for the...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- Global warming is a security issue say American spies
- Sixteen American spy agencies combined their intelligence to report to the nation on global warming...as a security threat. To everyone's great surpise the spies found that our future is perilous...and we need continuied spying...to forestall governments toppling, more terrorist attacks by folks driven to violence by hunger, etc. etc....
- Tags: Security, Global Warming, Spy, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Low-risk offenders' wives stand by their men
- Low-risk offenders' wives stand by their menLow-risk offenders' wives stand by their menUnfortunately, states routinely put the larger percentage of sex offenders into tier III which should only reflect the MOST dangerous and reflect the recidivist rate for that state. Recidivist rates over all, is in the single digits. Labeling...
- Tags: offender, residency restriction, Low-risk, Low-risk offender, wive, sex offender
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- ASUS R700t
- While best known for its computer components and motherboards, Asus is branching out to all sorts of consumer electronics, including GPS. The Asus R700t is one of its first portable navigation devices, and we must admit we're pleasantly surprised. The slim device is easy to use and features some great...
- Tags: Keyboards, GPS, Media players, display, ASUS R700t, ASUS
- Product reviews 2008-06-04
- News to know: Adobe; Apple; Facebook; Microsoft security
- Notable headlines: Zack Whittaker: Students try to bring down Facebook Dancho Danchev: Microsoft's CAPTCHA successfully broken Ryan Naraine: Microsoft issues Safari-to-IE blended threat warning Obama looking for help thwarting Web site hackers Chinese female hacking group spotted ActiveX...
- Tags: Security, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Fuel Cells, Utility Computing, Hardware, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Fill 'er up: biodiesel company in ship-shape for future
- Innovation's Newark plant. I recently spoke with the head of a biodiesel firm that's on the production side of the business. Innovaton Fuels was formed from the merger of smaller start-ups and already has one production plant in operation, and a second on the...
- Tags: Biodiesel, Innovation Fuels, John Fox, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- TomTom GO 930 GPS
- When it comes to in-car GPS, TomTom has always been of the philosophy that its products should be about navigation first. The company doesn't spend much time fussing over extras like multimedia, but rather focuses energy on navigation tools that will help the driver. The TomTom GO 930 is a...
- Tags: Memory, GPS, TomTom, TomTom Go, TomTom GO 930
- Product reviews 2008-05-28
- Comcast offers really-broad band
- Comcast offers really-broad bandComcast creating bigger issues.I'm not sure what Comcast is doing in Minnesota but in the Indianapolis area particularly the northeastern suburbs they are making a big sales push with their bundled packages, voice, cable and internet. The only problem is they are using modems that don't...
- Tags: INTERNET, Network technology, NETWORKING, Comcast Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-03
- 5 tips to prevent IT extinction
- 5 tips to prevent IT extinctionJargon - useful, concise, natural extension of vocabularyIT personnel should be reasonable in their use of jargon just as much as professionals in other disciplines - Medicine, for instance. A user who needs to be spoken in language devoid of any technical terms might...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- How to detect network vulnerabilities?
- Computer scientists at George Mason University GMU have developed a new software to identify complex cyber network attacks. This software is named CAULDRON (short for 'Combinatorial Analysis Utilizing Logical Dependencies Residing on Networks'). The developers claim that CAULDRON 'can reduce the impact of cyber attacks by identifying the possible vulnerability...
- Tags: Software, Network, Vulnerability, George Mason University, CAULDRON, Networking, Security, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
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