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Photos: MIT's solar house under construction

MIT works on its entry in a competition searching for a realistic, marketable house powered entirely by the sun.On the fringe of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge, Mass., volunteer students and advisers are building a home powered entirely by the sun. This 800-square-foot building, which started to...

Tags: Team management, photograph, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Solar Decathlon, MIT Solar 7, team, University of Colorado, Boulder, tube, nod, ceremony, daylight, solar energy, fluctuation, tile, deck, Washington D.C., advisor, Paris, Washington

Image galleries 2007-08-10

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Worse and worse

That's the word from yet another projection on climate change. This one uses a modelling technique developed at MIT. And it promises no good news on the over-heating planet front. It shows a probability of more than 5 degrees temp rise this century, and some...

Tags: Productivity, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-31

News to know: Sun-IBM; Cloudforce; Windows 7 downgrade; AP's crackdown

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Sun following the IBM deal collapse: Customer confusion en route The IBM-Sun saga: Can McNealy let...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Associated Press, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sam Diaz, IBM Corp., Smart Phones, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems

Blog posts 2009-04-07

News to know: Windows 7; Graphic card upgrades; Psystar; Netflix outage

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Where on earth are these Microsoft patches? Ed Bott: Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7 Mary Jo Foley: Sinofsky to dish on Windows 7? Wishful thinking System Center Online: Another Microsoft-hosted cloud service in the making ...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Open Source, Health Care, Apple iPhone 3G, Outage, Microsoft Windows, 3G, Corporate Governance, Vertical Industries, Operating Systems, Software, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2008-08-15

News to know: Cyber attacks; Google; Windows security; Gmail outage

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaught Dancho Danchev: Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress ZDNet UK: Georgia accuses Russia of co-ordinated cyberattack Video: Defcon: Where feds and hackers rub elbows News.com: Defcon ends...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, Russia, Windows Security, Cyberattack, Outage, Georgia, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows, Hacking, Security, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Community solar: "Why don't they get it in Washington?"

Community solar: "Why don't they get it in Washington?"What is the maintanance cost, and backup planshould a storm or fire destroy the structure?It's all about feeling goodThere are people who think logically, and people who think emotionally. Logically, solar is still a losing technology when factoring in all costs...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax

Discussion threads 2008-08-01

News to Know: Googlenomics; Windows Mobile 7 phones; Broadband hell

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Free Sourcefire tool pinpoints hostile MS Office files Apple security team finds code execution holes in Ruby Google using invalid security certificate Dancho Danchev: Phishers targeting Facebook users, fake logins...

Tags: Security, Google Inc., Phone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Information Technology, Broadband, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Virtualization, Telecom & Utilities, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-06-23

Peru signs up for 260,000 OLPC laptops

Peru signs up for 260,000 OLPC laptopsPeru signs up for 260,000 OLPC laptopsThe great OLPC scam. Negroponte made exclusive deals with only the U.S. to charge customers twice the amount of money for only 1 laptop. Basically he expected the U.S. to fund all this and excluded all...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, OLPC Laptops, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2007-12-03

Tiger Woods losing big tourney? No, but Colorado trails in solar decathlon

It's the end of Tuesday and the lead has shifted in the third Solar Decathlon in Washington D.C. The champ in the first two decathlons in 2002 and 2005 was the University of Colorado. To keep their title, they have a long, hard climb from eighth...

Tags: University Of Maryland, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Marketing, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-16