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The National Park Service and the Google Search Appliance

A bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior, The National Park Service NPS has protected America's parks and monuments since 1916. Federal government's proprietary search tool, FirstGov, was not delivering complete or accurate results, which meant the NPS was hearing from frustrated users. NPS deployed Google Search Appliance which...

Tags: National Park Service, Google Inc., Search Appliance, Google Search, Google Search Appliance, Cloud Computing

Case studies 2009-01-01

Photos: Southwest canyon wonders

Canyons in Arizona and Utah offer stunning tableaus. Here, a look at some of the more awe-inspiring scenes.CNET News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman has been traveling through the Southwest for the last three weeks on Road Trip 2007, and much of the last week or so has been spent in Arizona...

Tags: photograph, North Rim, Monument Canyon, Grand Canyon, Canyon, National Park Service, erosion, ruin, thunderstorm, debris, New Mexico, cloud, park, White House, Colorado, attraction, wall, Microsoft Windows

Image galleries 2007-08-09

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Google tests if there is a business model for free expression

Is there a business model in providing Internet users with free expression? Looks like Google might find out in South Korea. Earlier this month, a law in South Korea came into effect requiring web site owners with at least 100,000 daily users to verify the real names...

Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-04-13

High speed rail: derision or da future?

High speed rail: derision or da future?How many times has Amtrak ....... had to be bailed out? How many of the lines are still even in operation? Do you think there won't be security measures before you board the train? How many died in the bombing of...

Tags: Vertical industries, High Speed, derision, government

Discussion threads 2009-02-25

Senate OKs unnecessary delay to digital TV switch

Senate OKs unnecessary delay to digital TV switchDude...They have had timeThe DTV transition has been in the works for a LONG time now, just because the poor/elderly/etc do not WANT to move on - why should the rest of us suffer? The government has had its act together (coupon creation...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, DTV transition, digital television, TV, unnecessary delay, government, U.S. Senate

Discussion threads 2009-01-26

Parks Envi Deluxe 1.1.5 (Mobile)

Parks Envi Deluxe is your visual guide to U.S. National Parks, Monuments and other areas run by the National Parks Service. It gives you easy, state-by-state, alphabetic access to Web-based area overviews and photos, and includes maps of every National Park built directly in. From Acadia to the Grand Canyon...

Tags: Mobile, Multi-touch, Apple iTunes, Open Door Networks, Parks Envi Deluxe, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-12-25

Alabama's Broadband Tide

BROADBAND INITIATIVE â€" If you really want anywhere access to the Internet, you understand the value and you’ll pay for it. A DirecWay dish on an RV at Gulf State Park, on the so-called “Redneck Riviera,” at Orange Beach, Alabama. ORANGE BEACH, Ala. â€" No more...

Tags: Initiative, Broadband, Alabama, DirecWay, RV, Johnson, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, TVs, Telecommunications, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Photos: Visiting a Nike missile site

At one time, there were more than 200 Nike missile sites in the U.S., each tasked with protecting a specific city. Today, the only one left is a restored site for tourists in the Marin Headlands, near San Francisco.The mascot of the Army''s Air Defense Artillery program was a bird...

Tags: Nike Inc., Photograph, Missile, Missile Site, AJAX, Aerospace & Defense, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Manufacturing, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-23

Call for military to operate botnet

Call for military to operate botnetI'd volunteer my PCs to help.If they did this above-board, with a SETI screen saver style app we could install deliberately, I'd bet they could have 50 million machines ready to help with this in a matter of weeks.RE: Call for military to operate botnetI'd...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), SECURITY, NETWORKING, Internet Service Provider, attack, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-05-12

Google looking to map the abyss

Google has tackled visualization of Earth, and more recently the sky, by offering up free imagery to the public with Google Earth and Google Maps. The data Google is giving away for free is simply breathtaking -- it's hard to believe we never had access to it as recent...

Tags: Google Inc., Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-04-30

IT failure at Heathrow T5: What really happened

Anyone having the misfortune to pass recently through Heathrow's new Terminal 5 knows the huge project debuted as a case study in full-blown systems failure. Most reports have focused on stranded customers, a crazed supermodel, and Queen Elizabeth's grand opening speech, which called the terminal "a 21st Century gateway to...

Tags: Software, CIO, Baggage, British Airways Plc., Information Technology, Problem, Terminal 5, BA, Vanderlande Industries, Vanderlande, Bags, Paul Coby, Airports Authority, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-04-07

News to know: MacBook Air hack; Zoho; Windows Search; Comcast

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases first public test build of Windows Search 4.0 Larry Dignan: MacBook Air falls in two minutes at PWN 2 OWN EIC podcast: Comcast-BitTorrent; Oracle; Facebook and OpenSocial, Adobe Comcast, BitTorrent kiss, make up...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Safari, Comcast Corp., Apple MacBook, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-03-28

This old (green) house

I have a confession to make: I am a preservationist. I'm nuts about old houses with stories to tell and atmosphere to spare, a passion that may seem at odds with my green leanings. Give me Newport, Rhode Island, with its Anglo-estate-envy or Cape May, with her...

Tags: Fact, Green, Channel Management, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-01-13

Facebook: The canary in the social networking coal mine

Facebook: The canary in the social networking coal minethat's a much better articleand constructive.Thank you.Microsoft's pre-emptive investment strike of $240M becoming a jokeagain! Only way to compete against Google is to just think like Google without the as much as consumer-data hordingRE: Facebook: The canary in the social networking coal...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., America Online Inc., Facebook, social networking coal, canary, advertisement, social networking

Discussion threads 2007-12-02

Geothermal: a warm feeling for the holiday

Current energy prices have given a boost to a long-used but often marginal form of energy: hot water. Specifically, hot water beneath the earth's surface. Geothermal. And several countries are moving to take advantage of whatever geothermal energy they may have. Leader in the...

Tags: Energy, Calpine, Government, Vertical Industries, Leadership, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-11-22

Hey, city kid, the "Farm Bill" is about your food bill, and your body

Corporations spend much more on energy than they do on pizza and free popcorn for the company kitchens. But you and I probably spend several time smore on food than we do energy. Food, where it comes from, what's in or on it, and how we consume it...

Tags: Food, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Are you willing to pay more for a green tech supplier?

How much does a particular supplier’s green profile affect your decision to sign on the dotted line? I will answer this question personally and say that up until now, not much. I couldn’t tell you, for example, where it’s really best to buy your gasoline. (Because,...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Rackspace, Green Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-10-11

Envision a solar parking lot: cool, clean and green

Solar Trees. Solar Groves. The value of shade in the future economy. Bio-mimicry. My little brain was racing to absorb all the solar heat coming through the phone. I spent nearly an hour talking with Robert Noble. Trained as an architect, he's...

Tags: Acre, Kyocera Wireless Corp., Tree, Plug-in, Robert Noble, Envision, NREL, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-07

Vietnam Memorial site defaced with Turkish messages

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial website was vandalized by a hacker promoting Turkish nationalism, who posted a video and message against the United States and Israel, The Washington Post reports. Users of the site who searched for U.S. casualties by date were sent to an all-red Web page adorned with...

Tags: Message, Corporate Communications, Wiki, Federal Government, Search, Marketing, Online Communications, Government, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-20

New Net taxes could arrive in November

New Net taxes could arrive in NovemberPaying More For Crappy SpeedsLook at Europe, where 10MB connection speeds are a joke....But as usual, we'll shell out the taxes and not protest at all...after all, our taxes are going towards winning the war in Iraq, not towards securing our borders and advancing...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Strategy, New Net tax, tax, government

Discussion threads 2007-09-14