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KQED Radio Gadget (gg)

KQED provides the people of Northern California with consistently high-quality, noncommercial media that inform, educate and entertain. This KQED Radio Gadget let you listen live KQED Radio shows and see upcoming shows. Visit www.kqed.org shows details. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Radio, Northern California, KQED, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-10-11

Photos: Solar festival as green as it gets

Alternative energy and culture were on display last weekend at an off-the-grid learning center in Northern California.Madison Avenue advertisers and Silicon Valley venture capitalists may be pushing all things green into the mainstream these days, yet the countercultural roots of the sustainable-living movement are alive and thriving. More than 10,000...

Tags: photograph, SolFest, Solar Living Institute, dome, alternative energy, photovoltaics, hydrogen, dump, Santa Cruz, wall, greenhouse, tent, automated teller machine, homeowner, Northern California, nonprofit, technique, festival, pump, showcase, pyramid, California, Sharp Corp.

Image galleries 2007-08-23

Eichler Screensaver ("Eichler)

Eichler Screensaver allows your to dispay apartments in Northern California on your desktop.

Tags: Apartment, Northern California, Chezgreene, Eichler Screensaver, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-03-25

Additional Resources

TRO hearing today on RealDVD

Federal Judge Marilyn Patel will hear arguments today on whether Real should be temporarily restrained from selling its RealDVD copying software. The software has been unavailable since Friday, when the Hollywood studios won an emergency halt on sales, a move that Real claims caused them "irreparable harm." ...

Tags: DVD, RealDVD, Real, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-07

RealDVD sales suspended, case moves north

A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order against Real, suspending sales of RealDVD, NewTeeVee.com reported over the weekend. Hollywood studios had sought the injunction as part of a suit against Real's DVD copying software. The RealDVD website now says the product is "currently unavailable." ...

Tags: Movie, Sales Strategy, DVD, Sales Force Management, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Truevert stands on Yahoo!'s shoulders; learning to search for Green issues

Joining the growing band of search solutions built on top of Yahoo's Build Your Own Search Search Service BOSS initiative, Truevert seeks to apply semantics in providing a particular slant on searches across Yahoo!'s index. Topically, Truevert "is focused on green, environmental...

Tags: Taxonomy, Yahoo! Inc., Ontology, Search Result, Truevert, Search, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-06

California Governor Urges Silicon Valley Companies to go to Germany for Cebit

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was in Silicon Valley Thursday morning at Intel's HQ to make an announcement about California's partnership with the giant Cebit trade show in Hannover, Germany. California is offering its high tech companies money to attend the show in early March 2009. Here is...

Tags: Germany, California, CeBit, Governor, Business Structures, Corporate Communications, Finance, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Schwarzenegger terminates new data breach bill (again)

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed data breach notification legislation for the second time in the last year. The bill, dubbed the Consumer Data Protection Act, would have required retailers that take card transactions to disclose more detail about any data breach. Schwarzenegger's veto comes after the...

Tags: Bill, Payment, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Agency, Schwarzenegger, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Texting? Pull Over ...

So, it looks official. The train engineer who never slowed down before ramming his commuter train into a freight train in California was indeed sending text messages right up to the time of the crash. That's bad enough. Twenty-five people died and 135 were injured in the...

Tags: Train, California, U.K., Wreck, Bicyclists, Advertising & Promotion, Food & Beverage, Marketing, Manufacturing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Pirates plunder Adobe Creative Suite 4

Pirates plunder Adobe Creative Suite 4That's how they're the "de-facto" standard.Just like Microsoft would be screwed without pirated copies of Windows floating around street corners across the globe.Without pirated copies of Photoshop, it would have a truly limited market. Look at the bloody price of it to figure out...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., graphics, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Creative Suite 4, Adobe PhotoShop, piracy

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platform. Techmeme A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve? Zack Whittaker:...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Robots, Linux, E-mail, Digital Media, Financial Services, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-10-02

California governor: Silicon Valley Should Go to Germany

After more than a hundred years of talk about the Pacific Rim economic opportunities for California, Silicon Valley and other California businesses are firmly focused on the west rather than the east. But Thursday morning California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be at Intel's HQ in the heart of Silicon Valley...

Tags: California, CeBit, Transportation, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Management, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-01

RealDVD officially launches, so does lawsuit

RealDVD officially launches, so does lawsuitThis is stupid. I already do this with AnyDVD and mymovies.Its essentially built into my movies if you pay for the anydvd software. On top of that.. you can also rip HD and Blueray.The only thing you cant do directly is burn the...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Standing Up, RealDVD, DVD, lawsuit

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

RealDVD officially launches, so do lawsuits; Is it 'StealDVD'?

Update: RealNetworks announced Tuesday that its RealDVD software, which allows you to rip and burn DVDs easily, officially launched. And the lawsuits weren't far behind. In a statement Techmeme, RealNetworks billed RealDVD as a "watershed" product. The software, which goes for $29.99 on sale, allows you to...

Tags: Lawsuit, Movie, RealNetworks Inc., RealDVD, RealDVD Software, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Economic meltdown: the insanity of disagreement

Economic meltdown: the insanity of disagreementI agree with your points and your questions...Way too many "loopholes" and bad decisions have been put into this bailout bill. Not the least of which is absolutely no accountability.To use Mr. Krigman's IT project analogy it would be like seeing that poor decisions...

Tags: Taxes, Team management, Leadership, Free trade, Financial services, Economic Meltdown, insanity, disagreement

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

CA Dems: Scrutiny of Yahoo-Google deal threatens competition

Seeing as how Google and Yahoo are both California companies, California House members have taken it upon themselves to tell the Dept. of Justice to butt out of the advertising swap between the two Internet honchos. In a letter of Attorney General Michael Mukasey, the Democratic reps said: ...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Agreement, Computer Associates International Inc., D, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Why yes, I can do longitudinal data analysis

Why yes, I can do longitudinal data analysisStatistics@Oh, good, someone who actually knows the word "longitudinal" looking at these issues!I always get annoyed at news reports reporting school progress/failure, because it's always clear that the reporter, at least, and probably the school, have no idea how to approach analyzing performance...

Tags: data analysis

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

New nanotechnology to speed up computers

University of California at Santa Barbara UCSB researchers have developed new nanoscale structures that will help to speed up computers. This research project was funded by IBM, Intel and other partners including the U.S. National Science Foundation. This new manufacturing process is called block co-polymer lithography or BCP. The scientists...

Tags: Pattern, Salad, Lithography, Computer, BCP, Semiconductors, Nanotechnology, Productivity, Manufacturing, Hardware, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-09-29

The productivity dilemma

Jennifer Leggio asked the question 'Did Oracle burst the enterprise 2.0 startup bubble?' in her post here on ZDNet this week. I think Jennifer is absolutely right that inevitably many of the 'enterprise 2.0' experiments will burn off as they attempt to enter the real world business...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Tool, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Rating Booster (zip)

Rating booster is a new program developed by a computer science student at the University of Southern California. It's main aim is to do what none of it's competitors do, and that is Boost your traffic ratings and Video stat ratings. Where Tube increaser falls short, Rating Booster kicks in,...

Tags: Computer Science, Video, Site, MicroAtlantic, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-09-24