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KQED Radio Gadget 1.0.0.4 (Windows)

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: Northern California, Kamal Singh, KQED, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, 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 1 (Mac)

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

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

Software downloads 2007-03-25

Additional Resources

ImageSpan and Digimarc partner for new image management venture

ImageSpan and Digimarc are announcing plans to form a joint venture dedicated to creating a program for managing and monetizing image assets at the 6Sight 2009 Conference. ImageSpan has been been making a lot of friends lately, announcing a partnership with liveBooks a few months ago. Under this...

Tags: Image Management, Image, Digimarc Corp., ImageSpan, Business Structures, Finance, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-11-11

Facebook beats the 'spam king'

Facebook won a $711 million judgegment against "spam king" Sanford Wallace for violating the Can-Spam Act, which bans "false and misleading" marketing emails. Facebook was awarded $711m in a judgement on Thursday against self-described 'spam king' Sanford Wallace. Judge Jeremy Fogel of the US District Court...

Tags: Facebook, Marketing Research, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, spam, Sanford Wallace, Steven Musil CNET News

News items 2009-10-30

Report: Skype founders sue eBay; could complicate Skype sale

eBay's $2 billion sale of Skype to a group of investors could be complicated by a lawsuit filed by a company owned by Skype's founders. According to a Wall Street Journal report, a company named Joltid, which is owned by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, filed suit in...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Joltid, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-16

AT&T customers speak out over poor service

RE: AT&T customers speak out over poor serviceAll that is AT&T is EVIL & bad! Did anyone really expect different with the pretty looking iPhone? - Sierra Night TideAT&T/iPhone in AtlantaI have been out to northern California and my iPhone and the other AT&T phones in my family are just...

Tags: Smart phones, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, ATT, AT&T Corp., poor service, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Google Books privacy debate: Whose side are you on?

I was listening to NPR yesterday, and one story lingered with me throughout the day. So, I figured I'd take it to the blogs and see what you all have to say about the matter. Here's the deal: Some authors have mixed feelings...

Tags: Google Inc., Privacy, Security, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-08-13

Intel Summer Tech Day (or "Why couldn't I live in California?")

Despite our non-stop rain this summer, long winters, crippling ice storms, and plagues of mosquitoes and black flies, I really love New England. The people are pragmatic and would give you the shirts off their back at least once they get to know you and here in Massachusetts, clam...

Tags: Intel Classmate PC, PC, Intel Corp., Tablets, Desktops, Public Relations, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-04

The Movers & Shakers Conference...

I tend to think of Fortune Brainstorm Tech, which happened last week in Pasadena, as a conference for industry titans. Last year's event was held amid tight security and featured the likes of Rupert Murdoch News International , Philippe Daulman Viacom and Jeff Bezos Amazon in...

Tags: Conversation, Conference, Twitter, Business Structures, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Intellectual Property, Strategy, Finance, Marketing, Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Groups demand privacy for Google Books

A coalition of privacy and civil liberties groups are saying that Google Books could become "one-stop shopping" for law enforcement to track people's reading habits. The ACLU of Northern California, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Samuelson law clinic at UC Berkeley sent a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt...

Tags: Google Inc., Privacy, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-24

Silicon Valley's recession rebound: Optimism or Arrogance?

The latest unemployment figures are in for Santa Clara County, California - aka Silicon Valley - and it doesn't look good: 11.8 percent in the county is among the highest in the entire San Francisco Bay Area region. Still, reporting from the front lines here, I can...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Optimism, Wired Inc., Recession, Arrogance, Unemployment Figure, Recruitment & Selection, Productivity, Smart Phones, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-21

Psystar files for Chapter 11 (download petition); Blames economy, suppliers not Apple legal spat

  Updated: Psystar, the unauthorized Mac clone maker, battling Apple in a California courtroom has filed for Chapter 11.  The news, reported first by the Mac Observer from what I can tell, isn't that surprising. Psystar was under financial strain from trying to battle...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Financial, Petition, Courtroom, Creditor, Supplier, Apple Inc., Bankruptcy, Psystar, Debtor, Calls, Litigation, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-26

San Francisco Screensaver 1.0 (Windows)

This free screensaver contains many pictures of San Francisco. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 13th most populous city in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183. The second most densely populated major city in the...

Tags: City, San Francisco, CityScreensaver, Transportation, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-04-09

Don't even imagine the oil age is over

Don't even imagine the oil age is overSo lets just keep poluting our own environment?Oh sure we can try to drill for oil out at sea, but we still can't ship this stuff around without spilling it, and there are people that want to punch a hole in the ocean...

Tags: oil, barrel

Discussion threads 2009-04-03

2009 Dodge Avenger SXT

Photo gallery:2009 Dodge Avenger SXTDodge's midsize sedan competitor, the 2009 Avenger, has a surprising set of features to recommend it, most notably cabin conveniences you don't expect to find on a model starting in the low 20s. A stone-age transmission is what really keeps it from being an effective Camry...

Tags: Dodge Avenger, Dodge Avenger SXT, car

Product reviews 2009-03-16

Cloud Bursts as Coghead Calls It Quits

It's been a stormy week in Northern California with torrential rain and power cables downed. People used to flicking a switch and getting electric power have been deprived of that utility. Coghead, a web-based service for building and hosting custom online database applications...

Tags: Web, Intuit Inc., Customer, Coghead, Caspio, Software As A Service (SaaS), Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Operational Planning, Managed Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Business Operations, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-02-19

2009 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible

Photo gallery:2009 Chevrolet Corvette ConvertibleWe called it Big Blue when it came into our garage: the 2009 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible, the latest example of a strong pedigreed line of American sports car. Chevrolet has been pushing the Corvette model line, coming out with the Z06 version, and more recently the...

Tags: Chevrolet Corvette, Chevrolet

Product reviews 2009-02-02

Patent wars: RealNetworks wins; Global Crossing pays up

RealNetworks defeated a patent infringement suit that was trying to come back from the dead. Meanwhile, Global Crossing licensed a portfolio of call center patents from Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, an outfit that collects dough from a who's who of corporate America. First, RealNetworks said on...

Tags: Patent, Global Crossing Ltd., RealNetworks Inc., Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, Katz, Ronald Katz, RAKTL, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-13

Westward III (Windows)

Steer the fortunes of three pioneers as they build and defend their ever-growing settlement in WestwardR 3, the latest chapter in the popular series of adventure games. When gold is discovered in the Northern California wilderness, speculators flock west in hopes of striking it rich. Navigate uncharted terrain rich in...

Tags: Settlement, Microsoft Windows, Sandlot Games, Litigation, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-01-11