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- Smart trash can from BigBelly knows when to say 'uncle'
- No more, please. Although smart trash receptacles from BigBelly Solar can handle five times the trash as the average street garbage can, compressing deposited waste through solar power, there's a point at which enough is enough. That's when a new wireless software monitoring system from Symphony Services...
- Tags: Software, Trash, Solar Energy, Portland, Messaging, BigBelly Solar, Tools & Techniques, Supply Chain, Instant Messaging, Telecom & Utilities, Management, Business Operations, Internet, Online Communications, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- LinuxCon will not be a trade show
- The Linux Foundation has learned how to put together all-day and multi-day events for a few hundred people in an auditorium. Zemlin is planning next year's LinuxCon based on an attendance of near 1,000. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Event, Portland, LinuxCon, Zemlin, Open Source Business Conference, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Do we need a LinuxCon?
- The foundation's Executive Director, Jim Zemlin, said this is being done in response to demand, and that the event will include a trade show along with conference and workshops. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Portland, Conference, Linux Foundation, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- OSCON outgrows Portland
- After six years of bringing 2,000 people each summer to the Oregon Conference Center in Portland, O'Reilly is moving the show to the Bay Area for next year. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: LinuxWorld, Portland, OSCON, Linux, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- IT catfight in Portland, OR
- Portland, Oregon's late and over-budget ERP implementation has become a battleground between city officials and system integrator Ariston Consulting & Technologies. As the failing project's budget ballooned from $31 million to $49.45 million, finger-pointing and mutual blame have obscured faults on both sides. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: City, Financial, Information Technology, Portland, SAP AG, Financial Accounting, Finance, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- My friend Russell Shaw
- I need to say a few words about my late friend Russell Shaw. I knew him better than anyone at ZDNet, perhaps, because I knew him longer. Over 22 years. When I first met Russell, he was still coming down off rock and roll. Few from...
- Tags: Life, Portland, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Pics: once was a CompUSA, now a big empty box
- It's now bare-to-the-walls time for CompUSA. Gizmodo has a couple of shots of a Portland, Oregon CompUSA, stripped clean. To think I used to visit there fairly often. Here's another shot: ...
- Tags: Portland, Gizmodo, CompUSA Inc., Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- We live in the conversation age and not the thinking age
- Internet 1.0 was about the information age, now with Internet 2.0, we live in the conversation age. Conversation overload is our new malady, in the same way information overload tortured us ten years ago. Now we have both. Our communications technologies and numerous platforms...
- Tags: Conversation, Portland, Site, Serendipity, Entrepreneurship, Internet, E-mail, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Online Communications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- T-Mobile BlackBerry email slow, users say
- I realize that while my hometown of Portland, Oregon is not the center of the universe, we have some quite digitally aware folks. One of them, Alex Williams, has just Twittered that he's just spoken to T-Mobile, and yes, there are some BlackBerry...
- Tags: Portland, T-Mobile, E-mail, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- Portland & Oregon Traffic 1 (Windows)
- View cameras from all over Portland and the state of Oregon with Portland & Oregon Traffic. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Portland, Oregon, Jeffrey R. Kelly, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2007-06-05
- City Boosts Information Access, Productivity, With Document Management Software
- The City of Sherwood, Oregon, located 20 miles southwest of Portland, is one of the fastest-growing cities in the state. The city needed a more efficient way to store documents. They needed a flexible, cost-effective, and highly usable way to store documents online. They didn't want to go through the...
- Tags: City, Microsoft Access, Portland, Oregon, Microsoft Corp., Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Office Suites, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-03-01
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- Microsoft makes available new high performance Windows Server test build
- Microsoft made available on November 16 a code-complete beta of Windows HPC High Performance Computing Server 2008 R2 to selected testers. The company made the announcement at the Supercomputing 2009 show in Portland, Oreg. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Leadership, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- Cray's Jaguar tops IBM's Roadrunner for fastest supercomputer
- The Cray XT5 supercomputer known as "Jaguar" has finally clawed its way to the title of fastest computer in the world. The Cray XT5 supercomputer known as "Jaguar" has finally clawed its way to the title of fastest computer in the world. Sitting back at No....
- Tags: Cray Inc., IBM Corp., Jaguar, supercomputer, IBM, Cray, Erica Ogg CNET News
- News items 2009-11-16
- Brickbats over bricks
- This is an IT Tech site, Mr. Fuller.ntCodes as gatekeepers?As an architect, I have never once consulted a building code to determine which product I should use for a building, especially considering that neither clay brick or fly ash brick is likely to be used in a structural capacity. ...
- Tags: Performance management, CalStar
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- iPhone: "Just works" (70% of the time)
- Based on my experience...nonsense talk. I have indeed have had dropped calls, so I won't say that AT&Ts perfect or even great, but very, very few. Maybe ten in the ten months since I've been with AT&T, and some of those were because of bad signal, as opposed...
- Tags: Smart phones, Apple iPhone, phone
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- Torvalds calls Linux "bloated" and "scary." Is he right? [poll]
- Has Linux become a victim of its own success? At the LinuxCon conference in Portland this week, Linux creator Linus Torvalds dropped a bit of a bomb when he said that the open-source kernel had not become the "streamlined, hyper-efficient kernel I envisioned when I started writing...
- Tags: Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Comcast's Burke: TV Everywhere trials going national in 30 to 60 days
- Comcast has built a TV Everywhere site that's "complicated technically," but will roll out nationally as a pilot in the next 30 to 60 days, said Stephen Burke, chief operating officer of the cable giant. Burke, speaking at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2009 Media, Communications...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., TV, Cable, WiMAX, Network Technology, Wireless And Mobility, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- 2010 Ford Flex SEL with EcoBoost
- Photo gallery:2010 Ford Flex SEL with EcoBoostAlthough the crossover is a new automotive segment, automakers churned out enough boring designs to make it as homogeneous as the economy car segment. Smartly, Ford spun its own crossover with retro elements to give it a unique look, making it stand out yet...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Monitors & displays, Digital music, Ford Motor Co., Ford Flex SEL, crossover
- Product reviews 2009-09-02
- The iPhone Telephony Tragedy
- Instant reaction ...... Apple and ATT ... two of the biggest global companies. Products and service in the 21st century? Crap :-(Obsolescence is the rule This does not excuse ATT's bad network, but anybody, buying any digital product should know that it will be surpassed in months, and obsolete within...
- Tags: Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, Obsolescence, Apple iPhone, iPhone Telephony tragedy, iPhone Telephony, phone, tragedy, AT&T Corp., telephony
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Samsung Mondi SWD-M100
- Editors' note: The Samsung Mondi is designed for Clearwire's WiMax markets. At the time of this writing, service is limited to Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Portland, Ore. Customers also can access Sprint's WiMax network in Baltimore. WiMax is not yet available in the San Francisco Bay Area, so our review...
- Tags: Keyboards, Mobile operating systems, WiMAX, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Handhelds, Mobile applications, Wireless and Mobility, battery cover, Samsung Mondi, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Product reviews 2009-08-13
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