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Physical Prototypes Take Too Long to Build: Ventilation System Manufacturer Soler & Palau Needed a Faster Way to Evaluate Design Alternatives: Soler & Palau (S&P) is one of the leading ventilation manufacturers in the world. Competitive challenges forced Soler & Palau to improve product performance and reduce the time needed for bringing new models to market. The company used NX software to model products and production processes electronically and evaluates design...; Tags: Prototype, Siemens AG, Soler & Palau, Team Management, Performance Management, Manufacturing, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management; Case studies 2006-11-01
Petra (zip): Petra Lite is a modeling tool designed to speed up, improve and up-rate analytical and developmental phase of the custom-made application production. Analysts are using Petra Lite tool to gather requirements from submitters and also to simulate a prototype of the user's interface. Petra Lite application user can handle the...; Tags: Prototype, Programming, Modeling, Petra Lite, Research & Development, Productivity, Development Tools, Business Operations, Software Development, Software/Web Development; Software downloads 2006-09-29

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IMHO, PhlatLight LEDs from Luminus are pretty phat: LED screens in notebooks are becoming fairly common, if not standard, not just because of the energy issues but because people are craving smaller, lighter laptops. But what about an LED in your HDTV? Enter Luminus Devices of Billerica, Mass., which has developed an LED chip...; Tags: Home Theater, DLP, Light-emitting Diode, Luminus Technology, Engineering, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-08
An IT productivity horror story: An IT productivity horror storyMiddlemen1, Speculating on your unconfirmed report, is there any love lost between the insurance companies and the independent insurance brokers? Relationships between suppliers and independent brokers tend to change over time. If the companies are after the margins of the brokers, automated communication may be the...; Tags: Financial Planning, IT productivity, information technology, insurance, insurance company; Discussion threads 2008-07-07
Giant rubber snakes to capture wave power?: UK researchers have developed a prototype of a future giant rubber tube which could catch energy from sea waves. The device, dubbed Anaconda, uses 'long sea waves to excite bulge waves which travel along the wall of a submersed rubber tube. These are then converted into flows of water passing...; Tags: Turbine, Environment, U.K., Sea Wave, Anaconda, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-07-06

WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al Gore: WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al GoreApple's Jonathan Ive helped with robot designApparently Apple's lead designer Jonathan Ive helped with the design of the futuristic robot Eve.Fortune magazine:" A call from Stanton to Jobs in 2005 resulted in Johnny Ive, Apple's behind-the-scenes design guru, driving across the San Francisco Bay to...; Tags: Robots, Noah, Wall-E, Stanton, Steve Jobs, Al Gore, Apple Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-06-30
ProxMox: The high-performance virtualization server for the rest of us: What sounds like a cross between a Ferengi mating practice and an OREO cookie clone, but is actually the latest and greatest in Open Source turnkey virtualization servers? It's the ProxMox Virtual Environment, a new open source project that has been flying under the hypervisor radar, but may pose a...; Tags: High-performance, OpenVZ, Server, VMware Inc., Virtual Machine, VM, ProxMox VE, Virtual Machine Setup, Virtualization, Linux, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Storage, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-06-24
(Photos: World's most efficient solar dish?): (Photos: World's most efficient solar dish?)Oh my what will the utility companies have to say about this?I am sure the utility companies will find reasons to downplay or eliminate this concept. Just like they make it financially impossible for the average American to afford to put up windmills for...; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, wind generator, solar dish, dish, photograph, utility company; Discussion threads 2008-06-23
Photos: World's most efficient solar dish?: An MIT project's dish prototype, which is made of inexpensive and easily accessible materials, can rapidly vaporize water--or set a wood plank on fire. by CNET News.com; Tags: Dish, Photograph, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-06-23
Use and abuse your Tablet PC for notetaking: There are two kinds of people out there who get Tablet PC's: 1. The kind of person who likes walking through a busy St. James Park with a Tablet PC on a sunny day, probably with a Bluetooth headset attached, talking to someone about "being very busy...; Tags: PC, Tablet PC, Microsoft Office OneNote, Tablets, Notebooks, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-06-22
Cell phone as desktop computer: Cell phone as desktop computerGood stuffThat is a really good idea and if Microsoft doesn't implement it, someone will like meS. Jobs said something similar not too long agoIn a WSJ interview he said that he thought we'd see most big advances come from "devices" rather than normal computers.The conversation...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Desktops, phone, computer, cell phone, desktop, desktop computer, docking station, keyboard; Discussion threads 2008-06-20
Use an Excel spreadsheet to prototype your reports: Prototyping is a tried and true method for capturing the design details of user interface design. Less-experienced developers sometimes overlook the output requirements of a system when designing it. Report prototyping often reveals holes in the design for input functions and data processing functions. Joe Goss has discovered a very...; Tags: Excel Spreadsheet, Data-processing, Joe Goss, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; Download resources 2008-06-19
Robotic Humvees in the sky?: According to Computerworld, a Colorado-based company has developed a prototype of a 'flying Humvee' robotic aircraft to ship supplies to military troops. This robotic aircraft, dubbed the V-STAR, short for "VTOL Swift Tactical Aerial Resource,' should be operational around 2010. If calling it a 'flying Humvee' is a figure of...; Tags: Aircraft, Computerworld, V-STAR, Aerospace & Defense, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Business Operations, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-06-18
Nanoscale microscope on a chip: New Scientist recently reported that a UK company is developing a microscope on a chip four times more powerful than the best scanning electron microscopes SEMs available today. The best SEMs have a resolution of 0.05 nanometer. This new one, which will be small enough to fit onto a fingertip,...; Tags: Microscope, Electron, Scientist, Chip, Scanning Electron Microscope, NFAB, Microscope Body, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-06-16
Continuous prototyping: Continuous prototypingFavourite "agile" tricksOne of the ideas in web development that holds true in this context is to get the user "building" as much as possible. A lot of the back and forth stuff disappears when the user is psychologically involved in the process - ie, if they actually chose...; Tags: Manufacturing, Continuous Prototyping, Demming, software development; Discussion threads 2008-06-16
News to know: Vista tweaks; Firefox 3; Life streaming for business; Office: Notable headlines: Ed Bott: 10 top tweaks for Windows Vista. Gallery right. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to show off a corporate Facebook-like prototype About those Windows XP 'upgrades' from Vista ... Dennis Howlett: CIO perspective:...; Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-06-12
Microsoft to show off a corporate Facebook-like prototype: Microsoft to show off a corporate Facebook-like prototypeThey heard that social networking was hot hot hotso thought they'd better jump on that bandwagon.Will This Interface With Zune?All those countless tens of people can have an even bigger "social".; Tags: Social networking, Facebook, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-06-11
Microsoft to show off a corporate Facebook-like prototype: Office Labs -- an incubator within Microsoft testing business-focused technologies that may or may not end up part of future Microsoft products -- is showing off this week yet another of its ideas. The latest, known as "TownSquare," is a Facebook-like social-networking tool for business users. by Mary Jo...; Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Corp., Office Labs, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Podcasts, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-06-11
Sharepoint Addons and Mashups Strike it Big in Boston: Sharepoint, RSS and Mashups are going to take center stage this week at the Enterprise 2.0 show in Boston. On the Sharepoint and RSS front.... ....Microsoft and several partners are announcing new social networking, RSS feeds and other Web 2.0 technologies that allow integration with SharePoint...; Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Mashup, TownSquare, RSS, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-06-10
PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer: PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer.... i believe the link is wrongnice article. i think its a fantastic achievement by IBM. but i believe the link you supplied to the best article you found on roadrunner is incorrect as it merely links back to your own blog posting....And it runs..All...; Tags: Processors, OpenCL, Cell, Sony PlayStation 3, processor, PS3 chip powers world, chip, computer; Discussion threads 2008-06-10