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- Canadian organization enables peer-to-peer carbon comparisons
- Waste of time.Global warming is a lie anyway.People who really want to believe that - against all science - should not burden others.Where are your facts to support otherwise?I would like to see your proof that Global Warming is NOT occurring.Here you go. My pleasure.My challenge to you: watch this...
- Tags: Corporate communications, P2P, global warming, video
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Software that automatically fixes itself, without shutting down
- Invariant DetectionThis is supposing that the software is simple enough to determine invariants and not block valid code paths that are infrequently used. It sounds a lot like applying design by contract after the fact.Software That Fixes Itself?The headline implies an application that fixes itself. The article describes and...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, invariant, software, Clearview, erroneous execution
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Forrester Strategies for Assessing IT Business Satisfaction
- If you aren't assessing customer satisfaction you are overlooking a potential goldmine. This valuable data is crucial to creating a successful IT strategy. But where do you start? This new Forrester Research white paper explores the importance of assessing IT business satisfaction. It includes best practices...
- Tags: Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., Business Satisfaction, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2009-10-29
- Carbon nanotubes: Great for agriculture, but for humans?
- CNTs in agricultureChrisre: research into whether CNTs are safe for humans if ingested or used to improve seed strike or anywhere else in ag. You are correct about the potential risks, but as I read their paper, the researchers who found their tomatoes had improved propagation with CNTs are...
- Tags: Nanotechnology, carbon nanotube, nanotube, CNT
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Stunningly poor quality predictions about the future Internet from Google's CEO
- Sounds nitpickyI don't think Mr. Schmidt had time to include all types of disclaimers or footnotes to his predictions, it wasn't a research paper as far as I know. I can apply the same type of nitpicking to your writing.For example, citing "teenagers" is simply a easy way to describe...
- Tags: INTERNET, poor quality prediction, quality prediction, future internet, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- ZDNet readers don't care about celebrity endorsements
- I agree with the poll. I'm not buying a new camera because Ashton Kutcher is pimping one out, or because Justin Timberlake is doing it in his commercials. I'll buy one based on the features I need. I'd rather see the commercials prop up the features rather than the celebrity.Oh...
- Tags: camera, celebrity endorsement, advertisement, ZDNet-reader
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Global warming promises more hunger, more innovation
- Hopefully not a repeatThe idea of GM foods is found most abhorrent in the nations with some of the worst food problems? Also, did anyone notice that the FPRI report indicates that more than 50% of the world's agricultural green house emissions are generated by the primitive natural agriculture...
- Tags: global warming, climate change, food
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Google challenges e-readers by taking e-books directly to browser
- Kindle Format?Did they also say how they propose to display Kindle's proprietary format in your browser?Oh myDunraven, go get a good strong cup of coffee, drink it down, and read the article again. You just aren't awake yet.This is cool!NTRE: Google challenges e-readers by taking e-books directly to browserAnyone...
- Tags: Web browsers, E-books, e-reader, Web browser, Google Inc., e-book
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- How much can UPS efficiency save you? Eaton has some answers.
- I am growing increasingly fascinated by power distribution and regulating equipment. I know, sick admission. Eaton, one of the big uninterruptible power supply UPS and power distribution equipment vendors, is starting to talk up its new Energy Saver System as a tool that data center operators can...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Power Supply, Uninterruptible Power Supply, Eaton, NetRiver, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Managed Print Services and Beyond:How You Can Cut Costs and Go Green While Increasing Employee Productivity
- Did you know that print costs typically consume 3% of total revenue for businesses today? For many organizations, this is nearly equivalent to the amount spent on research and development each year. According to the Photizo Group, a recognized thought leader in print services management, hardcopy costs are the last...
- Tags: Cost, Ricoh Corp., Employee Productivity, Printing, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2009-10-08
- Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager
- There's been a good flow of conversation around the role of 'community management' in large companies recently, with an underlying idea that although it's a tough job things will work out if the right people are involved, although Dennis Howlett recognises the danger of burn out....
- Tags: Exec, Community Manager, Underling, Underlings, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-03
- Reducing the Complexity of Sub-Band ADPCM Coding to Enable High-Quality Audio Streaming From Mobile Devices
- The number of consumer audio applications demanding high quality audio compression and communication across wireless networks continues to grow. Although the consumer is increasingly demanding higher audio quality, devices such as portable media players and wireless headsets also demand low computational complexity, low power dissipation and practical transmission bit-rates to...
- Tags: Complexity, Mobile, Mobile Device, APTX, Media Players, Wi-Fi, Digital Music, Wireless And Mobility, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2009-09-29
- Idea Rover 4.10 (Windows)
- Idea Rover absorbs and crystallizes your ideas and sources into outline-structured notes, releasing your brain from monotonous switching and searching work. Drag-and-drop your files and sources and get a starting place, calmness, and time for writing your research paper, and dissertation. The program allows you to retrieve relevant and outline-structured...
- Tags: Idea, Reticent Software, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-09-25
- Why I Can Never Be Exclusive to Linux and Open Source on the Desktop
- It uses WINEBut I've noticed a number of performance issues and stability problems with it.ActuallyAs far as I've ever able to tell there's no practical difference between Picasa on Windows and Linux. StevenActually, it uses WineLib, so that it is more like a native application.But there are still all the...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, open source, desktop, Linux, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-09-20
- California screenin': Majority of residents oppose big-screen TV ban
- Regulate power, not sizeThey should be regulating the power consumption of TVs, not necessarily their size. Force the companies to make big screen TVs less power hungry and more efficient. Not flat out ban them.TVs should strive to be Energy Star compliant because I'm sure many of them...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, big-screen TV
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- DEVONthink Pro 2.0pb7 (Mac)
- In today's world, everything is digital. From shopping receipts to important research papers, your life often fills your hard drive in the form of emails, PDFs, Word documents, multimedia files and more. Questions eventually pop up, like where do you store all of this stuff? How do you organize these...
- Tags: Multimedia, Apple Macintosh, DEVONthink, DEVONthink Professional Office, E-mail, Microsoft Word, Online Communications, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2009-09-15
- DEVONthink Pro Office 2.0pb7 (Mac)
- In today's world, everything is digital. From shopping receipts to important research papers, your life often fills your hard drive in the form of emails, PDFs, Word documents, multimedia files and more. Questions eventually pop up, like where do you store all of this stuff? How do you organize these...
- Tags: Multimedia, Apple Macintosh, DEVONthink, DEVONthink Professional Office, E-mail, Microsoft Word, Online Communications, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2009-09-15
- Clipboard Printer 2.0 (Windows)
- Clipboard Printer is an expansion of the UNIX GUI utility called 'xclipboard' that allows users an quick and easy way of printing, managing, and saving to disk, multiple clipboards. Often times when harvesting data on the web from various resources, most web browsers provide functionality for printing pages in their...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Printing, Niagara Software, Clipboard Printer, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Software downloads 2009-09-13
- An electrical circuit that runs entirely off power in trees
- You've probably already heard of the idea of harvesting electricity from body heat to power small devices, such as those in the far-flung idea of a body area network. Now, a similar idea has been applied to trees. There's enough power in trees for University of Washington researchers to run...
- Tags: Tree, Team Management, Management, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- QuiX New (Mobile)
- Mobile Questionnaire Management System The QuiX questionnaire management system is based on the MobiAccess tmframework. Using QuiX significantly reduces information gathering and evaluation turnaround time. Electronic data recording ensures quick and error free data entry that results in more efficient survey processing compared to paper based methods. Mobile questionnaire management...
- Tags: Mobile, Survey, QuiX, Marketing Research, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-09-08
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