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2009 Mercury Mariner Hybrid

Photo gallery:2009 Mercury Mariner HybridDespite an update between the 2007 and the 2008 models, Ford upgrades the 2009 Mercury Mariner Hybrid, giving it a big improvement over the 2008 Mariner Hybrid. Part of this update has to do with the advent of Sync and Sirius Travel Link, two technologies Ford...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Mariner Hybrid, Mercury Mariner Hybrid, Mercury Mariner, freeway, Mercury, navigation system, road construction

Product reviews 2008-11-06

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2010 Acura RDX

Photo gallery:2010 Acura RDXAs we raced the 2010 Acura RDX along winding mountain roads, feeling out corners carefully so as not to send this small SUV tumbling, we wished the turbocharged engine and all-wheel-drive system were in a completely different car. Throw this running gear into a small coupe, ditch...

Tags: power train, RDX, Acura, turbo, car, Acura RDX

Product reviews 2009-10-23

Garmin Nuvifone G60 (AT&T)

Photo gallery:Garmin Nuvifone G60If you've been following the story of the Garmin Nuvifone at all, you know it hasn't been the smoothest of rides. After being announced in January 2008, the launch of Garmin's first smartphone was delayed time and time again, and we had all but given up on...

Tags: Handhelds, GPS, Smart phones, Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., display, Garmin Ltd., Garmin nuvifone, Garmin Nuvifone G60, Nuvifone G60, smart phone

Product reviews 2009-10-09

Interesting things I've been briefed on lately...

NetSuite, CA, iTrade Network, Meridian Project Systems, UC4, Project Open,.... NetSuite has some new financial consolidation/planning functionality in their SaaS solution. It permits global firms to handle currency conversion. Adaptive Planning’s software is at the core of this solution. This technology does not currently use...

Tags: Food, Open Source, Information Technology, NetSuite Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., iTrade Network, Meridian Project Systems, UC4, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-15

Which clunkers for which new cars?

I like the Cash for Clunkers program1. It will reduce tail pipe emissions. By a very small amount, but a reduction all the same. The new cars are cleaner.2. It will reduce the amount of oil consumed for transportation. Again, by a minuscule amount, but a reduction none the less.3....

Tags: Cash-for-Clunkers, new car, car, clunker

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

INRIX Traffic for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

With INRIX Traffic for iPhone everyone in the network benefits from accurate, up-to-the-minute traffic information on freeways and highways across U.S. and Canada. INRIX Traffic for iPhone features real-time traffic flow maps on over 160,000 miles of roadways, unique predictive traffic shows how traffic will change over the next hour,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Traffic, Inrix, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-07

2009 Mercedes-Benz S550

Photo gallery:2009 Mercedes-Benz S550When Mercedes-Benz launched the model update for the 2007 S550, it created a car with cutting-edge technical features, including radar-based cruise control that could bring the car to a full stop and a night vision system. But major updates like this usually take five years in the...

Tags: V-8, Mercedes-Benz S550, Mercedes-Benz, car

Product reviews 2009-06-16

DIOLKOS 6.5 (Windows)

DIOLKOS Software is a state-of-the-art road design and construction software. Its design capabilities are not limited to road projects but it can be used in any type of corridor facilities as well (railways, airfield runways, and channels). Integrate the plan, profile & cross sections design into a 3D model of...

Tags: Road, Microsoft Windows, Graphics, K & P Kouknakos, DIOLKOS Software

Software downloads 2009-05-27

Comprehensive Project Monitoring on the Reconstruction of an Azeri Highway

In 2006, the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan set out to reconstruct the country's road infrastructure, on which the Azeri economy is highly dependent. One of the largest reconstruction projects involved the highway from Baku to the Russian Federation border, between kilometers 6 and 191. The objective was to...

Tags: Monitoring, SGS, Team Management, Quality, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Investment, Management, Business Operations, Finance

Case studies 2009-05-25

Technological transmogrification: the evolution of language

Technology is an ever-growing and developing social construction - from the Archimedes screw to the Blu-ray disk. Not only with technology, our language has evolved to a point where entirely new dialects and words have been plucked out of nowhere and thrust into everyday life; unlike Icelandic which is one...

Tags: Word, Virus, Meat Product, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Spam, Security, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Spam And Phishing, Hardware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-23

Gallery: Dell Vostro A90 unboxing

Gallery: Dell Vostro A90 unboxingI'm loving mine.I got mine about 3 weeks ago. I upgraded to a RunCore 32 GB SSD and 2 GB RAM. I installed Win 7 RC and Office 2007. Works like a champ. My 10 yr old son loves it also. Its just the right size...

Tags: Operating systems, High Demand, Dell Computer Corp., Dell Vostro A90 unboxing, Dell Vostro A90, unboxing, Dell Vostro, Gallery

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

Cobra BT 200 Heavy Duty Handset with Bluetooth Wireless Technology

The Cobra BT 200 is a heavy-duty Bluetooth handset that features a fairly limited list of features. It makes calls, and that's about it. During our time with the BT 200, we encountered a few inconveniences, such no automatic contact-list importing and an unintuitive interface for advanced features like inputting...

Tags: Cellular phones, handset, Bluetooth, BT 200, British Telecommunications, PTT

Product reviews 2009-05-01

HTC Touch Cruise (unlocked)

Navigation capabilities on smartphones are becoming an increasingly popular feature, and it's almost gotten to the point where a handset is scoffed at if it doesn't include GPS. Well, HTC is taking the concept to another level with its HTC Touch Cruise series by shipping the smartphone with full navigation...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Cellular phones, GPS, High Tech Computer Corp., Touch Cruise, HTC Touch Cruise, HTC Touch, smart phone

Product reviews 2009-04-29

Speed Cameras Give No License To Kill

Speed Cameras Give No License To KillDont break the law... and you wont get a ticketDont break the law and you dont have to worry...People running red lights way into the other green... people driving down the freeway at 80 miles a hour talking on the cell phone.. they...

Tags: camera, Speed Cameras, photograph

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

Cobra XRS 9960G Digital Radar and Laser Detector

Cobra takes the concept of a radar detector to a new level with the addition of GPS technology in the Cobra XRS 9960G. With this new feature, the radar detector not only alerts you to electronic surveillance, but gives warnings about red light cameras, speed traps, and hazardous driving areas...

Tags: Aerospace & Defense, radar, COBRA, XRS 9960G, radar detector, Cobra XRS 9960G, laser, camera

Product reviews 2009-04-17

Wind dying down...for the nonce

Not surprisingly the once-booming wind industry is feeling the effects of the global economic dive. Nothing wrong with the world's supply of wind, but there is a shortage of CapEx money and capital of all kinds. Emerging Energy Research EER concludes there'll be major declines in wind energy...

Tags: Wind Energy, Emerging Energy Research, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Salesforce's unspoken build and buy strategy

At this week's Cloudforce I was keen to understand what is happening on the Force.com platform. Narinder Singh,  Appirio's marketing strategist came on stage to talk about how they used the Force.com platform to set up MyStarbucksidea.com. This is an example of a situational application, built and designed for a...

Tags: Strategy, Salesforce.com Inc., Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Software in the Obama world

Is it time for a changing of the software guard? A lot of material has crossed my desk lately regarding software sales in the Obama, crisis-cleanup world. There is some interesting material here and two vendors stand out in the midst. First, let’s discuss...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, OpenAir Inc., Entity, PBO, Government Contractor, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Project Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Obama

ObamaIt's Just The Same BS in a Different Format!If you really believe what "Scary Barry" says here, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you! Or would you prefer Florida under-water land?Re Obama and SDISome of the Road Construction money should have been put into constructing an SDI...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Obama, transparency

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

Dell I15-157B

Editors' note: This review is part of our Winter 2009 Retail Roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores. Dell's middle-of-the-road 15-inch Inspiron laptops have long been an excellent go-to choice for basic computing, especially if you take the time to configure a system...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Dell Computer Corp., Dell Inspiron, Intel Core 2 Duo, laptop computer

Product reviews 2009-01-29