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- Rocket plane breaks airspeed record
- Rocket plane breaks airspeed recordNot a "Rocket" planeThe whole point of the experiment what that it was NOT a rocket plane. It is a SCRAM jet. It breathes air. If the thing had been a rocket, it wouldn’t be news since rockets routinely go that fast.Great! ...
- Tags: Rocket-plane, defense department
- Discussion threads 2004-11-16
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- Office 2.0 Conference day one
- David Allen discussed his 'getting things done' methodology with conference creator Ismael Ghalimi during the opening keynote session at the Office 2.0 conference at the St Regis Hotel, San Francisco. The core of the methodology is to free up the sophisticated processing unit that is your brain...
- Tags: Google Inc., General Electric Co., Conference, Office 2.0, Matthew, Cloud Computing, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Google Earth to license new satellite imagery
- Google has agreed to license imagery for their mapping products from a satellite due to launch on September 4th. This new satellite can take detailed imagery for an area the size of New Mexico in one day. What does that mean? Well, you could get high resolution...
- Tags: Imagery, Google Inc., Google Earth, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy
- Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economyEconomic TerrorismThe purpose of the CAPTCHA is to ensure fair access to internet services in a manner that is consistent with the license agreements of those offering the services.Employing humans to purposely solve CAPTCHA should be considered economic terrorism because it has no other purpose than...
- Tags: CAPTCHA
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- Green Plug snags heavy hitter for board
- Who says green tech isn't rocket science? Starting Sept. 1, green tech start-up Green Plug, which is pushing for the concept of a universal power converter, has appointed former White House advisor George Keyworth as the chairman of its board of directors. Keyworth was Science Advisor to...
- Tags: Green Technology, White House, Board, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Vizio SV470XVT
- Budget flat-panel powerhouse Vizio is breaking into the lucrative realm of high-end HDTVs with its XVT line, comprised of a 50-inch plasma we detailed at CES and a pair of LCDs, including the model reviewed here, the 47-inch SV470XVT. Equipped with a lot of glossy black, a slicker menu system,...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, button layout, Vizio, Vizio SV470XVT
- Product reviews 2008-08-21
- Words from the Woz
- Steve Wozniak is many things: electronics enthusiast, author of iWoz, former fifth-grade teacher, plane-crash survivor, ex-reality-TV-boyfriend of D-list comedian Kathy Griffin, and, oh yeah, co-founder of a company called Apple. You might have heard of it. Today, he put on the hat of former engineer as he...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Electronics, Apple Inc., Computer, Intel Developer Forum, Productivity, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Is the Salesforce.com juggernaut faltering?
- Â Scanning through Larry Dignan's write up of Salesforce.com's Q2 results I couldn't help but observe the company is signaling a sharp slowdown in sales growth compared with fiscal 2007-8. I wasn't the only one to notice. According to Associated Press, investors were far from impressed by...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Scammers caught backdooring chip and PIN terminals
- The U.K's Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit DCPU have recently uncovered state of the art social engineering scheme, where once backdoored, chip and PIN terminals were installed at retailers and petrol stations in an attempt to steal the credit card details passing through. Originally, before online banking took place...
- Tags: Bank, Terminal, Credit Card, Chip, U.K, PIN, Irish Payment Services Organisation, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- IE 8 to get 'porn mode'?
- IE 8 to get 'porn mode'?Double-edged swordsSeveral years ago, our company implemented very stringent usage rules on our IT assets, including Internet access. And the IT department installed "monitoring tools" aka spyware to keep an eye on the rank-and-file.The result? A number of employees got fired for surfing porn, trading...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, monitoring, cookie, porn mode
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Russia, Georgia and NASA
- Russia, Georgia and NASASelf reliance is a good thingLet's be really glad we're not dependent on Russia for more important things... and yes, I do think that foreign countries should be wary of over-dependence on the US works both ways.I think Bill Nelson has done a good job over the...
- Tags: Self-Reliance, COTS, SpaceX, Orbital, NASA
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- TSA makes laptop travel easier - or not?
- TSA makes laptop travel easier - or not?The existing rules are a pain......but everyone knows what they are and there's no guesswork or interpretation required. As you describe them, the new rules appear to be a step backwards from that point of view.TSA is a jokeIt's a response to...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Transportation Security Administration
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- (Photos: Baby steps for NASA's small-plane challenge)
- (Photos: Baby steps for NASA's small-plane challenge)i see a problemwhat about my rights to the inovations i make?who has access big bussiness government contractors no one will give you an answer!i have ask before on other government contracts and challenges.
- Tags: Baby Step, NASA, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Exclusive: A robot with a biological brain
- Exclusive: A robot with a biological brainThe begining of the Cylon race? nt:(probably meant "you're" funnyDoesnt' change my opinion at all.Well, if this isn't the most immoral thing ever...it's gotta be kinda close.Cool but. could open a can of worms later...Did anyone else get a chill up the back of...
- Tags: Robots, biological brain, robot
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- (Photos: Hydrogen Road Tour gets into gear)
- (Photos: Hydrogen Road Tour gets into gear)Where's the Hydrogen?I'll tell you how to get enough hydrogen to run the world for millenia. There are certain, very large areas of the world, typically volcanic, which have a massive heat gradient. One such is Kamchatka, on the Eastern border of Siberia. Here...
- Tags: hydrogen, Hydrogen Road Tour, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- News to know: SAP; Microsoft patches; Nvidia; iPhone
- Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do Michael Krigsman: Business Objects Influencer Summit: Strategy to execution Larry Dignan: Microsoft plugs IE, Office in big patch haul Roland Piquepaille: No more need for...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, NVidia Corp., Patch Management, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, 3G, E-books, Web Browsers, Linux, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Photos: Baby steps for NASA's small-plane challenge
- Last weekend's General Aviation Challenge in Sonoma County, Calif., is meant to encourage the development of tech that could one day get commuter air cars to takeoff. by CNET News.com
- Tags: NASA, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-08-11
- Humanitarian Collaboration
- I was recently fascinated by presentations by Bob Iannucci (CTO, Nokia) and Ken Banks of kiwanja.net at the Supernova2008 conference in June around mobile technologies in the developing world. Ken Banks discussed how mobile minutes are a form of currency in Africa, showing...
- Tags: mobile, health care, advertising & promotion, marketing, oliver marks
- Blog posts 2008-08-10
- ThinkPad X200 reviews: Great ultraportable . . . but it's no X300
- ThinkPad X200 reviews: Great ultraportable . . . but it's no X300LED backlit, are you sure?I got the impression the display wasn't LED backlit.Another question, why do you want a DVD in a notebook. What do you use it for on the road?Tis simple...You're in Los Angeles. You're about to...
- Tags: Notebooks, ThinkPad X200, X300, LED-backlit, IBM ThinkPad
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- (Gallery: Scientists develop eye-shaped camera)
- (Gallery: Scientists develop eye-shaped camera)Great, in theory.Problem is, the sensor will have to be made to match the lens in front of it, and if you change lenses, which professional imaging people are fond of, you'd need to change sensors in order for the focal plane to match.Scientists develop eye-shaped...
- Tags: eye-shaped camera, sensor, camera
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
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