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San Francisco Giants score with new HD scoreboard

San Francisco Giants score with new HD scoreboardImpressive but ...I'd settle for an old wooden billboard with archaic rolodex-like flip-'em placards if they'd cut their ticket prices in half. Lower the players' salaries a bit to boot, to help reduce concession and parking prices, and I might be able to...

Tags: San Francisco Giants

Discussion threads 2007-03-29

Will S.F. Giants score with HD scoreboard?

Baseball park gets massive high-tech monitorSan Francisco Giants' CIO, Bill Schlough, shows off baseball's second largest high-definition monitor to Dan Farber, ZDNet's editor in chief. The Diamond Vision screen at AT&T Park boasts more than 3 million pixels and stands 103 feet wide and about 31 feet tall. The stadium...

Tags: Monitors & displays, monitor

Whiteboards 2007-03-29

San Francisco Giants score with new HD scoreboard

San Francisco Giants CIO, Bill Schlough, shows me baseballs second largest high-definition monitor. The Mitsubishi Diamond Vision HD (720p) screen at the Giants AT&T Park has more than 3 million LEDs and stands 103 feet wide and about 31 feet wide. The ball park has also added 12 personal...

Tags: Monitors & displays, San Francisco Giants

Blog posts 2007-03-29

Additional Resources

News to know: Logitech-LifeSize; Macworld; Droid sales; Tandberg; e-book readers

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: Logitech gobbles up LifeSize; Enters video conferencing Dave Greenfield: Logitech Buys LifeSize. Now what about Polycom?...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Sales, Ryan Naraine, Sam Diaz, E-book Reader, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-11-11

Works of Peter B. Kyne. FREE Author's biography & partial work in the trial 10.1 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-11

CA digital textbooks initiative falls flat

Here is California's review of digital high school textbooks. As AP reports, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been promoting the idea that schools would use these free texts as a way to save money and bring education into the 21st century. First, it's interesting to...

Tags: School District, California, Computer Associates International Inc., Hardware, Standards, Textbook, CK-12, Quality, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Yahoo's China "police informant" role sparked a $47.5 billion slide in market value

The anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests recalls the courage of the Chinese people and the vicious response of the Chinese government. It also recalls the gutless behavior of Silicon Valley tech companies towards the Chinese government in pursuit of profits rather than morals. Many are guilty...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Shi, Government, Vertical Industries, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Tomorrow's World

By now you will probably have digested the initial information about Google Wave, strategically announced on the same day as Microsoft's Bing search engine last week. Two not quite ready for prime time products - one open source, the other arguably a partially walled garden -...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Yahoo Search Monkey, Channel Management, Wiki, Productivity, Marketing, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-05-31

Photos: Capturing a Cy Young winner's 'freaky' motion

San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum lets loose during a motion-capturing session for the new Major League Baseball 2K9 video game. by CNET News.com

Tags: MLB, Photograph, Games, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-12-03

2009 Honda Pilot EX-L 2WD

Photo gallery:Honda Pilot EX-LLet's face it. The Honda Pilot has always looked like a brick on wheels. The new for 2009 Pilot, with its CR-V inspired grille, looks even worse. It doesn't get much better on the inside, with a dash dominated by cheap plastics and questionable material choices. As...

Tags: Twin-Peaks, mpg, Honda Motor Co.

Product reviews 2008-08-29

Yahoo! heroes instead of zeroes in stand against MSFT but not against Chinese repression

Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's offer smacks of a face saving attempt by its management and board to look heroic following its despicable behaviour in China. MSFT is very likely going to prevail with its acquisition since it seems to have the support of Yahoo's largest shareholders. Yahoo's...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MSFT, Shi, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-02-17

At last, a tech company that can help you sniff out a life partner

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk takes a look at ScientificMatch, a site that claims it will find you that special someone with the help of a test tube. I have friends who tried match.com. They met people who frightened them. And only sometimes because they looked nothing...

Tags: Partnership, DNA, Gene, Site, Scientificmatch.com, System Gene, Business Structures, Biotechnology, Litigation, Gender And Diversity, Finance, Business Operations, Human Resources, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2008-01-11

Sun hungrily awaits the Red Shift

Sun has changed its ticker symbol to Java [JAVAD] and performed reverse stock split surgery, but the focus on the company remains consistent--be the infrastructure provider for the wired planet. The mission was reaffirmed last night by Sun executives during a dinner with a few journalists at the...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Leadership, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-04

Go west young engineer Silicon Valley needs you!

There is an emerging crisis in Silicon Valley - there aren't enough engineers. Companies such as VMware, and the many thousands of Silicon Valley startups, are competing with the well established giants such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Symantec, and many others, for engineering talent. I wrote...

Tags: Silicon Valley, VMware Inc., Outsourcing, Venture Capital, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Financing Startups, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2007-11-14

Yahoo! and its looming hiring crisis following despicable acts in China

Can moral "pigmies" and "police informants" attract the best and brightest talent? Just in case you missed it, last week Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang and its chief lawyer Michael Callahan were called to Washington DC to explain to lawmakers why Yahoo! helped the Chinese government arrest...

Tags: Hiring, Yahoo! Inc., Shi, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2007-11-10

Why the titans of tech should start playing ball

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk yearns for the application of tech entrepreneurship to moribund sports franchises, following in the fancy footsteps of Mark Cuban. After all, sports is a social network of extraordinary proportions... “I’d run any company; it’s completely irrelevant to me. It’s really about this drive...

Tags: Bay Area, Champaign, Chris, Dan Farber, Gentleman, Management, Team, Team Management

Blog posts 2007-10-30

Recalling the Loma Prieta earthquake and Mac advantages

Anyone who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area on Oct. 17, 1989 must remember two things: the anticipation over the first Bay Bridge World Series between the Oakland A's and the San Francisco Giants; and the Loma Prieta earthquake, which stuck on 5:04 PM just as Game One was...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Network, AppleTalk, Red Cross, Apple Inc., Desktops, Networking, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-10-17

CIO Sessions: 1-800 Flowers blossoms with new technologies

In a CIO Vision Series interview, Steve Bozzo, CIO of 1-800 Flowers talks with me about what it takes to run the company’s daily IT operations, across a network of more than 9,000 florists. Today, about 75 percent of 1-800 Flowers transactions are...

Tags: CIO, Environment, 1-800-FLOWERS, Web 2.0, Internet, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-04

Winblad: Open Source VC Funding Is Not Drying Up

In spite of a recent slowdown in venture investment, open source remains high on the list of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Ann Winblad, a partner in the prominent San Francisco VC that funded MuleSource, said at MIT's Emerging Technologies Conference Thursday that the money will keep...

Tags: Software, Winblad, MuleSource, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2007-09-27

LinuxWorld 2007

On the convention floor and around town, LinuxWorld attendees pour into San Francisco to celebrate Linux and SF Giants super-slugger Barry Bonds's 756th home run, beating Hank Aaron's long held record.

Tags: LinuxWorld, San Francisco, Linux

Image galleries 2007-08-15