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- Top 10 videos of the year (so far)
- At Cisco Live in San Francisco this week, CEO John Chambers called video "the killer app." Here are the videos viewed most often during the first half of 2009 by ZDNet members and visitors: 1) The lightbulb of the future? [video=192842] ...
- Tags: Google Inc., San Francisco, Video, CEO, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows 7, Marketing, David Grober
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- E-motorcycle hits S.F. streets
- CNET News reporter Mats Lewan takes the brand new Zero S electric motorcycle for a test drive in downtown San Francisco. Currently, electric scooter-style and offroad bikes can be used on the streets. But the Zero S can reach up to 60 mph, and its creator, Zero Motorcycles, says it's...
- Tags: San Francisco, High-performance, Leadership, Management, News, electric, motorcycle, green, auto, motor, batteries, gas, mileage
- Videos 2009-05-07
- San Francisco Screensaver 1.0 (Windows)
- This free screensaver contains many pictures of San Francisco. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 13th most populous city in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183. The second most densely populated major city in the...
- Tags: City, San Francisco, CityScreensaver, Transportation, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-04-09
- San Francisco's green plans
- At the Green: Net '09 Conference in San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom lays out the city's future plans for reducing emissions even further. He explains the city's current electric-car project, and the coming green initiatives of wave technology and tidal-flow generators--a steady stream of energy, he says, that will...
- Tags: San Francisco, Green
- Videos 2009-03-25
- San Francisco turns from foggy gray to bright green
- The foggiest city in America has no oil and no nearby coal deposits. It has little open space for turbines to capture all that ocean wind. And the frequent fogs would greatly reduce the usefulness of solar. But waves, ah, there's the action. All the time,...
- Tags: San Francisco, City, Outsourcing, Telecom & Utilities, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-01
- Bay area nerds celebrate 1234567890 Day
- Revision3's David Prager hosts a quick 3-minute video about the fascinating holiday 1234567890 Day. The Unix timestamp reached this historic number at exactly 3:31:30 PST this past Friday. What other way to celebrate at 21st Amendment bar in the south of Market neightborhood of San Francisco? ...
- Tags: San Francisco, Revision3, LaughingSquid, Corporate Communications, UNIX, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-02-15
- Meet and tweet for a good cause at Twestival
- Volunteers from over 175 cities around the globe are organizing Twitter festivals, or "twestivals" to help the charity water cause. Also, Twitter users will have a chance to meet face-to-face instead of just over the interwebs. The cost of your Twestival ticket will feed 40 people clean...
- Tags: San Francisco, Twitter, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- Town & Country Resources: Hire Nannies, Newborn Specialists, Housekeepers, On-Call and Temporary Services, Personal Assistants, Chefs and Estate Professionals 1.0 (Windows)
- For over 25 years, Town & Country Resources has provided San Francisco Bay Area families with the ultimate professional solution for hiring top-quality childcare and household staff to ensure your family and home are safe and well cared for. We understand your needs for household support change as your family...
- Tags: Staffing, San Francisco, Microsoft Windows, Palo Alto, Town & Country Resources
- Software downloads 2008-12-27
- Chanukah comes to the iPhone, Touch with iMenorah
- The Jewish holiday of Chanukah began on Sunday night and runs for 8 days. A couple of San Francisco programmers are bringing in the holiday with a fun iPhone and iTouch app. iMenorah is very cute $1.99 program by Mike Jutan and Matthew Parrott. Users drag the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, San Francisco, iMenorah, JCCSF, Digital Music, Development Tools, Digital Media, Strategy, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Consumer Electronics, Management, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-12-21
- SF Bay Area plugs in
- The mayors of the San Francisco Bay Area's three largest cities gathered Thursday to announce their ambitious new initiatives to make the region the electric vehicle capital of the country. CNET's Kara Tsuboi has this report.
- Tags: Electric Vehicle, News, kara tsuboi, gavin newsom, electric cars, hybrid cars, san jose, oakland, san francisco, green, environment
- Videos 2008-11-21
- The data center cost conundrum
- The other day I stumbled across a BusinessWeek slide gallery that shows the comparative cost of the five lowest cost data center towns in the US. Not being an expert on these matters, I passed the baton to my Irregular friend Vinnie Mirchandani who understands these...
- Tags: Data Center, San Francisco, New York, Boyd, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Taking the digital billboard to the next level
- Do you think a 10-story building wrapped in your company's video would help get your message across? That's the goal of San Francisco-based marketing company Obscura Digital. Besides cool projection technology, the company is exploring touch and interactive tech to help advertise products with pop.
- Tags: Corporate Communications, Marketing Research, News, kara tsuboi, jared kohler, obscura digital, video domes, igoogle, marketing, san francisco, video projection, touch, screens
- Videos 2008-07-18
- Welcome Sam Diaz
- I'm pleased to announce that ZDNet has added another contributor to Between the Lines. Sam Diaz is our new senior editor based in San Francisco. Sam has been a technology and business blogger, reporter and editor at the Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News and Fresno Bee...
- Tags: San Francisco, Sam Diaz, Sam, Corporate Governance, Blogging, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Daily Debrief: California gets Tesla car factory
- On Monday, Tesla Motors announced it would build its electric sedan manufacturing plant in Northern California. In the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi talks with CNET Car Tech Senior Editor Wayne Cunningham about why this decision is a win for the company and the state.
- Tags: Manufacturing, News, kara tsuboi, wayne cunningham, tesla roadster, gavin newsom, arnold schwarzenegger, bay area, san francisco, electric car, green, global warming
- Videos 2008-07-01
- Playing around with the iPhone
- Brian Greenstone of Pangea Software demos two games: 'Enigmo' and 'Cro-Mag Rally', a racing game that utilities the iPhone's touch screen to steer a caveman's vehicle.
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, News, apple, developers, WWDC, Brian Greenstone, Pangea, Enigmo, Cro-Mag rally, games, racing, caveman, san francisco, moscone
- Videos 2008-06-10
- Jobs unveils GPS for the 3G iPhone
- At Apple's WWDC 2008 in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs demonstrates GPS on the new 3G iPhone. Jobs shows how an iPhone traveling in a car going down San Francisco's famously crooked Lombard Street can be tracked as its user navigates the curves.
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Steve Jobs, San Francisco, Apple Inc., 3G, GPS, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Apple
- Videos 2008-06-09
- iPhoneDevCamp 2 announced
- iPhoneDevCamp 2 will be held 1-3 August 2008 at Adobe Systems headquarters in San Francisco (601 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103). iPhoneDevCamp 2 is a not-for-profit gathering to develop applications for iPhone and iPod touch using both the native SDK and Web standards. To keep...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, San Francisco, RSS, Quality, Digital Music, Digital Media, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Internet, iPhoneDevCamp 2, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- Photos: Microsoft previews 2008 Xbox games
- Microsoft's Spring Showcase shows off some of its forthcoming 2008 title releases to journalists in San Francisco.Microsoft took over Dogpatch Studios in San Francisco for the Showcase event. The company set up stations around the studio to show off games like Too Human, Ninja Gaiden, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts and...
- Tags: Journalist, San Francisco, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Microsoft Xbox, Games, Personal Technology, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-13
- 2nd Skin
- At San Francisco's Exploratorium, artists and designers showed off the fashion of the future. From clothing that works as a vest and a video game controller in one to a smoke-sensitive skirt, CNET Newscom's Kara Tsuboi captures the fun, the oddities and the future sartorial tech.
- Tags: News, kara tsuboi, 2nd skin, exploratorium, san francisco, computers
- Videos 2008-04-26
- Is the Web 2.0 economy in limbo?
- CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber and reporter Caroline McCarthy wrap up the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco and discuss the current Web 2.0 boom and how long it will be sustained.
- Tags: News, dan farber, caroline mccarthy, web 2.0, san francisco, mark andreesen, social networking
- Videos 2008-04-25

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