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Tech Awards honor techy solutions for developing world

From one-time-use syringes to fire logs made from an invasive African plant, the 2008 Tech Awards honored five innovators with $50,000 for creating technology solutions for problems in developing countries. CNET's Kara Tsuboi learns more about these seemingly simple solutions that have potential to make a big impact.

Tags: Solution, Free Trade, Finance, News, kara tsuboi, the tech, tech awards, san jose convention center, developing countries, 3rd world, india, china, asia, building, syringe, schools

Videos 2008-11-13

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Challenging Silicon Valley to put poverty into a museum . . .

I'm not washing my right hand for a while because I used it to shake the hand of Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and a person that I've held in the highest regard for many years. Mr Yunus gave the keynote speech at the Tech Museum's Tech...

Tags: Bangladesh, Entrepreneurship, Grameen Bank, Grameen Loan, Leadership, Management, Muhammad Yunus, Poverty, Silicon Valley, Strategy, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Silicon Valley's top awards

Silicon Valley's 2008 Tech Awards: Technology Benefiting Humanity will be presented at a gala dinner this evening. The keynote speech will be delivered by Mohammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner. I'm looking forward to meeting Mr Yunus as I've been an admirer of his...

Tags: Humanity, Applied Materials Inc., Benefits, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Search engines under the spotlight this week

I'm spending most of this week at the Intel Developer's Forum but also wanted to give some time to another show happening in the Bay Area this week: Search Engine Strategies, being held at the San Jose Convention Center in Silicon Valley. Monday was one of those unofficial days of...

Tags: Search Engine, Search, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-18

The Bubbe bubble

Its official. The Internet boom is back. Its the Bubbe bubble. Nothing else can explain what I witnessed, with my very own eyes, at the San Jose Conventional Center yesterday. There I was, at Jeff Pulvers VON show, prospecting for interesting young Web 2.0 video companies, and what did I...

Tags: INTERNET, Web 2.0, Bubbe

Blog posts 2007-03-21

From Search Engine Strategies to San Francisco

For this Silicon Alley native, it was a pleasure to be in the heart of Silicon Valley last week covering the Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose.The current Silicon Valley star, Google, had starring roles at the conference:CEO Eric Schmidt in conversation with host Danny Sullivan and in a...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-08-15

Google Developer Day sneak peek with Bret Taylor

Last month Google announced what will likely become an annual event -- a Google Developer Day that will take place in 10 cities around the world on May 31st. Despite the short notice, thousands of developers have already signed up for the free event, according to Bret Taylor, Group Product...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2006-05-24

Ramping up for Interop 2006

In Belmont California on the peninsula between San Francisco and San Jose, volunteers are testing and staging the network backbone for Interop 2006 in Las Vegas next month. Seen above are a group of engineers from several different organizations ranging from Juniper to University of Utah to Enterasys Networks...

Tags: Interop 2006, Chris

Blog posts 2006-04-06

Photos: Scenes from RSA

Conference attendees flock to the San Jose McEnery Convention Center to hear the security industry's take on phishing, viruses and other threats.

Tags: photograph, RSA Security Inc., conference, phishing, security, virus

Image galleries 2006-02-14

Photos: Scenes from RSA

Conference attendees flock to the San Jose McEnery Convention Center to hear the security industry's take on phishing, viruses and other threats.

Tags: photograph, RSA Security Inc., conference, phishing, security, virus

Image galleries 2006-02-14

RSA begins today

The show of shows start this evening at the San Jose Convention Center. I will be posting pictures and "best of show" opinions as usual. By my count there are 268 exhibitors registered for the 2006 RSA Security Conference. That represents about 17% of the security space all...

Tags: RSA Security Inc.

Blog posts 2006-02-13