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Snapshots from the 2009 Maker Faire

Highlights from the 2009 Maker Faire, held in San Mateo, CA. by CNET News.com

Tags: San Mateo, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-05-31

Photos: The making of Maker Faire

The third annual Maker Faire gets started on Saturday in San Mateo, and it will last all weekend. by CNET News.com

Tags: San Mateo, Photograph, CNET News.com, Disney Corp., Horne, Sculpture, Olson

Image galleries 2008-05-02

Photos: Happy developers in da house

Some 150 people gather in a Los Gatos, Calif., mansion for SuperHappyDevHouse, a 12-hour marathon of coding, hacking and socializing.Participants of the 19th SuperHappy DevHouse hackathon session descended on Tom Harrison''s family home last weekend in Los Gatos, Calif. Harrison far left opened his house up to some 150 tech...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, SECURITY, photograph, Amit Patel, SuperHappyDevHouse, Los Gatos, Facebook, San Jose State University, hacking, chief technical officer, Ohio State University, University of Washington, online v

Image galleries 2007-08-16

Photos: Tech makes magic at Maker Faire

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak preaches fun to get kids excited about technology at the Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif.

Tags: Maker Faire, Steve Wozniak, San Mateo, co-founder, California, photograph, Apple Inc.

Image galleries 2007-05-20

Additional Resources

Salesforce.com and CODA hook up

Salesforce.com and CODA (via its parent Unit 4 Agresso) are hooking up to create FinancialForce.com. While financial details of the arrangement were not revealed, Salesforce.com is a minority stakeholder in the new company. From the blurbs: The CODA 2go team and products have transferred to FinancialForce.com, which will...

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

Blog posts 2009-09-30

International Polar Year: data on climate change

International Polar Year: data on climate changeWarmingAside from large brains, opposing thumbs and the ability to walk on 2 legs, humans have something else that is unique among the animal world. Guilt.The world is warming and humans first inclination is to feel that we're at fault. The second is we...

Tags: International Polar Year, climate change

Discussion threads 2009-07-25

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

iPhone users don't use device for work, study says

iPhone users don't use device for work, study saysI use my iPhone for bothThough the "preponderance" of use is personal. I guess a good follow-up question would be, for those of us tho use it primarily for "play", is "Does the iPhone meet your business use needs?" For me the...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, U.S. Marine Corps, iPhone 3, business phone, Apple iPhone, soldier

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

10 ways to be a good manager during a recession

  Guest post via TechRepublic's Polly Schneider Traylor. For more posts like this see the 10 Things blog. It’s clear that the current recession is not going to be a fleeting phenomenon. Managers need to learn how to lead under extraordinary marketplace pressures and...

Tags: Layoff, Recession, Staff, Polly Schneider Traylor, Workforce Management, Professional Development, Benefits, Human Resources, Career, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-19

Greenplum aims to eliminate massive data load 'choke points' with Scatter/Gather technology

Greenplum has taken massively parallel processing MPP of data to the next level with the introduction this week of its "MPP Scatter/Gather Streaming" SG Streaming technology, which manages the flow of data into all nodes of the database, eliminating the traditional bottlenecks with massive data loading. The...

Tags: Data, Node, Greenplum, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Report: Tech layoffs skyrocket in 2008; not looking much better for '09

When the economy started to crumble for the housing, automotive and banking industries last year, there's was some optimism that Silicon Valley and the tech industry might be able to withstand the storm. Clearly, that was a short-lived dream. A report released today by...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Job, Layoff, Unemployment, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-29

Lucid aims to be top open source enterprise search player

Lucid Imagination wants to be to enterprise search what Red Hat is to Linux.   So says Eric Gries, CEO of the open source enterprise search software company, whose platform is based on Apache's Lucene and Solr open source projects. The San Mateo, Calif....

Tags: Enterprise Search, Lucid Imagination, Lucene, Cloud Computing, Search, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-01-25

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

Campus security: protecting our assets and asses

Whichever campus you are at in the world, there will be a fair share of security issues. Where you have thousands of students all in one place, there's going to be crime, disorder and issues which eat away at our overall security. In the UK, because of our stringent firearm...

Tags: Asset, Campus, Reverse-911, Security, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-16

An enterprise balancing act in the cloud

Video of Dr Sukh Grewal talking about GE's 'Support Central' environment at last week's Office 2.0 Conference. There's a solid article in the current Economist magazine about Zoho, which I consider a far more credible enterprise 'software as a service' office suite than Google Docs....

Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, General Electric Co., Information Technology, Environment, Office 2.0, Zoho, Daniel, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Software bug prevents Big Brown quick pick racing payoff

A horse racing bettor discovered a software bug preventing race payoffs under certain conditions. Following inquiries from California's Horse Racing Board, Scientific Games, which manufactured the race management software / hardware system, reported a bug that "dropped the last horse in the field from quick pick...

Tags: Software, Bug, Software Bug, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-29

The Oracle Tax is progressive

The Fortunate 1000 are far more likely to pay the "Oracle Tax" of a proprietary database than other firms, making this one of the few true progressive taxes in our business system. (The picture is of Oracle's headquarters, aka the Ellison Kremlin, the Capitol of LarryWorld.) ...

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Planning, Fortunate 1000, Hardware, Open Source, Oracle Corp., Oracle Tax, Productivity, Software, Storage, Taxes, Tool

Blog posts 2008-04-03

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

Springsource buys Covalent in enterprise Java push

SpringSource announced today it has bought Covalent Technologies as part of its push in the enterprise Java space. "We have the ambition to be the dominant company in enterprise Java open source," SpringSourceCEO Rod Johnson told ZDNet. "You put our portfolios together you have the vast majority of what...

Tags: Covalent Technologies, Sun Microsystems Inc., Springsource, Programming Languages, Java, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-29

BitGravity LiveBroadcast to stream DEMO 08

This week I'll be at the Demo 2008 Conference checking out the more than 70 products showcased, and you can watch a live video feed of the proceedings courtesy of BitGravity. The startup content delivery service is launching LiveBroadcast, a flash-based streaming service. According to...

Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., Startup Content Delivery Service, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-28