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- Equinox Image 1.10.1 (Mac)
- Equinox Image controls Santa Barbara Instrument Group SBIG CCD cameras grey scale and color and Optec, RoboFocus, JMI and Motor Focus focusers. This program also controls SBIG filter wheels, AO devices and remote guide heads. Auto focus, FWHM, Photometry, Astrometry, RMS error, color enhancement and format conversion functions are available....
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microprojects, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Productivity, Security
- Software downloads 2009-10-20
- US developer: China's Green Dam steals our code
- This Green Dam story just keeps getting weirder. First, China issues this mandate that all new PCs will have to have software called Green Dam-Youth Escort preinstalled. It's claimed the software is just a porn filter, even though China runs the powerful Great Firewall of China, already. ...
- Tags: Software, China, Developer, Solid Oak, Tools & Techniques, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-13
- Amazon Kindle DX revealed (Amazon Kindle DX revealed)
- Amazon Kindle DX revealed Amazon Kindle DX revealedWay over pricedFor the price they want I would expect color screen, with zoom and more featurs, a netbook computer with more power costs less.RE: Amazon Kindle DX revealed Amazon Kindle DX revealedCan't afford it. Even $250 would be too much for...
- Tags: Tablets, Flash memory, Memory, Amazon Kindle DX, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- Botnet hijack: Inside the Torpig malware operation
- Security researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara have broken into the nerve center of the Torpig botnet also called Sinowal or Mebroot to find a 10-day stash of 10,000 bank accounts and credit card numbers worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. During the botnet hijack,...
- Tags: Credit Card, Malware, Torpig, Card Number, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Sales, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- The future could be a gas with Carbon Science
- Diagram courtesy Carbon Sciences. Don't bury it, use it. That's the goal of Carbon Sciences and their plans to make CO2 an asset. We already know it's a problematic greenhouse gas, contributing to climate change. I recently blogged about the push by supporters...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Hydrogen, Carbon Sciences, Elton, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- Citrix lays off 10 percent of workforce
- A little birdie told me this morning that Citrix has begun following through with yesterday's warning that it would cut 10 percent of its global workforce, with some people in the Santa Barbara, Calif. office already receiving notice, according to the source, who is familiar with the proceedings. ...
- Tags: Revenue, Citrix Systems Inc., Workforce, Employee Cutback, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- How some vegetables fight breast cancer
- You certainly know that eating vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower or cabbage can help prevent breast cancer. Until now, the protection mechanism offered by these cruciferous vegetables was unknown. But researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara have found an explanation. Here is a quote from the lead...
- Tags: Breast Cancer, Vegetable, Cell, Mitosis, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-12-24
- Hosting Company Expands Services, Ensures Uptime, and Slashes Costs With Virtualization
- Santa Barbara Web Hosting SBWH provides enterprise-class managed services to nearly 4,000 small and medium-sized customers. Like many hosting providers, SBWH was challenged with rising power costs, limited resources, and long build times. The company, which was in danger of having to turn away new customers, or losing existing contracts,...
- Tags: Uptime, Microsoft Corp., Hosting Company, Santa Barbara Web Hosting, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Managed Hosting, Virtualization, It Services, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Case studies 2008-11-01
- Toward future cross-protective vaccines?
- Winter is approaching and millions of people will use this year's flu vaccine, different from last year's one, and only able to fight a few strains. Wouldn't be nice to use a vaccine able to fight a vast variety of bacteria? Two teams of U.S. researchers from the University of...
- Tags: Vaccine, UCSB Team, Healthcare, Roland Piquepaille, Strain, UCSB
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- New nanotechnology to speed up computers
- University of California at Santa Barbara UCSB researchers have developed new nanoscale structures that will help to speed up computers. This research project was funded by IBM, Intel and other partners including the U.S. National Science Foundation. This new manufacturing process is called block co-polymer lithography or BCP. The scientists...
- Tags: Pattern, Salad, Lithography, Computer, BCP, Semiconductors, Nanotechnology, Productivity, Manufacturing, Hardware, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Police Agency Boosts Officer Presence, Data Security With Upgraded Operating System
- Like other law enforcement agencies, the Santa Barbara Police Department relies heavily on computer technology to help serve the community. The department, which serves a city of about 100,000 residents north of Los Angeles, wanted to implement better productivity tools for employees, particularly officers out on patrol. It also wanted...
- Tags: Agency, Operating System, Officer, Microsoft Corp., Data Security, Computer, Productivity, Security
- Case studies 2008-09-01
- Telescopes and teapots the new frontier in high-tech spying
- Remember the good ol' days of the Cold War when movies showed up Russian spooks with high-powered binocs looking through windows and placing bugs behind picture frames? Those days are back with a high-tech spin as researchers in Germany have discovered that an inexpensive telescope can pick up computer images...
- Tags: Monitor, Meter, Image, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Leading with LED
- Some random smatterings of information to report today, related to the adoption of LED technology. First off, the folks that gave away all those LED holiday lights at the end of last year are saying thanks with a $1,000 donation to a non-profit organization with a mission...
- Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-04-26
- A map showing human impact on oceans
- According to Scientific American and other publications, U.S. scientists from various universities, NGOs, and government agencies have built a world map of the human damages to the oceans. They've overlayed maps of 17 different activities such as fishing, climate change and pollution to produce this world atlas. They've concluded that...
- Tags: Ocean, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-16
- Canon: Supporting green tech innovation
- I often struggle with what exactly to classify as “green tech.†But lately, the way I filter the numerous pitches I receive is by looking at ANY technology or technological innovation that makes the world a greener place. Thus the incredible gamut of subjects I’ll tackle in any given week....
- Tags: Canon Inc., Carl Legleiter, Green Technology, Heather Clancy, Innovation, Reed
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- ELC Technologies and FiveRuns join forces for RAD Rails development
- ELC Technologies and FiveRuns Corp. are joining forces in a strategic partnership designed to offer enterprises a broad scope of resources for Ruby on Rails, the Web application framework. Both ELC Technologies, Santa Barbara, CA, and FiveRuns, Austin, TX, already have a strong presence in the...
- Tags: RAD, Client, Ruby, FiveRuns Corp., ELC Technologies, Ruby On Rails, Software Development, Business Structures, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Finance, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- The Famous Missions of California 1.0 (Mobile)
- A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of ZealeThe Famous Missions of Californiaby William Henry HudsonExcerpt:I. Of Junipero Serra, and the proposed settlement of Alta California.II. How Father Junipero came to San Diego.III. Of the founding of the Mission at San Diego.IV. Of Portola's quest for the...
- Tags: Mission, Mobile, Blackberrybooks, E-books, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Litigation, Smart Phones, Personal Technology, Hardware, Marketing, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2007-09-26
- Evanescent lasers to speed up data transmission
- It is refreshing to note that some scientists also have a solid literary culture. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara UCSB have built the world's first mode-locked silicon evanescent laser. But what is an 'evanescent' laser? It is a step toward 'combining lasers and other key optical components with the existing...
- Tags: Silicon, Laser, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- Smarter routers, better Net video
- Smarter routers, better Net videoSnake Oil?Ummm, I don't see them making anything faster, what I do see is robbing peter to pay paul. (Assigning priorities based on content type.)WiMax and ReelTimeHeads up. Take a look at Seattle's http://www.reeltime.com/ which finally got some press in the new york times today....
- Tags: Corporate communications, Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, video, broadband, router
- Discussion threads 2007-08-06
- Saving energy with open source
- One of Google's early innovations was to buy cheap, off-the-shelf hardware and run it in parallel, rather than expensive blade servers.With oil approaching $80/barrel that is no longer so clever. Those old boxes were energy hogs.So Movidas  Movidis Inc., a Santa Cruz Santa Barbara start-up, has gotten a good reception to...
- Tags: Open Source, Server, Energy, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
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