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- Photos: Solar festival as green as it gets
- Alternative energy and culture were on display last weekend at an off-the-grid learning center in Northern California.Madison Avenue advertisers and Silicon Valley venture capitalists may be pushing all things green into the mainstream these days, yet the countercultural roots of the sustainable-living movement are alive and thriving. More than 10,000...
- Tags: photograph, SolFest, Solar Living Institute, dome, alternative energy, photovoltaics, hydrogen, dump, Santa Cruz, wall, greenhouse, tent, automated teller machine, homeowner, Northern California, nonprofit, technique, festival, pump, showcase, pyramid, California, Sharp Corp.
- Image galleries 2007-08-23
- Images: A vision for an asteroid mission
- A private company in Santa Cruz, Calif., uses its 3D rendering technology to simulate a spacecraft landing on an asteroid.
- Tags: 3D rendering, Santa Cruz, asteroid, spacecraft, vision, 3D, California
- Image galleries 2007-07-30
- Cooperativa de Servicios Publicos "Santa Cruz" Ltda. Streamlines Administrative and Financial Processes
- The Cooperativa de Servicios Publicos "Santa Cruz" Ltda. (Public Services Cooperative "Santa Cruz" Ltda.) creates, builds, operates, maintains, and manages potable water and sewage system services, mainly in Santa Cruz de la Sierra and its provinces. The company wanted to achieve an integrated system that allows online decision making. The...
- Tags: Santa Cruz, Oracle Corp., Financial, Purchasing & Procurement, Supply Chain, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance
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- Citizen journalism and traditional news
- I've been experimenting recently with CNN's site for "citizen journalism" named iReport. I created a few video posts of myself in response to requests for questions targeted at future visitors to Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" (you can see my iReport site here - http://www.ireport.com/people/JohnCarroll). There are a few kinks in...
- Tags: Video Camera, Video, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Game Package (exe)
- Game Package 1 is 5 humorous games in one package. Whatever your tastes, at least one is bound to tickle your funny bone. A drunk Santa, a Benny Hill mouse, a celebrity basher, pirates with character and a war between turkeys and potatoes. This version is the first release on...
- Tags: Making Video Games, Game Package 1, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-07-17
- 2009 Acura TSX
- Photo gallery:2009 Acura TSXBecause of its solid and comfortable everyday driver demeanor, buyers of the new 2009 Acura TSX will probably opt for the five-speed automatic transmission, for ease of driving in traffic and urban settings. And that's unfortunate, because to appreciate Honda's capability to build truly efficient engines that...
- Tags: Acura, Acura TSX
- Product reviews 2008-07-03
- Solar power, no money down, could prove profitable
- You get a solar installation, you could get positive cash flow, and you pay no money down. Sounds like an offer you might read in some spam note from Bulgaria. But it's a legitimate offer from an legitimate cleantech company in California and Arizona. Solar...
- Tags: Electricity, Solar Energy, California, Arizona, Solar City, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Mint 220 - Wireless Digital Music Station
- The Mint 220 Wireless Digital Music Station offers us something that we haven't yet seen in an iPod speaker dock. Instead of combining iPod playback with a CD player or AM/FM alarm clock radio, the Mint 220 gives you the ability to wirelessly stream any audio from a PC or...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, wireless, Bass, Mint 220, dock
- Product reviews 2008-06-24
- The Apprentice Los Angeles (zip)
- Compete for the opportunity of a lifetime with the legendary Donald Trump and his children, Ivanka and Don Jr. Play against 12 of your favorite contestants. Battle it out in the boardroom. Combine Action and Strategy to Win! Serve customers efficiently. Oversee a team of helpers. Manage your time and...
- Tags: Legacy Interactive, Team Management, Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2008-06-20
- Americans growing their own: veggies this time
- Americans growing their own: veggies this timeGood idea.When I was a kid we always had a vegetable garden in the suburbs. Tomatoes, cucumbers carrorts and lettuce. That way you don't have to worry about what type of pesticides companies use. Not only that, they taste so much better, especially the...
- Tags: lawn, herb
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- AMD announces Puma laptop platform, Mobile Radeon 3800 GPU
- Located in the PC component capital of the world, Computex has become the tradeshow for chipsets, so it's no surprise AMD chose to announce its new mobile platform here in Taiwan today. (You can watch the press conference here.) Known by its code-name Puma, the platform itself doesn't have a...
- Tags: Mobile, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Laptop Computer, Radeon, GPU, Puma, Radeon 3200, Puma Platform, ATI XGP, Chipsets, Notebooks, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- NASA IG: Scientists were muzzled
- NASA IG: Scientists were muzzledI don't think so!If this administration is writting his pay check, than they can control what the researcher is doing and saying.As for global warming, it seems to be limited to glaciers in the mountains and at the poles. The temperature did not changed much in...
- Tags: Workforce management, NASA, administration, NASA IG
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- Toddler finds way to really green solar: turning green plants into photovoltaics
- The sandwich of materials that is today's solar panel. Courtesy: Biosolar. Biosolar's a toddler chronologically, just turned two years old in April. But they're already publicly traded and they could stand tall in the expanding field of photovolataics, making electricity from the sun....
- Tags: Panel, Dr., Photovoltaics, Biosolar, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Blade's "rackonomics" approach to data center cooling
- I love it when companies pitch me because they've been reading this blog and have something that they think one-ups something I've already written about. Thus was the case with Blade Network Technologies, an upstart in the blade networking space working closely with blade giants IBM, NEC and Hewlett-Packard. (Others...
- Tags: Data Center, Network, Blade, Switch, Blade Networks, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Market Alternatives for Sun
- Market Alternatives for SunLack of dividend is the root of the problemAlmost none of these tech companies issue dividends, and those that do have quite low yields (MSFT 1.57, Intel 2.3).It used to be that the dividend was a major reason to be an investor, but take that away, and...
- Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, Sun Microsystems Inc., dividend
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- Rumor Mill: What's just around the bend from Apple
- It time for a Friday rumor roundup and if it seems like most of the rumors are iPhone-related, that's because they are. Today I'll start off with a couple that aren't iPhone rumors. LED Screens in all MacBooks by 2009 Word is that Apple will start...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Light-emitting Diode, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., LED Screens, 3G, Engineering, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Another reason to ban cell phones in school?
- Several media outlets featured a story Wednesday on nude photos of junior high school girls being circulated via cell phone in a Texas school. Fox News reported that "Those students forwarded the images and the circle opened up and got wider and wider," Superintendent Jon Whittemore...
- Tags: Phone, Student, Cell Phone, Photograph, Boyfriend, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- 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
- Letters From Santa Screensaver (zip)
- Screensaver for windows PC's only from Santa Claus Letters and traditional images of Santa included. Personalized letter from Santa and Father Christmas. Father Christmas letters sends letters from the North Pole anywhere in the world at Christmas. We provide an interactive personalized letter from Santa in four versions. This version...
- Tags: Letter, Father Christmas Letter
- Software downloads 2008-05-14
- Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refuse
- Last week, I blogged about the possible future of a unified UNIX GPLv3 operating system "mother distro" comprising the merged source code of the Solaris and Linux kernels (and presumably, the source code of other vendors as well) and related GNU stack with associated tools and applications. ...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., SCO Group Inc., GPLv3, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
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