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iBASElite 1.1 (Mobile)

BASE stands for Building, Antenna, Span, and Earth. BASE jumping is like sky diving but you jump off a land structure instead of out of a plane. This make BASE jumping much more dangerous, since you literally only have seconds before fatal impact with the ground. Plus you don't have...

Tags: Mobile, Sea Venture, iBASElite, Backups

Software downloads 2009-06-05

iBASEjump 1.0 (Mobile)

B.A.S.E. stands for Building, Antenna, Span, Earth. BASE jumping is like sky diving but you jump off a land structure instead of out of a plane. This make BASE jumping much more dangerous, since you literally only have seconds before fatal impact with the ground. Plus you don't have a...

Tags: Mobile, Sea Venture, iBASEjump, Backups, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-01

Additional Resources

Plastic floats forever? Maybe not

There's some new research into the man-made continent of floating trash, plastic and styrofoam, that swirls in the North Pacific. Seems some of it breaks down pretty quickly. Sounds good, right? Biodegradable. But it degrades into chemicals like biphenol-A which is toxic. Oops. You...

Tags: North Pacific Corp., Ocean, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-27

One example of "smarter planet"

The smart grid for electricity has become so mainstream Congress wrote it into the stimulus law enacted earlier this year. IBM's marketing of "smarter planet" goes way beyond electricity and networked grid. I recently spoke with Drew Clark, director of strategy of IBM Venture Capital Group. And...

Tags: Sensor, Grid, IBM Corp., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-21

Green crusaders to cross Pacific in a plastic bottle

Well, not just a single plastic bottle, thousands of plastic bottles. Filled with dry ice to keep them afloat. And the crew thinks they're going to make it all the way to Australia? I know that plastic trash is indestructible, but.... Funded by a...

Tags: Bottle, Beverage, Crew, Pacific, Atlantic, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-03

Wave of the future for alternative energy?

Courtesy: Pelamis Get out your atlas, see if you can find Agucadoura, Portugal. Just three miles offshore there, these big metallic sea snakes are bobbing in the ever-restless waves of the North Atlantic. And they're generating electricity for over a thousand homes on...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Portugal, Pelamis Wave Power, Venture Capital, Telecom & Utilities, Outsourcing, Finance, Financing Startups, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Do we we have a way to defeat global warming?

Do we we have a way to defeat global warming?WORTHLESSyou article is worthless. you spew a LIE and others believe you, so you make your livelyhood on a LIE, get a real job, earn honest money,Get a clueThr Russian capitalists want more gov't control, not possible. Remember the oil...

Tags: global warming, government

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Limelight by the numbers: Akamai's thorn?

Limelight Networks may have won a medal for its role behind the scenes to keep NBCOlympics.com humming, but the company is still dwarfed by its largest rival Akamai. The big question: Does Limelight have enough headroom to gain meaningful share from Akamai? Jason Perlow detailed how content...

Tags: Patent, Akamai Technologies Inc., Limelight Networks, Jason, Company, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-18

How green could make Europe a tech power

How green could make Europe a tech powerEU IntegrationIt's funny that you think that a federal Europe is the same as a "single set of rules". American (and German, and Spanish) experience suggests the exact opposite - federal systems are designed to accommodate wide differences of culture and rules within...

Tags: Kanellos, tech power

Discussion threads 2008-03-25

Novell credits Microsoft for soaring Linux sales

Novell credits Microsoft for soaring Linux salesTrueIf Microsoft was out of touch with it's customers they would have been out of business a LONG time ago.And people still say Microsoft isout of touch with it's customers. How many years of major marketshare and hitting the sweetspot will it take...

Tags: UNIX, Sales strategy, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, SuSE, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Novell Inc., sales

Discussion threads 2007-09-28

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

News to know: Vista vulnerabilities; Apple patent; Google paid storage; Linux

Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: ATI driver flaw exposes Vista kernel to attackers.On deck: Critical Windows, Office, IE patches. Cisco.com goes dark on patch day. Cisco blog.Jason O'Grady: Apple’s multi-touch trackpad patent.Techmeme: Google goes with paid storage. Garett Rogers: Google may be preparing for GDrive with paid storage.George Ou: LinuxWorld 2007 goes...

Tags: Google Inc., Linux, LinuxWorld, Patent, Vulnerability, Storage, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-08-10

Tibco and why IT really does matter again

I really should spend more time with my sponsors of SVW. I spent most of Tuesday at Tibcos user conference, catching up with the the companys business strategy team and having some great conversations, and thinking I really should spend more time with my sponsors. Tibco, Infineon Systems, Intel, Edelman...

Tags: Enterprise IT, Disruptive, Business strategy

Blog posts 2007-05-02

Microsoft Vista delay to dampen quarterly earnings

Microsoft Vista delay to dampen quarterly earningsWait until people start using Vista and word spreads!Revenue will really fall then!The ZUNE of OS'esNot bad, not bad at all!1.3 Billion. 1.3 Billion in Vista coupons. Imagine those millions upon millions that don't know zdnet, slashdot and all other anti-ms even exist. Sure,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Vista UI, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., operating system, software, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-01-19

Poll: What technology scares you most?

Poll: What technology scares you most?Everything from MSSorry M$ fanboys.I couldn't resist another fork in the dead-before-it-launches M$ Vista cash cow.now lets move on ...What scares me?Technology that can cause "mass destruction". Bio-Virus-weapons, Nuclear bombs, & SUVs/cars.For more info see:"Planet Under Pressure" a six-part BBC News Online series looking...

Tags: Cellular phones, Cell phone owner, cell phone, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-31

HP Pavilion Media Center a1640n

We wish that HP would update the visual design of its PCs, because the gray plastic box is only a shade or two removed from the bleak sea of beige we thought we left behind five years ago. Case color aside, when you head to the store and find HP's...

Tags: Desktops, Media Center PCs, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion, PC, desktop, Media Center PC

Product reviews 2006-10-26

Americans OK with online monitoring but not wiretaps

Americans OK with online monitoring but not wiretapsDOH Spying on Web usersBased on the evidence given by the author, there was nothing in it to support the conclusion that Americans do not mind the Gov spying on their net activities. I completely disagree with the author's conclusion. Americans...

Tags: Marketing research, survey, online monitoring, monitoring

Discussion threads 2006-03-17

The next little thing: replacing oil

J. Craig Venter, the mecurial founder of Celera who can at least take credit for speeding up the pace of progress on the Human Genome, is back with a new project, the Washington Post reports: designing a bioengineered microbe that will allow sea plants to generate ethanol. And Venter...

Tags: Aristides Patrinos, Venter

Blog posts 2006-02-27

PDAmill - Arvale II: Ocean of Time (Mobile)

Arvale II is an epic Role Playing Game, with over 40 hours of gameplay, eight immense continents with over 325 maps to explore, 445 different monsters to fight against, and over 400 different items, melee weapons, and magic weapons to use.FEATURESEngage in an Epic Story involving Time Travel, Gods and...

Tags: PDAmill, Mobile, Arvale II, Games, Transportation, Pocket PC, PDAs, Handhelds, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-08-22

Introducing ZDNet's 'PhotoCasts'. Tell us what you think.

Last week, I published what amounts to the missing manual when it comes to connecting a notebook computer to the Internet through a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone. Perhaps proving that a picture is actually worth 100 words, that missing manual included almost 4000 words of text and almost 40 distinctly separate...

Tags: photocast, podcast

Blog posts 2005-08-02