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Craft Brewery to Boost Productivity and Manageability With Operating System Upgrade

Sierra Nevada operates 150 workstations across the enterprise. From research and development to accounting, the company employs technology to ensure the highest levels of quality. In this spirit, Sierra Nevada was seeking a technology solution to make it easier for employees to find relevant product-testing data and other documentation. The...

Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Sierra Nevada, Microsoft Windows, Workstations, Operating Systems, Research & Development, Software, Business Operations

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Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Best cars, trucks, minivans, SUVs and hybrids

The auto industry may be in a tizzy, but that doesn't mean you can't get a great deal on a new vehicle. And who doesn't love a little holiday cheer in the form of a four-wheel gift? Here are 2008's best cars, trucks, minivans, SUVs and...

Tags: Car, Page, SUV, Honda Motor Co., Minivan, Manufacturer, Manufacturing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Court's decision is boon for alternative energy

Good news for alternative energy technologies: An environmental review board has shot down EPA approval of a new coal plant, saying that the Environment Protection Agency needs to come up with nationwide standards for dealing with carbon dioxide. Wired reports that the decision means lengthy and stricter...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Election-day technology watches the polls

I'm in Reno, Nevada, preparing to do some poll watching for the Obama campaign. We went to a training last night where they explained what seems like a convoluted reporting system, but organizers promise it actually works well. Poll watchers basically hang around and wait for the...

Tags: Election Day, Poll, Obama, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Marketing, Human Resources, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-04

States bear down on security breaches

States bear down on security breachesThis makes me sickState and local governments, including the state of Nevada, routinely post all sorts of personal information on the internet in the clear, and without encryption. I just went browsing through the Nevada court system case files, and there is lots of...

Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, security, security breach

Discussion threads 2008-10-16

States bear down on security breaches

Nevada is at the forefront of states that are passing laws requiring businesses – even small businesses – to encrypt customer data, The Wall Street Journal reports. The Journal tells the story of Alicia Granstedt, a Las Vegas hair stylist, who used to accept credit card numbers over email...

Tags: Security, Law, Nevada, Journal, E-mail, Sales Channel, Regulations, Financial Services, Online Communications, Sales, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-16

Sprint's Xohm service and the first "WiMax" review

[Update 10/2/08: Hands-on reviews of Sprint's Xohm service, which is based on Mobile WiMax, have now been posted at LaptopMag.com (XOHM WiMAX In Baltimore: Speed Tests With XOHM ExpressCard) and PCMag.com Sprint XOHM Mobile WiMAX.] No sooner had Sprint flipped the switch on its WiMax wireless broadband...

Tags: Mobile, Sprint Xohm, Clearwire Corp., Sprint Communications, Service, Laptop Card, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-09-29

What are we breathing now? Let me guess...

There may be a partial answer at a newly created section of the EPA website. It lists all admitted toxic emissions from factories, government operations and other facilities around the U.S. Here's where you can go search your own zip code, or the one for your kid's school....

Tags: Food, ZIP Code, Refinery, Chevron Corp., Food & Beverage, Web Site Development, Financial Statements, Web Technology, Manufacturing, Internet, Financial Accounting, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-10

Lawns getting greener

The Environmental Protection Agency is moving up the restrictions on emissions fron many small engines. This will include outboard motors lawnmowers. Those new, small conbustion engines will have to get cleaner over the next few years. Perhaps they can couple that move with a little...

Tags: Lawn, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Wordcamp 2008

In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...

Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-16

Nuclear renaissance has sprung a leak, or several leaks

Nuclear renaissance has sprung a leak, or several leaksWe certainly do know what to do with the waste.The waste from fission reactors can be reprocessed to recover unused fuel, while the rest can be condensed and stored. We have a waste repository waiting in Nevada (you know, the place...

Tags: leak, renaissance, nuclear energy, Nuclear renaissance, Nuclear Waste

Discussion threads 2008-08-10

Day 1: iPhone Dev Camp 2

iPhone development has been strong for over a year now. Ever since the device debuted in June of 2007, people have been hacking away at the platform. Now, in the summer of 2008, we have an SDK. We are now allowed to build and submit apps that...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., App, iPhone Development, iPhone App, Device, Tapulous, August Joki, 3G, Corporate Communications, XML, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-02

New ranking of the most solar-friendly utilities

Not surprisingly, California-based utilities boast the highest percentage of solar-sourced power integrated into their electricity portfolios, according to a new report released by the Solar Electric Power Association. Southern California Edison and Pacific, Gas & Electric emerged as the utilities with the largest overall solar capacity by...

Tags: Hawaii, Capacity, mW, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-27

Bookmark this: Three Web sites to aid the green cause

"EcoSearch this" doesn't have quite the same ring as "Google this," but the non-profit is hoping to harness the power of the Google search engine to help raise money for environmental non-profits including the Sierra Club, TreePeople, RainForest Alliance, National Resource Defense Council, Heal the Bay, Healthy Child, Healthy World...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-19

(Photos: World's most efficient solar dish?)

(Photos: World's most efficient solar dish?)Oh my what will the utility companies have to say about this?I am sure the utility companies will find reasons to downplay or eliminate this concept. Just like they make it financially impossible for the average American to afford to put up windmills for...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, wind generator, solar dish, dish, photograph, utility company

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

MIT students making solar power realistic

MIT students making solar power realisticno kiddingIn fact, the researchers believe that, because they can concentrate the heat from the sun so intensely, any water run near the focus could easily be vaporized to run a turbine and generate electricity.For crying out loud.I'm getting so tired of this.Here's all you...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, UCSD, Peak-Power, solar energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SolarCity

Discussion threads 2008-06-22

Cell phone as desktop computer

Cell phone as desktop computerGood stuffThat is a really good idea and if Microsoft doesn't implement it, someone will like meS. Jobs said something similar not too long agoIn a WSJ interview he said that he thought we'd see most big advances come from "devices" rather than normal computers.The conversation...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Desktops, phone, computer, cell phone, desktop, desktop computer, docking station, keyboard

Discussion threads 2008-06-20

RingtoneExpress (exe)

Instantly convert YouTube videos, MP3 and WMA music into ringtones for your mobile phone. Stop getting ripped off and make ringtones from your own music today and never pay for a ringtone again. Compatible with most mobiles including BlackBerry, Windows Mobile's, Nokia's, etc (Audiovox SMT 5600,Motorola MPx220,Dopod 515,Orange SPV C500,Sierra...

Tags: Mobile, Music, SmartphoneCandy, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-06-19

Two radically opposed views of global warming bill: fighting it will bring health and welfare, or end our currently blessed state of being. You get to watch the battle.

The US Senate is the first national battleground for an attempt to get the federal government to take action to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. We already know the attempt by more than a dozen states to raise auto emission standards was stopped by the EPA earlier this year. ...

Tags: America, Health Care, U.S. Senate, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-03

San Jose's hipster festival: Zero 1 - Art on the Edge

For at least five days San Jose, California, is the hipster capital of the west. It is Silicon Valley's answer to Sundance and South-by-South-yawn-West. Here is a flavor of what's in store (video by Lucaso and Laura]: ...

Tags: Festival, San Jose, Steve Dietz, Ryoji Ikeda, Corporate Communications, Virtual Reality, Sales Force Management, Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-06-03