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- What a difference one atom makes
- A new study by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science shows exactly how important a single atom can be in a complex molecule. Reporting in the Nov. 26 edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Yang Yang, a professor of materials science...
- Tags: University Of California At Los Angeles, Solar Cell, Polymer, Solarmer Energy Inc., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Bay Area: sunny upside
- The past decade has seen a surge in solar installations across the San Francisco Bay Area and the Silicon Valley leads the region. Top five counties in the region: 1. Santa Clara County [San Jose]: 2,462 solar installations 2. Alameda County...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Cisco plans 4 day shutdown to save dough
- Cisco is reportedly planning to shut down for 4 days at the end of the year for the first time in its history. According to UBS analyst Nikos Theodosopoulos Techmeme: Cisco plans a 4 day shutdown of facilities for the first time ever in the company's...
- Tags: Shutdown, Cisco Systems Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Will Storm's delays hurt RIM's Q3?
- I know you're probably on Blackberry Storm overload by now - but please indulge me once more. Last month, I asked all of you whether I should go iPhone or wait for the Storm. Overwhelmingly, you all told me to wait for the Storm, that it would be a game-changer....
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Tech respect from the YouTube administration? [Video]
- President-elect Barack Obama successfully campaigned for the nation's highest office via Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. His new administration is prying a Blackberry from his hands but he's already talking about a laptop in the West Wing. (I wonder if he's a PC or a Mac...) And there's plans for a...
- Tags: Administration, YouTube Inc., Video, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- News to know: Kumo; Zune; Storm; Google
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Would you 'Kumo' it? Phil Wainewright: When to spend cash in a SaaS business Brian Sommer: Taleo's November to forget ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Zune, RIM BlackBerry, Nokia Reliability Labs, E-mail, Home Entertainment, Handhelds, Open Source, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Facebook scores SEC exemption
- Facebook has been granted an exemption by the Securities and Exchange Commission that allows the company to not comply with the same law that pushed Google into becoming a public company. The exemption, reported by Business Week today, was granted on October 14 and allows the company to continue to...
- Tags: Facebook, Exemption, SEC, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- A guide to cutting IT costs
- Reduction of spending in the IT department is more art than science. Metri consultant Paul Michaels offers some advice on how to get it right. For the past few months everyone was hoping the IT industry might be saved the worst of the credit crunch fallout, on the...
- Tags: CIO, Benchmarking, Information Technology, IT Cost, Paul Michaels, Conundrum, Strategy, Management, IT management, costs, cutbacks, staffing, Paul Michaels silicon.com
- News items 2008-11-21
- Amazon CTO: Cloud infrastructure keeps companies focused on innovation
- On the night of the historic U.S. presidential election, news outlets across the country streamed live video of the news coverage on their Web sites. Obviously, the Web traffic that night, compared to others, was exponentially greater. But it's not as if news organizations went out and spent boatloads of...
- Tags: Innovation, Amazon.com Inc., Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- A 1.4-gigapixel camera to detect asteroids
- MIT engineers have developed silicon chips that will be at the heart of a telescope installed on Haleakala mountain, Maui, Hawaii, which will begin operation next month. The system, called Pan-STARRS for Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, is being developed at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy....
- Tags: Asteroid, Camera, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Semiconductors, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille, Earth, Pixel, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Image, Chip, Pan-STARRS
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- iPhone vs. Android development: Day 3
- This is the 3rd in a series of 5 posts about an iPhone programming course I'm taking this week. The course is presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. To make things more interesting I'm writing about how iPhone development differs from Android development, a subject with which I'm...
- Tags: OpenGL, Apple iPhone, Android, Timers, Textures Textures, MultiTouch, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Yang resignation, successor the talk of the Valley
- Silicon Valley is atwitter over what kind of CEO Yahoo needs to hire to replace the outgoing Jerry Yang. CNET's Kara Tsuboi hears opinions and analysis from some "armchair quarterbacks" over this crucial decision for the Internet giant.
- Tags: Internet, News, kara tsuboi, yahoo, jerry yang, google, shareholders, microsoft, san jose, santa clara
- Videos 2008-11-19
- Going "Core i7" - What you need!
- You know something funny, despite the current economic downturn, my Hardware 2.0 mailbox provides conclusive proof that there are folks out there who want to spend up to $1,000 on Intel's newest piece of silicon - the Core i7 processor. But what do you need to get make your "Extreme"...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Motherboard, Price, Intel Corp., Processors, Components
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Going Core i7 - What you need!
- You know something funny, despite the current economic downturn, my Hardware 2.0 mailbox provides conclusive proof that there are folks out there who want to spend up to $1,000 on Intel's newest piece of silicon - the Core i7 processor. But what do you need to get make your "Extreme"...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, intel, cpu, processor, core, i7
- Image galleries 2008-11-17
- AMD's Extreme Makeover: What the new roadmaps reveal
- Lost in all of the inaccurate commotion yesterday about AMD entering the netbook market were much broader changes in the company's product plans as it struggles to regain profitability and keep up with a deep-pocketed Intel. In the past year, AMD has announced plans to spin-off manufacturing, abandoned efforts to...
- Tags: Platform, Plan, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, DDR3, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- News to know: Storm; AMD, Intel; Tech economy reels
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Josh Taylor: Verizon announces BlackBerry Storm availability, pricing Larry Dignan: AMD unveils ‘Shanghai'; Aims to better compete with Intel AMD: Does the resurrection start...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Best Buy Co. Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Nokia Corp., Shanghai, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Challenging Silicon Valley to put poverty into a museum . . .
- I'm not washing my right hand for a while because I used it to shake the hand of Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and a person that I've held in the highest regard for many years. Mr Yunus gave the keynote speech at the Tech Museum's Tech...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Poverty, Bangladesh, Mr., Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank, Grameen Loan, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Silicon Valley's top awards
- Silicon Valley's 2008 Tech Awards: Technology Benefiting Humanity will be presented at a gala dinner this evening. The keynote speech will be delivered by Mohammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner. I'm looking forward to meeting Mr Yunus as I've been an admirer of his...
- Tags: Humanity, Applied Materials Inc., Benefits, Human Resources, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Phonetopp bringing Web conferences to smartphones
- If you've ever been tied to your desk or scrambled to find a WiFi hotspot just so you can tune into a Web conference, you'll be interested in knowing that Phonetopp, a Silicon Valley startup, is putting the finishing touches on a service that will bring the Webcast experience -...
- Tags: Phone, Sam Diaz, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Smart Phones, Web Conferencing, Phonetopp Service, Phonetopp, Smart Phone, Webcast
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
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