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- Silicon Valley
- An area south of San Francisco, California that is noted for its huge number of computer companies. Initially, Silicon Valley was confined to the Santa Clara valley and started...
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- The machines for making TVs
- Not everything gets made overseas. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos tours the Silicon Valley facilities of Applied Materials, where they make equipment for producing televisions and solar panels.
- Tags: News, Michael Kanellos, solar, solar panels, TV's, Applied Materials, Silicon Valley, plasma, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Videos 2008-04-30
- Where's the next new thing in silicon valley?
- Excellent article by Jeff Nolan, an ex-VC, writing in SandHill.com on venture capital investments and locating the next big thing. Incrementalism and "The New New Thing" - With all the venture capital moving around in the Silicon Valley, where is the real innovation? He makes many good points...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Innovation, Web, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Leadership, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Financing Startups, Internet, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Photos: How data centers are cooling down
- Some Silicon Valley hotbeds of high-volume computing are learning to chill, one server at a time. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Data Center, Photograph, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-04-01
- Geek feast fatigue...and the key rule for startup success
- This year started off much like the prior year ended: with a cornucopia of geek conferences, salons, and media roundtables. I went to a lot last year, and enjoyed most of them. I have been going to a lot this year and I am still enjoying them....
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Sales Tools, Sales, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Abuzz over Microsoft's Yahoo bid
- On the streets of Silicon Valley Friday, everyone from software engineers to grandmas was analyzing Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi speaks with one alum of both Microsoft and Yahoo about why he favors the deal.
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., News.com, Tools & Techniques, Management, microsoft, yahoo, kara tsuboi, internet, bill gates, silicon valley, bay area
- Videos 2008-02-01
- Will a consumer recession hurt silicon valley?
- Yes. I've been writing about Silicon Valley turning into "Media Valley." Nikkei business magazine, Japan's top business magazine even featured my take on "Media Valley" earlier this year with a prominent interview. Many of Silicon Valley's biggest and fastest growing companies are media...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Google Inc., Advertisement, Google AdSense, Consumer Recession, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- Go west young engineer silicon valley needs you!
- There is an emerging crisis in Silicon Valley - there aren't enough engineers. Companies such as VMware, and the many thousands of Silicon Valley startups, are competing with the well established giants such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Symantec, and many others, for engineering talent. I wrote...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, VMware Inc., Outsourcing, Venture Capital, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Financing Startups, Human Resources, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- silicon valley, green tech and the mystery of it all
- There's another attempt by an observer to capture the essence, the source, of Silicon Valley's success at chruning out new, and sometimes successful ideas. his one happens to be from an East Coast newspaper. Bemused but impressed is the usual attitude of those who live outside the halo...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Facebook, Apple iPod, Green Technology, Article, Apple Inc., Story, Microsoft Corp., Lucasfilms, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Saving silicon valley stories
- Silicon Valley is not known for paying much attention to itself. The Computer History Museum aims to change that, and recently it held a fund raiser that also profiled four top technologists. There is a video of that event at the end of this post. It was...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Microprocessor, Computer, Chip, Productivity, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2007-10-21
- Photos: Pens get smarter
- A new crop of companies say it's too soon to write off the digital pen.The latest digital pens are a far cry from the earliest attempts to add a brain to the standard Bic. But the question remains: will these new devices be more than a curiosity? This week, Irvine,...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, photograph, pen, digital pen, writeoff, Irvine, curiosity, cry, crop, computer company, Silicon Valley, PC, California, computer, conference, game
- Image galleries 2007-08-24
- 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
- Photos: Happy developers in da house
- Some 150 people gather in a Los Gatos, Calif., mansion for SuperHappyDevHouse, a 12-hour marathon of coding, hacking and socializing.Participants of the 19th SuperHappy DevHouse hackathon session descended on Tom Harrison''s family home last weekend in Los Gatos, Calif. Harrison far left opened his house up to some 150 tech...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, SECURITY, photograph, Amit Patel, SuperHappyDevHouse, Los Gatos, Facebook, San Jose State University, hacking, chief technical officer, Ohio State University, University of Washington, online v
- Image galleries 2007-08-16
- Why silicon valley has to break the Telco/Cable Comms Cartel
- Silicon Valley is teeming with established companies and startups whose services and products require communications services. Some of the startups are called Web 2.0 companies, or social networking companies, social media companies etc. It doesn't really matter what they are called, they all require a communications component to unlock the...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, IT strategy, Disruptive
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- The Trojan Horse iPhone
- The Telcos have become the biggest obstacle to the development of new technologies and services. They have become the most backward elements in our society when it comes to rolling out new technologies, applications, and services. They have filed lawsuits to stop public wireless networks, and they constantly seek to...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Enterprise IT, Disruptive, APPL
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Next Train VTA Light Rail (widget)
- Next Train VTA Light Rail shows you when the next VTA light rail train will arrive at a given location. Valley Transit Authority VTA serves Silicon Valley. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Location, Valley Transit Authority
- Software downloads 2007-06-13
- Photos: Under the hood of the Tesla Roadster
- Mechanical engineers in Silicon Valley get an up-close look at Tesla Motors' electric sports car Thursday.
- Tags: Silicon Valley, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-05-04
- Sunday News Watch: GigaOm sues hard drive makers; Scoble drops Twitter; Carr says IT matters; Edelman fakes own blog; O'Reilly 2.0; IBM's 300; 3Com buys Cisco unit; Fiorina coming back?
- Om Malik sends out cease and desist warnings. Dont Giga anything if you know whats good for you. "Steve Jobs is my hero, and the other night, when I was thinking about Steve, I thought, yes, I should sue too... Steve is an incredibly inspiration," said Mr Malik. Dave Winer...
- Tags: Silicon Valley
- Blog posts 2007-04-01
- There's little chance Eclipse will suffer the same mistakes as Java
- Colleague and frequent SOA Insights Edition contributor Tony Baer at OnStrategies has a nice context analysis of recent Eclipse Foundation news, and he wonders if Eclipse may be extending itself too thinly. He says this would follow the mistakes of the waning role of the Java Community Process JCP.I think...
- Tags: Programming languages, Java development tools, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Eclipse
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- silicon valley is turning into media valley
- Silicon Valley is rapidly turning into Media Valley--and New York, NY should look out--the capital of the media world is shifting about 3,000 miles westwards.Some of Silicon Valleys largest companies are media companies: Google, Yahoo, EBay, for example are media companies--they publish pages of content and advertising around it.Some of...
- Tags: Trend watch, Silicon Valley
- Blog posts 2007-02-25
- Photos: Sex, silicon valley and video tape
- San Francisco video installation explores the identity of Silicon Valley's millionaire businessmen.
- Tags: video, Silicon Valley, millionaire, identity, San Francisco, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-02-24
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