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- Steve Jobs: Silicon Valley's Babe Ruth (and Fortune's CEO of the decade)
- Love or hate Apple but you have to give Steve Jobs his due -- he has an amazing track record of success, and he's not done yet... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- GOOG Chief: Silicon Valley's secret is its weather
- Yes, the secret to Silicon Valley is its remarkable weather. The universities, the venture capital, the innovation are all secondary... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Google Inc., Weather, Secret, Venture Capital, Leadership, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Splunk 4.0.5 (Mac)
- Splunk is a Silicon Valley company inventing large-scale, high-speed indexing and search technology for IT infrastructures. The company's freely downloadable software indexes and makes it possible to search and navigate data from any application, server or network device in real time. Logs, configurations, messages, traps and alerts, scripts and metrics....
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Compliance, Splunk, Business Services, Networking
- Software downloads 2009-10-26
- Caltech develops robot with digital camera to study sight restoration
- That's not Wall-E, but Cyclops, a four-wheeled robot developed by Caltech scientists for studying possible forms of sight restoration with the help of a digital camera planted in the eye of the robot. According to CNET, the movements of the digital camera eye could "help refine...
- Tags: California Institute Of Technology, Digital Camera, Camera, Retinal, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Robots, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Emerging Technologies, Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Gartner: 'Worst year ever' for IT spending
- At the Gartner Symposium/ITExpo 2009 in Orlando, Fla., Peter Sondergaard, a senior vice president of research at Gartner, says 2009 was the worst spending cycle ever. He adds that Silicon Valley will no longer be in charge of the rebound and emerging regions will drive IT spending and how it's...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., IT-spending, Gartner
- Videos 2009-10-19
- Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials - a potent Silicon Valley workforce
- Where will Silicon Valley get it's workforce for the turnaround? It could be a potent combination of Boomers, Gen X and Millennials... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Generation X, Workforce, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Starbucks Card Mobile for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)
- Starbucks Card Mobile for iPhone is the fastest most convenient way to pay at Starbucks. It is the companion to your Starbucks Card. With Starbucks Card Mobile for iPhone, you can check your balance, reload your card, view transactions, and in 16 select Starbucks stores in Silicon Valley and Seattle...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Card, Mobile, Starbucks Corp., Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-10-07
- The new way to get rooftop solar installed: standard-sized shingles
- Old newsUni-solar has done this already. They may look better compared to a normal panel installation. But most thin-films are only 5-9 % efficiency compared to silicon with is 10-16 %. Plus the heat can drop this efficiency due to the lack of underside cooling.RE: The new way to get...
- Tags: Semiconductors, UNI-SOLAR
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- Windows 7, a better power saver?
- At Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus, ZDNet's Sumi Das talks to Microsoft's chief environmental strategist, Rob Bernard, about power-saving features in the new Windows 7 operating system. Bernard says Microsoft made energy efficiency a core design element, with better battery optimization, and Bluetooth and DVD features that won't be activated until...
- Tags: Battery, Microsoft Corp., Bernard, Microsoft Windows 7, Engineering, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Rob Bernard, Bluetooth, Microsoft, Windows 7
- Videos 2009-10-05
- Better together: Engineering Collaboration at the Heart of Breakthrough Capability with VMware software and Intel hardware
- Intel has a well established rhythm of technology innovation - and a lot of really smart architects who know a thing or two about cpu design - but we get innovative ideas from the outside, too. Over the years of the VMware alliance, Intel has received many requests for small...
- Tags: Software, Collaboration, VMware Inc., CPU, Intel Hardware, Intel Corp., Virtualization, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2009-10-01
- Would you buy a personal supercomputer (for $8K)?
- Silicon Graphics International today unveiled a "personal supercomputer," called the Octane III, with a price tag that starts at $7.995. For some reason - and maybe it's just me - I just can't seem to figure out who the target customer is for this machine. I think...
- Tags: Supercomputer, High-performance, Silicon Graphics Inc., Leadership, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- VCs find living dinosaurs...in Detroit
- Despite the billions in loans and bailouts and the much abllyhooed re-org of Chrysler and GM, some prominent Silicon Valley investment leaders find Detroit's auto industry hopeless and heedless of the needed innovation. They see a new American auto industry far away in miles and mentality from Detroit once-bug-three....
- Tags: Detroit, Plug-in, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- Green shoots in Silicon Valley and the PowerPoint recovery
- Rarely has a PowerPoint presentation had as much destructive effect as Sequoia's "RIP" deck . . . by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Tom Foremski, Recovery, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- How a software engineer tried to save his sister and invented a breakthrough medical device
- I meet a lot of Silicon Valley companies but rarely do I come across a story as inspiring as this one. Robert Goldman is the founder of Vascular Designs, a company that just won FDA approval to sell a breakthrough medical device that could save the lives of countless terminally...
- Tags: Software, Medical Device, Robert Goldman, Federal Government, Healthcare, Government, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Burning Man and geek culture
- Silicon Valley and it's links to the radical Burning Man festival in the desolate outback of Nevada. by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Silicon Valley has one hand tied behind its back
- Silicon Valley companies are ignoring a massive resource, they are trying to succeed with one arm tied behind their backs... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Tom Foremski, Silicon Valley Company
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in New York City
- Developers, developers, developers, developers... [nt][nt]Here's to that rounding error getting smaller:DRE: Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in New York CitySweet! Wish I could be there to see it. Who knows, maybe something will come up in NYC and I'll be there.RE: Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in...
- Tags: Chipsets, Branding, developer, Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ballmer, Gigabyte Technology, motherboard, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-08-27
- Southern California Edison's new mega contract for solar megawatts
- You can add another 170,000 homes to the solar capacity that Southern California Edison hopes to support in Southern California. The utility has signed a deal with First Solar to build out two projects in Riverside and San Bernardino counties with a generation capacity of 550 megawatts...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, First Solar Inc., San Bernardino, KWh, mW, Southern California Edison, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- News to know: SOA, Google Voice app; Twitter bots; Google Wave; Clunkers
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Joe McKendrick: More SOA tools emerge in the cloud Jason Hiner: Forget the iPhone app, Google Voice coming as...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Jason Perlow, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Bot, Twitter, Attack, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), XML, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- News to know: Green Silicon Valley, Napping datacenters, Craigslist prostitution, Clearwire
- News to know: Green Silicon Valley, Napping datacenters, Craigslist prostitution, Clearwireio[puBlue ray DVD Ripper///Blu ray DVD Burner
- Tags: Data centers, Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer electronics, data center, Green Silicon Valley, Clearwire Corp., Craigslist
- Discussion threads 2009-07-28
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