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Does GM now mean 'green motors'?: Does GM now mean 'green motors'?It's a startand that's good. Looks like Detroit is getting the message to green up and increase economy or their going to get the snot kicked out of them by the Japanese and Germans. ]:)If it can break up the OPEC hold on usand tip...; Tags: Sales strategy, Engineering, Spare Parts, General Motors Corp., electric car, Roadster; Discussion threads 2007-12-14

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Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature: There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...; Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Photos: Cracking open the Atari 2600: Check out the joystick ports, circuitry, and other parts that made the venerable game console tick.The Atari 2600 in all its cracked-open glory. I never owned one of these consoles--I was an Intellivision II man. (George Plimpton convinced me it was better.) Do you still play your Atari 2600?...; Tags: Joystick, Photograph, Atari Inc., CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-15
Ask.com buys Dictionary.com; Bolsters reference content: Ask.com plans to buy Lexico Publishing Group, the company behind Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com, for an undisclosed sum. The fourth largest search engine briefed a few reporters on its plans such as News.com's Stephen Shankland. The deal is expected to be officially announced Thursday. ...; Tags: Ask.com, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Photos: Where the building is the network: The San Jose, Calif., headquarters of Echelon, maker of technologies for smart buildings, model the company's energy management systems.Behind the scenes of "smart" buildings, including the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Sears Tower in Chicago, lies technology from Echelon. The company doesn''t call its embedded control technologies "green,"...; Tags: Network, Echelon, Photograph, Building, It', Echelon', That', Networking, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-14

Could "not so high end" gaming systems tarnish Alienware's reputation?: Could "not so high end" gaming systems tarnish Alienware's reputation?Processor Assumption, yes, GPU... NO.Actually while I agree with your point that the Phenom CPU is not the fastest Quad Core CPU on the market at all, the ATI Graphics card (the X2 model mentioned) is indeed the fastest current single...; Tags: Games, Alienware, game; Discussion threads 2008-05-13
The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers: The greatest advantage of the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. The biggest problem with the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. Ironic, isn't it? The sheer number of choices means you can almost certainly...; Tags: Problem, Driver, OEM, Graphics Subsystem, Vista/Server 2008/Win7 Ecosystem, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Notebooks, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Could "not so high end" gaming systems tarnish Alienware's reputation?: Just as it seems that Dell is exiting the high-end gaming PC market by ditching the XPS line, Alienware announced its entry into the "not so high end" gaming market. Is this a good move for Alienware or could it dilute a brand considered to represent extreme gaming? ...; Tags: Alienware, Games, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-13
IDX Variable Constraint System for AutoCAD 2007 (exe): The Variable Constraint System provides variational sketching functionality within AutoCAD. It enables geometric or dimensional constraints to be applied that control relationships between drawn objects. Constraints may be applied to unbound lines, circles, ellipses, arcs, splines, points, and specific geometries in two dimensions, or a two-dimensional subspace of three dimensions....; Software downloads 2008-05-13
IDX Variable Constraint System for AutoCAD 2008 (exe): The Variable Constraint System provides variational sketching functionality within AutoCAD. It enables geometric or dimensional constraints to be applied that control relationships between drawn objects. Constraints may be applied to unbound lines, circles, ellipses, arcs, splines, points, and specific geometries in two dimensions, or a two-dimensional subspace of three dimensions....; Tags: Constraint, AutoCAD, Variable Constraint System; Software downloads 2008-05-13
Call for military to operate botnet: Call for military to operate botnetI'd volunteer my PCs to help.If they did this above-board, with a SETI screen saver style app we could install deliberately, I'd bet they could have 50 million machines ready to help with this in a matter of weeks.RE: Call for military to operate botnetI'd...; Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), SECURITY, NETWORKING, Internet Service Provider, attack, Internet; Discussion threads 2008-05-12
AMD rejiggers management; Forms central engineering group: AMD on Monday named a new head of its computing solutions group and created a central engineering unit to improve execution at the chipmaker. Among the moving parts: Randy Allen was promoted to lead the computing solutions group at AMD, which focuses on the...; Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Workstations, Processors, Human Resources, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refuse: Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refusewell can we trust Novell to anything now sincethey made deal with MS ......Don't think so. Well even if thay you be very nice to have a unix-fication under a mother distro .....im worry that MS goes up with dirty...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Virtualization, OPEN SOURCE, toughie, Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., NOVELL HAS; Discussion threads 2008-05-12
Microsoft adding 10,000 new datacenter servers a month: Microsoft adding 10,000 new datacenter servers a monthWell, MS probably did not want anybody to know this. They sure do now wantto appear to be agreeing that cloud computing is the way to go while they try to hold on to the twin cash cows as long as possible. But,...; Tags: Data centers, Servers, Blade servers, Virtualization, Utility computing, new datacenter server, datacenter server, server, data center, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-05-12
U.S. sold 3,500 fake networking parts: U.S. sold 3,500 fake networking partsU.S. and fake networking partsWow!This is really discouraging. Our Federal government is so IT incompetent that they have bought fake parts. Even the Navy bought lousy stuff. They are lucky the fake parts did not cause a security problem or so they are saying...but do...; Tags: Federal government, networking part, fake networking part, Federal Reserve Board, network; Discussion threads 2008-05-12
News to know: Facebook; OpenOffice; Firefox; RIM: Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Firefox 3 RC1 code complete, due in late May Joe McKendrick: Is anyone ready to process a trillion events per day? Tom Foremski: Informatica is on the block say senior sources Michael Krigsman: Hosted...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Facebook, OpenOffice, Research In Motion Ltd., Mozilla Firefox, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Microsoft Windows XP, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Will Microsoft kill Linux on ULPCs?: Will Microsoft kill Linux on ULPCs?Familiar or not, it's still XP.That will be a huge achillies heel for MS. XP runs well on modest desktops and notebooks. Not fast, but well. Take the EEE, it can run XP, however, it is slower, and as you stated, the...; Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, EEE, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Xandros; Discussion threads 2008-05-11
U.S. sold 3,500 fake networking parts: Contractors and subcontractors have ripped off the federal government for about $3.5 million in bogus networking parts, an FBI investigation has revealed. According to Reuters, Operation Cisco Raider revealed some 3,500 fake versions of Cisco equipment were sold to federal agencies. The counterfeit parts moved from companies...; Tags: U.S., Network, FBI, Investigation, Federal Government, Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Government, Marketing, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-11
Is anyone ready to process a trillion events per day?: What is event processing and how could it make a difference? Here is one example of where it could take us: Scientists are talking about the possibility of an in-body network that could detect heart attacks or diabetic collapses and alert emergency services. A typical company deals...; Tags: Event, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Sales Strategy, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-05-11
Why do Macs need so much fixing?: Last weekend, in the course of a column about Steve Ballmer, my colleague Larry Dignan tossed an offhand shout-out in my general direction: When Ed Bott has a series on how to fix–or at least cope with Vista–you know this OS isn't so hot. Why should this thing need...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-05-09