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Photos: Fujitsu unveils king-size fuel cell

Electronics giant inaugurates 200-kilowatt hydrogen fuel cell that will provide electricity as well as heat to buildings on its Sunnyvale campus.A proton exchange membrane PEM hydrogen fuel cell, king-size. Fujitsu inaugurated this fuel cell at its Sunnyvale, Calif., campus on Friday. The fuel cell sits in the parking lot...

Tags: Fuel cells, photograph, fuel cell, hydrogen, Fujitsu Ltd., membrane, Amdahl, Fujitsu LifeBook, steam, chair, electron, carbon dioxide, carbon, Sunnyvale, natural gas, electronics company, data center, electronics, Japan, laptop computer

Image galleries 2007-08-17

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Nokia 500 Auto Navigation

First announced at SEMA 2007, the Nokia 500 Auto Navigation system is finally hitting the streets. It's the second portable navigation device we've seen from the Finnish cell phone manufacturer (the first being the Nokia 330 Auto Navigation) and it's a big improvement over the 330. The design is a...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Nokia 500 Auto Navigation system, power button, Nokia Corp., Nokia 500, Nokia 500 Auto Navigation

Product reviews 2008-07-23

Icahn on Yahoo: I'd hire a 'talented and experienced' CEO

In his latest missive to Yahoo's board of directors, activist shareholder Carl Icahn blasts chairman Roy Bostock and outlines what he'd do if he gets control of the company's board. Right after he ditched Yahoo's poison pill, Icahn said he would "ask our new board to hire a talented...

Tags: Poison Pill, Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Plan, CEO, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?

As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...

Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Peter Mika offers bananas at Yahoo! Research

Yahoo! are certainly being a lot more open than competitors such as Google and Microsoft when it comes to talking about their use of semantic technologies. They've been active for several years in recruiting stalwarts of the Semantic Web community such as Dave Beckett, and there is a long tradition...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Qumranet's SolidICE ships as Citrix XenDesktop debut nears

KVM sponsor Qumranet launched its long awaited desktop virtualization solution today, just weeks before rival Citrix launches its own XenDesktop solution. The Sunnyvale, calif. company announced on April 30 the release of Solid ICE Independent Computing Environment, a hosted desktop virtualization product that promises desktop-like performance with...

Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Citrix Systems Inc., Qumranet, Citrix XenDesktop, Solid ICE, Desktops, Hardware, prooney

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Yahoo vs. Microsoft: Thanks for the letter Steve; Now give us more money or get lost

Yahoo on Monday responded to Microsoft's weekend "negotiate or we're launching a proxy war or pulling our offer" love letter. The gist: Increase your offer or get lost. Give credit to Yahoo for sheer moxie (or maybe it's stupidity). But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer can't be happy...

Tags: Transaction, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Value, Proposal, Steve, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-07

Ballmer tells Yahoo board: Get off the pot

On April 5, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a new missive to the Yahoo board of directors, advising them not to let "this window of opportunity pass" by failing to give in to Microsoft's acquisition offer. Ballmer told the board they have three more weeks before Microsoft...

Tags: Shareholder, Steve Ballmer, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-05

The three week Microhoo countdown begins...

Microsoft took off the gloves and gave Yahoo three weeks to negotiate or the software giant will launch a proxy war. In a Saturday memo, Microsoft dropped the negotiating through the media routine and delivered its message loud and clear: Come with us if you want to live. ...

Tags: Shareholder, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-05

Could Yahoo's 'openness' be another anti-Microsoft poison pill?

Even though Microsoft and Yahoo allegedly are at the bargaining table, I can't help but wonder what Yahoo is doing behind the scenes to minimize Microsoft's impact when and if it acquires Yahoo. We already know that Yahoo CEO Yang created golden parachutes for Yahoo employees (along...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-14

Digital Engineering Firm Enhances the Security of Its Wireless Network Connectivity

Silicon Image of Sunnyvale, CA, drives implementation of architecture and semiconductors in the consumer electronics and personal computing markets to store and distribute high-definition content. Silicon Image wanted to enhance network security by gaining more control over who connected wirelessly to its network and by enforcing stricter policies for wireless...

Tags: Silicon Image, Network, Enterasys Networks, Wireless Network, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Case studies 2008-03-06

ServerTweak choses Levanta Intrepid

I recently had a chance to communicate with Ivan Gonzalez of ServerTweak, LLC, a hosting company that's using software from Levanta. ServerTweak offers services in the following cities: California: Fremont, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Sunnyvale and Palo Alto Georgia: Atlanta Illinois: Chicago ...

Tags: Levanta Corp., ServerTweak, Levanta Data Center Automation, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Microhoo: Lots of questions and still no new answers

Microhoo: Lots of questions and still no new answersKevin Johnson is a moronKevin Johnson is a moron.Exceedingly FunnyLet me understand this. Someone at MSFT is pushing the value of competition?This comes from one of the most error prone, uninnovative companies in the world! This company cannot even figure...

Tags: Final Answer, YAHMic, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., moron, MSFT

Discussion threads 2008-02-22

Microsoft ready for proxy fight to capture Yahoo?

Microsoft ready for proxy fight to capture Yahoo?3.2. Really, this lacks style. A better approach would be to talk about howyour rep said MS is preparing the technology necessary to crush Yahoo, but, out of the goodness of their hearts, and with respect for Yahoo employees, they are doing this...

Tags: Operating systems, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., YAHMic

Discussion threads 2008-02-19

I'm starting to look forward to Micro-hoo

As Microsoft continues posturing for a hostile takeover of Yahoo, my initial reaction of detached curiosity is actually giving way to anticipation. In Ed Tech, it's rare that I'd promote a Microsoft product when solid FOSS alternatives exist. However, in the case of a Yahoo acquisition, my excitement...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Productivity, Channel Management, Wireless, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-02-11

Microsoft makes bid for Yahoo; May change the search game; Bid could rise

Microsoft said Friday that it is making an unsolicited offer of $31 a share, or $44.6 billion, to buy Yahoo in a move that would give the software giant more market share and become a significant threat to Google. In a statement, Microsoft would allow Yahoo shareholders...

Tags: Game, Shareholder, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Proposal, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Investment, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-01

Microsoft preps for hostile takeover of Yahoo!

Microsoft just announced a $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made the half-cash, half-stock offer in a brutal carrot-and-stick open letter to Yahoo!'s board of directors. The Redmond giant appears to laying the groundwork for a hostile takeover if it comes to that. Ballmer...

Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Common Stock, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-02-01

Green-walling with patented new tech

I had a serious talk with the chief of Serious Materials. And the company promises some serious energy savings with their new products. But in my talk with CEO Kevin Surace I hit a green wall on one topic: how do they make this stuff? ...

Tags: Window, Product, Aluminum, Kevin Surace, Construction, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-01-27

ATI acquisition might be key to AMD's future success

Without a doubt, 2007 was a bad year for AMD.  A price war with Intel, the acquisition of ATi, chip delays, and chip bugs.  Any one of these would have been bad, but all of these combined meant that AMD had a really tough year.  But 2008 could be a...

Tags: Silicon, Acquisition, ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, Semiconductors, Mergers & Acquisitions, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Investment, Finance, Networking, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-01-18

The Google of health care

The health care equipment market made a major turn in 2007. (Picture from Intuitive Surgical.) The old dominance of gadgets and cosmetic surgery equipment gave way to that of Intuitive Surgical. Its DaVinci robotic surgeon has made it the Google of the health care sector. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Robotics, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Robots, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-01