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- I guess this would be the ultimate BlackBerry, uh, "pocket" protector
- According to Textually.org, Swiss clothing manufacturer Isabodywear is launching a special line of men's underwear that claims to protect "men's sperm from harmful cell phone radiation".The article, translated from the original French version that appeared in the Swiss newspaper Le Matin, notes that these briefs are made with...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-20
- American competitiveness and the global economy
- Can the United States remain competitive as 3 billion people in Asia rapidly enter the global economy? It's a question asked by many people across market segments, including IT personnel who worry about offshore outsourcing and the jobs threat that poses. Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International and probably the...
- Tags: AMERICAN, Fareed Zakaria, Swiss
- Blog posts 2006-06-07
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- MeteoSwiss watches the skies in 3D
- MeteoSwiss, the Switzerland's National Weather service, is using a new system to build 3D maps of Swiss skies. This LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging weather measurement system has been developed at the Lausanne-based Federal Institute of Technology EPFL. According to EPFL, this new system will be able to provide real-time...
- Tags: 3D, Laser, MeteoSwiss, LIDAR, EPFL, Sales Force Management, Sales, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- A (Microsoft) Codename a day: Geneva
- Today's codename-contest submission is "Geneva," one of a growing number of Swiss codenames in the Microsoft family. Geneva is related to Zermatt, a previously disclosed Redmond name and, like Zermatt, has to do with federated identity. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Geneva, Codename, Microsoft Corp., Zermatt, Digital Security, Virtualization, Security, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing
- In a tunnel under the Franco-Swiss border, the world's most powerful particle accelerator passed its final test run before its full-fledged attempt on September 10. Pre-initiation testing of the Large Hadron Collider has now been completed, ahead of the particle accelerator's official launch on September 10. ...
- Tags: CERN, Tunnel, Particle, Beam, LHC, Team Management, Leadership, Management, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator
- News items 2008-08-26
- Media Leader Increases Speed, Quality of Published Stories With Focused IT Investment
- Swiss media giant Ringier wanted to transform its work environment to heighten journalist productivity to gain an edge in a competitive industry. The 7,000-employee company envisioned an "Integrated newsroom" in which its journalists around the world had technology tools to support collaboration and advanced communications. With help from partners Peaches...
- Tags: Journalist, Information Technology, Media, IT Investment, Leader, Microsoft Corp., Ringier, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Office Suites
- Case studies 2008-08-25
- Screen Ruler 3 in 1 (zip)
- Designer's Swiss Knife: have a screen ruler, a color picker and a magnifier all 3 in the same piece of software. A very light piece of software (~100KB) that doesn't require installation or additional components. Extra features: mouse coordinates indicator, banner mockup-erPacked with features: fully draggable, double edged, rotates freely...
- Tags: Alexandru Florescu, Designer, Mice, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Peripherals, Management
- Software downloads 2008-08-22
- A portable solar-powered ECG unit
- A student from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich has built a portable electrocardiogram ECG unit powered by solar energy. This system is intended for use in developing countries. The system has been named 'Kadiri' which means 'make possible' in the Tanzanian language Kiswahili. The idea for such...
- Tags: ETH Zurich, ECG, Adamczyk, Free Trade, Telecom & Utilities, Engineering, Finance, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-27
- Evil tech administrators
- Evil tech administratorsEvil Tech Admin'sI've work at a few places where some of the Admin's I worked with were a bit on the sneeky side. So As a admin I made sure there was a back door incase one fo these admins tried to pull the same stunt. Its happened...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Recruitment & Selection, administrator, network
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- A super-resolution x-ray microscope
- Swiss researchers have developed a very-high-resolution x-ray microscope. Their approach combines two well-known microscopy techniques, coherent diffractive imaging CDI and scanning transmission x-ray microscopy STXM. As a result, the new system offers both the high penetration power of x-rays and high spatial resolution. This method will allow other scientists to...
- Tags: Method, Microscope, Researcher, Imaging, Image, Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy, X-ray, EPFL, Document Management, Semiconductors, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- The 5 Stages of iPhone Acceptance
- The Five Stages of the Kübler-Ross model The iPhone has become such a part of our collective consciousness that soon entire books are going to be written about the sociological impact of such a groundbreaking, Insanely Great device. Why, it's so dammed important,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Linux, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Digital Music, Open Source, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Berlin subway ticket machines go down
- Another travel related failure... Ticket dispensers in the Berlin subway system stopped working on July 1 after a faulty update from central HQ. From Berliner Morgenpost (German translation by Debora Weber-Wulff in Risks Digest): More than 600 of the 700 ticket machines...
- Tags: Subway, Machine, Berlin, Servers, Security, Hardware, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World
- Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New Worldsmart & clean: grid parity within 24 monthsGiven the fact that the price for fossile fuels are constantly rising, solar energy is one of the most promising solutions to our dwelling energy problem. Within the Solar Market Thin film applications...
- Tags: grid parity
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Die Schweizerische Post Transforms Business With Expanded Market and Customer Insight
- Die Schweizerische Post Swiss Post is the second largest employer in Switzerland. It provides the public and business community with postal, payment, and passenger transport services. Die Schweizerische Post Swiss Post wanted to implement strategic reorientation in the wake of the liberalization of the postal market in Switzerland. The challenge...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Business Opportunity, Switzerland, Siebel Systems Inc., Free Trade, Finance
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World
- The high tech gear needed to turn out precision solar panels. Courtesy Oerlikon. Oerliklon is a venerable corporation among the Alps, publicly-traded on the Zurich stock exchange for a long time. They manufacture precision machine tools, textile equipment, other traditional industrial products. But they're...
- Tags: Photovoltaics, Oerliklon, Chris O'Brien, Oerlikon, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Auto MPG in the US, per the EPA rankings: Lamborghini #1 gas hawg
- Auto MPG in the US, per the EPA rankings: Lamborghini #1 gas hawgcomparing apples and ....When you state "the least efficient car in every category is european" you fail to see that the cars listed as the least efficient connot be compared to the most efficient cars. I dont see...
- Tags: Smart Cars, Lamborghini, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Discussion threads 2008-06-22
- Local root escalation vulnerability in Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 discovered
- Local root escalation vulnerability in Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 discoveredSurprise surpriseSo many of these, they are dime a dozen for all the operating system out there. Just do a little digging on the IRC channels if you want to see for yourself.RE: Local root escalation vulnerability in Mac...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, UNIX, System 9, Apple Macintosh, X-WINDOWS, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X 10.4
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Why is the market hammering Apple?
- Why is the market hammering Apple?iPod blows Archos out of the waterYou might want to read http://www.archos.com/corporate/investors/financial_doc/Pres_Results_ARCHOS_20080422.pdf as it will explain how Archos is exiting the PMP Portable Music Player market as fast as they can.Wow, now NZ is a stock market expert...There's no end to his skilz.I can't believe...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, stock, stock price, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Archos
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- Code execution flaws hit QuickTime again
- Code execution flaws hit QuickTime againI banned QuickTime from my systemI banned QuickTime from my systemAnd Apple wants me to store my data on their servers?Nope, Apple has proven time and time again that they simply don't know how to write secure software. How else could they turn a rock...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple QuickTime, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- Ten things missing in the iPhone 3G
- Ten things missing in the iPhone 3GYou are really reaching...Cut and paste for read-only documents? Maybe when we can edit office documents...More colors when every mac is either white or black? This isn't an ipod after all.Better camera? Ok maybe 3,4, or 5 megapixels would be better but who seriously...
- Tags: Modems, Telecom & Utilities, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, phone, Apple iPhone, camera, iPhone 3G, 3G, iphone, modem
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
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