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Tech Awards honor techy solutions for developing world

From one-time-use syringes to fire logs made from an invasive African plant, the 2008 Tech Awards honored five innovators with $50,000 for creating technology solutions for problems in developing countries. CNET's Kara Tsuboi learns more about these seemingly simple solutions that have potential to make a big impact.

Tags: Solution, Free Trade, Finance, News, kara tsuboi, the tech, tech awards, san jose convention center, developing countries, 3rd world, india, china, asia, building, syringe, schools

Videos 2008-11-13

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A single national market for health care

health care should wait untill we get rid of the liberals in the governmentonce the Democrats are no longer in power we could start talking about some real healthcare reform based on tax credits and tort reform.Socialist ideeas like single payer or public option are a non starter.Heaven forbid, a...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Healthcare reform, health care

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

News to know: Kanye West; Bing Visual Search; Quicken-Mint; Sprint; 802.11n, Intel

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. Oliver Marks: Kayne West Influences Enterprise Social Business Strategy Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Bing gets visual search; full...

Tags: Larry Dignan, IEEE 802.11n, Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, Sprint Communications, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Wi-Fi, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Wireless And Mobility

Blog posts 2009-09-15

Kayne West Influences Enterprise Social Business Strategy

Business ToolsI recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.Patriciahttp://dataentryjob-s.comdude, you can't even spell his name rightits KANYE...

Tags: Kanye West, Kayne West Influences Enterprise Social Business Strategy

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Search engine lets you earn 'swag' on behalf of reforestation program

I am sure you have heard about or maybe even used some of the Web search engine sites that will donate something somewhere if you use their lesser-known technology instead of uber-search engines like Google, Yahoo or Bing. One example is GoodSearch, which will give money to your specified registered...

Tags: Search Engine, Recycling, Redemption, Swagbucks.com, Games, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-30

Photos: Loaded with promise in the R&D pipeline

Before fax machines, ATMs, and LCDs became everyday tech, they were recipients of R&D 100 awards. Here are some of this year's winners. by CNET News.com

Tags: R&D, Photograph, Research & Development, Fax, ATM, Business Operations, Networking, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-08-19

News to know: Google Books, Yahoo's Search Pad; CrunchPad; 99-cent netbook; Psystar; SAP war chest

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. Richard Koman: DOJ confirms Google Books investigation Sam Diaz: Can Yahoo steal the search throne from Google with Search...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo Search, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Video, Psystar, Sam Diaz, Netbook, Corporate Communications, Projectors, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Open Source, Marketing, Hardware, Components

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Interview with HP user group president Nina Buik

The advent of social media has made a big difference at Connect -- the independent user organization representing 50,000 professionals using Hewlett-Packard technology products and services. "We used to conduct a worldwide survey of our members and have to wait until all the data was compiled and...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Social Media, Connect, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-16

LEDs get royal treatment, will they save the planet?

Hey, even Buckingham Palace, seat of the one of the most traditional, old-fashioned, archaic, medaeval institutions--that being British monarchy--has converted to LEDs. Can Congress and Exxon be that far behind? Of course the royal family can do such things by fiat, they need not appeal to investors, lobbyists...

Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-31

Social PR Survey II: Continued disconnect between clients, agencies

Back in February I published the results of a social public relations survey that attempted to gauge client satisfaction levels with their current PR agencies. What showed up was dismal - and really showed that client trust in their agencies was low. Given that data, and several...

Tags: Agency, Social Media, Client, Survey, Advertising & Promotion, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-05-11

America's greenest town?

It's hard to get past the coincidental. This town is named GREENSburg, Kansas. Is this fate set in motion more than a century ago? Serendipity? Some hidden screenwriter have a hand in all this? Greensburg was just another shrinking town surrounded by ever-larger,...

Tags: Kansas, Town, Tornado, NEW Greensburg, Food & Beverage, Web Site Development, Manufacturing, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-19

News to know: Microsoft; Facebook; Acer; WiFi health scare

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. Larry Dignan: Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patent Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft delivers SQL Server 2008 SP1 Adrian...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Health Care, Wi-Fi, Microsoft Corp., Acer Inc., TechMeme, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals

Blog posts 2009-04-09

Variquest proves it's OK to use paper sometimes

Regular readers will know that I'm a pretty big tree hugger. I'm not quite as militant as my wife, but anywhere I can use technology to eliminate the use of paper, conserve resources, or otherwise migrate educational "stuff" whatever that might be online, I'm there. Thus,...

Tags: Poster, Education, Graphics, Teacher, Printing, Variquest, Bumper Sticker, Printers, Document Management, Productivity, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-03

News to know: Salesforce.com; SXSW; Cisco; HP

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. Larry Dignan: Salesforce.com: Pondering the next 10 years   Sam Diaz: SMBs to Salesforce: We want more SaaS ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Cisco Systems Inc., SXSW, Microsoft Windows, Sales Force Management, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Spotlight on Austin: Dachis Corporation's Peter Kim

South by Southwest Interactive SXSWi kicks off tomorrow in good ol' Austin, Texas. While a lot of companies from all over creation are heading down south to network and display and launch new technologies, there's a bevy of innovation and creativity coming out of the city as well. I...

Tags: Austin, Social Media, Endgame, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-03-12

Green is still Gold (But Beware of the Politics of Gesture)

Foolhardy it may be to go out on a limb here to take on my boss (in this carnation I mean my editor, Larry Dignan) and a force of nature that is my fellow ZDNET blogger Dennis Howlett but I have to disagree with both on the subject of viability of the green market....

Tags: Sustainability, Oracle Corp., Gesture, Dennis, Hugh McLeod, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-02-28

Psst- Your software vendor is really not that into you!

[caption id="attachment_355" align="alignnone" width="359" caption="Your Tech Vendor is Just NOT That Into You!"][/caption] Is your tech vendor really your ‘strategic partner’? Probably not! Software vendors, do you believe your solution is a strategic solution? Do your sales people promise a ‘strategic partnership’ between your...

Tags: Software, Partnership, Vendor, Customer, Firm, Partner, Business Structures, Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Sales, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-27

News to know: Intel, IBM; Apple; SOA

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. Larry Dignan:  IBM job cuts underway Intel restructures manufacturing ops; 5,000 to 6,000 workers hit Sam Diaz: Wall...

Tags: Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), GPS, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Recruitment & Selection, Handhelds, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Sales, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-22

The best of the "Best of CES"

The Consumer Electronics Show wrapped up on Sunday, and by now the many Best of CES lists have been posted. Every year there are a few blockbusters that show up on nearly everyone's list. This year the darlings were the Palm Pre and the Sony VAIO P Series, a tiny...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Sony Corp., Phone, PC, Palm Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LG Electronics Inc., PC World, Laptop Computer, Yahoo Tech, PC Magazine, Desktops, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Hardware, Tablets, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-01-14

Latest Psystar wacky claim: OS X never copyrighted (!???)

Latest Psystar wacky claim: OS X never copyrighted (!???)HmmmmmmmHas anyone discovered who the REAL financial backers of Psystar are? I gotta believe that with all this legal stuff going one, there are some rather deep pockets involved. It would be interesting to know the rest of the story.WHO SHOT J.R....

Tags: Sales strategy, Apple Mac OS X, Psystar, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-23