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- Oil-staters win hybrid competition!
- Texas A and M has turned out its share of petroleum engineers over the decades that crude oil has fuelled the Texas economy. Just recently the university beat the field in a race featuring student built hybrid cars! And the race was not even held in...
- Tags: Texas, Brigham Young, Web Site Development, Telecom & Utilities, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- When Americans were well-trained
- There was a time when Americans could take the train, and go places. Schedules then connected towns and cities more than once per day. Here's what one curious person discovered about travel in his area a century ago, before cars ruled. There currently is deep...
- Tags: America, Texas, Mph, Real Estate, Blogging, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Leaked memo reveals T-Mobile 3G expansion plans in 40+ U.S. cities
- I don't like to dabble too much in unconfirmed rumors, but "unofficial" T-Mobile blog TmoNews has what appears to be an internal T-Mobile e-mail outlining 3G expansion plans for the fourth-largest carrier in America in several medium and large U.S. cities in the coming year. The list...
- Tags: Colorado, Texas, T-Mobile, Arizona, 3G, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Thin Clients, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- Texas senate: Remember XP!
- This, I think it's fair to say, is the essence of micro-management. Sure, there are very good reasons for state agencies not to upgrade to Vista. But don't you think that's a call for the state CEO, not the state Senate? Computerworld reports that the Texas senate...
- Tags: Texas, Agency, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- Texas Democrats push ODF standard
- Texas Democrats are trying to make open source into a partisan issue. Their vehicle is HB 481, authored by Marc Veasey of Ft. Worth, who has sought to make a reputation as a thorn in the side of Texas' ruling Republicans, supporting hate crimes legislation, mass transit,...
- Tags: Texas, Democrat, OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Wordpress BBQ at Conjunctured Ranch
- Now this is real Texas BBQ. In San Francisco, shared work spaces are common, but I was surprised to see one in Texas. The locals here do say that this is like the Silicon Valley of the heartland. ...
- Tags: Barbecue, Texas, Wordpress, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-03-15
- Where to try Madoff and Satyam's Raju? Texas!
- 60 Years for Texas Ponzi Schemer Texas is not a place where you want to be tried for crimes. Take it from someone who lived most his life there, criminality is very much frowned upon there. I grew up in a rural Texas county that due to...
- Tags: Texas, Satyam, Financial Accounting, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- New AMD campus in Texas earns Gold-level green building credentials
- If you're keeping count on the green credentials of your suppliers, chalk up another point for the in-house green team at Advanced Micro Devices. The company has built itself a compelling case study candidate for green headquarters sites: it has just achieved a Gold-level certification under the...
- Tags: Texas, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Campus, Construction, Quality, Team Management, Channel Management, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-01-18
- BearingPoint Transforms the Way Texas Conducts Business
- In eight years, BearingPoint has helped Texas build an innovative, cost-effective online portal that seamlessly integrates state and local governments into a "One-stop shop" for individuals and businesses. TexasOnline, a fully integrated web portal and e-commerce solution, is the official e-government website for the state of Texas. Since its inception...
- Tags: Texas, BearingPoint Inc., Portals, Web Technology, E-government, E-business/E-Commerce, Government, Business Structures, Internet, Finance
- Case studies 2008-12-01
- Deep in the heart of Texas: Electronics recycling infrastructure expanded
- The vendor-funded recycling organization MRM more formally known as Electronic Manufacturers Recycling Management Company has inked a deal with Goodwill Industries in Texas that will extend the territory it can cover in the state. MRM was started as a joint venture by Panasonic Corp. of America, Sharp...
- Tags: Texas, Electronics, MRM DOES, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Texas gov. intercedes in failing IBM project
- Texas Governor, Rick Perry, ordered state agencies to stop transferring data to IBM to prevent data loss on a failing project. Here's what's going on with this failure-in-progress. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Texas, IBM Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Michael Krigsman, Agency, State, Backups, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- The real life cost of trying to ignore nature
- Down along the Texas Gulf Coast this week, man's arrogance has been hard hit by Ike. Even the Texas land commissioner is now muttering about things like zoning and building restrictions. I hope that guy has secret service level protection. Them's fightin' words down in the Lone...
- Tags: Texas, Beach, State Legislature, Land Guy, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Haves vs. haves: corn and cows and the men who love them
- We urbanites are sitting in the bleachers for what portends to be a helluva gladiatorial battle. Corn. Cows. And it's all being fought over energy and centers, as all fine money matters in "cleantech," around the EPA. Here's what's up: Texas is a...
- Tags: Biofuel, Texas, Corn, Iowa, Generation Biofuel Folk, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- Texas oilman strikes blow for wind, predicts ever higher oil prices
- T. Boone Pickens has made a little money in the oil business. According to Forbes in 2007 Pickens was one of the 117th richest people in America, worth about $3 bills, in as in billions. That's only about one-fourth of what he reportedly intends to invest in wind...
- Tags: Oil, Texas, T. Boone Pickens, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-27
- Texas: more than just oil and politicians
- Texas. Oil. Politicians. From LBJ to George W, Texas has brought us oil, war and big military budgets. Well, now there are some subversives sneaking yet another energy business onto the scene down Texas way. Wind! Course, much of the ooomph is coming from those dread...
- Tags: Texas, Vestas, Banking, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Coal may get a nasty black eye from Federal Government
- It seems the Bush Administration is re-considering its support of an experiemental showcase coal-burning plant to generate electricity. Recently it was announced that FutureGen would be built in Mattoon, Illinois. An Administration spokesperson didn't complain because the plant was NOT sited in Texas, instead it's claimed to be...
- Tags: Illinois, Texas, FutureGen, Business Structures, Government, Federal Government, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- Illinois beats Texas in the Coal Bowl
- The winner is: Mattoon, Illinois. That's where the FutureGen coal-burning, state-of-the-engineering electrcity generating plant will be built. The tech going into this plant will as near carbon neutral as current science and engineering can make it. I'm surprised Texas didn't win, but it was a...
- Tags: Illinois, Texas, Winner, Plant, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- You've been slimed (or, algae as a biofuel source)
- Me and algae, we go way back. (So far back, in fact, that I don’t remember what the proper grammar should be for the previous sentence.) I can recall ponds smothered in algae during a couple of 8th grade field trips focused on gathering data for my...
- Tags: El Paso Corp., Acre, Oil, Texas, Carbon Dioxide, Bonus, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- What it means to be "targeted".
- Imagine this scenario. You are a financially stable business person with a couple of homes. One day you are included is a list of "wealthiest whatevers". A Russian twenty-something sees your name and decides to move beyond the small time business of phishing and go after some big...
- Tags: Texas, Equity, Attack, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-08-17
- TexasDoppler 1.9 (Windows)
- Keep a bird's eye view of your local weather on your desktop. View Doppler radar images for the state of Texas from a selection of Texas news stations: Access to local television station Web sites; Resizable Doppler images up to 1400x1600; Flexible automated refresh periods; Animated map display; Add your...
- Tags: Web, Texas, Web Site, Brendan Bellina, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Aerospace & Defense, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Marketing, Manufacturing, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2007-07-05
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