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- TechCrunch50: Day 1
- When Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis team up on a project, the webs are bound to be shaken up. Last year, their conference TechCrunch40 was an enormous showcase for startups to present their idea to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the press. This year,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Advertisement, Marissa Mayer, Entrepreneur, Video, MySpace, Qik, Meghan, Arrington, Vitamin Water, Calcanis, Mahalo, Blueprint Multicore, OpenTrace, E-mail, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
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- WebAlive: A Virtual World that Means Business
- The campus with its tapered lawns, water fountains, and post-modern styled buildings, were typical of any professional campus. Only this wasn't just any campus. It was Nortel's virtual online campus in WebAlive, its new virtual world service. I was just given...
- Tags: Virtual World, Nortel Networks Corp., WebAlive, Altadyn, LDAP Integration, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Save water, save energy, save money, save manpower
- Click to see full image. Remotely directed irrigation controller. Courtesy HydroPoint. Moving water around uses a lot of energy in the United States and many other agricultural nations. A Petaluma, California, firm is selling digital control systems that can save both water and...
- Tags: Courtesy HydroPoint, Weathertrak, Paul Ciandrini, Caindrini, Roi/Tco, Cellular Phones, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Slicing up Sun
- Slicing up SunDell seems a better fit.If any company could make money on Sun's current products, Sun itself is the most likely to do so. That Sun cannot produce profits means that the buyers would not be interested in continuing what Sun is now doing.Sun's most important assets are...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, OPEN SOURCE, Manufacturing hardware, Sun Microsystems Inc., Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Microsoft's OOXML viewers, translators, SDK to help interop with Firefox, OpenOffice?
- I must admit I'm more than a bit skeptical when any company, Microsoft in particular, goes out of its way to make rivals' software work better with its own, especially if it's a cash cow product. But here we are, nine months after Microsoft announced its document...
- Tags: Interoperability, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, SDK, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OpenXML Document Viewer, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility
- Documents created using the Office Open XML document format can now be viewed through a simple Firefox plug-in, while OOXML's compatibility with ODF and Apache has also been enhanced. Microsoft on Wednesday announced several incremental enhancements to the compatibility of its Office Open XML document...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OOXML, standards, ISO, OpenDocument, Standard, OpenOffice, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-03
- Podcast: gadgets for Christmas, iPod lovin' and the Blu-ray war
- Zack Whittaker has taken a few days off to "get his head together", but last week took half an hour out to record a podcast with his best friend, Elliot Harrison, who has stepped up to the firing squad to cover this week. Some notes for...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Web Site, Blu-ray, Zack Whittaker, Podcasts, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- 2009: Will It Be Better For Cable TV Than 2010 ... or 2011 ... or 2012?
- Satellite TV has been gaining subscribers, relentlessly this decade. Particularly DirecTV, which had 3.8 million subscribers at the end of June 1998 and counted 17.2 million, at the end of this June, according to this compilation by the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association of America. ...
- Tags: Cable Television, Broadcasting, Satellite, Brodsky, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Made Products Camera Armor Seattle Sling
- Waterproofing camera bags is generally difficult--there are simply too many zippers, seams, flaps, and other potential points of entry--so most manufacturers opt to just put a bag over them. The Camera Armor Seattle Sling from Made Products switches that up, encasing your gear in a thick, strong waterproof bag that...
- Tags: Seattle Sling, sling, camera, strap
- Product reviews 2008-12-01
- Waking up, calming down
- Fujitsu is working on a steering wheel-mounted drowsiness sensor that will detect subtle changes in the driver's heart rate and respond with various wake-up calls, including opening the windows, blasting the radio and jolting the wheel. Seriously unconscious drivers might get all three at once. (Here's hoping that sheer surprise...
- Tags: Car, Window, Sensor, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Keeping clean for clean energy
- Got solar panels on your home or business? Keeping them clean is necessary if you want to get efficient conversions of solar to electricity or even to heat water. Some roofs are less that congenial palce for a person with a sponge mop. I recently heard a...
- Tags: Solar Panel, Roof, OCS Energy, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Virus hits nearly 75% of systems on Afghanistan military base
- Virus hits nearly 75% of systems on Afghanistan military baseThis isn't news.It's par for the course.RE: Virus hits nearly 75% of systemsHave these people not heard of Linux or Mac OS X?What these reports don't tell you...Is that the great majority of these infected systems are simply email stations for...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, virus, military base, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-11-29
- Brenthaven Sling II
- We're fans of the sling-style laptop bag, which combines the shape of a backpack with an across-the-chest strap more commonly seen on messenger bags. The end result: a bag that sits high on your back but distributes the weight across your body instead of all on one shoulder. While many...
- Tags: Smart phones, Notebooks, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Digital music, laptop compartment, zipper, laptop computer, strap, Brenthaven Sling II
- Product reviews 2008-11-26
- TI execs ramp up green tech contributions, at work and at home
- The trouble with the Green IT blog beat is there are literally hundreds of things that you could write about every day, often from the same company, but since this isn't the ONLY thing I do to put food on my table, I have to be really selective about which...
- Tags: Green Technology, Texas Instruments Inc., Ogboenyiya, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- H2O + C = cool idea
- H2O + C = cool ideaGreat PostPosts like this one help restore confidence in a world where confidence is in short supply.RE: H2O C = cool ideaThis is an innovation, and as such it is good for progress in the air conditioning area. Therefore the biggest money loss...
- Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, Strategy, isolation technique, H2O, C, H2O C
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- Is the era of open source legal stupidity over?
- Is the era of open source legal stupidity over?...must have an invention...I disagree about not patenting an "idea" of an invention. I've got ideas for several new technologies, but I don't have the capital to create them. They require microscopic parts. If I can't patent my idea,...
- Tags: open source, patent, legal stupidity
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- H2O + C = cool idea
- Forty years ago the protagonist in "The Graduate" was told the magic word for the future was "plastics." I would suggest the magic word for our future now is "water." Two Michigan innovators just won a prize for an air conditioning system that uses water as the coolant...
- Tags: Turbine, C, Air Conditioner, Fiber, Air Conditioning System, John Barrie, Muller, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-23
- LA goes electric
- LA goes electric150 miles won't even get you to Fresno"the car will go 150 miles on a charge that gets me just about to San Francisco and back"Oops. LA to SF one way is about 380 miles, taking around 6 hours. Looks like you'll have to add two 3-hour recharging...
- Tags: car
- Discussion threads 2008-11-23
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: MP3 players
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: MP3 playersJust picked up a Zune for $80 a couple of days ago!Really liked Zune MP3 Player after trying out a friend's Zune. I ended up buying one after finding a good deal here for a brand new Zune for just $80 delivered. Also...
- Tags: Digital music, Media players, Digital media, Archos, Microsoft Zune, MP3 player, Archos 605, MP3, Holiday Gift Guide 2008, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-22
- Apple's 2008 ad budget: $486M
- Apple's 2008 ad budget: $486MSo, the Apple ad making fun of Microsoft spending on ads...So, the Apple ad making fun of Microsoft spending on ads doesn't apply to them...Sorry, I meant this as a reply to the first post.A meaningful comparison would be Apple's [b]total[/b] advertising with Microsoft's [b]total[/b] advertising.This...
- Tags: advertisement, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-21
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