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- X Prize Cup rocket competition flames out
- X Prize Cup rocket competition flames outFocus On Earth and Non-Chemical PropulsionThe current "Race to Space" offers humanity little in the way of immediate or even long term benefits. NASA should be grounded, until we have viable cost-effective renewable energy and recycling solutions in place here on earth.After we...
- Tags: Taxes, Telecom & Utilities, recycling solution, X Prize Cup, X Prize, prize money
- Discussion threads 2007-10-29
- Photos: Rockets, space elevators aim at X Prize Cup
- X Prize Cup plays host to all manner of rockets going up and space elevators going down.
- Tags: X Prize Cup, X Prize, elevator, rocket
- Image galleries 2006-10-23
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- Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.
- Companies that give their workers the option of telecommuting are seeing greater productivity, lower costs, improved employee health and greater employee retention, according to a survey released today by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Case in point: I'm typing this from this from my own home office...
- Tags: Phone, Telecommuting, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- ZDNet blogger: working from home
- More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...
- Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- The viral theory of cancer
- It was hard for public health officials to get their arms around the idea that a virus could cause a cancer. Some still don't. But this is the message in this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine, which went to the Frenchmen who found HIV and the German who found HPV,...
- Tags: Theory, Cancer, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Denon AH-NC732
- Bose has managed to persuade thousands of people to spend large sums of money on the company's QuietComfort 3 and QuietComfort 2 noise-canceling headphones. That has emboldened companies such as Denon--which can leverage its own highly respected brand--to come up with its own pair of $300 noise-canceling headphones. Alas, Denon...
- Tags: AH-NC732s, headphone, Bose, Denon
- Product reviews 2008-10-01
- Student Technology Day: what it's all about
- It's not often I can say this but already, I'm surrounded in a room of 300 odd fashion unconscious, sweaty, unattractive idiots. Nevertheless, it's quite fun listening to some of the banter going around and about the place; some people work as interns at Microsoft, some at IBM and a...
- Tags: Student, Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., Public Relations, Productivity, Entrepreneurship, Virtualization, Game Players, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- News to know: Tech sales and the art of spin; Firefox; Apple; HD streaming
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Brian Sommer: Quit Spinning - You're Making Me Dizzy Ryan Naraine: Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bug Matthew Miller: Microsoft deep sixes...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Mozilla Firefox, Steve Ballmer, Radio, Apple Inc., Sales, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Mio Knight Rider GPS
- If you ever dreamed as a child or as an adult of owning a car like KITT of Knight Rider fame, you're dream is about to come true...sort of. Unless you're rolling in money, you can't have the actual Trans Am or David Hasselhoff, but you can have the next...
- Tags: GPS, Keyboards, display, Mio Knight Rider GPS, KITT, portable navigation device, Knight Rider GPS
- Product reviews 2008-09-26
- Seagate FreeAgent Go (blue, 320GB)
- The FreeAgent Go is part of Seagate's latest new line of portable hard drives and is by far the thinnest we've tested while still maintaining a reasonably fast transfer rate. Seagate sent us a blue 320GB model ($150) for our review, but you can take your pick of four vibrant...
- Tags: Operating systems, Seagate Technology LLC, FreeAgent Go, USB
- Product reviews 2008-09-26
- Photo prize for virtual autopsies
- Anders Persson, a Swedish radiologist, will receive the 10th Lennart Nilsson Award, one the world's most prestigious award in scientific and medical photography, on October 28, 2008. Persson received this prize for his innovative techniques for capturing 3-D images inside the human body. 'These new techniques have proven particularly useful...
- Tags: Technique, Imaging, Photograph, CMIV, Productivity, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Motorola i365 - black (Nextel)
- If there ever was a Nextel phone, the Motorola i365 would be it. Big, burly, and bulky, the i365 looks as if it could withstand just about anything. Make no mistake: this is a serious phone for making voice and push-to-talk PTT calls. There's no camera or music player, and...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Motorola Inc., I365, phone, Nextel Communications Inc., Motorola i365
- Product reviews 2008-09-25
- The Hidden Object Show Season 2 (exe)
- Do you think you have what it takes to compete in this season of The Hidden Object Show? Test your skills of observation in this dizzing wirlwind tour of a wacky amusement park. Compete for your chance to win loads of carnival prizes as well as our biggest grand prize...
- Tags: SpinTop Games
- Software downloads 2008-09-24
- Have an idea that can change the world?
- Google is starting a new contest called "Project 10 to the 100th". It's an open call for ideas on which users will vote in January. Google will put the best ideas in motion by contributing at least $10 million for up to five selected ideas. ...
- Tags: Idea, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- How I dumped my DVR for a terabyte TiVo
- Recently my house was struck by lightning and one of my TiVo boxes got zapped among other things. I had decided to try replacing it with a generic DVR from Time Warner Cable. Boy, was that a mistake. I wanted to like the Time Warner...
- Tags: TiVo Inc., Button, Digital Video Recorder, Play, Scientific Atlanta DVR, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Arctic Class of '08: less ice, but not the least
- Arctic Class of '08: less ice, but not the leastArctic Ice can not effect sea level"What If All the Ice Melts?" Myths and Realities (Wm. Robert Johnston, B.A. Astronomy, M.S. Physics)http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/environment/waterworld.html[b]"[i]Arctic Ocean pack ice = 0.01 % Fraction of world ice - The melting of floating ice will not change...
- Tags: ice, Arctic, RealClimate.org
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- UK educator who called for teaching creationism should be fired
- When a clergymember is appointed as education head of Britain's Royal Society and he then advocates teaching creationism in science class, is he just looking out for the best interests of children or is he trying to sneak religion into the classroom? The latter, in the strong...
- Tags: Sir, Winner, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-14
- Don't bet big on green
- Don't bet big on greenYou point out that the IQ normal curve skews left?I know the problem well - I don't know of a good answer. Sorry.Oil is being developedBrazil's large offshore deposits and Kazakhstan's already proven, and old, reserves of both oil and gas.I agreeFor one...
- Tags: Free trade, NPV
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- Netbooks, Chrome and the future of computing
- Netbooks, Chrome and the future of computingIs that a Compaq 'Hernia' Luggable?I am afraid to admit I had one of those.I don't buy it.Maybe it's the future for some people but not me.Correction"It's a search bar, a direct link into the Google search engine. It is, in fact, a Web...
- Tags: cloud computing, battleship, Chrome, Yamato, beta
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- If Apple really wanted to revolutionize the iPod, it would embed wireless broadband
- If Apple really wanted to revolutionize the iPod, it would embed wireless broadbandIf Apple really wanted to revolutionize the iPod, it would embed wireless bIts a great idea and I wouldn't mind it thought about this yesterday actually for those times I'm on a train or waiting at the store...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Wi-Fi, broadband, Apple Inc., wireless, wireless broadband, Apple iPod, WiMAX
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
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