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- A place to run some environmental stats on your homes (or would-be home)
- If you want to give yourself a little bit of a reality check on a grey Northeast winter morning, check out the Cyberhomes Web site. Fundamentally, the technology behind the site is meant for someone to gather basic data on a home or neighborhood where they're hoping...
- Blog posts 2008-02-10
- What a gas! CO2 anniversary party
- That's the Muana Loa atmospheric observatory, courtesy NOAA. It's been fifty years since the U.S. Weather Bureau first sponsored a scientist to monitor of CO2 in the earth's atmosphere. Now many of the world's leading atmospheric scientists are gathering to commemorate that small start....
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- NASA monitors lightning inside hurricanes
- According to a new study from NASA, it is possible to forecast a storm's intensity by monitoring the lightning strikes near a hurricane's eye. And it can be done weeks before the storm arrives with the help of 'highly-sensitive sensors located thousands of miles from the storm.' Today, the Pacific...
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- The New Yorker looks into HPGate
- Worth reading: James B. Stewart, most recently the author of DisneyWar, investigates HPGate, Hewlett-Packards misguided pursuit of boardroom leakers, for the The New Yorker. He doesnt shed much new light overall on HPGate in his article, to be published tomorrow, but provides some perspective and fresh details, such as on...
- Blog posts 2007-02-11
- "Huh, Wah?" alert: High-Def VoIP
- The VoIP Girl kicks off a rapidly morphing discussion about HD VoIP. "HD," as in High-Def.""Is HD VOIP something that consumers should consider when choosing a VOIP service, or is it more marketing lingo to work through?," she writes. "As I understand it, HD, high definition, or wideband VOIP refers...
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- More hard to believe details of HP's witchhunt emerge (and spyware tactic deemed legal)
- News.com's Ina Fried and Jim Kerstetter have posted a nearly unbelievable account of the witchhunt involving reporters, HP directors, and HP employees that was ordered by HP chairwoman Patricia Dunn. News.com, a sister-organization to ZDNet under CNET Networks, Inc. has a bit of an inside track on the story...
- Blog posts 2006-09-20
- SANbox 9200 Turbo-Charges High-Definition Desktop Editing at PlasterCITY Digital Post
- For companies in the entertainment business, technology often creates competitive advantages. When Hollywood-based PlasterCIty digital Post PCdP tackled the problems of accommodating higher-resolution imagery while also speeding up editing turnaround times, it became the first company to perform 4:4:4 high-definition postproduction entirely on cost-effective Macintosh desktop computers. The company wanted...
- Case studies 2006-09-01
- Is agricultural biotechnology safe?
- Many of us are concerned by the possible risks of agricultural biotechnology. For example, when you grow transgenic crops, can their modified genes alter wild varieties of similar wild plants? The latest issue of the California Agriculture magazine carries several articles focusing on transgenic crops, fish and animals. And some...
- Blog posts 2006-07-31
- WiFi & WiMax Technology Enable Video Broadcasting
- Join this webcast to hear discussion on WiFi technology and how it can be implemented in remote areas where traditional networks aren't feasible. Watch how wireless can be used in video broadcasting, examining a unique WiMax implementation case study at the Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Also discusses...
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- Wi-Fi Technology Enables Video Broadcasting
- This webcast discusses Wi-Fi Technology and how it can be implemented in remote areas where traditional networks aren't feasible. Specifically the webcast looks at how wireless can be used in video broadcasting. The webcast examines a unique WiMAX implementation case study at the Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii....
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