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- American auto industry low on fuel and popular support
- After today's Senate hearings the Detroit Big Three are nowhere nearer getting any federal aid than they were after their last visit. Whatever you may think of the automakers "plan" to change and become viable, there is no plan in the Senate itself that would lead to a bill that...
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Owen Bird Law Corporation a Virtual Iron Customer
- I recently had the opportunity to speak with Stephen Bakerman, Director of Information Technology, Owen Bird Law Corporation, a Virtual Iron customer. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with their software. Stephen's comments follow. Please tell me who you are and what your organization...
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- It's getting worse out there
- And this has nothing to do with faltering banks or auto makers with begging bowls. This has to do with the air we all must breathe. Right now there's a major international conference on the atmosphere. The 14th session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations...
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Martin free wireless plan brings muni WiFi disaster back from the dead
- Martin free wireless plan brings muni WiFi disaster back from the deadso many logic problems, so little timeFirst, the internet is free. Access to the internet costs. FCC didn't imagine each consumer paying up to $100 per month when they decided to go some route. Air waves are public property,...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Martin free wireless plan brings muni WiFi disaster back from the dead
- OK, public spectrum, take 2. Or is it 3? After the infamous D-block auction meltdown, the FCC is set with a new plan to have the private sector deliver free Internet over the airwaves, Reuters reports. And FCC chair Kevin Martin's plan includes another long-held fantasy of policymakers: a...
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Targus Chill Mat for Mac
- If you spend long stretches of time working with your laptop on your lap, you know how hot a computer can get. And if you've seen as many different laptops as we have, you know that some models run hotter than others. If your laptop runs hot, and especially if...
- Product reviews 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. ...
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Where to next for ERP et al? (part 1, SAP)
- With a Gartner probability of 0.9, I guarantee that what follows is not how things will turn out. At least not exactly. Paul Greenberg's post casting the enterprise CRM runes for 2009 provides the perfect springboard for something I've been thinking about since the middle of the year. Where the...
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- The App Store hits a milestone: 10,000 apps
- The App Store hits a milestone: 10,000 appsAn amazing numberIt's an amazin number, now all Apple needs to do is make it easier for us to separate the good from the bad. My first page? Air Sharing, One Tap Dial, 300 Bowl and a few speed dial icons.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Rating Samsung's first notebooks for the U.S.
- Rating Samsung's first notebooks for the U.S.Wow, increadably mediocre!Samsung has some of the best hardware in the electronics biz. What were they thinking with this laptop? First, 16:9? And low rez? Give me a break. Screen real-estate on a laptop is a must. 16:10 and high...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Supercomputers help design better golf balls
- Researchers are using supercomputers to create new balls that will improve the game of avid golfers by flying farther. They've used the supercomputers at Arizona State University to simulate the physics of golf balls and to model how air flows around a ball in flight and to study how this...
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Why Grandma Sandy and Aunt Roz don't want an HDTV for Christmas
- Why Grandma Sandy and Aunt Roz don't want an HDTV for ChristmasIt isnt the money[b]"In addition, one could also just buy an HDTV that fits horizontally. The screen will be almost as tall as the original. Big deal if there is a gap above it."[/b]Yeah, try telling that to a...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Hackers boot Linux on iPhone
- Hackers boot Linux on iPhoneWhy should anyone care?The iPhone / iPod Touch is about convergence of UI with hardware.Yes it's nice you can run linux on the iPhone, but turning your iPhone into a busybox brick with SSH somehow doesn't get me excited.RE: Hackers boot Linux on iPhoneWhat a wonderful...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- The widget conundrum
- There's a pretty good article in Advertising Age about the benefits of widgets and the fact that not a lot of people are using it. AdAge says that "entire segment" will amount to around $100 million. That sounds like a chunk of money, and especially one for an industry that...
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Surveys show consumers love HDTVs, but show some confusion about HD programming
- Surveys show consumers love HDTVs, but show some confusion about HD programmingHDTVI have a 60" mitsubishi and have no HD programing except regular channels you get over the air.I use an upconvert DVD player and the whole thing looks fine to me,i'm 56 years old and have no plans of...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-30
- NASA and DoE team on dark energy research
- NASA and DoE team on dark energy researchCongrats JDEM.........but if you don't terraform Mars soon, none of this new information is going to do anyone much good, now is it?Seems like a stupid response? Not so....1. We breed too much and we grow too little food and we use the...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-27
- Rating Samsung's first notebooks for the U.S.
- If your holiday list includes a laptop, there's a new choice from an well-known name: Samsung. In October, Samsung announced that it was entering the U.S. market with six new notebooks, as well as a netbook. The timing wasn't great. After several quarters of double-digit growth, the PC market cooled...
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- TeleNav Shotgun
- TeleNav is no stranger to the navigation market. The company has provided location-based services for GPS-enabled cell phones and smartphones for quite some time now. However, the company has never released a standalone portable navigation device PND, until now. The TeleNav Shotgun isn't just a regular PND, either. Similar to...
- Product reviews 2008-11-25
- Panasonic TH-50PF11UK
- We've always been impressed by the performance of Panasonic plasmas, and it started with the company's professional models, such as the TH-50PHD8UK we reviewed three years ago. In terms of external design, Panasonic has changed exactly nothing between that model and the TH-50PH11UK reviewed here, sticking with the same ultra...
- Product reviews 2008-11-25
- 2009 Honda Civic LX-S Sedan
- Photo gallery:2009 Honda Civic LX-SIt's hard to beat the Honda Civic's combination of price, performance, and quality. Refreshed for 2009 with a new, more aggressive front end featuring a three-opening front air dam, the Civic retains its 140 horsepower engine, slot car handling, and most of its space-age looks. Honda...
- Product reviews 2008-11-25
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