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- The Borders of Computing
- Exploring the Borders of Computing CNET News' Ina Fried sits down with Kara Tsuboi to discuss her special report on computing in Latin America.
- Tags: Borders Books & Music, Computing, News, kara tsuboi, ina fried, microsoft, brazil, columbia, south america, schools, art, civil war
- Videos 2008-08-26
- (Photos: Giving old PCs new life)
- (Photos: Giving old PCs new life)Giving old PCs New LifeThis is a Great program and I would like to know how I can donate my old computers to them.RE: (Photos: Giving old PCs new life)I got the page translated hereIt struck me that the page is more concerned with tax...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Professional development, PC, PCs New Life, Columbia, old PC, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- How journalism education should change
- Prints dead; newspapers are toast; Dave Winer has some good suggestions to revamp journalism education and bloggers cant get enough of the San Francisco Chronicles woes. Its a debate--as someone who could be considered professional trained journalist--that frankly tires me out. ...
- Tags: Blogging, Columbia, journalism education
- Blog posts 2007-03-25
- See one of the world's most powerful supercomputers
- NASA shows Columbia, powerful supercomputerFrom NASA's press event for the 25th anniversary of its first shuttle launch: See the 'Columbia,' a supercomputer that turns out any kind of space-related data at an incredibly quick rate. NASA's Bryan Biegel and John Parks give the tour.
- Tags: NASA, supercomputer
- Videos 2006-04-13
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- More XP OLPCs?
- Ars Technica is reporting that Columbia will be distributing OLPC XO netbooks to students in the towns of Quetame and Chia. This is a pilot program and, although it is unclear how many will be distributed and how they will be used programatically, we can deduce that these were...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-hand
- No matter their political affiliation, most people who have an opinion about what President-elect Barack Obama should do first after he's sworn into office point to the country's economic identity crisis as his first order of business. And given how much the latest jobs report rattled the...
- Tags: Job, Clean Technology, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-08
- Election Day '08: Where to get live results
- There's no better time in history to watch election results on the fly. Some, but not all, of us will have access to a television, where you can watch results stream in on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC or Fox. But for those of you...
- Tags: Result, Associated Press, Election Day, Twitter, CNN, Palm Beach Post, Northwestern, Corporate Communications, Blogging, RSS, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Marketing, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding
- Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hidingPalin Yes - Obama NoIt amazes me the the Left's knee-jerk reaction to Sarah Palin, when you have Barry Obama with his association with unrepentant terrorist William Ayers and anti-American bigot Jeremiah Wright. And never mind the fact Obama...
- Tags: Obama, Sarah Palin, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Canadian Rock Radio (gadget)
- Get direct links to 50 of Canada's best rock radio stations streaming music 24 hrs a day. Don't get sucked in and pay for live audio streams, when you can 1isten for free. Simply click on the radio station you desire and play there live stream from their site, and...
- Tags: British Columbia, Alberta, Radio, Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-09-16
- China proposes UN policy to defeat anonymity
- Troubling news from the United Nations, via News.com A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous. ...
- Tags: Network, IP, U.N., Networking, Internet, Network Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Was it the Dell model that broke IBM's back?
- Was it the Dell model that broke IBM's back?In response to "Was it the Dell Model that broke IBM's Back"A little bit of HISTORY about me is this: I started in computers way back in 1986 and have seen first-hand all the changes in the industry.From the viewpoint of hardware,I...
- Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows XP, Notebooks, IBM Corp., PC, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'
- China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'Learn from M$, Google and YahooThey cooperated with the local bully, they were allowed to run business over there. Don't p*ss of their government, that's the key in China. Yahoo went so far they handed in evidence to China government to help...
- Tags: Tibetan family, Han, census, Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Hand animation models for surgeons
- Researchers at the University of British Columbia UBC, Canada, have developed new computer animated models of the hand which show how the muscles and tendons function while moving. This new software uses 'anatomical data from medical images to model the 17 bones and 54 tendons and muscles of the hand...
- Tags: Constraint, Muscle, Animation, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Wordcamp 2008
- In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...
- Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- FCC set to slap Comcast's wrist
- It's almost official. In the latest step forward, a majority of FCC commissioners voted Friday to "affirm" a complaint against Comcast for blocking BitTorrent traffic, the Washington Post reports, although the punishment is likely to be a "slap on the wrist," according to one analyst. The final...
- Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Republican, Wrist, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- More big money for work on wind. Yes, that's $1 billion.
- Finavera Renewables which has both wind and wave energy projects around the world has negotiated a deal with an unnamed corporate investor who plans to put up $1 bilion for wind power projects that will create up to 300 megawatts of capacity in British Columbia. The money...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Agreement, mW, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Columbia Distributing Company Reduces Server Power Consumption by 65 Percent and Storage Administration Time by 90 Percent With a Virtualized Dell Infrastructure
- A huge increase in data processing and storage demands generated by increased business and new sales support technologies threatened to overburden Columbia's direct attach storage and aging server resources. As a solution Columbia implemented a virtual environment using Dell PowerEdge servers and a Dell EqualLogic Storage Area Network SAN to...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Administration, Storage, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- Cell phones tracking nightlife activity
- A Columbia University computer science professor has co-founded a New York-based company named Sense Networks to sell tracking software to other companies. It is also distributing a free version of this software named Citysense, which shows on your cell phone where the wild things are happening in your own town....
- Tags: Application, Phone, Columbia University, Cell Phone, Macrosense, GPS, Cellular Phones, Sales Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- Cell phone as desktop computer
- Cell phone as desktop computerGood stuffThat is a really good idea and if Microsoft doesn't implement it, someone will like meS. Jobs said something similar not too long agoIn a WSJ interview he said that he thought we'd see most big advances come from "devices" rather than normal computers.The conversation...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Desktops, phone, computer, cell phone, desktop, desktop computer, docking station, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- The George Washington University Delivers Robust, Secure Wireless Network Services Across the Campus
- The George Washington University GW is a private university founded by an Act of Congress in 1821, and is the largest university in the District of Columbia with more than 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students studying business, law, medicine, education, public health, international affairs, engineering, and liberal arts. GW wanted...
- Tags: Network, Juniper Networks Inc., George Washington University, Wireless Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Security
- Case studies 2008-06-01
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