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America's airways ready for NextGen

It's time – long past time – to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction and a massive energy wastefulness. But a GPS satellite-based system, on the drawing board for more than a decade, has...

Tags: FAA, Air Traffic Control, Greenhouse Gas, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology

It's midnight, do you know where your solar panel is? I read somewhere yesterday where thefts of solar panels are on the rise, no doubt due to the rather dear price that they still command. Hopefully, that's on a pace for change, given that many of us...

Tags: Installation, Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?

Let's face it, the last month or so has been a challenge for just about anyone's tolerance of stress and has made even the most "stable" of us question our own emotional and mental health. But I've discovered that IT workers in particular, or anyone who...

Tags: Sleep, Job, Beverage, Health Care, Computer, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-08

AMD to spin off manufacturing

AMD to spin off manufacturingDoes this make AMD now look like...nVidia in terms of how the processing unit designs will go out? If so, then this should make things interesting in seeing how well does the fabless design company do and what do companies like the spun off Foundry...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., manufacturing

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capitalRE: Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters caI think it's quite smart personally.foolishJust another CEO desperate to save his bonus. Once you carve up the company, quality goes downhill. The chips will suffer. AMD will be...

Tags: Balance sheets, Asset management, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asset Smart, manufacturing, balance sheet, chip, asset

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

AMD finally announces "asset-smart" plan; new Foundry Company created

AMD and a technology investment company backed by the government of Abu Dhabi have established a new semiconductor company that will manufacture AMD's advanced processors. The new company--currently known as "The Foundry Company"--will take over all of AMD's existing manufacturing facilities, including the two leading-edge fabs in Dresden, Germany, and...

Tags: Asset, Foundry Networks Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Government, Hardware, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital

AMD said Tuesday that it will split off its manufacturing operations in a deal with the Advanced Technology Investment Company of Abu Dhabi. AMD will also receive a capital infusion from Mubadala Development Company, which will wind up owning more than 19 percent of Intel's smaller rival. ...

Tags: Asset, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATIC, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-07

AMD to spin off manufacturing

Advanced Micro Devices will reveal a broad cost-cutting plan this morning that includes spinning off its manufacturing operations to a new joint venture largely funded by Abu Dhabi investment companies. It's a bold move for the chipmaker as it tries to maintain its position as the only real rival to...

Tags: Abu Dhabi, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Semiconductors, Network Technology, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Hardware, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-07

L2Control (rar)

L2Control for popular MMORG LineAge II without intervention in process of game, and work of a server. Does not collect the confidential information on an account. Works with all types of network connections - LAN, VPN, and modems. Supports simultaneously some the loaded clients. Support LineageII of chronicles Interlude, Kamael,...

Tags: Radar, Hotkey, STELIFE, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2008-10-07

Gallery: Concepts on parade at Paris Motor Show

Automakers bet their future on the audience reaction to their concept at shows like this one in Paris. Concepts ranged from small, eco-friendly city cars to high-performance exotics. by Andy Smith

Tags: Concept, Paris, Manufacturing, Leadership, Management, Andy Smith, auto, cars. Paris Auto Show, concepts

Image galleries 2008-10-06

Netflix: Outage, economy ding subscriber growth

Netflix on Monday detailed its outlook for the third and fourth quarters, projected fewer subscribers than before and said its August outage cost it $6.5 million. The company said in a statement that its third quarter earnings will be "comfortably" within its targets, but said a one-time...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Outage, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Dietrine Carb Blocker (exe)

Dietrine Carb Blocker. Detrine is a phrase 2 carb blocker that can effectively block 33% of fat being absorbed by your body. It is a natural weight loss supplements that is made from white kidney beans extract. Learn how taking two dietrine pills can help you lose fat faster. Do...

Tags: Food, Dietrine-Carb-Blocker-Review.info, Detrine, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2008-10-06

EatSmart Diary (exe)

ESD comes with a core of built-in databases containing the basic foods and their nutrient values for 100 g of food. To these core foods have also been given predefined portion size weights. There is support for an external and fully user-customizable database into which you can move core foods...

Tags: Food, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2008-10-05

Cafe Management Software (zip)

Cafe 2 - complete management solution for cafes and cafeterias. Sell drinks and food on desired number of tables. View reports and graphs of sold items/earnings by stewarts for time period, pay-list for you employees, and account for stewarts and account for administrators, keep track of sold items by stewarts....

Tags: Software, CAFE, Noproblemsoft, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2008-10-03

Texting? Pull Over ...

So, it looks official. The train engineer who never slowed down before ramming his commuter train into a freight train in California was indeed sending text messages right up to the time of the crash. That's bad enough. Twenty-five people died and 135 were injured in the...

Tags: Train, California, U.K., Wreck, Bicyclists, Advertising & Promotion, Food & Beverage, Marketing, Manufacturing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Pterodactyl-inspired flying robots

According to Sankar Chatterjee, a professor of paleontology at the Texas Tech University in Lubbock TTU, a 225-million-year-old pterodactyl might soon be reborn as a flying robot. The Tapejara wellnhoferi, which lived in Brazil, was a big flying lizard with an unusual 'accessory,' an 8-inch-high fleshy crest stuck straight up...

Tags: Professor, Texas Tech University, Aircraft, Tapejara, Pterosaur, Aerospace & Defense, Robots, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-01

New nanotechnology to speed up computers

University of California at Santa Barbara UCSB researchers have developed new nanoscale structures that will help to speed up computers. This research project was funded by IBM, Intel and other partners including the U.S. National Science Foundation. This new manufacturing process is called block co-polymer lithography or BCP. The scientists...

Tags: Pattern, Salad, Lithography, Computer, BCP, Semiconductors, Nanotechnology, Productivity, Manufacturing, Hardware, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-09-29

On energy drinks Terrell Owens is not your doctor

Lead researcher Roland Griffiths notes that energy drink brands like Red Bull, Rockstar and Monster contain 10 milligrams of caffeine per ounce, 14 times more than in a can of soda, or 7 cups of coffee. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Caffeine, Beverage, Energy Drink, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Startup essentials: Dr. Pepper, coffee and accessories

One of my Irregular chums started a GoogleGroup thread about what you need in a job that requires you work from a home office. The same can be said for the 1-3 person startup. The conversation immediately became a discussion of the merits or otherwise of different coffee making facilities...

Tags: Dr., Beverage, Accessory, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-26

The 'Naughty but Nice' Diet (zip)

The 'Naughty but Nice' Diet will allow you to have your favorite food or drinks and will work out what you also need for a well-balanced weight reducing diet. The program ensures that you have the Recommended Daily Allowances of all vitamins. You can personalize your diet with the meals...

Tags: Vitamin, Alabaster ScreenDate, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2008-09-24