Jan 24th, 2006 · Peter Quinn, former CIO of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has given an interview to Pamela Jones over at Groklaw, regarding the people, companies, and events surrounding his resignation. He spins an interesting tale of Microsoft, money, and the politics …
see also: Groklaw · Microsoft · technology · interview · Companies · political · Resigns
Jan 12th, 2006 · What happens when you take a bunch of average drivers, put them in a car with no high-tech systems like anti-lock brakes and traction control, and ask them to drive on a safety test track? 360-degree spins, of course. And not only do today's drivers need …
see also: ca · systems · Tech · technologies · skill · drivers · motorists
Dec 5th, 2005 · Science Daily is reporting on a new device called an Optical Vortex Coronagraph that's been invented to directly image planets orbiting other stars by using a special lens that "spins out" the light from the star leaving only the reflected light …
see also: planet · invention · orbiter · lens · stars · spins · Extrasolar
Nov 8th, 2005 · After 10 years of prototyping, wind tunnel testing, patenting, and tweaking, Ron Taylor of Cheyenne (windy) Wyoming is ready to take his vertical axis wind turbine into commercial production. Design creates pull on the back side contributing to 40%+ wind …
see also: products · Commercial · patents · prototype · design · costs · Solar
Oct 27th, 2005 · brass1 writes Ma Bell is back. It seems that for the purposes of branding, SBC is changing its name to AT&T once the acquisition is complete. Meanwhile, a great force and a high pitched whining sound has been reported from Judge Greene's grave …
see also: acquisition · branded · ATT · MA · spins · whining · sBC
Aug 26th, 2005 · The New York Times has an article on a recent affirmation that the earth's core rotates faster than the earth proper. From the article: 'Confirming assertions first made in 1996, a team of geophysicists are presenting data in the journal Science today …
see also: Science · scientists · New York Times · planet · magnetic · 1996 · generator
Jun 3rd, 2005 · In a bid to attract a larger following among developers, Red Hat has spun off its Fedora open source project into a more independent foundation. As part of the transition, the Fedora open source project will transfer development work and copyright ownership …
see also: engineering · copyrighted · developer · Fedora · financial · transition · Foundation
Jun 2nd, 2005 · A Welsh engineering company has made a motor to be used on electric cars that will make them as fast as a Ferrari. "The motor is revolutionary in that it contains no bulky permanent magnets. Instead it relies on transmitting electric pulses across up …
see also: engineering · company · magnetic · vehicle · electric · manager · revolution
May 7th, 2005 · Spintronics is a nanoscale technology in which information is carried not by the electron's charge, as it is in conventional microchips, but by the electron's intrinsic spin and if a reliable way can be found to control and manipulate the spins spintronic …
see also: IBM · computer · technology · reliable · electronics · magnetic · Quantum