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Inner-city Wi-Fi rollout

Providing free Wi-Fi one building at a time

Dozens of countries participated in this year's "One Web Day," an international holiday for the Internet. In San Francisco, teams of volunteers fanned out across a low-income neighborhood with the goal of providing free, wireless Internet access to 1,000 residents. CNET's Kara Tsuboi tagged along and has the story.

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Tech Awards honor techy solutions for developing world

From one-time-use syringes to fire logs made from an invasive African plant, the 2008 Tech Awards honored five innovators with $50,000 for creating technology ...

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Date: 11-13-08 Length: 00:03:13
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Date: 11-11-08 Length: 00:03:02
San Jose mayor announces 'green' award recipients

At a press conference in San Jose, Calif., Mayor Chuck Reed announces the winners of the inaugural Green Vision Innovation awards. The awards are ...

Tags: San Jose, Clean Technology, San Jose, Clean Technology, Green, Jobs

Date: 11-11-08 Length: 00:03:00
Netflix Chief Product Officer: Streaming movies right to your TV

Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer of Netflix, believes that the future of movies is going to go right back to the television. With bigger ...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, NetFlix Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Date: 11-11-08 Length: 00:01:15
Holidays look more humbug than happy for electronics chains

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about the effects of the economy on the tech sector as the holidays approach ...

Tags: Holiday, Financial, Electronics, Financial Accounting, Finance, Holiday, Financial, Electronics, Financial Accounting, Finance

Date: 11-10-08 Length: 00:02:53
'60 Minutes': Toxins inside your computer (Part 3)

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Tags: Toxin, E-waste, Computer, Productivity, Toxin, E-waste, Computer, Productivity, CBS, 60 Minutes

Date: 11-10-08 Length: 00:02:26
Al Gore electrifies Web 2.0 Summit

Environmental Activist and former Vice President, Al Gore talks about the internet, electricity, and the past presidential election at the Web 2.0 Summit in ...

Tags: Web, Al Gore, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Web, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Marketing

Date: 11-10-08 Length: 00:04:34
Clean Tech Open entrepreneurs win big

In a relatively inhospitable economy for tech start-ups, the Clean Tech Open and its six $100,000 cash prizes are like oases in the desert. ...

Tags: Clean Technology, Clean Technology, News, kara tsuboi, clean tech, green solar, led, eco friendly, environment

Date: 11-07-08 Length: 00:03:02
John Doerr: How Obama can kick start 'green' innovation

Kleiner Perkins VC John Doerr discusses his views on clean tech at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. "The most important thing" that ...

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Date: 11-06-08 Length: 00:03:17
Otellini demos enterprise social-networking app

At the Web 2.0 Summit, Intel CEO Paul Otellini shows a new social-networking application targeted for businesses. He shows how an employee of a ...

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Date: 11-06-08 Length: 00:04:15
Intel CEO previews new handheld gadget

At the Web 2.0 Summit, Intel CEO Paul Otellini demos an unnamed handheld device in early development. The always-connected device uses a "smart" camera ...

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Date: 11-06-08 Length: 00:07:18
Why did Jerry Yang take the CEO role at Yahoo?

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, John Battelle, chairman of Federated Media Publishing, talks to Jerry Yang about his job as CEO ...

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Date: 11-06-08 Length: 00:03:53
Jerry Yang reflects on Microhoo deal

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, John Battelle of Federated Media Publishing questions Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang about Microsoft's bid to buy ...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Web 2.0, Channel Management

Date: 11-06-08 Length: 00:04:00
Dreamforce '08: New cloud applications revealed

At Dreamforce 2008, ZDNet senior editor Sam Diaz hits the show floor and talks to technology vendors about new applications they are developing for ...

Tags: Single Sign-on, Authentication/Encryption, Security, Single Sign-on, Authentication/Encryption, Security, Dreamforce 2008

Date: 11-05-08 Length: 00:02:56
Larry Brilliant outlines Google's giving strategies

At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Larry Brilliant, executive director of Google.org, declares that Google ripped off Salesforce's 1/1/1 model--and the company is ...

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Date: 11-05-08 Length: 00:05:33
Using social media to help ride out the downturn

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to Senior Editor Sam Diaz at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco about why some are hesitant to put ...

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Date: 11-04-08 Length: 00:03:12
Salesforce to partner with Facebook

At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, and Steve Fisher, senior vice president of the platform division ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Sales Force Management, Sales, Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Sales Force Management, Sales, software, platforms

Date: 11-04-08 Length: 00:05:57
Benioff launches Sites

At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, announced the company's latest venture. With Force.com Sites, customers can ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Dreamforce, Salesforce, cloud computing, SaaS

Date: 11-03-08 Length: 00:05:34
Ozzie paints Windows Azure

Chief software architect Ray Ozzie talksd with CNET News' Ina Fried about Microsoft's OS for the cloud.

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, TechRepublic Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, News, Ina Fried

Date: 10-30-08 Length: 00:04:34
Green leases allow tenants to be sustainable

At the Green Legal Strategy panel in San Francisco, Louise Adamson, a partner at K&L Gates, explains the commercial interiors certification within the LEED ...

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Date: 10-29-08 Length: 00:04:13

Ozzie paints Windows Azure

Chief software architect Ray Ozzie talksd with CNET News' Ina Fried about Microsoft's OS for the cloud.

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, TechRepublic Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, News, Ina Fried

Date: 10-30-08 Length: 00:04:34
LucasArts unleashing new Star Wars game

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed uses ground-breaking new technologies to put players inside the story line, bridging the gap between the film prequels and the original Star Wars. For some close-up screenshots, check out our Force Unleashed image gallery.

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Date: 02-22-08 Length: 00:01:55
Iomega packs 1TB into tiny NAS device

Staying true to its heritage of releasing innovative external dedicated storage devices, Iomega is now shipping the $349 StorCenter Network Hard Drive: a storage device attached to a gigabit Ethernet network that in addition to providing 1 terabyte of JBOD, RAID 0 or RAID 1 configured storage, is also a print server.

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., NAS, Iomega Corp., Storage Device, Storage, RAID, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Management, Networking, Hardware

Date: 09-27-07 Length: 00:04:14
Do HP Pavilions have a Wi-Fi problem?

Tipped-off by a reader, ZDNet's David Berlind takes HP to task in Tech Shakedown for what appears to be a serious problem with the Wi-Fi feature on some Pavilion notebooks. Despite many complaints listed on HP's Web site over nearly five months, there's been little response from HP. Instead, the forum shows customers banding together to figure out the remedial steps to solve the problems.

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion, Wireless LANs, Desktops, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Hardware

Date: 10-25-07 Length: 00:06:38
Opera browser for cell phones mimics iPhone's Safari

At the Digital Life Show in New York City, ZDNet executive editor David Berlind gets a demonstration of an iPhone-like browsing feature that Opera will be introducing into Opera Mini, a browser designed specifically for cell phones.

Tags: Apple iPhone, Opera Software, Apple Safari, Phone, Opera Browser, Cell Phone, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities

Date: 10-02-07 Length: 00:02:59
Intel's new Nehalem processor

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Calif., Intel CEO Paul Otellini discusses the company's next-generation, 45-nanometer microarchitecture, Nehalem. The company says the processor will offer better performance and energy efficiency than its predecessors. It's scheduled to go into production in 2008.

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Date: 09-18-07 Length: 00:06:02
Nokia's pricey, unlocked E90 smartphone: Slick design for business elite

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Tags: Nokia Corp., Smart Phone, Smart Phones, Keyboards, E-mail Clients, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Date: 10-26-07 Length: 00:02:42
Dell and Sun partner on Solaris

At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Dell CEO Michael Dell share the stage to announce that Sun's open-source operating system, Solaris, will be shipping on Dell servers.

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Partnership, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, UNIX, Servers, Operating Systems, Open Source, TechRepublic Inc., Software

Date: 11-14-07 Length: 00:04:32
Plat'Home's Linux server fits in your palm

On the floor of Interop New York 2007, ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind stops by the Plat'Home booth to take a closer look at its new--and small--Linux servers. With no moving parts, the OpenBlock S266 and the OpenMicroServer can operate in places where there is little room as well as little tolerance for machines that produce excessive heat.

Tags: Linux Server, Server, Plat'Home, Linux, Open Source, Servers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Date: 10-30-07 Length: 00:04:53
Nokia announces N810 Internet device

Look out, iPhone. Nokia's latest handheld Internet access device browses the Web, runs Flash and has GPS. It'll sell for $479 when it comes out in November. The downside: it has no cellular modem built in, so you have to use Wi-Fi or reach the Net via a Bluetooth link to your phone. Webware's Rafe Needleman takes a look.

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Nokia Corp., Modems, GPS, Bluetooth, Wireless LANs, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Hardware, Components

Date: 10-17-07 Length: 00:01:11

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