San Francisco’s Department of the Environment is leading the initiative to fully redesign Treasure Island, a 400-acre human-made island in the San Francisco Bay. Originally built for The World’s Fair in 1939, it’s been used as a movie studio, a naval base and now for residential housing. By ...

We meet Bambi George, communications technology manager, and Justin Goldsborough, communications specialist at Applebees International. I met up with them at BEA’s Connect event in Atlanta and have a nice chat with them about how the intranet they are building that’ll let them communicate with their franchisees more effectively.

Printing has moved from mass production into low-cost, individual customization. Now, print automation technology like that developed by Alexander’s Print Advantage, a single, personalized book is created for an individual buyer.

Examples of this technology include a national home builder who creates a single, organized “user manual” to a home ...

Why is the CEO of blog search engine Technorati stepping aside? Is the San Francisco company really not for sale? And what are its plans for growing into a new media powerhouse? In this interview with the Mercury News, company CEO Dave Sifry answers those and other questions. Sifry ...

Business Technology is HP’s strategy for the enterprise. Olivier Helleboid, VP Adaptive Infrastructure at HP, talks about how customers have benefited from HP’s Adaptive Infrastructure approach. Learn how a company can use its information technology infrastructure as a strategic asset.

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Keith (aka Skeeter) is living totally off the grid. Starting with a raw plot of land, he built his house from scratch, dug a well, created a solar power system and is completely responsible for all his waste. Keith is a good example of someone who got tired of paying ...

Alion Science and Technology Corp. is launching a push to expand its presence in the school security market by offering first responder organizations and school officials its Response Information Folder System (RFIS).

The company has been working for the past year with universities and high schools in Virginia, and plans to ...

At RSA 2007, F5 Networks Brian Hatch builds a virtual server in minutes with F5’s BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, and F5 Technical Marketing Manager Alan Murphy talks security and network application delivery.

SNiPiTRON is an interesting service geared toward academics and researchers who want to collect Web pages, photos, videos, PDF documents and other files into online projects. Ryan Rouland, one of SNiPiTRON’s founders, stopped by the Hat Factory to have awesome sandwiches from Hazel’s Kitchen and to take ...

Sean Toulon, TaylorMade Golf’s executive vice president of product and brand creation, is passionate about delivering the best performance golf equipment in the world. When Toulon wrote the plan for what would become the number one metal wood on tour, the R7 Quad, a lot of interaction and experience ...

It’s exciting to see young engineers excited about designing new green energy technologies. Meet one of them: Adam Kreek. Adam designed and built a (small scale!) biodiesel plant in the basement of my university building, which takes waste oils and fats from industry and households as stockfeed. Such systems can ...

Rebecca South, president of Domes for the World, explains how her non-profit is using unique building technology to built very inexpensive and durable structures for third-world countries. But, we talk about how she got into the dome-building business (her dad was one of the innovators in dome building) and ...

The day 1 keynotes at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing featured CTO Justin Rattner and Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president of the Digital Enterprise Group. They talked about new developments at the company. Rattner filled in some detail around Intel’s research efforts (and explained the critical importance of China ...

Way back in 1998, Tom Karren and a handful of fellow Novell engineers set out to deliver a hosted application service built on Web technologies. The result was WingateWeb, an event and conference reservation and management system. Today WingateWeb’s offering is used by Fortune 500 and big name ...

In Iceland and a few other countries, geothermal energy delivers a large part of the energy used for heating or cooling, through geothermal heat pumps. You may be surprised to hear that there are hundreds of thousands of buildings in the U.S. that are also hooked up to such systems. ...

Less than one year ago, LaVerne Council joined Johnson & Johnson, charged with crafting a new IT strategy to drive the global enterprise. In part one of this two-part podcast, join host John Gallant and Council, who takes audience questions and shares: