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September 25, 2008 at 3:19 am
This tech expo is all about average Joes and Janes. It's the rare consumer-electronics show that allows actual consumers in the door. (Take that, CES!) More than 60,000 geeks will test-drive new toys. And the nerdiest can enter contests, including Fastest Geek (build a working computer from scratch, stat) and the Innovators Challenge, in which 25 firms vie for funding before a panel of VCs and tech writers -- after a consumer vote, of course. -- KR
September 18, 2008 at 1:00 pm
This collaborative Webinar is an educational and informational resource for organizations currently engaged in or considering a project to replace their existing business software.
The Webinar will provide valuable insight from Panorama Consulting’s President, Eric Kimberling, and Technology Group International’s Vice President of Sales, Dave Litzenberg. The speakers’ combined expertise offers decades of real world experience in the selection and implementation of ERP software solutions. Mr. Kimberling will offer an unbiased perspective from an experienced independent consultant, while Mr. Litzenberg will provide an uncensored view of software selection direct from an ERP software developer.
In this sixty minute session, attendees will learn:
The complete industry definition of ERP software.
What type of companies benefit from the use of ERP software.
How to perform a self-evaluation to determine if your organization needs new business software.
How to estimate potential ERP software benefits objectively.
How to perform an effective and structured ERP software evaluation process.
How to select the best ERP software for your organization’s unique business requirements.
How to validate the cultural fit between your organization and the prospective ERP software vendor.
The Webinar is designed to educate business and functional executives, CFO’s, project managers, and information technology professionals at small to medium-sized manufacturers and wholesale distributors.
Title: ERP Software: Failing to Plan Means Planning to Fail
Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista
Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer
Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/678629330
Additional information is available at www.tgiltd.com and www.panorama-consulting.com.
September 16, 2008 at 3:16 am
Odd-electron complexes. Amyloidogenic proteins. Oligosaccharide mimicry. Though this summit's official language is English, we're not sure we understand a word. Luckily for laypeople, while 2,000 researchers -- including three American Nobel laureates -- talk scientific shop, EuCheMS will take chemistry to the streets, hosting public lectures on salient issues including the environment and energy in terms that even the ionically ignorant can grasp. And what chem-con could end without lighting a Bunsen burner? The first Silver Flask will go to the winner of a "magic of chemistry" contest. We're envisioning leaping flames and dazzling explosions, but we'd settle for a baking-soda volcano. -- Clay Dillow
September 11, 2008 at 9:00 am
Starting September 11th, over one hundred local and international artists will transform New York City streets into a laboratory for exploring the urban environment at the Conflux Festival. Located in Greenwich Village at the Center for Architecture (a.k.a. Conflux HQ), the four-day event includes art installations, street art interventions, interactive performance, walking tours, bicycle and public-transit expeditions, DIY media workshops, lectures, films and music.
Hosted by Christina Ray (founder of New York art space Glowlab) and a team of New York-based curators, the 5th anniversary of the festival will feature projects including the “$1k Giveaway” by the Federation of Students and Nominally Unemployed Artists; botanical walking tours of Manhattan “narrated” by plants; an iPod video and cell-phone-instructed scavenger hunt through the East Village; an expedition to discover the underground rivers and streams of New York; an interactive installation of New York City trash; solar-powered Morse Code workshops; and London-based collective CutUp, returning for a second year to create fresh work throughout the city. The festival’s keynote speaker is Chris Carlsson, author of the recently-published book: ‘Nowtopia: How pirate programmers, outlaw bicyclists, and vacant-lot gardeners are inventing the future today.’
Event Ends Sept 14 2008
September 8, 2008 at 3:10 am
Sin City may seem an odd place for a three-day yapfest on radio-frequency ID technology, but as MGM Mirage chief information officer Tom Peck will tell the 3,600 attendees, casinos have bet big on the technology. MGM Mirage, whose properties include the Bellagio and Luxor, uses RFID tags to track everything from gambling chips to staff uniforms. A word of warning to anyone hoping for an extra-generous pour from a Vegas bartender: The company has even attached smart sensors to the spouts of liquor bottles. -- TB
September 8, 2008 at 3:10 am
Sin City may seem an odd place for a three-day yapfest on radio-frequency ID technology, but as MGM Mirage chief information officer Tom Peck will tell the 3,600 attendees, casinos have bet big on the technology. MGM Mirage, whose properties include the Bellagio and Luxor, uses RFID tags to track everything from gambling chips to staff uniforms. A word of warning to anyone hoping for an extra-generous pour from a Vegas bartender: The company has even attached smart sensors to the spouts of liquor bottles. -- TB
September 6, 2008 at 3:07 am
No matter which country racks up the most medals at the Paralympics, Iceland will be celebrating. It's home to Ossur, the prosthetics titan behind the Cheetah Flex-Foot. Amputee athletes wearing the J-shaped carbon-fiber feet won every sprinting medal in Athens in 2004. Ossur expects another bumper haul in Beijing. About 90% of amputee sprinters in the Paralympics use Cheetahs, including South African runner and defending champ Oscar Pistorius (pictured below), who also competes against able-bodied athletes and successfully fought a ruling by the international track federation that the Cheetahs were performance enhancing. "Ossur is not in the business of enhancement," says CEO Jon Sigurdsson, who argues the athletes are improving prosthetics -- testing technology that will eventually aid nonathletes -- not the other way around. "These athletes are the equivalent of racing drivers for car manufacturers." -- TB
