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April 25 to May 1, 2005
Aluminum beer bottles have
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ed to show up in the islands. The advantages over glass bottles - they can keep contents colder an hour longer, they're less breakable, and they have more desig...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Is environmentalism really dead? Let's
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the debate...
April 11 to 17, 2005
This couple
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ed an eco-porn site for rain forest protection and have already raised almost $100,000...
It now seems possible to
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and maintain a scalable company using nothing but hosted Web applications. Who needs machine rooms any more? As the net gets faster, physical location becomes mor...
If case you're wondering why I'm so concerned about this topic, that's because I work for an RFID
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up and know full well the problems this can cause...
April 4 to 10, 2005
A immediate flurry of inventive activity was sparked by the release of the Google Maps satellite imagery feature last week. People
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ed making "memory maps" at Flickr...
More on the future of liquid lenses via Wired: http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/
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.html?pg=1...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Meanwhile, open-source technology unencumbered by patents is allowing micro-
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ups to evolve better technology faster with less resources and funding. I hope new breeds of VCs come along to fil...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Macs are
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ing to make under-the-radar inroads into companies. This is exactly how the Web got
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ed in the corporate world, and CTOs and IT staff are beginning to think about what it means...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
The inspiring story of Pakistani woman Mukhtaran Bibi. Gang-raped by her neighbors, she
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ed two successful schools in the midst of her now-free attackers...
February 21 to 27, 2005
A
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up creates molecular storage technology that could store 1 terabit per square inch, or 25 DVDs of data in a postage stamp-sized area...
Tommy Chong is the star of "The Marijuana-Logues", a very funny and critically acclaimed pot-centric parody of the "The Vagina Monologues", which
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ed this month. Because of parole restriction...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
"There Is No Tomorrow" http://www.
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ribune.com/stories/1519/5211218.htm...
January 24 to 30, 2005
The top 100 soundtracks of all time: http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=5399&show=50&
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=...
January 10 to 16, 2005
About two minutes after someone pointed out that the Mac mini was smaller than a standard car radio, companies
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ed working on plans to offer in-car Macs to handle entertainment and car functions...
Scientist have created synthetic "vesicles" that resemble crude living cells - the line between life and not-life is
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ing to get pretty blurry. "This is rather philosophical," says Dr Libchaber o...
November 22 to 28, 2004
I'm now working at zLab, the CommerceNet "center for decentralization" in Mountain View, California. It's been a while since anyone
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ed a software research lab in the area - let's see what we whi...
November 15 to 21, 2004
New hybrid buses have
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ed in Honolulu and wow the public. New smart card bus passes, too...
November 8 to 14, 2004
In 2005 Hawaiian Electric will
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a large-scale test of Internet over power lines in Pearl City. It will also offer the ability to read electricity meters remotely...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Whole Foods is selling organic clothing. Could this be the
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of a new retail trend - organic, sustainable wearables...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Billboard Magazine
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s a new chart for top ringtones...
October 4 to 10, 2004
The State of Hawaii just launched the "Hawai'i Business Express", which allows one to
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a business easily online via all the relevant departments. Unfortunately, ending a business is still ...
Finally, a
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up uses BitTorrent-like tech for online movies...
The world's largest wind power project
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s near Beijing...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Cancel your phone and cable TV -
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a wireless neighborhood network...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Hawaii's special-effects industry has some heavy hitters. Kai Bovaird, who set up a local shop, made effects for the Matrix. "There's definitely skilled people (in Hawaii) but you need serious an...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Has this
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up developed the universal computer emulator...
August 22 to 29, 2004
All about the Hawaii Superferry, which
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s service in 2006 and will change island life as we know it...
August 15 to 22, 2004
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ups should be thinking about developing high-bandwidth applications...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Are businesses
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ing to get the clue about global warming...
In what may be a first, Warner Brothers encourages the distribution of online album tracks as part of a marketing campaign. Are they
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ing to get a clue...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
"How government protects big media - and shuts out up
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s like me." By Ted Turner...
July 19 to 25, 2004
New technologies in the running for the next replacement for hard drives, including molecular storage and cow protein...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Alien species have caused the ecological collapse of the Great Lakes: http://www.
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ribune.com/stories/122/4824994.htm...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Eight years ago my old
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up bought from Peapod every week. Now online groceries are coming back...
May 3 to 9, 2004
"Blood pressure rising in kids" - I'm
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ing to get tired of these "X rising in kids" articles.....
February 23 to 29, 2004
We don't support that "Ted, and those like him, have only one solution to their customers' problems. Erase everything on the computer's hard drive and
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over from scratch." The latest in Salon'...
February 16 to 22, 2004
I didn't know Hoku Scientific was based in Kalihi! If they do well, can this be the
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of turning Kalihi into a high-tech area (as HCC Provost Ramsey Pedersen would like to see)? The area's got ...
"When I
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ed in the music business, music was important and vital to our culture... that's all changed....
February 2 to 8, 2004
Let's
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with some fun stuff this week! This French performer attaches dozens of horns to his jumpsuit and proceeds to play classical music...
Advertisers are now using MRIs to correlate image affinity to brain activity: "Big government and big companies have been trying to manipulate us since the
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of time," [says a study volunteer]...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
The real story here is not that Hawaii is hosting the most prominent (international) conference on next-generation Internet technology - it's the fact that due to strict "anti-terrorist" policies...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
Will a new high-tech fund in Hawaii work? Local VC Barry Weinman may not like it, but I think the state needs to provide a
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er foundation for business before VCs can step in. Local VCs have neve...
December 8 to 14, 2003
Business Week on "The Rise of The Indian" There are more IT engineers in Bangalore than Silicon Valley now.
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ups seeking funds are now asked what their "India strategy" is...
October 27, 2003
A trial just
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ed that could pave the way for holding U.S. companies accountable for pollution overseas - it involves toxic oil dumps in total 50 percent larger than the Exxon Valdez spill sprea...
October 6, 2003
The death of the laser show: birth of the new psychedelics? The American Museum of Natural History
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ed a new sound and light show using computer graphics called SonicVision. It's a 35-minute movi...
August 12, 2003
(Note: the Cacophony Society helped
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the Burning Man - I had a great Halloween party at their "headquarters" once...
...then I predict that it won't be too long before we
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seeing phones that notify you when a potential "best match" for you is close by...