Archive for the Category ‘Sci/Tech’

Intel to Invest $200 Million in US Companies, Encourage Hiring

Intel to Invest $200 Million in US Companies, Encourage Hiring

From Official Intel Press Release:

Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini today announced a $3.5 billion initiative to support investment in U.S.-based growth-oriented industries and detailed a commitment to significantly increase jobs available this year for recent college graduates.
Otellini announced these initiatives in a speech titled “Rebuilding the Foundations of American Growth,” delivered at The Brookings [...]

City of Portland Launches First iPhone App

City of Portland Launches First iPhone App

The City of Portland today announced the creation of Citizen Reports, a new iPhone application for Portland residents to report and request service calls to City assets and publicly maintained infrastructure, including parks, traffic signs, parking, potholes, street lights, sewer catch basins and graffiti. The new “app” is a result of Mayor Sam Adams’  and [...]

City of Portland Hosting Open Source Code-A-Thon

City of Portland Hosting Open Source Code-A-Thon

Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSU OSL), along with co-host Portland State University, today announced that the universities will serve as the host for the first CONNECT Code-A-Thon being held on the West Coast. CONNECT is an open source software project that promotes the widespread use of interoperable health IT systems as well as [...]

Comcast tries pop-up alerts to warn of infections

Comcast tries pop-up alerts to warn of infections

From KATU
Comcast Corp. wants to enlist its customers in a fight against a huge problem for Internet providers — the armies of infected personal computers, known as “botnets,” that suck up bandwidth by sending spam and facilitating cybercrime.The country’s largest provider of high-speed Internet to homes started testing a service this week in Denver in [...]

Engineers at OSU Make Advances in Eyeglasses

Engineers at OSU Make Advances in Eyeglasses

Chemical engineers at Oregon State University have invented a new technology to deposit “nanostructure films” on various surfaces, which may first find use as coatings for eyeglasses that cost less and work better.
Ultimately, the technique may provide a way to make solar cells more efficiently produce energy.
The films reduce the reflectance of light, and in [...]

Oregon Open Source Showcase at OSCON

Oregon Open Source Showcase at OSCON

In today’s Oregonian, Mike Rogoway provides an overview of the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, which will be held at Oregon Convention Center July 24-28th. OSCON is not just the premier North American conference for open source software developers.  As I first reported a year ago, OSCON is increasingly a showcase for Oregon’s burgeoning open technology industry.Read The Whole [...]

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