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Mr. Ink Plus
Sunday, Jun 01, 2008
Terrance Iwamoto is the the President & CEO of Mr.  Ink Plus, Inc.  In 2005, he was named one of the top 50 technology leaders in Hawaii at the annual Technology Industry Awards. If you have not figured it out yet – printer companies make all of their money from ink and not from...
Hawai'i's Annual Energy Report
A recent report released by the State points to continued progress in Hawai‘i's efforts to increase energy efficiency, while making advances in renewable energy production. The Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism's (DBEDT) 2007 Energy Resources Annual Report said Hawai...
Shell and HR Biopetroleum Build Facility to Grow Algae for Biofuel
Sunday, Jun 01, 2008
Royal Dutch Shell and HR Biopetroleum recently unveiled plans for the construction of a pilot facility in Hawaii to grow marine algae and produce vegetable oil for conversion into biofuel.     The announcement is a further step in Shell’s ongoing effort to develop a new genera...
VUDU to Deliver Movie Magic to Hawaii
Sunday, Jun 01, 2008
Hawaiian Telcom recently announced it will test a new video-on-demand (VOD) service by teaming up with VUDU, a California-based start-up comprised of consumer electronics and technology veterans. VUDU offers on-demand access to a growing collection of approximately 5,000 movies and a number of TV sh...
Quad HD Displays
Sunday, Jun 01, 2008
Westinghouse got smarter this year, boasting two Quad HD LCDs, in 47-inch and 56-inch models. For those who haven't been keeping score, the 56-inch display is running at 3840 x 2160 Quad Full HD resolution – its little brother runs at 2560 x 1440 Quad HD and 3.7 million pixels. Both of these u...
BiTMICRO introduces 832GB SSD
Sunday, Jun 01, 2008
The folks at BiTMICRO are about to blow some doors off of the SSD truck with a new product they'll be debuting this year. According to a press release, the company is introducing a new, 2.5-inch solid-state drive with a whoppping 832GB of NAND flash goodness. The 3Gb SATA drive is a new addition to...
3D TV technology: No Glasses Needed
Sunday, Jun 01, 2008
Experiencing 3D on a television sans those horrifically unsightly glasses has been a dream for years. In a brief, completely monotonous video, the outfit demonstrates its "scalable system for real-time acquisition, transmission and autostereoscopic display of dynamic scenes," which transla...
HydroPak water-activated fuel-cell generator
Sunday, Jun 01, 2008
While still quite a ways away from our ideal method of drawing power directly from tap water, the new HydroPak generator from Millennium Cell and Horizon Fuel Cell at least trumps those heavy, dirty, traditional models in both cleanliness and efficiency. As we first heard a few months back, this wat...
HP gets some Voodoo
Sunday, Jun 01, 2008
It was WAY BACK in September of 2006 that we first heard news of the renowned boutique PC builder, Voodoo PC, being bought up by the likes of PC giant HP.  At the time it seemed more like a reactionary response to Dell's purchase of Alienware, but HP has done a much better job of working with V...
TurnOnTech
Sunday, Jun 01, 2008
Mr. Jurick is CFO of TurnOnTech LLC, which brings better systems to clients throughout the United States and Asia. His passion for small business entrepreneurship developed through his 30-year sales and business management career. For the past 10 years, the focus of his interest and work has been in...