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• Fall and Falling Prices?

  Image via Wikipedia As we slide toward Fall, out of the shimmering mirage days of summer, there is a lot of talk out there about housing prices in Canada – and none of it is real good. Interestingly, there is less of an attempt to put a positive spin on things from the Real Estate [...]This post was written by Mike...

  Urban Work Bench

• Cisco To Acquire Smart Grid Monitoring Tech Company Arch Rock

  Cisco this morning announced its intent to acquire privately-held Arch Rock, which specializes in IP-based wireless sensor network technology with a focus on energy and environmental monitoring and Smart Grid applications. Financial terms of the transaction are not being disclosed. Based in San Francisco, Arch Rock will...

  Wireless Sensor Networks Blog

• Capacitors: A Bucket Full of Charge

  REPOST. This was originally posted on June 10, 2009.---Before continuing with the series on transistors and having already described the resistor, I'd like to touch upon one more fundamental electrical device, the capacitor. The typical drawing of a capacitor on a circuit diagram is shown below. The symbol represents two...

  Flying FLux

• Roundtable Recap: September 2 – Find High Velocity Channels

  First up at this week’s roundtable was Cheryl Yeoh presenting CityPockets, an online destination and an app for managing daily deals across a wide range of sites. The daily deal and group buying market has really heated up, with numerous sites offering variations on the basic value proposition. But for Cheryl, the problem...

  Sramana Mitra on Strategy
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