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Featured Techie: Keiki-Pua Dancil, CEO of HiSciTech, the State's Largest Tech Advocacy Organization

Our Featured Techie post is usually a love fest, a testament to amazing things that some geek in Honolulu has accomplished, often against serious odds. This month's  belated Featured Techie is different. This is not to say that Keiki-Pua Dancil  doesn't have technology chops. Coming off a gig at one of a… Continue

Added by Alex Salkever on February 6, 2010 at 6:01pm — 5 Comments

Maui WiFi Network Breakdown

GPS+ WiFi + Maui = Painfully Insecure

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Added by Josh Sommers on February 4, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Project Management and Documentation Tools

The tools we use for managing software and design projects have evolved over the years. Last year Scott added… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on January 31, 2010 at 7:00am — 3 Comments

Haiti Relief - 4X Your Donation

Posted on behalf of Leigh-Ann Miyasato of Entrepreneurs Foundation of Hawai`i: As you know, the devastation from a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti and multiple aftershocks of up to 6.0 in magnitude have left an already impoverished country reeling and in chaos. Last week, the Austin Entrepreneurs Foundation launched a $600,000 Haiti Relief Fund to match donations from the EF network worldwide. Hawai`i technology company Referentia… Continue

Added by Mika Leuck on January 23, 2010 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments

AppEngine Datastore Overview (based on Java SDK)

In this post, I'd like to share some of my development experience with AppEngine's data storage facility called BigTable. As you might already know, BigTable is different from a widely known relational persistence (RDBMS) in a way that it deals with Entities and Keys as opposed to tables and rows. It might not seem too obvious at fi… Continue

Added by Konstantin A Lukin on January 17, 2010 at 5:30am — 1 Comment

"Revolutionizing" Accessibility to State Archived Documents

I don't suppose a lot of people in the tech industry actually go to the state archives, but this entry may be of interest to many of you nonetheless. I have absolutely no idea how many other states have archives that includes its own pre-statehood period, but our Hawai'i State Archives has archived documents that pre-dates its own stateh… Continue

Added by Derek on January 14, 2010 at 10:30am — 13 Comments

Hybrid Native / Web Apps

We just finished a very interesting hybrid application called Ilio Fun Facts for the Army Corps of Engineers (mahalo to Native Hawaiian Veterans for pulling us in on the project.) The project provides free MacBooks to a group of public grade schools in Waianae. The MacBooks have special logins and screensavers that help educate kids about unexploded ordnance. In addition to being technically interesting it was one of those projects that makes you feel good because it helps the community.… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on January 12, 2010 at 7:30pm — 7 Comments

Pono Media partners with MotherApp to buiild mobile applications

Industry-leading provider of cross platform mobile applications, Motherapp Limited has partnered with local media marketing startup, Pono Media to develop and market mobile applications in Hawaii, Guam, and throughout Polynesia. Founded in Hong Kong in 2005 by former original Google team member, Ken Law and serial entrepreneur, Leo Chan; Motherapp focuses on creating mobile apps using their patent-pending technology, which allows them to create applications quickly and easily for all major platf… Continue

Added by L.P. "NEENZ" FALEAFINE on January 12, 2010 at 8:18am — No Comments

Time Management - tips for success

Open Training in English - MFF - Time Management by george alex

Get your own Virtual Classroom

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Added by Mark Cruthers on January 8, 2010 at 2:06pm — No Comments

Meta-Contest

Create contests for the following at the TechHui location at the University of Hawaii sim in Second Life: (Hold receptions at the end of each contest, where people can donate SL dollars) 1. Have a "Best Sign-up Board" contest (leave the winning board in place to sign people up to TechHui) 2. Create a "TechHui Donation Jar" contest (winning jar stays in place and collects donations for TechHui) 3. Have a variety of art contests and reception (e.g., photo, lantern, candle, jewelry, clothin… Continue

Added by Rik Jadrnicek on December 31, 2009 at 11:18pm — No Comments

What Was Your Favorite Project?

About 15 years ago (I'm terrible with dates) I was working with my old friend Brent Ridenour on a software project in the Bay Area. During that t… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on December 31, 2009 at 2:00pm — 6 Comments

Look what's happening for 2010!!!

You know the Technology and Internet Expo that happens at the Blaisdell every year?? Well it's coming BACK!! Technology News Bytes is hosting it's 8th annual Technology & Internet Expo this year in October!! And of course following that is the Hawaii Education Technology Conference & Expo!!

Technology News Bytes is Hawaii's Exclusive Leading Information and Technology News Company! They bring… Continue

Added by Trey Takahashi on December 31, 2009 at 12:16pm — No Comments

Mobile apps, "Gov 2.0?"

In the summer of 2009, while I was working on the Nathaniel Kinney campaign, one of our goals was to help raise the level of transparency and efficiency of our city government through the use of the internet and mobile apps. This was articulated in a posting by Nathaniel Kinney (CLICK HERE to read that posting). An… Continue

Added by Derek on December 28, 2009 at 5:21am — 1 Comment

Featured Techie: Haralds Jass, Founder and CEO of Superb Internet, Hawaii's Largest Web Hosting Company

In January 2009, Superb Internet Corp. relocated to Honolulu from Vancouver, Canada lock, stock and barrel. The Internet hosing and technology services company had decided to leave Canada for a number of reasons bu the move was a surprise to many in Hawaii. The traditional pattern for technology companies in the… Continue

Added by Alex Salkever on December 27, 2009 at 1:30pm — 15 Comments

Plantronics Voyager PRO: Day 2

Day 3 was great! I tried the PRO driving all around today going from Mililani to Ala Moana all the way to Kaneohe.. and it was GREAT! When I was on the phone with my friend I was listening to Taylor Swift's version of 'Last Christmas' and it was cool because the volume was at 23 and he could still hear me! Later this week I want to do an experiment! So I plan to use the PRO at the Ala Moana Shopping Center and call my Blackberry and record my conversation. :D I can't wait... I hope you all ha… Continue

Added by Trey Takahashi on December 23, 2009 at 7:02pm — No Comments

Plantronics Voyage PRO: Day 1

I got this baby in last week thanks to Sara over at the Hoffman Agency! (follor her on twitter @saranixon)

Anyway, I started using this bluetooth on Friday (December 18) and it's been GREAT! I've honestly used like 8 bluetooths and this is one of my FAV's!

Comfort- 10

Sound- 10

Sex Appeal- 10

Size- 8

I've had the PRO in my ear for almost 8 hrs, and it hasn't given

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Added by Trey Takahashi on December 21, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

New Google Phone on the Market!

The biggest buzz in wireless right now is the ever-anticipated Google "Nexus", or whatever you want to call it, which is currently being tested NOW. I think that's Dope! The new HTC device is planned to be released in two versions; The T-Mobile one.. and The UNLOCKED one!!! For those who may not know, when a phone is unlocked it is capable of being used on any carrier. And did you know that.. ALL U.S wireless carriers lock their phones to their specific carrier... by the way, we're the only cou… Continue

Added by Trey Takahashi on December 17, 2009 at 1:30pm — 6 Comments

Wondering where my Wozniak is...

Since posting my iPhone developer talk on the Mathogen website I've been getting tons of requests to assist in iPhone development. Most interested in working with sundance filmmaker to create game for movie tie in. Thinking about getting into consulting after talking to Bruce Kim at the first iPhone developer meetup. Still most interested in working on my own projects. Reading game development blogs, listening to gaming podcasts, looking forward to administrative leave at the University of Hawai… Continue

Added by David Neely on December 16, 2009 at 5:06pm — No Comments

Finally...

It's been a rough semester (I had to pull 4 all nighters this week), but we have finally finished a prototype of our game for my school's Demo Day presentation! The game is called Poggle, and it's for the iPhone/iPod Touch. It's a difficult game to describe. In some ways, it's like a real-time "Rock Paper Scissor" game. The best feature (and one of the more complicated) is that it can support up to… Continue

Added by Sherwin Gao on December 16, 2009 at 1:00pm — 4 Comments

TechHui Meta Contest

Aloha TechHuians. As part of our initiative to grow the TechHui community, we are announcing what is, to our knowledge, the world's first meta-contest. This is a contest to come up with a clever contest :-) The winner of the meta-conte… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on December 15, 2009 at 1:30pm — 45 Comments

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