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Outdoor Circle Wants Wienermobile Banned
Group Says Vehicle Violates Billboard Law
HONOLULU -- The Outdoor Circle wants the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile's trip to the islands to be its last, saying it violates the state's billboard law.
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The 27-foot fiberglass vehicle shaped like a hotdog on wheels just wrapped up a three-week tour on Oahu.
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Added by Ken Berkun on July 23, 2009 at 9:42pm —
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Amazon announced last night that it bought
Zappos for about 10 million Amazon stock, worth $807 million, and $40 million in cash and stock to Zappos employees.
In the following video, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tells an interesting story of what he has learned and why Zappos is a great fit for Amazon. It seems that Amazon bought Zappos because they have the same values (i.e., customer…
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Added by Truman Leung on July 23, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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This isnʻt much of a blog entry, but given the subject matter of this website I thought I would mention
a brief news snippet I read in todayʻs Honolulu Star-Bulletin, it provides,
Blind man sues SBA over Web access
A blind business owner from Honolulu has filed a complaint against the U.S. Small Business Administration over access to its Web site.
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Added by Derek on July 23, 2009 at 9:25am —
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So I read on the
news yesterday, that Apple and a Chinese cellular network company (Unicom) has finally signed a deal to release the iPhone in China!
However, a lot of the news reports are saying that these Chinese iPhones won't have Wifi capabilities. I'm slightly confused about what this actually means: is it just the wifi chip that's restricted, or are the 3G/Edge…
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Added by Sherwin Gao on July 20, 2009 at 9:55pm —
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Recently I've talked to a number of tech entrepreneurs looking for an attorney to help with structuring a company or protecting their intellectual property. Its always helpful to find an attorney who has experience dealing with technology start-ups. There are a lot of attorneys in Hawaii and it can be difficult to pick the right one for your company. I've dealt with about a dozen Hawaii based attorneys for things ranging from QHTB filings to structuring a company and filing a patent. Here…
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Added by Daniel Leuck on July 19, 2009 at 9:30am —
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Well, it’s official. The Governor did not veto the Legislature’s Bill 199, so Hawaii’s Investor Tax Credit for high technology companies has now been scaled back from a maximum of 200% to “only” 100% return of high tech investment through tax credits, and the credits will now be claimable at no more than 80% of State income tax liability per year. Actually, the scaling back of benefits was not so bad. Rather, it was the way the whole tax credit program has been conducted over the past 10 years,…
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Added by Leighton K. Chong on July 17, 2009 at 2:26pm —
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Added by Alex Salkever on July 16, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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Added by Mark Cruthers on July 15, 2009 at 7:54am —
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Man, it has been a while since I last posted. I wanted to write about all sorts of things. Like successfully installing
R for
OpenSolaris using packages. Maybe about the
uncertain future for OpenSolaris, now that Oracle pwns that. Maybe about coffee (see…
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Added by Brooke Fujita on July 14, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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Posted on behalf of Jay Fidell from
ThinkTech and the July 12, 2009
Honolulu Advertiser
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In her veto list of June 30, Gov. Linda Lingle said she would veto SB 199, the bill that pulled the wings off Act 221, the high-tech tax credit.
This unleashed an endless chain of e-mail within the tech industry. Some were…
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Added by Daniel Leuck on July 13, 2009 at 11:00am —
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IT ALL STARTED WITH A SEARCH ENGINE. Back in the days, Google Search has taken over the web by its simplicity, light-weight, and precision of returned results.

Then Google slowly expanded into GMail, Calendar, Google Docs, etc.. in an attempt to replace desktop office with web-based alternatives. More features were being added constantly,…
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Added by Konstantin A Lukin on July 9, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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I was extremely ecstatic last night when I saw that some staff members at SlideToPlay.com were playing our game last night, and ranked second on the high score server! You can see the high score list at:
http://www.cocoslive.net/game-scores?gamename=Fireworks%20Fun
Then when I checked it later today, not only did they score #1 with a score of 61,100 (with a total playing time of 8 minutes),…
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Added by Sherwin Gao on July 8, 2009 at 8:01pm —
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A small group of folks were invited by the Governor's office to discuss the potential veto of SB199. I would be very interested in knowing if any tech companies have already been negatively or positively affected by the potential passing of this bill.
For example, were you looking for funding but SB199's threat has killed your chances due to uncertainty?
Or is there a positive story you would like to share?
I don't want a pro/con debate on SB199 here. I would…
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Added by Peter Kay on July 8, 2009 at 10:30am —
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For all RIA fans out there who are deciding whether to go with GWT or Flex for your next project, I highly recommend to consider the following initiative. It is called
Ext GWT. It packages a well known
Ext JS Javascript library into GWT…
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Added by Konstantin A Lukin on July 7, 2009 at 11:30am —
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Thereʻs a very good chance that you have no idea who I am. My name is Nathaniel Kinney.
I am interested in finding out what concerns Hawaiʻiʻs tech industry might have at the City & County level. In addition, I am also interested in finding out from members of Hawaiʻiʻs tech industry, how the City government can do things differently to become more efficient.
At this point, you may be wondering, why the heck does this Nathaniel Kinney guy want to know and who the heck…
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Added by Nathaniel Kinney on July 7, 2009 at 12:23am —
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As some of you may know, my friend and I have published our first iPhone game
Fireworks Fun a few days ago. Although that wasn't my first iPhone app, I still learned a great deal from it. The iPhone SDK is extremely large and there just doesn't seem to be enough time to learn everything and develop at the same time! The bad (or good) thing is, developing for the iPhone is much more than just mastering the SDK; there are so many other aspects to iPhone development. I…
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Added by Sherwin Gao on July 6, 2009 at 4:09pm —
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Average software developer often juggles multiple projects at a time. One of common challenges is keeping track of time properly, especially when 'context switching' from one project to another. A quite useful tool for time tracking is
Google Calendar. Here is a list of most notable features: - Free and available with GMail acount - Syncs with CalDAV enabled clients (Apple iCal or Mozilla Sunbird) - Syncs with Windows…
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Added by Konstantin A Lukin on July 4, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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My new iPhone app, named Fireworks Fun, is finally in the app store today! It was almost going to be too late, since as you can see from the title we were trying to target audiences on July 4th :)
The dev time was intense for this since we started developing this in early June, after my graduation. I thought of the idea of making an iPhone app for July 4th before May since that would be one of the best ways to get exposure for an app. However, there just wasn't enough free time to…
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Added by Sherwin Gao on July 3, 2009 at 8:25pm —
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I first met Ken on TechHui. He was an early member and a frequent participant in our groups and forums. I was intrigued by his company's product, Soundpaper, which encodes audio in high density barcodes. In Japan I frequently see bar codes used to encode URLs that can be read by mobile phone cameras. You find them everywhere from vending machines to magazines. The user points their mobile camera at the barcode to access media (sound, image or video) over the network. Soundpaper is…
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Added by Daniel Leuck on July 1, 2009 at 3:00pm —
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I just finished reviewing the
API docs for Silverlight 3. I'm really impressed with the 3.0 framework. Silverlight has always had good underpinnings including an elegant and clean API, a declarative UI, a solid VM and an excellent programming language (C#). The problem has been a lack of polish in the UI, missing high level components and missing key features already found in…
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Added by Daniel Leuck on June 28, 2009 at 8:00pm —
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