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When the New Mexico Information Technology and Software Association considered what it wanted from its revamped Web site, board members knew it should be a central information hub for the tech community. But using a blog do it? That got some resistance, said Webb Johnson, head of communications for the association, a technology industry group. … Read more

Though lifelong Albuquerque resident Barbara Thomas regularly rides a bus to work, she knows getting more people to do the same is a challenge. “A lot of us have been raised running around in cars,” she said. “That’s a hard habit to break.” But as gas prices soar, cities must help people break that habit … Read more

In pictures hanging at the Albuquerque Opportunity Center – pictures of city buses, abandoned liquor bottles, a Downtown intersection quieted by early-morning emptiness – the Rev. Trey Hammond sees a question. “What is a just and fair society?” asks the board president of the center, a shelter for homeless men. The pictures contain answers, too, … Read more

Losing an employee from Sandia National Laboratories is a victory – albeit bittersweet – for David Goldheim. As director of corporate business development and partnerships for the labs, he’s happy to see scientists take advantage of the Entrepreneurial Separation to Transfer Technology program he oversees. It gives researchers years off work at the labs to … Read more

Jim “Grubb” Graebner has the number seven on his mind. he digital film festival he directs and co-founded – the Duke City Shootout – is in its seventh year. He wants seven great scripts. “Usually it’s very, very hard to find seven great scripts,” he says. “We hope some year to get to that magic … Read more

Sugar sticks to everything. Chris Kent knows this, explains this as he runs a rag in and out of the candy-dispensing chute of his second-most profitable vending machine. It’s one of 76 he recently bought. “I think I’m going to have to bring an SOS pad next time,” says the 34-year-old Kent, kneeling before the … Read more

If you thought Hurricane Katrina was bad, consider this scenario described at a conference on Albuquerque’s energy future: As greenhouse gases from fossil fuels cause the earth’s temperature to rise in the future, oceans deepen – possibly by dozens of feet – with glacial melt-off. People in cities on the oceans’ edges, such as New … Read more

Kedar Bhasker, a student at the University of New Mexico, has always wanted to be part of the next big thing. A recent meeting with another UNM student has him thinking he might have discovered it. The find? A video game that teaches people foreign languages. “Video games – and just technology – are the … Read more

In the fight against grime, homeowners might have a new weapon using technology an Albuquerque company recently sold to the U.S. military. With salt, water and electricity, MIOX Corp.’s technology creates a cleansing solution strong enough to make filthy water drinkable and to neutralize biological weapons. In cooperation with a Seattle company, MIOX used the … Read more

Sometimes holiday gifts just won’t fit into the budget. Just ask Anne Desiderio about the families she works with as executive director of the nonprofit agency New Mexico Parent and Child Resources. “Almost 95 percent of our families are under the poverty level,” Desiderio says. Nice gifts for them, she says, are an extravagance. Her … Read more