The last direct flight from Santa Barbara to Silicon Valley, on a route run by SkyWest Airlines, is being discontinued, according to reports. SkyWest Airlines has informed Santa Barbara Airport officials that it plans to discontinue direct flights to San Jose in June, due to lack of demand. The news was first reported by local Santa Barbara publication the Daily Sound. The Santa Barbara to San Jose flights were popular among the many high tech companies located in the Santa Barbara area. SkyWest also runs a nonstop

Yesterday, I met with @LisaBraithwaite, a local Santa Barbaran. Finally, we started talking about the event on our radio show, Tech News, powered by Make It Work who is a co-sponsor now. As a result, Lewis will be our guest along with @seanmalarkey on our upcoming Jeremy’s Desktop (the online version of Tech News , powered by Make It Work) webinar entitled “ Social Media Crash Course .” I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. I’ve

We are also getting ready to re-launch blog.makeitwork.com which will provide a landing page for all things tech, both from our hundreds of daily appointments solving consumer electronic problems and our content from Tech News .  Tags: Daily Diary eric david greenspan make it work computer loan modification mini cooper santa barbara sonos tech news technology tweetdeck Twitte I spent my week applying the new skills I obtained from attending conferences, reading and engaging in Twitter activities.  I literally have been switching from my Blackberry, to my iPhone,

We are also getting ready to re-launch blog.makeitwork.com which will provide a landing page for all things tech, both from our hundreds of daily appointments solving consumer electronic problems and our content from Tech News .  Tags: Daily Diary eric david greenspan make it work loan modification sonos Twitter tweetdeck technology computer tech news santa barbara mini coope I spent my week applying the new skills I obtained from attending conferences, reading and engaging in Twitter activities.  I literally have been switching from my Blackberry, to my iPhone,

The group is now expanding into Orange County with an event next week in Costa Mesa, the first of a number of events the group will be having in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles proper, and elsewhere. Those in the Los Angeles technology scene have probably become pretty familiar with Kurt Daradics — one of the co-founders of TechCrunch50 darling CitySourced – and particularly, MOTM (Meeting-of-the-Minds), the networking event he runs along with Baron Miller. Kurt has been working over the last year or so to try to help out the technology community with events that connect

" SANTA BARBARA — The walls between industry and academe are being scaled in many different ways when it comes to engineering and science at UC Santa Barbara. The relationship is expanding to forge new bonds between the university's resources and research and corporate knowledge and needs. Ideas from the university reach the market in a variety of ways.

Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , the in-home computer and technology assistance firm known for its bright red Mini-Coopers, is targeting a national expansion, as part of a deal to carry the firm's radio show in twenty three new markets. Tags: makeitwork technology information service expansion radio knx1070 tech new According to Eric David Greenspan, the firm's founder and CEO, the firm has just signed an LOI to launch its radio show in 23 new markets with Citadel (ABC), and will also be expanding it services beyond the Southern California market as part of that show expansion.

" In this year’s University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Technology Management Program New Venture Competition at the end of May $25,000 was distributed between five winners in different categories. Winning $10,000 and $5,000 in the ‘Most Fundable Idea’ and ‘Dow Materials Use’ categories, respectively, was the startup Nitride Solutions of Santa Barbara, CA, USA. " quot; Nitride Solutions is dedicated to commercializing a process developed in UCSB’s engineering labs for the manufacture of high-quality aluminum nitride (AlN) substrates, enabling the fabrication of low-cost, high-efficiency and long-life ultraviolet LEDs (used for sterilizing medical devices or biological detection) and electronic devices that are currently not commercially available. [semiconductorToday] MOR

" A new program to accelerate and streamline the creation of spin-off businesses from the world-class research at UC Santa Barbara has been launched. UCSB’s Venture Acceleration Initiative (VAI) program supports new ventures through a highly integrated approach to the complex process of moving technology from the lab bench to commercialization. The initiative will benefit not only faculty entrepreneurs and their investors, but will also provide a significant boost to the local and regional economies as the nascent businesses take shape and grow. "

" UC Santa Barbara has joined with drugmaker Pfizer and several institutions to foster research that could lead to better understanding and treatment of diabetes. "Pfizer quot;Pfizer is putting up $14 million for the first three years of the project, one of the first of its kind. The project embraces a new approach to research that marks a shift in how university and pharmaceutical researchers work and serves as a model for the future, according to those involved in its creation. '"We