Lucky for you we have (2) free passes to the upcoming New Noise conference in Santa Barbara October 8th-10th. About New Noise Santa Barbara New Noise brings together music industry professionals, music technology professionals, entrepreneurs, artists, artist managers, agents, producers, lawyers, publishers, and fans. Like music? Like getting away from the city and heading up the coast?

The firm--which was for years one of Santa Barbara's most prominent technology firms--moved its headquarters to the Bay Area nearly a year ago, and recently went private, delisting from the NASDAQ. Fuze Box said it is now focused on online meetings and mobile collaboration; the firm said it still has offices in Santa Barbara. ...Tags: Tags: The long saga of Callwave has ended, as the firm said this morning that it has officially changed its name to Fuze Box . The firm went IPO in 2004.

San Jose-based networking giant Cisco said today that it has acquired Richards-Zeta Building Intelligence, a Santa Barbara firm which develops software used for managing building infrastructure. Richards-Zeta Building Intelligence will become part of Cisco's Emerging Technologies Group, part of Cisco's Globalisation Centre East, reporting to Marthin De Beer. According to Cisco, Richards-Zeta's middleware will be used as part of a solution for allowing customers to maximize operations and energy efficiencies, to create greater energy savings, and to reduce their carbon footprint.

When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs San Diego Layoffs Santa Monica Layoffs Los Angeles I guess this is a sign of the times. The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 -- The MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast Presents: Winemaking in Santa Barbara County - A World of Entrepreneurs. Just forty years ago, there were fewer than 200 acres of vineyards in Santa Barbara County. What global forces, and what technological, market and demographic changes are coming? Since then, hundreds of wineries have sprung up and thousands of acres are devoted to viniculture. But even with that growth, only two or three wineries are of commercial "Napa Valley" size.

Santa Barbara-based Solid Oak Software , a maker of PC Internet filtering technology, is claiming that the firm's software code is being used by the country as part of a new program to force PC makers to install filtering software on all new PCs shipped in the country. Tags: censoring filtering chinese stealing crime barbara sant In a report from the Wall Street Journal, the firm said it is looking for an injunction to prevent U.S. companies from shipping PCs with the Chinese software loaded.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 -- The MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast Presents: Technology Space - The Final Frontier for Growth of Companies in Santa Barbara? Have you ever come up against a wall when trying to find "technology space" in the Santa Barbara region? Do you have out-of-the-box thoughts on how to resolve our technology space issue? The October Are you thinking about starting a company and want to know about facilities in the area? The program presents some of the challenges in obtaining technology space and what has gone

He is well known in the Southern California Technology scene for his work producing the Digital Family event series, along with the MOTM (Meeting of the Minds) series. What are you working on now? I've recently co-founded the first political social network FreedomSpeaks and CitySourced.com a real time mobile civic engagement tool. and report them to city hall for quick resolution; an opportunity for government to use technology to save money and improve accountability to those they govern; and a positive, collaborative platform for real action. We were in the finals

Yesterday, I met with @LisaBraithwaite, a local Santa Barbaran. As a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (now an official sponsor of the event), I first reached out to my fellow board members. Tags: Eric Greenspan 140conf Google Voice jeff pulver santa barbara social media tech news Twitte 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 jumped on the bandwagon, big time!

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, to my PC, back to the iPhone and on and on it goes.