Downtown Deals to Help You Restart

…r customers. Sign up for Santa Cruz Fiber and enjoy the first three months completely free. See if Fiber is available for you here. If you’re a freelancer, or remote worker ready to ditch the kitchen table and get back out into a more collaborative workspace, we want to make your entry to coworking – or your return to coworking – as easy as possible. Sign up for a Cruzioworks coworking membership and don’t pay anything for the first 3 months. We e…

Ready to Upgrade to Wireless Pro?

ford it. How’s this going to work? First step: a site survey. Site surveys come with no commitment or cost, and typically only take 20-30 minutes for our friendly, professional techs to get on the roof of your building to check line-of-sight to one of Cruzio’s many access points and plan any potential wire-runs from the roof to the building. We don’t need you to be present for the survey but if you’d like to be, no problem. If you happen to be in…

TEDx Livestream at Cruzio

…Do you know TED? TED is an internationally recognized conference with the theme “ideas worth spreading.” And now, TED is coming to Santa Cruz. The main event is sold out, but Cruzio is proud to host a livestream of Santa Cruz’s own TEDx this Saturday, June 11 from 9am-5pm. Won’t you join us? Admission is free, but space is limited….

New Tech Meetup, July 6 2011

…on in town. If you haven’t already, join at their website — it’s easy and free of charge. The speakers: Shane Pearlman and Hilary Bryant presented their group, the Santa Cruz City Technical Task Force. This committee consists of local technologists from a variety of backgrounds who volunteered to help the City find ways to streamline policies and procedures. Dr. Dominic W. Massaro asked “can children be taught to read as early as they learn to sp…

Landfill Spared, Funds Raised for Hope Services

…s, friends and supporters who delivered a steady stream of e-waste for the free collection event. Donations included everything from out-of-service TVs to one of the first IBM personal computers. It’s amazing to see the variety of electronics we each collect and how hard it can be to part with them. By the end of the day HOPE Services’ loading bay was crammed full of eleven pallets piled high, totaling 7500 pounds of recyclable waste. The electron…

Cruzio and One Wheel/Future Motion – High Tech in Surf City

…but business entities. Many times this situation results in a young up-and-coming company being forced to relocate to a more densely populated area where gigabit connections are available at affordable prices. Hence the founders and much of the culture that the company was based on are uprooted and transported, all in search of affordable high-speed internet access. Future Motion was in this exact situation – their success seemed to be driving the

Cruzio/Hope Services E-Waste Recycling Day

…c flotsam will be accepted. If you’re not sure what you can bring, see the complete list of recyclable electronics. Lots of benefits to e-cycling The great thing is that your electronic trash will get recycled the right way. You don’t want the stuff to end up in a landfill where desperate folks scavenge and get sick from the highly toxic chemicals. You don’t want some unscrupulous person to get hold of your old computer’s hard drive, and then stea…