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- MWC08: Bluetooth SIG creating spec to harness speed of WiFi
- I am a big fan of Bluetooth technology and am actually using a Think Outside Bluetooth keyboard to type this article on my new Fujitsu U810 Tablet PC. Blair sent me some big news from the Bluetooth SIG announcing that they are developing a new radio substitution method that will...
- Tags: Radio, Architecture, Bluetooth, Ultrawideband (UWB), Wi-Fi, Wireless, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Friday Fun - OK, so who owns a Tux Droid?
- Is you're Linux experience complete without a $145 Tux Droid? The other day my daughter was aimlessly browsing through a catalog when she came across the Tux Droid. Neither of us had seen one before and we came to the conclusion that it was some sort of foam...
- Tags: Firing, Wi-Fi, Web Site, Architecture, Linux, Web Site Development, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Web Technology, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- San Francisco in 100 years
- The year is 2108. Here in San Francisco, water is a precious resource and the population has doubled--or even tripled. How will the city accommodate these challenges? And what it's going to look like? That was the task eight architecture firms had to tackle in the History Channel's Future Cities...
- Tags: News.com, Robots, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management, san francisco, architecture, bay area, kara tsuboi, future, environment
- Videos 2008-01-24
- Images: Isaiah Architecture up close
- Chips based on a new architecture known as Isaiah could help little-known Via Technologies gain some ground in the industry. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Architecture, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Strategy, Hardware, Networking, Management, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-01-23
- Academy of Sciences' 5D design
- With its undulating garden-topped roof, twin domes, and environmentally-friendly features, this $484 million project is one of a kind. Building it was understandably a challenge. News.com reporter, Kara Tsuboi, learns more about the "virtual building" program that took architect Renzo Piano's sketches and made them a reality.
- Tags: Sketch, Academy of Sciences, architecture, virtual building, design
- Videos 2007-12-17
- MyGeneration (exe)
- MyGeneration is a development tool written in Microsoft .NET. MyGeneration generates code from templates that can be written in C#, VB.NET, JScript, and VBScript. MyGeneration is for generating ORM architectures or O/R Mapping files for architectures such as Gentle.NET, and NHibernate. The meta-data from your database is made available to...
- Tags: Architecture, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, MyGeneration Software, C#, .Net, Programming Languages, Microsoft Development Tools, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2007-12-14
- E-mail4B: An E-mail System for the Developing World
- This paper presents E-mail4B, a prototype e-mail delivery system targeted for developing regions. Effectively deploying networked applications in these challenging environments requires adopting a new architecture design to address the inherent cost and infrastructure demands. This project evaluates the Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions (TIER) architecture through an initial...
- Tags: Architecture, University Of California, E-mail, Online Communications
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Cathedral 3D Screensaver (exe)
- Many of the cathedrals built in Europe during the Middle Ages are still considered masterpieces of western architecture. These churches were built to be the hubs of diocesan towns. The planning and construction of a cathedral brought highly qualified craftsmen from various disciplines together and could sometimes take hundreds of...
- Tags: 3D, Architecture, Construction
- Software downloads 2007-10-12
- Exploring the Fundamentals of Architecture and Services in an SOA, Part 1: Use Architecture and Levels of Abstraction to Create a Better SOA - Why Is Architecture Important in SOA?
- In this first paper in the series, get a closer look at the elements of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), examine the benefits of architecture, learn how levels of abstraction help improve the development process, who creates and uses the architecture, and where architecture belongs in the software development life cycle.
- Tags: SOA, Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-09-04
- Dynamic Modeling: Aligning Business and IT (zip)
- This volume looks at how you can use different architectures, from Open Business Standards to IT industry architectures, in a connected fashion to support a dynamic enterprise. This Series is about aligning business architecture and IT architecture through dynamic modeling. Making sure business operations are working well across organizational boundaries...
- Tags: Information Technology, Architecture, Modeling, Research & Development, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- Software downloads 2007-08-24
- Datacenter-on-Chip Architectures: Tera-Scale Opportunities and Challenges
- The world has entered in an era of Chip MultiProcessor (CMP) platforms, where performance is delivered with the integration of more and more cores on a die. Tera-scale CMP architectures, consisting of several tens of physical cores and hundreds of hardware threads, are highly suitable for throughput computing especially in...
- Tags: Data Center, Architecture, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-08-22
- Generic Parallel Processing Techniques for Nanoscale Spin-Wave Architectures
- This paper studies the algorithm design aspects of three newly developed spin-wave architectures. The architectures are capable of simultaneously transmitting multiple signals using different frequencies, and allow for concurrent read/write operations. Using such features, the paper introduces a set of generic parallel processing techniques that can be used for routing...
- Tags: Parallel Processing, Architecture, University Of California, Productivity, Engineering
- White papers 2007-08-21
- The Professional Architect, Part 2: Overcoming Professional Challenges in Data Architecture
- Data architecture is an emerging profession that focuses on the statics (data modeling) and dynamics (data flow) of information within systems, across multiple departmental systems, or even throughout an enterprise. Data architects are custodians of all forms of data, from relational databases to flat files, from documents and content to...
- Tags: Architecture, Data Architecture, Data Architect, Research & Development, Operational Planning, Strategy, Databases, Business Operations, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-08-07
- Putting the SaaS back into SOA
- Back in 2002, recognizing that on-demand applications couldn't make progress without the emerging technology of web services, I switched my attentions from SaaS to SOA. Five years on, the tables are turned. I'm back writing about on-demand applications, and SOA and web services are very much at the heart of...
- Tags: Integration, Development, Architecture
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Using Web 2.0 Architecture for a More Flexible Enterprise: Dynamic Managed Elements
- Web 2.0 repositories can help one create a flexible software architecture, which can easily be plugged into Web 2.0 communities and extranets. Creating a fluid system that also works in accordance with requirements for modifiability, performance, security, scalability, and reusability can be challenging. In this paper, learn techniques to help...
- Tags: Web, Architecture, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- White papers 2007-07-10
- Distributed syslog Architectures with syslog-ng Premium Edition
- This paper discusses the advantages of using syslog-ng Premium Edition to implement distributed syslog architectures in heterogeneous environments. The document is recommended for technical experts and decision makers working on implementing centralized logging solutions, but anyone with basic networking knowledge can fully understand its contents. The procedures and concepts...
- Tags: Knowledge, Architecture, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-07-07
- SaaS and the packaged software appliance
- Delivering software as an appliance brings many of the same benefits as delivering software as a service, as I've described in my previous posting about Socialtext's experience, Can the appliance put SaaS on-premise? For similar reasons to Socialtext, Zimbra, which provides a messaging platform that competes with Exchange, also likes...
- Tags: Architecture
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- Can the appliance put SaaS on-premise?
- Delivering software as an appliance brings many of the same benefits as delivering software as a service. In fact, in recent weeks and months I've spoken to some people who've talked as if the two models were interchangeable. I wouldn't go that far, but I would say that they're different...
- Tags: Architecture
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- REST Battles SOAP for the Future of Information Services
- There has been some subterranean discussion in the content management standards arena about what is the best way to support the interoperability of content services with applications. Should vendors support content services through the myriad of web services support layers that have been developed over the last decade? Or should...
- Tags: Architecture, Enterprise Content Management, Information Management, REST, SOA, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Study total Architecture as a solution to the SOA challenge
- Architecture is no longer just an IT issue -- it is an enterprise issue. Succeeding with SOA: Realizing Business Value Through Total Architecture presents service-oriented architecture from the management perspective, illustrating what can happen to enterprise business processes and projects when elements of the total architecture are neglected....
- Tags: SOA, Architecture, Addison-Wesley, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Book chapters 2007-04-27
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