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A better way to track equipment with a better name needed

Skytron, a medical equipment company, and Clinical Engineering Consultants, a re-seller, are teaming up to build a Web portal for tracking the performance and ownership costs of medical equipment. It's a great idea but they're going to have to work on the name. The...

Tags: Software Product, Circuit Board, Idea, Air Traffic Control, Portal, Medical Equipment, Skytron, Portal Product, Playwright, Portals, Web Technology, Aerospace & Defense, Healthcare, Internet, Manufacturing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-13

Singularity Summit 2007: Dancing with Dr. Doom

Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...

Tags: Air Traffic Control, Computer, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Photos: Fight and flight

Fallon Naval Air Station in Nevada is a training facility for aircraft carrier-based Navy combat pilots. It also happens to be home to the service's famous Top Gun academy.At the Fallon Naval Air Station in Fallon, Nev., two F-18 Hornets--the mainstay of the Navy''s fighter fleet--approach the airfield for landing....

Tags: Workforce management, Aerospace & Defense, photograph, Fallon Naval Air Station, training, F-18 Hornet, F-16s, F-18s, air traffic control, aircraft, dogfight, mainstay, adversary, Air Force, Nevada, fleet, tower

Image galleries 2007-08-10

Does the Internet need a do-over?

The Internet is maxing out, isnt viable over the long run and is being flooded by rich applications and thousands of gadgets. If the Internet were air traffic control you wouldnt fly. Thats the gist of a Computerworld report. Computerworld argues...

Tags: Broadband, General, Government, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Management, Mobile, Security, Software Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless

Blog posts 2007-02-13

Images: Flight simulator has users flying high

VatSim flight simulation network gives aviation enthusiasts a realistic look at air traffic control.

Tags: flight simulation, air traffic control, network

Image galleries 2006-12-18

DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung (German Air Traffic Control) Relies on Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to Transfer Critical Data

Regulated by air traffic law, DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH DFS directs and controls air traffic and the receipt, processing and forwarding of flight plans. The airspace over Germany is among the most heavily populated in the world. On any given day, more than 8,000 airplanes are moving along airways through...

Tags: Novell Inc., Air Traffic Control, Enterprise Server, Aerospace & Defense, E-mail, Servers, Manufacturing, Online Communications, Hardware

Case studies

The FAA Improves Incident Response Time and Regulatory Processes

The Federal Aviation Administration FAA is responsible for ensuring the safety of US air travelers. Its responsibilities including incident response, civil air regulations, safety research, and the air traffic control system. The FAA needed new processes and technologies for improving event response, reducing time and cost to create new regulations,...

Tags: FAA, Incident Response, Air Traffic Control, Microsoft Corp., Aerospace & Defense, Regulations, Strategy, Manufacturing, Government, Management

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Nexima's Air Traffic Control Solution Takes Flight With Dundas Data Visualization

Nexima develops solutions for reporting, analysis and decision support, with customers from a wide range of businesses and public services. A reporting module was needed to control and view data in the security and safety system. The reporting module had to be visual appealing easily convey information, and have thorough...

Tags: Module, Air Traffic Control, Nexima, Data Mining, Aerospace & Defense, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Manufacturing, Management

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Additional Resources

Canada adds another city to LED City list

Welland, Ontario, is the latest municipal government to commit to the LED City initiative, under which cities from around the globe are converting lighting to light-emitting diodes. A retrofit of all streetlights is under way -- 50 have gone up so far and 50 more are...

Tags: City, Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-06

DDoS + Web 2.0 == Buckets o' traffic

Denial of Service attacks are based upon a simple idea: generate the maximum amount of traffic using the minimum amount of work. At one time this was as simple as sending a spoofed ICMP echo packet to a broadcast address or similar shenanigans. Modern DDoS attacks rely upon...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Network, Distributed Denial Of Service, Social Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Mainstream media writes Windows obit

Mainstream media writes Windows obitMS should have never...killed off XP. Especially when such a huge segment of the market is tired of being forced fed what they do not want.This article makes a good point about users beginning to realize that as long as they can hit the web rather...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), LIKE IT, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co., mainstream media, Windows obit, Microsoft Windows Vista, obit, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem.

I think I may have been the only person at this week's Office 2.0 conference using - gasp! - a pen and paper. There was no program "book" when I registered - the agenda was online only. And none of the exhibitors handed out press releases on paper - though...

Tags: Document, Microsoft PowerPoint, Appirio, SlideRocket, Digital Signatures, Collaboration, Productivity, Groupware, Fax, Microsoft Office, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-05

The Importance of Dissent

The Importance of Dissentwould be nice...It would be nice if we could "shout from the rooftops" without fear of reprisal. In reality, with most companies, the options are "jump ship" or "keep your mouth shut and do as you're told".It's hard to disagree publicly with your companyI agree with you...

Tags: Drizzle, Mat, open source

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureOverbroadYou wrote:[The appliance computing culture’s interactive] applications model drives almost everything, from processor and OS evolution to appropriate management structure - and even the conflicts with traditional business systems experts whose internal model of “automatic data processing” is broadly unrelated to the needs and...

Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Processors, business systems expert, appliance computing culture, mainframe, best practice, Windows PC

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Dell repair adventure, conclusion

Dell repair adventure, conclusion"less than optimal or expected"The phrase I have heard for this is "opportunity for improvement." Glad to hear your machine got fixed.Dell serviceDell has no where near the skill level of the old DEC field service reps and probably never will.I have had 3rd parties from...

Tags: Manufacturing, NEXT BEST, outsourced tech, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight

Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlightis Flash chopped liver?I don't get it... Flash is ubiquitous.. it's on almost every PC out there and has a huge developer base behind it, yet these people are implying Silverlight is THE platform to beat. What does Silverlight have that Flash doesn't (besides a...

Tags: Scripting languages, Adobe RIA, SWF, Chrome, WebKit RiA, Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, WebKit, Microsoft Office, SVG, Adobe Systems Inc., developer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

My Awesome IT Job: Senior IT Manager, Cisco

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-09-05

End of an era: Dell may dump its factories

End of an era: Dell may dump its factoriesRubbed up the wrong way?"The rub: It’s unclear whether contract equipment manufacturers would want to buy Dell’s manufacturing hubs. Do contract manufacturers really want to take on Dell’s capacity?"Don't CEM's want to take on everyone's capacity ... I mean isn't their model...

Tags: Manufacturing, Notebooks, Dell Computer Corp., End-Of-An-Era

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Should political postings stay or go? A survey.

Should political postings stay or go? A survey.Please Speak FreelyAdmittedly, the subject matter was off-topic but adding the occasional non-relevant opinion is a very human thing to do, certainly not to be chastised, regardless of idealogical objection.Kevin, G-Portal UKhttp://cms.da.gpRE: Should political postings stay or go? A survey.Mitch you have at...

Tags: Blogging, political posting, blogger, survey

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...

Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-05