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Using FIPS 201 and the PIV Card for the Corporate Enterprise

Establishing a robust identity management framework within an enterprise requires both the implementation of new business processes and the selection of appropriate credentialing technology. While there are many approaches to enterprise identity management, industry and government have worked for over 10 years to develop both a standardized identification process within...

Tags: Card, Smart Card, Alliance Inc., Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Government, Smart Cards, Security Administration, Digital Security, Security

White papers 2008-10-01

BT HP Alliance Delivers Superior Service Management for World's Leading Passenger Transportation Provider - FirstGroup Plc

BT and HP wanted to provide FirstGroup with best practices and Information Technology Infrastructure Library-aligned service desk management with measurable service levels. BT and HP provided rapid deployment of an HP Service Management solution including ITIL best practices, consulting and education services, and HP service management software. This resulted in...

Tags: Service Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Transportation, British Telecommunications, FirstGroup Plc., Alliance Inc., ITIL, It Services

Case studies 2008-05-01

BT HP Alliance Introduce New Bank Teller System for National Australia Group Europe

National Australia Group NAG offers a wide range of financial products and services to 8.4 million banking customers and 2.3 million wealth management customers. NAG wanted to raise customer service levels, comply with regulations, improve IT management and reduce costs, National Australia Group Europe NAGE needed to implement a new...

Tags: Bank, Hewlett-Packard Co., British Telecommunications, Alliance Inc., National Australia Group, WANs, Banking, Supply Chain, Product Marketing, Network Technology, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Networking, Financial Services, Business Operations, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-04-01

Fujitsu One Touch Alliance: For Solution Providers

Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation offers one of the world's largest selections of high-end Tablet PC platforms, including slate and convertible form factors. When quality and durability matter - the Fujitsu LifeBook Tablet PC is the clear choice. Because of this, one can find Fujitsu systems in major industries and applications,...

Tags: Tablet PC, Fujitsu Ltd., Alliance Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

White papers 2007-06-01

Additional Resources

Android needs more U.S. carrier support

The Open Handset Alliance--the outfit behind the Android mobile operating system--announced 14 new members Tuesday, but perhaps the focus should be on what U.S. carriers remain absent. In a statement, the Open Handset Alliance, which was hatched by Google, outlined a roster of its new members the...

Tags: U.S., Vodafone Group Plc., Verizon Wireless, Carrier, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Operating Systems, Networking, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-09

Microhoo mudslinging: Icahn says Yahoo distorts facts of offer; Microsoft agrees

The Microhoo saga gets messier by the minute and will probably get worse as we near the Aug. 1 shareholder meeting where Carl Icahn tries to boot Yahoo's board and CEO Jerry Yang. We're back to dueling letters again and the saga is very messy Techmeme. On...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Search, Yahoo! Press Release, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Adobe shoots for 'create once, present anywhere' value with worthy Open Screen Project

Trying to deliver rich content effectively to the stubbornly heterogeneous end-user device tiers has produced more tears than triumphs. Adobe is aiming to fix that with the ambitious and inclusive Open Screen Project, which today throws adobe's considerable installed base weight behind an industry-collaboration movement to standardize interface delivery. ...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Mean, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-01

Is Google locking up historical works?

Google provides funding to universities and researchers around the world who scan and digitize books for them. Many of these books have considerable historical significance, although Google's real goal, according to a CNN piece on the effort, is to create Google Inc.'s Book Search, a portal...

Tags: Google Inc., Book Search, Portals, Channel Management, Internet, Web Technology, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-04-28

Yahoo's strategy: Torpedo the Microsoft deal or up the offer?

There are two ways to look at Yahoo's latest move in the Microsoft-Yahoo chess game: Yahoo is either trying to torpedo the deal or trying to force Microsoft to rush into it by upping its offer. Yahoo announced on April 9 "that it will begin a limited...

Tags: Strategy, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Financial Accounting, Finance, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Who should be thanked for the return of Mr. Jobs to Apple?

News of Singularity, a non-Windows operating system from Microsoft, sparked my interest in OSes past and present. It got me thumbing though the back issues of MacWEEK for memories of OSes that were built from scratch and now forgotten. But in the research, I found some ironic gold regarding NeXTstep,...

Tags: Strategy, Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, MacWeek, Operating System, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., NeXTstep, Singularity OS, Operating Systems, Software, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-03-07

Report: GM plans half its cars on ethanol by 2012

Company expects to have 15 ethanol-capable vehicles available in U.S. market in 2009, according to news report. General Motors is planning for half its cars in the United States to be running on ethanol by 2012, the Associated Press reported. The report quoted GM North America President...

Tags: Car, CBS Interactive Inc., General Motors Corp., Reuters, Autos

News items 2008-02-07

Report: Google planning China online music alliance

Aimed at stealing market share from Baidu, Google partnership with Chinese online company would provide free music downloads. Web search leader Google is planning to boost its presence in China by tying up with a Chinese online music company to provide free music downloads, The Wall Street Journal...

Tags: China, Google Inc., Alliance, Baidu.com Inc., Online Music, CBS Interactive Inc., Digital Music, Strategy, Personal Technology, Management, Reuters, Corporate & legal, CNET Networks Inc.

News items 2008-02-06

U.S. open-source group opens chapter in Europe

Consortium of companies working on software interoperability cites Europe's abundant open-source projects. The Open Solutions Alliance, a consortium working on interoperability of open-source software, has set up a European chapter due to the high number of community-developed software projects that have sprung up in the region. "More...

Tags: Interoperability, CBS Interactive Inc., Europe, OSA, Peter Judge, Open source

News items 2008-01-30

Can HiTrust bring electronic health records forward?

HiTrust the Health Information Trust Alliance has launched with great fanfare. Its mission is to "a common security framework for use by all parties that create, access, store or exchange personal health information." Sounds promising. Its common security framework PDF would establish...

Tags: Security, Electronic Health Record, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, E-health, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-19

Toshiba to join IBM, others on chip development

Toshiba will join a group led by International Business Machines to develop system chips using 32-nanometer circuitry. Toshiba said Tuesday that it would join a group led by International Business Machines to develop system chips using 32-nanometer circuitry, as chipmakers increasingly team up to cut development costs. The...

Tags: Circuitry, CBS Interactive Inc., Toshiba Corp., IBM Corp., Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Reuters, Processors & semiconductors, CNET Networks Inc.

News items 2007-12-18

Lips Forum releases mobile Linux specs

Unlike Google's Android platform and others, the Lips Forum is trying to create a fully open-source set of specifications for mobile Linux. The Linux Phone Standards Forum has released its first complete set of specifications for mobile Linux. Comprising members such as France Telecom, Texas Instruments, ARM,...

Tags: Mobile, CBS Interactive Inc., Specification, Telecommunications, Mobile Linux, Linux Phone Standards Forum, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Mobile Applications, Software, Marketing, David Meyer, Open source

News items 2007-12-12

Google introduces Android and the Open Handset Alliance

Google announced today in a press release their vision of an open handset along with a list of companies who are part of the alliance. These companies include everything from carriers to phone manufacturers that are all working towards the same common goal -- to revolutionize this industry. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Handset, Web Site Development, Cellular Phones, Strategy, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2007-11-05

HTC will be launching an Android handset in the 2nd half of 2008

I am listening into the conference call between Google, T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm and Motorola where the Open Handset Alliance and Android open source platform was announced. Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google Inc., Andy Rubin, Director of Mobile Platforms, Google Inc., René Obermann, CEO of Deutsche Telekom, parent company...

Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Mobile, T-Mobile, Handset, Open Handset Alliance Announcement, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Google reveals some of its mobile gang

Google outlined some of the participants of its Android mobile software in a media alert a few minutes ago. Google detailed a noon ET conference call for the Open Handset Alliance, an alliance of more than 30 partners. The executive lineup hints at the key bigwigs in...

Tags: Google Inc., Mobile, Wireless, Wireless Operator, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Epicor Software Case Study: Blackstone Medical, Inc.

After years of successful market growth, Blackstone's internal business management processes and systems were beginning to cripple their business efforts. They needed to address the wide range of quality data - nonconformances, customer complaints, Statistical Process Control SPC, engineering changes, document revision, employee skills and more - but they also...

Tags: Epicor Software Corp., Strategy, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Management, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2007-10-30