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- Netgear announces new switches, access point at Interop
- Netgear launched at Interop a handful of new switches that introduce static routing capabilities to the company's SMB product line. It also unveiled an 802.11n dual-band access point that brings in support for the 5GHz spectrum. New ProSafe Gigabit Smart Switches deliver PoE,...
- Tags: Security, Associated Press, NetGear, Access Point, Home Networking, Smb/Sme, Wireless, Networking, Personal Technology, Rik Fairlie
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- AP Art History Flashcards (zip)
- AP Art History Flashcards is a computer program that contains over 900+ AP Art History flashcards which offers an inexpensive and effective way to review the material that will be on the AP Art History Test.What the Program offers: The program is easy to use and versatile. You can add...
- Tags: Associated Press, Virtual Flashcards, AP Art History Flashcards, AP Art History, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-02-15
- Senate approves telecom immunity, rejects compromises
- The Associated Press reports this dire news: The Senate voted Tuesday to shield from lawsuits telecommunications companies that helped the government eavesdrop on their customers without court permission after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. That's the Democratic-controlled Senate. After nearly two...
- Tags: Associated Press, U.S. Senate, Telephony, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Is India adapting to the Night Shift?
- Is India adapting to the Night Shift?Give 'em all Prozac and ...tell them to get used to the health issues. It comes with the American (or Indian in this case) Dream. Our life style here in America can kill the strongest of men... or women.Issue ain easyI work...
- Tags: Business process outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, IT Services, HEALTHCARE, Associated Press, Indian IT industry, attrition rate, Night Shift, BPO, odd hour
- Discussion threads 2007-12-28
- Please no "yapping away" on Skype in the air
- The Associated Press takes a look at the prospects for airline passengers to use Skype once in-flight Internet access becomes less of a novelty and more of an expectation. That transition, incidentally, is expected to significantly progress in this next year. AP reporter Anick...
- Tags: Associated Press, Skype Technologies S.A., Internet, Business Structures, Finance, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-24
- Bali: what China says the U.S. says about climate change
- As befitting its power and greenouse gas emissions, the U.S. has been the center of much of the coverage of the U.N. conference on combatting climate change. That conference is now in its final stages with the most powerful participants showing up for closing talks. Here's...
- Tags: U.S., Associated Press, Conference, Climate, U.N., Free Trade, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- Bali highs and lows
- The big climate change enviro-bash continues in Bali. Here's the conference's official website. Tomorrow BaliTalk enters the final phase with ministerial level participants arriving (that's Cabinet-level to us Yanks). It's not likely there'll be a big international agreement out of this conference even though it's aimed at finding the...
- Tags: U.S., China, Associated Press, Story, Headline, Conference, Standards, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Rudy's brilliant new idea: a virtual border fence
- Here we go - another tech-clueless politician believes technology will provide a panacea for difficult problems. Rudy Giuiliani says he wants to build a virtual fence to monitor the whole - or at least much of the - US-Mexico border, the AP reports. The...
- Tags: Software, Associated Press, Fence, Border, Rudy, Homeland Security, Tools & Techniques, Government, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- Are you feeling a powerful thirst? Could we run out of beer??
- There may not be enough water for the both of us. According to the federal govermment, thirty-six states face water shortages, now and for years to come. The Associated Press story contained a fact that surprised me. The U.S. already has over a thousand desalination plants. ...
- Tags: U.S., Associated Press, Water, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- POLL ON: AP tests show Comcast blocks BitTorrent transfers of King James Bible
- POLL ON: AP tests show Comcast blocks BitTorrent transfers of King James BibleVOIP quality of service on ComcastFor several months, my VOIP phone service worked almost flawlessly, and then I started have constant problems with the quality of my service. Comcast is my ISP. After months of trying...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Associated Press, BitTorrent, Comcast Corp., VoIP, VoIP phone
- Discussion threads 2007-10-20
- POLL ON: AP tests show Comcast blocks BitTorrent transfers of King James Bible
- After noting claims by users (first reported in this DSL Forum thread) that Comcast was blocking file-sharing traffic, the Associated Press decided to test this assertion by doing some tests of their own. They were looking for a non-copyrighted, non-infringing work of considerable...
- Tags: BitTorrent, Associated Press, Bible, Comcast Corp., Computer, Productivity, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Potsdam to New Amsterdam: your subways will flood
- Savor this New York City official website photo of lower Manhattan in 1944. The coastline of the city hasn't changed much since then. But now some sare saying it won't be long.... The Old World is telling the New World to beware of...
- Tags: Sea, Associated Press, Carbon Dioxide, Potsdam, Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Rapper Foxy Brown arrested for tossing BlackBerry at neighbor
- Rap artist Foxy Brown was arrested on Tuesday for assaulting neighbor Arlene Raymond with her BlackBerry.The Associated Press reports the incident started on July 30 when Brown, 27, drew complaints from Raymond for playing her car stereo too loud.Apparently one to bear a grudge, Brown ran into Raymond a...
- Tags: Tooth, Associated Press, RIM BlackBerry, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- Anonymous FTP sites leave military secrets naked online
- According to the Associated Press, military information that would pose a threat to U.S. troops if it were to fall into enemy hands, is freely available over the Internet.Among the sensitive information mistakenly posted online: Detailed schematics of a military detainee-holding facility in southern Iraq, geographical surveys and aerial photographs...
- Tags: Security, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- Keeping AP Racing on Track
- The Objet QuadraTempo enables AP Racing to produce high resolution 3D output for design verification and customer form, fit and function testing prior to production, as well as to demonstrate components to subcontract suppliers prior to commitment to tooling. Since the installation of the Objet QuadraTempo AP Racing is benefiting...
- Tags: Associated Press, Objet QuadraTempo, Channel Management, Marketing
- Case studies 2007-06-18
- Google security alert: Universal Search scarier than Google Maps
- If the Associated Press joins in on the Google Street View is "icky" bandwagon, does that make it true? NO.GOOGLE SECURITY ALERT: Ongoing user tracking by Google Search is WAY SCARIER (to put it in the vernacular) than Google's new mapping service, "Street View" which, in fact, does not represent a new...
- Tags: DoubleClick, Privacy, Google
- Blog posts 2007-06-02
- AP to copyright infringers: Pay up, for news online
- AP to copyright infringers: Pay up, for news online“It’s the start of a movement,” Brock enthused. A real “Claim Your Content”Nope, it's not the start of a movement ( bowel or otherwise ), it's the end of an era. The public has put up with the endless commercial advertising to...
- Tags: Associated Press, WWW
- Discussion threads 2007-06-01
- AP to copyright infringers: Pay up, for news online
- Has the Web's copyright infringement tide turned? A (very) "old media" company is taking the digital copyright protection lead, big time.When I met with Jim Brock, CEO of stealth-mode start-up Attributor, in New York City earlier this month, he shared with me his vision for mapping, tracking and assisting in appropriately...
- Tags: Content, Copyright, Media, Newspapers
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- AP: Cities losing millions on Wi-Fi
- In a sad tale of dashed hopes, many cities across the country are struggling to pay back loans on wireless infrastructure that never materialized, reports the Associated Press.A typical story is that of Lompoc, CA, which poured $3 million into a system that less than 4,000 people signed up...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Municipal broadband
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Site Specific Knowledge for Improving Frequency Allocations in Wireless LAN and Cellular Networks
- This paper is the first analytical work to exhibit the substantial gains that result from applying site specific knowledge to frequency allocation in wireless networks. Two site-specific knowledge-based frequency allocation algorithms are introduced, and are shown to outperform all other published work. Site specific knowledge refers to the use of...
- Tags: LAN, Associated Press, Network, Knowledge, WLAN, Allocation, Cellular Network, Wireless, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-02-16
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