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- Gold Coast City Council Raises Benchmark for Best Practice
- Gold Coast City Council GCCC is the second largest Local Government Area LGA in Australia in terms of population. GCCC needed a business solution that could handle increased business processes, also provide more efficiency and ongoing flexibility. GCCC deployed BEA systems for its solution and implemented BEA WebLogic Integration Framework...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., City Council, Best Practice, Gold Coast City Council, Middleware, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
- Case studies 2007-07-01
- Bringing public Wi-Fi to small-town America
- Bringing public Wi-Fi to small-town AmericaTV bandwidth obsoletes Wi-FiAgain, because the message just isn't getting through, in the USA the bandwidth that is being freed up when the USA goes to Hi-Def TV can be used for Wi-Max. That bandwidth goes through walls. So any small town or city or...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Cable, city council, Wi-Fi, Lowell, Wi-MAX, TV, Internet access, bandwidth, TV bandwidth
- Discussion threads 2007-06-06
- NYC city council wants to study broadband options
- News.com reports that NYC is finally promoting broadband. The initiative comes not from the city administration but from the City Council: "[the] legislation that creates a special broadband commission to advise Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the city council on how the resources of city government can be used to help...
- Tags: broadband, city council
- Blog posts 2005-12-21
- Braganca Paulista City Council Reaches Out to Citizens Through New Oracle-Based Web Site
- Founded 208 years ago, one of the oldest city councils in Sao Paulo, Braganca Paulista City Council serves 120,000 residents. The council wanted to provide a graphic interface to support a new Web site and deploy a solution that helps create access rules and forms in addition to generating reports...
- Tags: Web, Oracle Corp., Council, Web Site, City Council, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Application Servers, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Databases, Internet, Software, Marketing, Data Management
- Case studies
- City Council Streamlines Operations With Fully Integrated Messaging Environment
- Historically, Zurich City Council managed its electronic communications using a number of disparate systems. While the Building Services Division used Lotus Notes and Domino technologies, other areas of the organisation used Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5. Over time, managing these disparate systems became increasingly inefficient and expensive. To address these...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., City Council, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
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- LG introduces Wirewize remote pay home theater tech support
- Best Buy must get some huge margins from its Geek Squad tech support service, because it seems like everyone wants to copy that model of overcharging noobs for help with tech installations and troubleshooting. Circuit City has Firedog, and Office Depot has Tech Depot Services. Now LG Electronics is trying...
- Tags: Home Theater, LG Electronics Inc., Cable, Wirewize, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- New green certification program helps keep kitchens out of the frying pan in terms of environmental waste
- Haven't had much occasion to write about Microsoft in this blog as extensively as some of the other big hardware-oriented tech players, but this item was pretty intriguing, because it's a great lead-in to some other cool information I briefed on about a month back. Here's the...
- Tags: Food, Kitchen, FoodServiceWarehouse.com, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- India Radio (gadget)
- Introducing the India Radio gadget with 30 stations of Web radio. Simply click on the radio station you desire and play the live internet stream. Don't pay for web radio, when you can listen for free. This gadget uses your windows media player and real player for audio broadcasts, the...
- Tags: Web, Radio, Gadget, Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
- Garmin Nuvi 265WT
- The Garmin Nuvi family of portable navigation devices PNDs is growing constantly, and the GPS manufacturer has added a new line called the Nuvi 2x5 series that focuses on providing high-end features for an affordable price. The flagship model of this line is the Garmin Nuvi 265WT, and it offers...
- Tags: Keyboards, GPS, Network technology, POI database, Garmin Nuvi, Garmin Ltd., Garmin Nuvi 265WT
- Product reviews 2008-10-09
- Laptops with mobile WiMax now available
- The first laptops with built-in mobile WiMax wireless broadband are now available in the U.S. Sprint, Intel and the computer companies announced the new WiMax configurations at an event in Baltimore just a few days after Sprint launched its Xohm service there. All of these laptops use...
- Tags: Mobile, Sprint Xohm, Laptop Computer, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, 3G, Chipsets, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology
- It's midnight, do you know where your solar panel is? I read somewhere yesterday where thefts of solar panels are on the rise, no doubt due to the rather dear price that they still command. Hopefully, that's on a pace for change, given that many of us...
- Tags: Installation, Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Beautiful Earth Wallpaper and Screensaver (exe)
- Earth weather is a desktop wallpaper generator and screen saver. Earth weather shows you how the earth looks like from the space at this very moment on your desktop wallpaper and screen saver. You can see which parts of the earth are enjoying the sun light. And in night areas...
- Tags: Desktop Wallpaper, Earth, Screensaver, GimmeGoody Software
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
- PcPlanes (zip)
- PcPlanes free 3D physics flying game in a breakable city with buildlings. 3D positional sound. Fly through a city and fight with planes in a real rigid body physics environment. Positional 3D sound sources and music. Breakable building and other objects. Artificial intelegence. More like a 3d version of evolved...
- Tags: 3D, PcPlnes
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
- Teaching telecommuting
- Teaching telecommutingtelecommuting skills?I'm a fulltime telecommuter, though I do venture out to teach an IRL composition class a couple of days a week. I think the kids already have the skills they need to telecommute, and they value having the connection between the classroom and that new work environment made...
- Tags: telecommuting
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Report: Data-mining for terrorists doesn't work
- After years of the federal government grabbing all the data it could find, building huge collections through which to data-mine for connections that would yield leads to terrorism suspects, a 352-page study released on Tuesday by a committee of the National Research Council warned that such goals "will be...
- Tags: Terrorist, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Data Mining, Federal Government, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Samsung Sway SCH-U650 (Verizon Wireless)
- It's clear that Samsung loves two things: slim slider phones and midrange camera phones with a flip design. Indeed, we've seen a deluge of such models over the last few years, with the latest in the slider camp being the Samsung SCH-U650 for Verizon Wireless. Also called the Sway, (why,...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Verizon Wireless, keypad button, display, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Sway, phone
- Product reviews 2008-10-07
- Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.
- Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.Telecommute JobsI see these articles appear every few months. They always talk about how great this concept is, and how it is a great deal for both companies and employees. However, my husband has been contacted by headhunters several hundred times...
- Tags: telecommuting
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Scammers introduce ATM skimmers with built-in SMS notification
- The bust of the notorious ATM scammer going under the handle of Cha0 in early September, once again puts ATM skimming in the spotlight. Among the main insecurities scammers face while embedding an ATM skimmer, is the retrieval process of the device that is now containing the credit card details...
- Tags: Device, Credit Card, built-In, SMS, Scammer, ATM, Network Technology, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Networking, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Can two AMDs be better than one?
- Can two AMDs be better than one?They should never have bought ATIATI was content with competing with NVIDIA, and if market conditions had let them fail at it, so be it. What we're seeing now is the failure of 2 companies, not just one.ExpensiveThe cash infusion may have been...
- Tags: Research & Development, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Samsung HT-X710T
- We recently looked at the HT-TZ512T from Samsung, a solid home theater-in-a-box that focuses on DVD playback and offers wireless rear surround sound. The TZ512 also offers a few additional audio inputs as well as compatibility with various digital file formats. The HT-X710T, reviewed here, keeps most of...
- Tags: Corporate communications, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Consumer electronics, Monitors & displays, DVD, Samsung HT-X710T, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., TV, video, subwoofer
- Product reviews 2008-10-06
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