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- DESKTRA Freedom Desktop 1.1 (Windows)
- DESKTRA Freedom Desktop provides access to your Desktops from anywhere on the Internet. No firewall configuration is necessary. Security, ease of access, and speed are the three design fundamentals of the DESKTRA Freedom Desktop Technology. All the DESKTRA communications are password protected and encrypted using the state-of-art AES Advanced Encryption...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, DESKTRA SYSTEMS, DESKTRA Freedom Desktop, Desktra Freedom Remote Access Protocol, Remote Access, Desktops, Telecommunications, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-09-15
- Twitter going commercial?
- According to Mike Arrington, there is a commercial play for Twitter in the works. During a conversation with Ev Williams, Twitter co-founder: MA: What is your revenue model? Do you know yet? Have you thought about it? EW: We’ve thought about it. We had...
- Tags: Twitter, E-mail, Operational Accounting, Productivity, Processors, Online Communications, Finance, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- An IT productivity horror story
- An IT productivity horror storyMiddlemen1, Speculating on your unconfirmed report, is there any love lost between the insurance companies and the independent insurance brokers? Relationships between suppliers and independent brokers tend to change over time. If the companies are after the margins of the brokers, automated communication may be the...
- Tags: Financial Planning, IT productivity, information technology, insurance, insurance company
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- The end of software...
- The end of software...Mike Krigman's words made me gasp - sorta...Do you have any idea of how many times I have heard "But he's [i]just[/i] technical." when I tried to convince somebody in the "decision-making culture of the business" to do something better - or at least not do something...
- Tags: Groupware, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft SharePoint, information technology, software, Web 2.0, ConnectBeam, collaboration
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
- Just what is "desktop virtualization" anyway?
- A term that I've been hearing more frequently in the past few months is "desktop virtualization." What does that mean anyway? It seems to me that this could be the use of any one of several different virtualization technologies in several categories of virtualization software (see Sorting out the different...
- Tags: Software, Desktop, Device, Environment, Goal, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- Outages could rattle BlackBerry's iconic status
- Outages could rattle BlackBerry's iconic statusOh please...People can't go for three hours without their BlackBerry's? I'm a BlackBerry addict myself...and even I found the outage to be refreshing.Even with 2 outages in one year, RIM should still be within 5 nines (99.999%) of uptime...which is far more than can...
- Tags: Handhelds, Manufacturing, RIM BlackBerry, Research In Motion Ltd., outage
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- Microsoft's unveils its grand virtualization strategy
- Updated 11:00 AM PST: Microsoft will formally unveil its grand virtualization strategy tomorrow at a Virtualization Deployment Summit in Bellevue, WA, highlighted by the acquisition of Calista Technologies, a deeper alliance with Citrix and initiatives for deploying virtualization from desktops to data centers (see also Mary Jo Foley's take on...
- Tags: Combination, Desktop, Server, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, EMC Corp., System Center, Hyper-V, Money Line, Application Virtualization, Presentation Virtualization, Microsoft System Center, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- Ten more ways SOA made a difference in 2007
- From planes to trains to phones to hotels, SOA played a key role in advancing many businesses in 2007. I culled several more working examples of where SOA made a difference over the past year from my SOA in Action Website over at ebizQ, which tracks SOA success stories. More...
- Tags: Airline, British Telecommunications, SOA, EasyFIDS, Marriott, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-12-27
- To ESB or not to ESB, that is the question
- The enterprise service bus, or ESB, has been regarded as a quick on-ramp to service-oriented architecture for some time. However, industry experts have been divided as to whether they actually hurt or help SOA in the long run. Will putting ESBs in place to meet certain needs result in incompatible...
- Tags: Federation, SOA, Dana, Lorraine, Fremantle, Enterprise Service Bus, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Services, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- TD Ameritrade discovers database breach
- Online broker TD Ameritrade said Friday that it has discovered a database breach that compromised customer accounts. In a statement, TD Ameritrade said it "discovered and eliminated unauthorized code from its systems that allowed access to an internal database." TD Ameritrade found the breach as it was investigating...
- Tags: Database, Ameritrade Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- A Single Voice/Data Network Increases Daniel Silva's Productivity and Profits
- Moving its main office was the perfect opportunity for freight forwarders and customs broker Daniel Silva Ltd. to reduce communications costs and increase productivity. System demonstrations confirmed the high voice quality, ease of management and full suite of advanced features available with 3Com NBX IP telephony solutions. By deploying an...
- Tags: 3Com Corp., Roi/Tco, VOIP, Telecommunications, Performance Management, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies 2007-07-01
- Google TV ads debuts
- "We think a lot of the principles of the Internet can be applied to the TV business," so says Keval Desai, Googles director of product management for TV advertising, in touting a deal with EchoStar Communications Corp. to broker a portion of the ads shown to its satellite TV Dish...
- Tags: TV, Television, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- 3 Reasons to Archive Email
- Compliance, capacity management and e-policy enforcement. Which factors are driving email archiving at organization? And how to pick a solution that solves specific problems without breaking the bank? There are many internal and external forces driving the need to archive. If user is a registered securities dealer or broker, he...
- Tags: C2C Systems, E-mail, Online Communications
- White papers 2007-01-31
- CES and Macworld amount to zip -- until we get better interplay among the companies controlling the parts
- All eyes are on the CES and Macworld events this week -- but the gushings emitted from either show will amount to zero impact on the anticipated converged industries of home/entertainment, mobile services, and PCs/Internet unless things change dramatically among the companies that dominate the subsets of this necessarily inter-dependent...
- Tags: Desktops, Handhelds, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Network technology, Broadband Internet, PC, network, handheld
- Blog posts 2007-01-07
- Strategies and Insights Into SCA-Compliant Waveform Application Development
- Embedded communications engineers are faced with numerous challenges as radio technology drives towards Software-Defined Radio SDR-based heterogeneous compute platforms. The Joint Tactical Radio System JTRS program has attempted to ease development and porting costs by requiring the use of the Software Communication Architecture SCA for SDR systems. The SCA is...
- Tags: Strategy, Application Development, Mitre Corp., Service Component Architecture, System Software, Joint Tactical Radio System Program, Software Communication Architecture, Corba, Tools & Techniques, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Software
- White papers 2006-08-11
- Law enforcement using data brokers
- American's bank account statements, email messages and phone records are all available to sale, both to private sector institutions like banks trying to track down debtors and to law enforcement agencies. But the information could also be used by stalkers or estranged husbands, or other criminal elements. This is what...
- Tags: James Rapp
- Blog posts 2006-06-25
- Ten examples of SOA at work, right now
- 1 To manage a world of data: An SOA-focused deployment is helping the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to streamline access to its mounds of data, as well as link users of the data to the services they need to process the data.2 To manage workflows: A BPEL-based workflow system...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2006-01-03
- My Ten "Converging World" Predictions for 2006
- My Ten "Converging World" Predictions for 2006Prediction 10---- IDTYou may be right Russell, but I know there will be a huge battle for this asset. Think lawsuits, SEC and Delaware courts.Also IDT's machinations have not worked out recently---- remember the ill fated IDT Spectrum, problems in Haiti, and locking reporters...
- Tags: WiMAX, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, IDT Corp., LEC
- Discussion threads 2005-12-28
- Has Microsoft missed the SOA bus?
- While not an issue of omission, one of the telling aspects of last week's Professional Developer's Conference was Microsoft's treatment of services oriented architecture SOA. Microsoft tended to uphold SOA as a progressive architectural development, but steered clear nonetheless from explaining how Windows-based tools and systems could be used to...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2005-09-19
- Has Microsoft missed the SOA bus?
- While not an issue of omission, one of the telling aspects of last week's Professional Developer's Conference was Microsoft's treatment of services oriented architecture SOA. Microsoft tended to uphold SOA as a progressive architectural development, but steered clear nonetheless from explaining how Windows-based tools and systems could be...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-09-19
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