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- Evaluation of GPRS Enabled Secure Remote Patient Monitoring System
- This paper presents a methodology for monitoring patients remotely without geographical barriers using a General Packet Radio Service GPRS enabled embedded system. The system architecture is described and performance has been evaluated in the context of data security needs. The suitability of the GPRS connectivity is considered in the context...
- Tags: System Architecture, Patient, GPRS, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2005-04-27
- MSDN Webcast: Service Orientation and Connected Systems Architecture (Level 300)
- This webcast explores the promise of service orientation as a means for developing more effective line-of-business applications. The presenter presents a model that places point solutions in the context of the organizational value chains they support, and uses a set of interaction patterns to offer insight into how to design...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, System Architecture, Webcast, Value Chain, Microsoft Corp., Connected Corp., Business Structures, Channel Management, Digital Media, Finance, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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- Microsoft Dynamics Webcast: Discover the Importance of Business Systems Architecture Services for Your Microsoft Dynamics Deployment (Level 100)
- The viewers of this webcast will learn what Business Systems Architecture and the Microsoft Technical Presales Advisory Group TPAG can do for them. Also, the presenter of this webcast explains about the latest security changes in Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0.
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, System Architecture, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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- 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
- Response to financial crisis may mean more IT work ahead
- Governments all across the world are responding to the current financial crisis with a range of nationalization initiatives, and increased support of various parts of the financial services industry through guarantees and pumping in increased liquidity. You know what it means when there's more government involvement with...
- Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Industry, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Management, Government, Finance, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Surviving the recession with Free Linux distributions (Part 1)
- Times are tough. You're a computer geek and you need to feed your PC with the latest and greatest applications. What's a frugal nerd to do? A group of industry peers was recently asked by a colleague the following question: "If an SMB...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Distribution, Recession, Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Debian, Times, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Debian Support Cycle, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Text messages save elephants' lives, villagers' crops
- As elephants' habitat is destroyed, the great beasts frequently leave their protected reserves, barging into villages and eventually are killed by rangers. But in Kenya, there is a better way: text messaging. A group called Save the Elephants has outfitted a huge bull elephant named Kimani with...
- Tags: Elephant, GPS, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Live Services as Microsoft's consumer Web platform
- Live Services as Microsoft's consumer Web platformRe: Wrong Live Services Jumpstart LinkThe Live Services Jumpstart 2009 link is wrong. The right one is http://www.lpjumpstart.comJumpstart link is fixed now in the postthanks! Mary Jo
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Live Services as Microsoft's consumer Web platform
- It's been tricky keeping separate all of the "layers" in the Microsoft cloud strata. One of those layers, Live Services, has been especially amorphous. But now Live Services is a little clearer, thanks to a new Web site detailing an upcoming series of Microsoft events. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Web, Microsoft Corp., Live Platform, Channel Management, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- America's airways ready for NextGen
- America's airways ready for NextGenTraffic Controllers & an outdated system?Maybe, but that hasn't stopped them from filling the skies so full and knowingly stressing and burning out controller after controller and who knows how many costly mistakes, not all on the ground, caused as a result of it. ...
- Tags: NextGen
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'
- I've written from time to time about Apple and their rumoured tablet devices, applications for tablet PC's, multi-touch and Surface, and all those touchy-feely concepts we've been hearing about, but when do we get to actually see them? Microsoft has recently kicked forward their Software+Services, which for...
- Tags: Tablet PC, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Are there really too many Windows editions?
- Are there really too many Windows editions?Are there really too many Windows editions?Nope!Still, from a consumer point of view, he wants one version, 20 bucks,enable any features you want. The multiple versions are ONLY for Microsoft's benefit in order to extract more money from YOU the eager customer.There is something...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, SKU, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Are there really too many Windows editions?
- Ask any Windows pundit about all the different versions of Windows Vista that Microsoft offers and you'll invariably get the same response. There are too many! Consumers are confused! It all needs to be simplified! To which I say: Be careful what you wish for. The case for reducing the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Edition, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- US proposes DNS fix: digital signatures
- US proposes DNS fix: digital signaturesGold mineExpect that if VeriSign has the key authority, they'll require VeriSign certificates. In effect, this will amount to VeriSign being paid for every domain, and considering the number of domains at stake and VeriSign's rates, that's a [b]very[/b] large sum of money that...
- Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, SECURITY, DNS, VeriSign Inc., e-mail, DNS machine, centralized authority, DNSSEC, digital signature
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy
- We've all been distracted by events in the economy over the past few weeks, and let's face it, it makes for a very large elephant in the room when we talk about SOA. All debates about REST, SOAP, Java, .NET, JSON, ESBs, WOA won't mean a thing...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- US proposes DNS fix: digital signatures
- The Commerce Department is considering deploying digital signatures to make DNS less susceptible to hacking, ComputerWorld reports. Under the proposal, DNS records would be signed by DNSSEC Domain Name and Addressing System Security Extensions. There have been some commitments to the system for the following top-level domains:...
- Tags: Digital Signature, DNS, ICANN, Domain Names, Digital Signatures, Authentication/Encryption, Networking, Security, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Consumers score a partial win against Walmart
- Consumers score a partial win against WalmartThis is why DRM should be illegalIf wal-mart want to make it right,it should give everyone with DRM infected music a clean track of every song and then shutdown the illegal DRM servers forever.DRM Sucks!!!!!It harms the genuine buyers. Pirated software and music has...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- America's airways ready for NextGen
- It's time – long past time – to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction and a massive energy wastefulness. But a GPS satellite-based system, on the drawing board for more than a decade, has...
- Tags: FAA, Air Traffic Control, Greenhouse Gas, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureAccretionThe substantial number of miscellaneous applications appear to be unlinked. The IBM-linked approach is e-commerce, replacing another old and working system.Is what you're describing a slow-moving IBM takeover? You've included indications that IBM is gaining administrative authority.This approach is description by strobe...
- Tags: IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- On the Linux laptop the bundle is all
- On the Linux laptop the bundle is allI don´t like teenagersI don´t like teenagers or stories about teenagers. But I will say yours seems dumber than most.The bundle is all only if the package is badA properly packaged Linux system should make installing programs child's play. Though I own an...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, distro, Linux laptop, Linux, Xandros, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
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