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Solving the Virtual World Interoperability Problem

Despite the popularity of SecondLife, there are in fact several such services on the market today. Enabling interoperabilty between There, Entropia Universe, Moove, Habbo Hotel, and Kaneva could go along way towards promoting the Virtual World industry. IBM researcher Ian Hughes' excellent post poses the question of what that...

Tags: Interoperability, IM, Presence, Stage, Service Provider, Cooperation, Standards, Adolescent, VIRTUAL WORLDS ARE ADOLESCENTS Virtual World Service, Business Services, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-02-20

Adarvo ThemeWare (exe)

Adarvo ThemeWare--optimize your electronic communication, organization, and cooperation. Adarvo is a professional groupware collaboration software package that provides you with optimum support when working on your PC as a perfect complement to your Microsoft Office programs, in the three areas of communication, organization, and cooperation with other people. Version 3.2...

Tags: Cooperation, Adarvo AG, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

Software downloads 2007-12-25

Inter-Overlay Cooperation in High-Bandwidth Overlay Multicast

The cooperation of end users can be exploited to boost the performance of high-bandwidth multicast. While intra-overlay cooperation, the mechanism for cooperation within a single overlay multicast group, has been extensively studied, little attention has been paid to inter-overlay cooperation. This paper explores the possibility and effects of cooperation among...

Tags: Cooperation, University Of Warwick, Sales Force Management, Sales

White papers 2006-05-04

Public-Private Partnerships and the Role of State and Federal Legislation in Wireless Municipal Networks

Current and pending laws will be examined to understand how cities can deploy a wireless broadband network under these regulations. An analysis of municipal facilities and technology expertise illustrates the opportunity for public-private cooperation in wireless deployments. This paper will show that cooperation is beneficial in many cases. Finally, current...

Tags: Pennsylvania State University, Network, Cooperation, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers 2005-08-31

Shared Services Center for E-Government Policy

It is a general opinion that applicative cooperation represents a useful vehicle for the development of e-government. At the architectural level, solutions for applicative cooperation are quite stable, but organizational and methodological problems prevent the expected and needed development of cooperation among different administrations. Moreover, the introduction of the "digital...

Tags: Administration, Cooperation, E-government, Workforce Management, Government, Human Resources

White papers 2005-02-14

The Gridbus Toolkit for Service Oriented Grid and Utility Computing: An Overview and Status Report

Grids aim at exploiting synergies that result from cooperation of autonomous distributed entities. The synergies that result from grid cooperation include the sharing, exchange, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed resources such as computers, data bases, software, and scientific instruments for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and commerce. For...

Tags: Utility Computing, University Of Melbourne, Cooperation, Sales Force Management, Sales

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Additional Resources

Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects

Well, eight days, and a joint effort to help prevent phishing and two major arrests related to identity theft, and I feel like we've made a decent attack on the identity theft culture. Score one for the good guys for once. Just a day after reading...

Tags: Arrest, eBay Inc., Romania, Romanian, Phishing, Identity Theft, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Super flash, hyper flash

Samsung has announced a new SLC flash part with 5x the write/erase cycle spec over standard single-level cell SLC NAND flash. They call it server grade flash. Is this the flash promised land or marketing hype? 5x what? The press release doesn't mention any numbers, but...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage Pyramid, Marketing Research, Storage, Marketing, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-07-17

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

Gmail, PayPal and Ebay embrace DomainKeys to fight phishing emails

Brad Taylor, Google's Gmail Spam Czar, has just posted details on the ongoing cooperation with PayPal and Ebay, two of the most targeted brands in phishing emails, the effect of which is rejecting compared to flagging as spam each and every email pretending to be coming from paypal.com and ebay.com...

Tags: Google Gmail, DomainKeys, PayPal, eBay Inc., Authentication, E-mail, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Trojan exploiting unpatched Mac OS X vulnerability in the wild

Trojan exploiting unpatched Mac OS X vulnerability in the wildAny Software can be exploitedThis is just another situation that proves that any software can be exploited if someone wants to devote the time to do so. So to everyone that thinks that Mac OS is so much more...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, trojan horse, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, ARD, Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Delta Airlines pioneers biometric aiport security screening

Delta Airlines pioneers biometric aiport security screeningAll airports pleasePlease oh Please roll this out to all airports!!! Did I say please?Ah the efficiency of BIG BROTHER!Now if only essential government services supposedly designed to help people were so expedient.What was the reason for all this prove your innocence before...

Tags: Delta Air Lines Inc., security

Discussion threads 2008-06-17

Public vs. Private? Outspoken Congressman mulls government's investment role in green tech

Public vs. Private? Outspoken Congressman mulls government's investment role in green techKucinch?No offense to anyone's political views, but Kucinch isn't exactly the person to carry the water for any cause. Kucinch is great to excite a certain political faction, but rarely gets anything accomplished that he sets out to...

Tags: Vertical industries, Kucinch, green technology, government, investment role

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

IT is from Mars; Business is from Venus

IT is from Mars; Business is from VenusAnd miscommunication is from Earth."What we have here is a failure to communicate", - Strother Martin in Cool Hand Luke.There are other departments in a corporation that don't communicate either. Engineering and sales are good at going at it also. That is why...

Tags: IT IS, Venus, user community

Discussion threads 2008-06-10

Do we need two open source office suites?

Do we need two open source office suites?That Made Me Scratch My Head, TooMethinks Dana needs to go back and double-check his sources. And, by the way, StarOffice's roots actually go back much further than that: Star Division's StarWriter was first developed back in the mid-80's for CP/M. ...

Tags: OpenOffice, Linux, Word processors, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, open-source office suite, Symphony, StarOffice, Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

Debunking yet another bogus malware study

Here we go again, with yet another round of bogus reporting about the extent of malware infections in the United States. This morning I read a report by Nick Farrell of The Inquirer, which was accompanied by the screamer headline One in Four US computers infected. It links in turn to a much longer...

Tags: Adware, OECD, Malware, Computer, Badware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Viruses And Worms, Productivity, Security, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Google App Engine pricing a disappointment

Google App Engine pricing a disappointmentCPU pricing comparison is misleadingEC2 charges by the instance-hour. That is, it costs 10c per hour that each of your EC2 instances is up ($72/month for one instance), regardless of how much load is being put on each instance.If Google is charging by the "CPU...

Tags: Pricing, Google Inc., Google App Engine, Google App Engine pricing, storage, pricing strategy, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-29

Microsoft wants to "buy" your searches - but are they for sale?

The blogosphere is frantically hyperventilating today over speculation that Microsoft will try to attract search users to its services by offering cashback to users who search and then make a purchase. No one seems to be asking the most obvious question of all - Microsoft wants to buy your searches,...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Blogging, Web Site Development, Search, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-21

A robotic chef for your kitchen?

The European Commission has founded a project named 'Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems' CHRIS for a cost of €3.65 million. The project, which started in March 2008, will last 4 years. It is based at Bristol Robotics Lab BRL which will work with the University of the West of England...

Tags: Project, CHRIS, Service Robot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-15

UK education agency nixes OOXML

UK education agency nixes OOXMLSo because Open XML is not open enough ...... schools should save their documents in the far more closed and proprietary .doc and other file formats. And people are worried about the US educational system!Agree with this moveIt isn't a good idea to expect all the...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), UK education agency, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format, ODF app, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-13