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Will 2009 be a solar year?

There are strong indications that eleven months from now, there'll more solar energy use around the globe than there is today. Just two months ago work was completed on Europe's first concentrated solar power plant CSP. These CS plants use mirrors to focus the sun's heat and don't...

Tags: Solar Panel, Solar Energy, CSP, Solar Millennium, Bengladesh, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-17

U.S. has more sun but Europe has more solar power...for now

Courtesy EER. A new study of the Concentrated Solar Power industry shows Europe to be far ahead, with major growth in the U.S. a couple years away. Emerging Energy Research found several reasons for the growth on Concenrtated Solar Power...but first a brief explanation....

Tags: Solar Energy, Europe, Chip, CSP, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Networking, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-02-16

Integration cited by Scottish cops for foiling open source

By way of ZDNet reader Darren Clarke comes a pointer to a news report on British tech site ComputerWeekly.com that has the details on why, after having once forsaken proprietary software for open source, the Central Scotland Police have ditched Plan A for Plan B: Microsoft (some open source will...

Tags: CSP, open source

Blog posts 2005-08-17

Additional Resources

Aloaha PDF Signator 3.9.98 (Windows)

The Aloaha PDF Signator can sign any existing PDF Document. Aloaha does not require special prepared PDF documents or signature fields. The digital signature of the PDF file will automatically be checked and indicated by the PDF viewer Acrobat Reader. The customer needs not to install specific software for this...

Tags: Adobe PDF, Microsoft Windows, Wrocklage Intermedia, Roi/Tco, Smart Cards, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Software downloads 2009-07-01

Aloaha Smart Card Connector 3.9.98 (Windows)

Aloaha Smartcard Connector, including a Microsoft approved CSP Cryptographic Service Provider and a PKCS #11, provides native, plug & play security enhancement to Microsoft Windows operating systems and Applications.The Aloaha Smartcard Middleware supports various Smartcards such as the German Health Insurance Card, Health Professional Card, Belgium e-ID Belpic, Swiss GS1,...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Wrocklage Intermedia, Microsoft Windows, Smart Cards, Business Services, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Construction, Vertical Industries, Operating Systems, Software, Security

Software downloads 2009-07-01

Mozilla tackles XSS vulnerabilities with new technology

Mozilla's security engineers are working on new technology that promises to mitigate a large class of Web application vulnerabilities, especially the cross-site scripting XSS plague against modern Web browsers. The project, called Content Security Policy, is designed to shut down XSS attacks by providing a mechanism for...

Tags: Vulnerability, XSS, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-06-22

Zap away your worst migraine

The machine zaps the Cortical Spreading Depression CSP that makes migraines the Parmesano Reggiano, the Rolls Royce if you will, of headaches. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-27

New Service Platform for Citizens Energizes Council Performance

In order to serve its citizens more efficiently and effectively, council officials in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in the U.K. have implemented a citizen-centered tracking system, built upon the Microsoft Citizen Service Platform CSP. The council is projecting 80 percent first-contact resolution rates as the system becomes...

Tags: Performance, Council, Microsoft Corp., Web Services, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Servers, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2008-06-01

Images: Supersize solar power

Utility-scale solar power plants--using everything from giant reflective dishes to plastic balloons--are changing the look of solar power.Parabolic troughs, one of which is shown here, have been around for 25 years, and the technology will be around for at least another 25. Parabolic troughs reflect sunlight to heat liquid carried...

Tags: Electricity, Solar Energy, Trough, Photovoltaics, Plant, mW, Solar Power Plant, Arizona Public Service, BrightSource Energy, Concentrator, Stirling Engine Systems, Infinia, It', SolFocus, What', Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-26

Norfolk Improves Decisions With InstantAtlas Neighbourhood Data Visualisation

The Norfolk Data Observatory NDO provides access to a wide range of definitive, high quality statistics and indicators at multiple geographic levels across the county. This includes key information on population, crime, deprivation, the Census, education, health and economic activity. The company really needed was a source of clear, in...

Tags: Intelligence, GeoWise, Norfolk, Norfolk Data Observatory

Case studies 2008-05-15

U.S. leads in a green tech besides geothermal

Charts provided by EER. Because the U.S. energy use is so immense, it sometimes seems the whole country runs on fossil fuels. But t'ain't so. The U.S. is big in using geothermal energy. While much of Europe is looking to biodiesel, the...

Tags: Green Technology, Harry Fuller, Management, Spain, Strategy, U.S.

Blog posts 2007-12-12

UML Models to CSP Models in MOMENT2-GT

MOMENT2 is an algebraic model management framework that permits manipulating models in the Eclipse Modeling Framework EMF. The goal consists in using OMG standards, such as Meta-Object Facility MOF, Object Constraint Language and Query/View/Transformation QVT, as a clean interface between formal methods and model-based industrial tools that permits taking the...

Tags: University Of Leicester, MOMENT2-GT, MOMENT2, UML, Quality, Programming Languages, Productivity, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Business Operations

White papers 2007-09-16

Using PROGRES for Transforming UML Activity Diagrams Into CSP Expressions

This paper describes how an UML activity diagram can be transformed into a corresponding CSP expression by using the graph rewriting language PROGRES. PROGRES allows to model the transformation process in a visual and declarative way, leading to a clear and easy to understand specification. PROGRES does not only offer...

Tags: Expression, Modeling, PROGRES, UML, Research & Development, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Business Operations

White papers 2007-09-13

AutoPKI: A PKI Resources Discovery System?

The central goal of Public Key Infrastructure PKI is to enable trust judgments between distributed users. Although certificates play a central role in making such judgments, a PKI's users need more than just knowledge of certificates. Minimally, a relying party must able to locate critical parameters such the certificate repositories...

Tags: Dartmouth College, PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking

White papers 2007-08-01

Develop Customer Experience Leadership Through Transformed Customer Service Operations

Customer experience leadership is the next battlefield for Communications Service Providers CSP considering converged services. To be successful, organizations must integrate knowledge scattered among disparate functional and operational units and deliver best-in-class customer support for converged IP-based services. CSPs must also introduce proactive and predictive capabilities for customer experience differentiation.

Tags: Customer Service, Customer Experience, Communications Service Provider, Customer Experience Leadership

White papers 2007-05-01

Winning in the Age of Convergence: Product Framework for CSPs

Convergence is fundamentally transforming the way Communication Service Providers CSPs operate. Falling Public Switched Telephone Network PSTN revenues coupled with triple / quadruple play are driving CSPs to formulate convergence-led strategies for future growth. The critical question that CSPs need to ask themselves is whether they have the process and...

Tags: Infosys Technologies Ltd., Convergence, Product Operations Framework, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking

White papers 2007-05-01

Kale Consultants Boosts Competitive Advantage and Business Agility With Improved Development Environment for Air Cargo Solution

Kale Consultants provides software solutions and outsourced services to the travel and transportation industry. They needed to sustain profitability when margins are being squeezed by market trends, such as rising fuel prices, and find cost-effective methods for product customisation. Being able to deliver an efficient customisation service, Kale must also...

Tags: Consultant, Environment, Competitive Advantage, Computer Associates International Inc., Development Environment, Outsourcing, Transportation, Development Tools, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Case studies 2007-02-13

Smart Card Minidriver Certification Requirements for Windows Base Cryptographic Service Provider (Base CSP) and Smart Card Key Storage Provider (KSP): Version 5.06

The Smart Card Base Cryptographic Service Provider CSP exposes the cryptographic capabilities of smart cards through the CAPI interface. The Smart Card Base CSP isolates all smart card specific cryptographic operations in the Smart Card Minidriver [CMSPEC]. Card Minidrivers execute in user-mode and are smart card specific. The Card Minidriver...

Tags: Smart Card, Microsoft Windows, Smart Card Base Cryptographic Service Provider, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security

White papers 2007-02-08

Web 2.0 definition updated and Enterprise 2.0 emerges

The annual Web 2.0 Conference starts this Tuesday and with it comes an important update of the vision of the next generation of networked applications.  Thus, the major event during the leadup to the conference is not the pending renaming of the conference to the Web 2.0 Summit, but the...

Tags: Web 2.0, Design Patterns, Business Models, Collective Intelligence, SaaS, Mashups, Architecture of Participation, The Long Tail, Customer Self-Service, Web as Platform, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, Lightweight Service Models, Cost-effective scalability, Collaboration, Right To Remix, Two-Way Web, Enterprise Web 2.0, Social Software, RSS, Social Computing, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise 2.0, User Generated Content, Web

Blog posts 2006-11-05

Toronto cops rescue child being abused live online

The Toronto Police's Child Exploitation Section made a ground-breaking arrest recently. They arrested a man who was sexually abusing a young girl in his home and transmitting the scene via webcam on the Internet. Two hours after an undercover agent saw the first images, the preschooler was rescued in...

Tags: Detective Paul Krawczyk

Blog posts 2006-11-03