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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

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

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

Aloaha PDF Signator (zip)

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

Software downloads 2008-01-03

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

Blog posts 2007-12-12

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

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

What did Microsoft learn from Vista?

After Bill Gates, the man whose name is most closely associated with Windows is Jim Allchin. Allchin, the co-president of Microsoft’s platforms and services business, is in his final months at Microsoft. As previously announced, the 16-year Microsoft veteran plans to leave the company in January, following the retail launch...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Jim Allchin, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, dependency, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2006-10-27

Smart Card Minidriver Specification for Windows Base Cryptographic Service Provider (Base CSP) and Smart Card Key Storage Provider (KSP): Version 5.05

Vendors can write card minidrivers to present a consistent interface to their smart card type to the Microsoft Smart Card Base Cryptographic Service Provider CSP or Crypto Next Generation CNP Key Storage Provider KSP and to the Smart Card Management Interface. These card minidrivers plug in to Microsoft Windows operating...

Tags: Smart Card, Specification, Information, Microsoft Corp., Card Minidriver, Smart Cards, Microsoft Windows, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Operating Systems, Software, Security

White papers 2006-10-25

Processor, memory may marry in future computers

Processor, memory may marry in future computersYeah yeah yeah...More hype from Intel...Upgrading still possible?So would this mean it would no longer be posible to add extra memory if a user wanted/needed more? Or are they pspeculating that this advance would provide as much memory as anyone would ever need?And...

Tags: Processors, memory, processor

Discussion threads 2006-09-28

Microsoft gives go-ahead to open-source Web services

Microsoft gives go-ahead to open-source Web servicesDON'T TRUST M$M$ is known to have all kinds of fine prints in its license that can surface later.On the other hand, implementing M$ protocols will play into serving M$ agenda of extending its monopoly.The OSS community should reject these specifications and create their...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2006-09-13

Next Generation Wireless LAN System Design

An important issue in the widespread deployment of infrastructure based Wireless Local Area Networks WLANs is the network design. This paper proposes a new WLAN design approach that focuses on assuring sufficient data rate capacity to meet expected user demand in the coverage area, while still satisfying signal coverage and...

Tags: WLAN, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking

White papers 2005-05-26

C++ Server Pages (zip)

C++ Server Pages CSP allows developers to build dynamic Web pages and Web applications by using C++. Existing C++ projects can be ported to the Web by simply including the C++ source code, or by importing the C++ libraries to CSP scripts. It is similar to ASP and JSP, but...

Tags: Server, C++, C++ Server Pages, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2005-04-11

Is programming dead?

Is programming dead?...programming is 'alive and kicking'..http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/26/1082831478338.htmlAbolutelyMDA cannot replace pure programmig. "Three Amigos" although setting standards and putting a lot of valuable scientific work are wrong. Modeling is a different species and base algorithms are not part of it. Also modelling does not address many other issues like for example...

Tags: Development tools, modeling, programming, Microsoft .NET

Discussion threads 2004-04-26

Hitachi Case Study: Oji Paper Co., Ltd.

Oji Paper is a paper manufacturer that boasts the largest production volume in Japan. Other paper companies are increasingly adopting ERPs integrated application packages to achieve a powerful management infrastructure by integrating mission critical systems based on a worldwide standard. Oji Paper decided to switch its entire accounting system to...

Tags: Hitachi Ltd., ERP, Oji Paper, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

Case studies

Non-Profit Reaps Benefits of Cisco Unified Communications With SMB Select Partner CSP

The North Carolina Baptist Foundation is a small non-profit agency providing trust services for individuals, churches and other Baptist institutions. The foundation has outgrown its current phone system. With just eight full-time and two part-time employees, it does not have the technical expertise to research and deploy a new communications...

Tags: Partnership, Unified Communications, Benefit, Foundation, Cisco Systems Inc., Small And Medium Business, North Carolina Baptist Foundation

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