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Live Webcast: High Performance Workstations that Rock for Engineering and Entertainment!

High performance workstations are important tools of the trade for a growing number of businesses and industries that rely on specialized programs and applications. Nowhere is this more the case perhaps than the two very different worlds of engineering and entertainment. In both industries, the most important factors...

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Webcast, Industry, High-performance, Hardware, Entertainment, Digital Content, High-Performance Workstations, Workstations, Advertising & Promotion, CAD, Marketing, Software

Webcasts 2009-11-16

infinitas Learning Increases Customer Satisfaction and Reduces Support Costs

infinitas learning wanted to facilitate the successful application of a new business model - the supply of digital content to students - through digital supply chain management and governance and provide the ability to quickly and proactively trace problems in digital content provision to infinitas, the hosting provider, the publisher...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Customer Satisfaction, Digital Content

Case studies 2009-10-01

CrazyTalk Pro 6.12 (Windows)

CrazyTalk features multiple actor animation for generating real-time dialogue sequences, VividEye technology increasing the high realism of virtual eye movement, and auto human face fitting advancement in Reallusion's remarkably simple image transformation process that converts any 2D image into a fully animated digital actor within minutes. Quickly design and animate...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Actor, Digital Content, CrazyTalk, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-14

Addressing the Growing Need for Digital Content Archiving

The HP StorageWorks ExDS9100 serves and stores hundreds of terabytes of file-based data for expanding applications. Designed to be extremely scalable, affordable, and easy to manage, the ExDS9100 delivers excellent performance and availability for service providers and enterprise customers alike. Its ability to independently scale beyond traditional storage systems in...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Digital Content, HP StorageWorks ExDS9100, Performance Management, Storage, Utility Computing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware

White papers 2009-08-01

Kindle lawsuit not so 'ridiculous'

Chris Dawson thinks this: If you don't like buying online products only to have them remotely deleted without so much as a "have a nice day," ... Don't buy a bloody Kindle! Chris thinks that Amazon's terms of service create...

Tags: Lawsuit, Amazon.com Inc., Digital Content, Chris Dawson, Chris, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-31

CrazyTalk Pro 6.0 (Windows)

CrazyTalk features multiple actor animation for generating real-time dialogue sequences, VividEye technology increasing the high realism of virtual eye movement, and auto human face fitting advancement in Reallusion's remarkably simple image transformation process that converts any 2D image into a fully animated digital actor within minutes. Quickly design and animate...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Actor, Digital Content, CrazyTalk, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-17

Digital Publisher Creates New Business Opportunities for Online Content Delivery

Bondi Digital Publishing, based in New York City, has built a reputation for innovative, user-friendly digital content delivery. Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Vertigo, Bondi developed an innovative new Web delivery solution based on the Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in. Bondi has used its new solution to build online Web...

Tags: Content Delivery, Microsoft Corp., Digital Content, Bondi Digital Publishing

Case studies 2009-06-01

Internet Service Provider Boosts Security and Speeds Database Queries by 800 Percent

Bondi Digital Publishing, based in New York City, has built a reputation for innovative, user-friendly digital content delivery. Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Vertigo, Bondi developed an innovative new Web delivery solution based on the Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in. Bondi has used its new solution to build online Web...

Tags: Security, Database, Microsoft Corp., Internet Service, Digital Content, Bondi Digital Publishing, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet

Case studies 2009-06-01

The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policy

The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policyI vote KallmanAt last! A decent proposal on ZDNET, more from this guest blogger please. Of course I would think that, having suggested a Global Digital Emporium instead of The Pirate Bay, herein."The good of the library outweighs the interests of...

Tags: Strategy, Operational accounting, premium service, digital content, content provider, Big Content

Discussion threads 2009-05-23

Offshore Development Center Helps Sports Technology Company Better Manage Its Digital Content

XOS Technologies had to meet its business objectives of managing sports events' digital content (video, images, audio) and collecting profit from selling legal licenses for potential distributors. The company operated a third-party application for storing its digital content; however, the storage (Vault 1.0) had limited functionality that did not allow...

Tags: Digital Content, E-business

Case studies 2009-05-07

Premier Digital Content Creation Studio Improves Operational Efficiency With Workflow Solution

Digital Dimension, a six-time Emmy Award-winning studio specializing in high-end visual effects for the motion picture industry, was finding itself inundated with information. Digital Dimension needed a way to organize the huge volume of digital content, projects, deadlines, comments, review notes, and production materials in order to manage the complex...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Digital Content, Content Management, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2009-01-01

Going paperless...Are we really saving money?

I've been continuing to kick around the idea of going paperless in K-12 education, particularly at the elementary level. It's becoming something of a personal crusade as I watch teachers crank out reams of worksheets for their students and find money to buy toner to support their habit. ...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Digital Content, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Marketing in the Age of Digital Content: A Recorded Webcast With IDC and EMC

Most organizations have difficulty repurposing existing content, holding down production costs, reaching across multiple geographies, putting out a consistent brand message, acquiring new customers cost-effectively, and collaborating efficiently with partners. The right enterprise marketing platform solution can make all the difference. The attendee of this webcast will find out what...

Tags: Webcast, EMC Corp., International Data Corp., Digital Content, Marketing Research, Storage, Marketing, Hardware

Webcasts 2008-10-23

Sony brings better pricing and more digital content from E3 2008

Sony announces a new price for the 80GB Core Pack PS3 for September. The PlayStation store will now deliver TV shows and movies--in standard or high definition--that you can watch on your PS3 or your PSP. 'Gran Turismo' gets its own TV channel, and we get sneak peeks at 'DC...

Tags: Sony Corp., Pricing Strategy, Digital Content, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Game Players, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, News, E3, Sony, Gaming

Videos 2008-07-16

Amazon bolsters Kindle catalog, inks pact with Simon & Shuster

Amazon said Friday that the Kindle will get 5,000 additional titles from Simon & Shuster for its e-book library. Simon & Shuster is a unit of CBS, which is buying CNET, parent of ZDNet. With the Simon & Shuster deal, Amazon adds titles like...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Digital Content, Simon & Shuster, Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-30

HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System: Solution Brief

Digital content growth is starting to create real challenges for IT managers these days. Between increasingly complex software applications and increasingly powerful capture devices, the size of the average file at most companies is growing, and the need for more storage is becoming increasingly urgent. The Extreme Data Storage System...

Tags: Data Storage, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Digital Content, Digital Content Growth, Extreme Data Storage System, HP Extreme Data Storage, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-05-01

Privacy-Preserving Audit and Extraction of Digital Contents

A growing number of online services, such as Google, Yahoo!, and Amazon, are starting to charge users for their storage. Customers often use these services to store valuable data such as email, family photos and videos, and disk backups. To make storage services accountable for data loss, this paper presents...

Tags: Data Retention, Digital Content, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-04-30

Maya Complete 2008 (Windows)

Autodesk® Maya® Complete software is a comprehensive suite of 3D tools for modeling, animation, and rendering within a single, production-proven workflow. Maya Completeâ€Â"the choice of award-winning digital artists and animatorsâ€Â"has an intuitive design that makes it a favorite among digital content creation artists and enthusiasts of all experience levels who...

Tags: Autodesk Inc., Microsoft Windows, Modeling, Digital Content, Maya Complete 2008, Research & Development, Games, Business Operations, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-04-10

17% of Internet users bought digital content

17% of internet users purchase digital content over the internet. They have ever paid to download digital content such as a newscast, sporting event, or a radio show, according to Pew Internet. Men were more likely to say they had paid for content than women by a 20% to 13%...

Tags: Internet User, Digital Content, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-02-20

On key Internet digital content policing issue: Verizon good, AT&T bad

Saul Hansell, the thought-leader  on the NY Times Bits blog, has a very interesting conversation with Tom Tauke, Verizon's executive veep for public affairs. Although Tauke doesn't specifically mention Verizon's largest direct telco competitor AT&T, he- unlike AT&T, isn't enthusiastic about doing the bidding of major digital...

Tags: Internet, Network, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Digital Content, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-06