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Discovery Communications and the Google Search Appliance

Discovery Communications, Inc. DCI is a leading media and entertainment company. A previous search product was difficult for the Discovery web team to maintain, because it required extensive resources in order to update relevancy algorithms when new content was added to the network. Discovery web team needed to make a...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Appliance, Discovery Communications Inc., Google Search, Google Search Appliance, Team Management, Cloud Computing, Search, Management

Case studies 2009-01-01

You Discover A World Beyond Wikipedia

The Discovery "Cannon Challenge" for the iPhone Your retirement portfolio just sank another $50,000, in one hour.  Time to take out your non-line-of-sight artillery and blast a target off a mountain top and figure out how credit default swaps work, which were supposed to guard...

Tags: Discovery Communications Inc., Video, Wikipedia, Corporate Communications, Wiki, Marketing, Online Communications, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-10-16

Discovery buys HowStuffWorks.com

It's official. Discovery Communications said Monday that it has acquired HowStuffWorks, a how-to site. Discovery will add HowStuffWorks.com to its portfolio of properties, which includes Animal Planet and the Discovery channel. Discovery will also launch a new show based on the site. According to a statement, HowStuffWorks...

Tags: Discovery, Discovery Communications Inc., Asset Management, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-15

Security Management Program Helps Media Giant Discover New Markets

Discovery Communications, Inc. DCI is a leading global media company, with operations in 170 countries reaching 1.5 billion subscribers. The security goals of a dynamic media organization are similar to many large enterprises: secure information without limiting functionality; gather and share the best information without compromising confidentiality or integrity; manage...

Tags: Media, Verizon Communications Inc., Discovery Communications Inc., Security Management, Security

Case studies 2007-09-01

Discovery offers Web-based study aid

Discovery Communications - the cable content provider of the Discovery Channel - is announcing a $9.95 Web-based study service for the K-12 market, the Washington Post reports. Cosmeo, a $9.95-a-month service that will be announced today, is aimed at students in kindergarten through 12th grade. With...

Tags: Discovery Communications Inc., Discovery Channel

Blog posts 2006-03-13

Savage demo (Windows)

The player assumes the role of a lioness in search of food. Use strategy and luck in this multimedia game.

Tags: Multimedia, Discovery Communications Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 1996-10-18

TippingPoint at Discovery Communications

Discovery Communications Inc. is the leading global real-world media and entertainment company. Discovery Communications needed a way to protect its infrastructure and servers against the inherent threats to which a company with a global and mobile workforce of 5,000 staff is susceptible. TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention Systems IPS was implemented as...

Tags: Discovery Communications Inc., TippingPoint Technologies, Intrusion Prevention, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Human Resources, Marketing

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Mailspect taming unstructured Email data

Paul Sterne, CMO of Mailspect, collared me yesterday and brought me up to speed on what he's doing now.  Paul and I worked together at Open-Xchange.  His company is doing something that is new to me. It might be something new to you as well. Here's what Mailspect has...

Tags: MPP Web Services Mailspect, ESM, E-mail, Online Communications, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-09-17

Businesses gain powerful new tools with emergence of semantic search

Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: Zoom Information, Inc.Internet search has been around for years, while seeking out new business partners is as old as business itself. Can finding the right relationships through the burgeoning "Business Web" effectively exploit and leverage the increasingly powerful technologies such as semantic...

Tags: Open Source, Web Technology, Podcasts, search, Internet, Google

Blog posts 2007-01-29

Register: Fliers stripped of hi-tech, remote detonation a possibility in terror plot

According to The Register's reporting on this morning's foiled terror plot, passengers looking to fly out of UK airports this morning were not only asked to stow all of their carry-on luggage, they were asked to put any electronics in that luggage. The crackdown on wireless technology apparently included...

Tags: detonation, plot

Blog posts 2006-08-10

Too important to be open source?

Too important to be open source?Yet encryption xan be open sourced ???The idea seems right until you consider the best encrytpion programme on the planet is open source. Is not the code base, but the encryption key that secures it that really matters. Open source programmes in my experience, get...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2006-08-02

Discovery Benefits Improves Client Service With Integrated Data and Automated Business Processes

Discovery Benefits, Inc. is a national leader in employee benefits administration. With a presence in all 50 states, Discovery Benefits offers flexible benefits administration, including COBRA, Transportation Fringe Benefit Plans, Health Reimbursement Arrangements, and Health Savings Accounts. The company wanted to support current and anticipated growth. The challenge was to...

Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., Administration, Operational Planning, Benefits, E-mail, Data Management, Transportation, Workforce Management, Healthcare, Business Operations, Human Resources, Online Communications

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Johnson Health Network Adopts Cisco Solutions for Communications and Robust Network With Cisco Partner TCI

The director of IT for Johnson Health Network JHN had two converging technology issues that he wanted to resolve. First, the network infrastructure had to be upgraded to meet data delivery goals for new medical and document-imaging applications. At the same time, the health network was communicating via a 20-year-old...

Tags: TCI, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Johnson Health Network

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