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Data Backup Solution for Web Analytics Specialist

Lynchpin is a full service online analytics agency offering web measurement, reporting, analysis and consultancy expertise. They wanted to be able to keep their existing infrastructure in Edinburgh and be able to back up to a backup site, where the data would be easy to recover in the event of...

Tags: Edinburgh, Analytics, Data Backup, Web Analytics, Lynchpin, Backups, Financial Planning, Finance

Case studies 2007-09-04

City of Edinburgh Council Works Towards Delivering Smart City Vision With Infrastructure Optimisation Model

Based in Scotland's capital city, the City of Edinburgh Council provides a range of services from more than 70 principal locations to 480,000 citizens, businesses, and organisations in Edinburgh and Lothian. In 2005, the City of Edinburgh Council embarked on a service-led IT transformation programme with its outsourcing partner BT....

Tags: Edinburgh, City, Vision, Business Structures, Outsourcing, Strategy, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management

Case studies 2007-09-01

Scottish College Replaces Novell System With Improved Learning and Teaching Environment

Edinburgh's Telford College, which moved to a new campus in June 2006, is one of the largest further and higher education institutions in Scotland. Its custom-built, state-of-the-art new site at Edinburgh's Waterfront Development has been hailed as a world-class college, with teaching and facilities to match. As part of the...

Tags: Edinburgh, Novell Inc., College, Environment, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Roi/Tco, Business Structures, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware

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Scotland Envi 2.0 (Mobile)

Scotland Envi displays web-based photos the way you would expect on the iPhone: full screen, with multi-touch controls, in automated slide shows or scrolling image arrays. It displays from the highlands and islands of the north, to Glasgow and Edinburgh, to Dumfries in the south, Green vistas, rugged coastline, ancient...

Tags: Mobile, Multi-touch

Software downloads 2009-09-22

Travelto Edinburgh 1.7 (Mobile)

Travelto Edinburgh gives general information about history, geography, climate, demographics, subdivision, transportation, infrastructure, culture, economy, business, international events, sports, and emergency services. It features a street level, zoom able offline map applied with locate me function, city information, travel tips from top creditable sources, contributed by experts, travelers and locals,...

Tags: Mobile, Molinker, Transportation

Software downloads 2009-08-25

Schwarzenegger "terminates" spending: Kindle for every California student?

Governor Schwarzenegger has scrapped funding for textbook contracts in a bid to fill a massive budget gap of $24 billion, and aiming to introduce electronic readers to digitalise the classroom. I couldn't help but use the Terminator quote in this one. The simple fact...

Tags: California, Governor, Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Mandatory vehicle efficiency in US?

Mandatory vehicle efficiency in US?long time comingthis cap on minimum mileage should have been done a long time ago.With typical administrations saying that the money the US spends on foreign fuel from hostile nations puts more American lives at risk. Its just common sense to create a minimum cap on...

Tags: Blogging, Now Let, vehicle efficiency, blog, Mandatory vehicle efficiency, gallon

Discussion threads 2009-05-19

University Uses Hosted Filtering Solution to Reduce Spam by 85 Percent

Edinburgh Napier University wanted to improve its system of filtering e-mail messages. The university's IT staff were creating manual rules to block spam, an effort that generated too many false positives and was not the most productive use of their time. A software upgrade would have required capital expenditures for...

Tags: e-Mail Message, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Software Upgrade, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-05-01

Distance Lab seeking couples to test drive 'intimacy' device

Cheap air travel and the Web undermine the impact of distance, but geographically separated couples could use a better alternative than technologies like text, email, and video chat when physical intimacy is not an option. Enter Mutsugoto, a device designed to communicate intimacy by allowing for couples,...

Tags: Device, Lab, Distance Lab, Wiki, Digital Media, Strategy, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Google Street View launches in U.K.

Google today launched its controversial Street View service in Britain, offering Internet users panoramic street-level images of 25 cities, including London, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast. Captured by cameras mounted on cars driven along British roads last summer, Street View offers photo montages of Aberdeen, ...

Tags: Google Inc., Car, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-19

Happy 5th birthday Facebook; free gifts for everybody

Well looky-here! Facebook turns five today, and don't we all know it. The world's most popular social networking website has been around for half a decade and has been a major part of our social online, and offline lives. With over 150 million people from all corners...

Tags: Facebook, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-02-04

All Gain, No Pain: Noble Group Invests in Its Communication Future

Noble Group is an independent UK investment banking firm with offices in Edinburgh and London. Communication is at the centre of Noble Group's business. Staying in contact is essential, with clients and Noble Group offices so, the telephone is a business tool of strategic importance. The pressure of coping with...

Tags: Noble Group Ltd., Investment, Productivity, Financial Services, Finance

Case studies 2009-01-01

Wave of the future for alternative energy?

Courtesy: Pelamis Get out your atlas, see if you can find Agucadoura, Portugal. Just three miles offshore there, these big metallic sea snakes are bobbing in the ever-restless waves of the North Atlantic. And they're generating electricity for over a thousand homes on...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Portugal, Pelamis Wave Power, Venture Capital, Telecom & Utilities, Outsourcing, Finance, Financing Startups, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Aspergers diagnosis could keep 'NASA hacker' out of US prison

Aspergers diagnosis could keep 'NASA hacker' out of US prisonJustice system problemsThe civilized world considers the US justice system to be extremely harsh. The US has a higher percentage of people in prison than ANY other nation. We have Guantonimo, we have waterboarding, we have unlimited detainment without...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Asperger, NASA

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

sBOOKs - Robert Louis Stevenson 101.01 (Windows)

See 15 ebooks from R. L. Stevevson in one easy to use application. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on the 13 November 1850. He studied at Edinburgh University and also qualified as a lawyer. He travelled extensively in Europe and began his writing career during these years. He...

Tags: SmartSolutions, E-books, Professional Development, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Career, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Queen to visit Google UK

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will pop over to Google's UK headquarters to meet the YouTube team that created the site's Royal Channel, according to a The Guardian. The Queen herself initiated the visit. No word on whether Sergey and Larry will be there. It is said...

Tags: Google Inc., Visit, Queen, E-mail, Team Management, Productivity, Online Communications, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-11

Cities poised as leaders in a globally warmed world

Here's the results of a report by the folks at ethisphere. Their pick for the top urban sustainability centers by 2020: Toronto Singapore Hyderabad Cape Town Abu Dhabi New York City London Melbourne Curitiba Frankfurt ...

Tags: City, Leader, Leadership, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-08

The City of Edinburgh Council Saves US$8 Million in 2007-08 Through Intelligent, Automated Procurement

City of Edinburgh Council wanted to optimize value of US$1.4 billion annual spend through smarter, transparent purchasing, electronic procure-to-pay processes, and efficient, collaborative supplier management and streamline compliance with government and EU public sector procurement legislation while sharing best practices with other local authorities in line with pathfinder council status....

Tags: Public Sector, Sourcing, Oracle Corp., Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-06-01

Screening Notes: Rehabilitation Specialist's Pocket Guide (scrnnotes) (Mobile)

Screening Notes: Rehabilitation Specialist''s Pocket Guidepowered by Skyscape Publisher: F.A. Davis Company Screening Notes is a quick and user-friendly source for clinical implementation that is appropriate for all healthcare providers, regardless of practice setting. It empowers students and clinicians with the skills needed to thoroughly screen for medical conditions that...

Tags: Mobile, IBM Lotus Notes, Skyscape Inc., Advertising & Promotion, E-mail Servers, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-19

Self-healing computers for NASA spacecraft

As you can guess, hardwired computer systems are much faster than general-purpose ones because they are designed to do a single task. But when they fail, they need to be totally reconfigured. This can be just a costly problem in a lab on Earth, but it can be vital in...

Tags: NASA, Patent, Unit, Hardware, FPGA, Computer, UA, UA Engineer, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-25