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Employee Management System Saves Police $1.4 Million, Boosts Productivity 20 Percent

The Minneapolis Police Department knew it was spending U.S.$5 million a year on overtime, but it didn't have a way to carefully track, manage, and reduce the expense. Working with solution provider Sogeti, the police department created WORKFORCE DIRECTOR, an integrated payroll, scheduling, tracking, and inventory solution based on the...

Tags: Overtime, Solution, Payroll, Employee Management System, Operational Accounting, Servers, Finance, Hardware

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Measuring the acceleration of the universe

According to Theodor Hänsch, director at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics MPQ in Germany and one of the winners of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics, a 'laser frequency comb' can now be used as a basis for new astronomical instruments. Telescopes using this method, which could 'answer...

Tags: Laser, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-09-06

Google demos speed benchmarks for Chrome

Google demos speed benchmarks for ChromeGoogle Chrome - resource hog .....I know some one who has trialed "Chrome", and was taken initially by the speed, but in less than one day was back to using FireFox as Chrome became a resource hog! Once you have more than a few browser...

Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Is Firefox faster than Chrome?

Is Firefox faster than Chrome?Is Firefox faster than Chrome?When is Firefox 3.1 with tracemonkey expected to be released?yepper, 1.26x in my test RE: Is Firefox faster than Chrome?my test show tracemonkey being 1.27x faster than v8 on win xp sp3. here is the link with screenshothttp://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=6157396&postcount=433I noticed no speed difference.Chrome...

Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Mainstream media writes Windows obit

Mainstream media writes Windows obitMS should have never...killed off XP. Especially when such a huge segment of the market is tired of being forced fed what they do not want.This article makes a good point about users beginning to realize that as long as they can hit the web rather...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), LIKE IT, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co., mainstream media, Windows obit, Microsoft Windows Vista, obit, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Mainstream media writes Windows obit

Wow, a tough day for Windows. BusinessWeek reports that HP, the world's biggest PC company, is so troubled by Vista's 'tepid reception' and Apple's resurgence that it is developing its own operating system. Meanwhile a New York Times columnist writes on his blog that Windows is "already...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Mainstream Media, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-09-05

The Importance of Dissent

The Importance of Dissentwould be nice...It would be nice if we could "shout from the rooftops" without fear of reprisal. In reality, with most companies, the options are "jump ship" or "keep your mouth shut and do as you're told".It's hard to disagree publicly with your companyI agree with you...

Tags: Drizzle, Mat, open source

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

The Importance of Dissent

Word is going around that Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, is parting ways with Sun. Matt Asay blogs about it and says it's a good thing Widenius is taking his dissent on the road: At this point, however, Monty has done the right thing with his dissent. He has...

Tags: MySQL, Arjen, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Echelon wins smart meter project in Germany; plus insight on smart grid in Europe

A reseller for smart grid technology player Echelon announced a deal this week to deploy an advanced metering infrastructure system that will serve roughly 10,000 customers in Hassfurt, Germany. The contract, which will be rolled out over the next three years, is being handled by EVB Energie AG. The utility...

Tags: Germany, Green Technology, Echelon, Grid, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnet

Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnetLike Facebook, MySpace Cares?Cost to much to do it the right way.They might have to hire real systems management and security staff.RE: Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnetSod the DoS - look at the cute little picture of the chick!! So cute! I WANT ONE!I...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, SECURITY, Facebook, botnet, DoS botnet, DOS

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureOverbroadYou wrote:[The appliance computing culture’s interactive] applications model drives almost everything, from processor and OS evolution to appropriate management structure - and even the conflicts with traditional business systems experts whose internal model of “automatic data processing” is broadly unrelated to the needs and...

Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Processors, business systems expert, appliance computing culture, mainframe, best practice, Windows PC

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea

Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...

Tags: Software, Password Management, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Single Sign-on, RoboForm Enterprise, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Dell repair adventure, conclusion

Dell repair adventure, conclusion"less than optimal or expected"The phrase I have heard for this is "opportunity for improvement." Glad to hear your machine got fixed.Dell serviceDell has no where near the skill level of the old DEC field service reps and probably never will.I have had 3rd parties from...

Tags: Manufacturing, NEXT BEST, outsourced tech, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnet

Do you know what that innocent-looking Facebook app is really doing? Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science ICS have created a proof-of-concept Facebook application capable of covertly herding users of the popular social network into a powerful -- and malicious -- botnet. The...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Facebook, Application, Network, DOS, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Netflix post-mortem: hardware failure and poor transparency

Netflix post-mortem: hardware failure and poor transparencyProbably was Worse than ThoughtThe lack of transparency is probably due to how much of a failure their disaster prepardness really is. It probably failed on many levels. No doubt Netflix doesn't want anyone to know just how ill prepared they really...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., transparency, hardware

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Microsoft exec rebuts hypervisor security claims

Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has answered claims that the company's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA--Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's TechEd conference in Sydney to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Hardware, Liam Tung ZDNet Australia, rootkit, hypervisor, Joanna Rutkowska, security

News items 2008-09-05

Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?

Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?Microsoft is also airing the Mojave experiment ads. nt.RE: Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?That add is really stupid . . . but, if you're totally incapable of building a quality operating system, why not try comedy?Best marketing for...

Tags: Operating systems, Branding, Microsoft Windows, advertisement, Windows Gurus, Windows brand, Microsoft Corp., brand, Seinfeld

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Video: Google Apps adoption rates up

At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise, discusses the user acceleration of its Google Apps software. Glotzbach also shows a chart on how the company's Google Docs word processing product has surpassed Sun's OpenOffice in the last year and is slowly...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Video, Cloud Computing, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-05

End of an era: Dell may dump its factories

End of an era: Dell may dump its factoriesRubbed up the wrong way?"The rub: It’s unclear whether contract equipment manufacturers would want to buy Dell’s manufacturing hubs. Do contract manufacturers really want to take on Dell’s capacity?"Don't CEM's want to take on everyone's capacity ... I mean isn't their model...

Tags: Manufacturing, Notebooks, Dell Computer Corp., End-Of-An-Era

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Dell repair adventure, conclusion

Well, our hero's story had a happy ending. The service tech came out to my office and replaced both the motherboard and the screen on my Dell laptop. After than magic was performed, the system booted up and ran just as it did before. I appreciate the help provided by...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Supplier, Digital Equipment Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-05