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- Envision a solar parking lot: cool, clean and green
- Solar Trees. Solar Groves. The value of shade in the future economy. Bio-mimicry. My little brain was racing to absorb all the solar heat coming through the phone. I spent nearly an hour talking with Robert Noble. Trained as an architect, he's...
- Tags: Acre, Kyocera Wireless Corp., Tree, Plug-in, Robert Noble, Envision, NREL, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-07
- Some clarity about 'services'
- If you're looking for some good working definitions and explanations about what SOA is all about, ServiceOrientation.org is a good place to start.Created by Thomas Erl, author of Service-Oriented Architecture: A Field Guide to Integrating XML & Web Services,the site provides nice brief, to-the-point overviews and some chartsof concepts such...
- Tags: SOA, enVision
- Blog posts 2005-03-31
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- Sonos ZonePlayer S5
- We've long been fans of the Sonos Digital Music System, which lets you stream all manner of digital audio throughout your home, but we were always a bit disappointed that Sonos didn't sell a speaker that had the system's ZonePlayer networking component integrated right into it. Well, that's exactly what...
- Tags: Ethernet, NETWORKING, Wi-Fi, Network technology, Wireless and Mobility, Sonos
- Product reviews 2009-11-20
- AVADirect Nano Cube
- AVADirect's $2,266 Nano Cube tries to take on Shuttle's XPC H7 5800 at its own small form factor game. Both systems come with smaller-than-normal SFF cases, and each requires sacrifices, even more than with a standard SFF PC, in exchange for its tiny dimensions. Therein lies our problem with this...
- Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Games, Shuttle XPC, SFF, small form factor, Cube, Shuttle, Nano, DVD burner, PC, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., AVADirect, game
- Product reviews 2009-11-04
- Can a car be fuel efficient and fun?
- Ford wants it both ways: using less fuel, have fun driving. To that end they are working with some engineers at the University of Michigan to test drive and then virtually test drive hyrbids and electric cars to find what works both for saving fuel, and having fun while...
- Tags: Car, Ford Motor Co., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Who's a candidate for Desktop Linux? Your Kids.
- "Hannah Montana Linux" may not be ready to give to your kids yet, but it's an idea that has legs. My partner in crime in the Frugal Tech Show, Ken Hess, who blogs over at Daniweb, recently published his list of Top 10...
- Tags: Desktop, Children, Desktop Linux, Netbook, Content Filtering, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Future ERP
- Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...
- Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, SAP AG, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, S-curve, Cloud Infrastructure, BRP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Two Views of the Software Market
- A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...
- Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Dual boot Android/XP Acer netbook available for pre-order
- I just can't envision Android being a winner on netbooksUnless a great deal of additional development went into it to deal with peripherals and to deal with non-Dalvik/Java programs, I don't see Android as being useful on a netbook. Unless it has phone call capabilities which I doubt, and even...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, dual boot, netbook, Linux, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- Is this Barnes & Noble's secret e-book reader?
- The other big question:How big? If it's paperback size, as most of the ones now out are, then it's too small to do serious readers (science, business reports, financial tables, CAD/CAM drawings, etc.) any good. Way too much scrolling around.Not ANOTHER DEVICE?!?!? ARGGGGGG!!!This is getting stupid.Why so serious?Are you...
- Tags: E-books, Tablets, Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Barnes & Noble Inc., e-book Reader, Hewlett-Packard Co., iTablet, Apple Inc., vaporware
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- HandyGraph 2.1.2 (Windows)
- HandyGraph creates high-quality graphs, with sharp clear grids and smooth curves. Choose your own style, grid spacing, and size, to get exactly the image you envision. Simply copy and paste each graph into your document or web page, or save in a convenient format (png, gif, emf). This graphing software...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Grid, Del Rey, HandyGraph
- Software downloads 2009-10-08
- Local Authority Meets GCSX CoCo Compliance Challenge With RSA enVision
- The City of Salford is a local government district of Greater Manchester, England, with the status of a city and metropolitan borough. The challenge was to enable employees to access the Government Connect Secure Extranet GCSX, giving them direct, secure communication with other government bodies and to meet GCSX Code...
- Tags: RSA Security Inc.
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- Centralised Security Monitoring Helps the Andorran Telecoms Operator Deploy a Comprehensive Security Policy Centred on Prevention
- Created in 1975, Andorra Telecom is the sole operator and manager of telecommunications services in the Principality of Andorra. The challenge was to centralise security information which was managed by disparate IT operations departments and to automate incident management to prevent intrusions and sensitive information leaks. Andorra Telecom deployed RSA...
- Tags: RSA Security Inc., Security Monitoring, Telecommunications, Telephony, Security, Networking
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- Is wireless really even necessary in an ebook reader?
- Yes and NoIt obviously isn't necessary in an e-"book" reader, but Kindle and now Sony are trying to make these devices much more than just for reading books. Daily periodicals need the wireless much more than books. Too bad there isn't much market for them right now.I just...
- Tags: E-books, Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, e-book, wireless, ebook reader
- Discussion threads 2009-08-27
- Wanova Desktop Virtualization
- A while ago, I had the opportunity to speak with several representatives of Wanova, a newcomer to the desktop virtualization market. On the line with me were Jack Norris, VP Marketing; Issy Ben-Shaul, Co-founder, CTO; and Ilan Kessler, CEO and Co-Founder. The company claims to have developed a new way...
- Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Environment, Wanova Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- IBM launches sensor data analysis software
- IBM on Tuesday launched software that navigates data from sensors and triggers automated business responses. The software, dubbed WebSphere Sensor Events, aggregates data from sensors that monitor air quality, traffic, water flow, energy usage and other items via RFID tags. IBM reckons that there will be six...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Software, Sensor, IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, Data Centers, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- The World's Best Business Intelligence Applications: Customer-Facing, Revenue-Generating BI
- If one is looking to leverage business intelligence software to create an application that will have maximum impact on organization, perhaps one should look outside the traditional boundaries of BI. Think beyond the classic analytical application for a few back-office analysts, and envision how the wide distribution of data to...
- Tags: Information Builders, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-08-05
- Tablet devices suck, so why does Apple want to make one?
- Tablet devices suck, so why does Apple want to make one?If portability was a key factorto the red hot success of "netbooks", then a tablet which can get rid of the keyboard and thus half the space when working with it makes a lot of sense.To succeed I belive it...
- Tags: Tablets, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, Keyboards, E-books, Current hybrid, tablet, netbook, Apple Inc., keyboard, e-book, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2009-08-04
- TELUS Improves Compliance and Strengthens Security With the RSA enVision Platform
- TELUS is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $9.7 billion of annual revenue and 11.6 million customer connections including 6.1 million wireless subscribers, 4.2 million wireline network access lines and 1.2 million Internet subscribers. The challenge was to comply with Payment Card Industry PCI security standards regulation by...
- Tags: RSA Security Inc., Network, Compliance, TELUS Corp., Security
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Laptop or desktop+netbook for back to school?
- It's almost August, folks. We all know what that means, right? If you don't already have a computer for school, you need to get one, PDQ. For some of you in K-12, your school might have a 1:1 program and you'll take a laptop home with you...
- Tags: Desktop, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Productivity, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
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