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- GWU Improves Disaster Recovery With Business Continuity
- Created by an Act of Congress in 1821, The George Washington University GWU supports over 70 research centers and institutes and offers comprehensive programs of undergraduate and graduate study as well as degree programs in medicine, law, engineering, education, business and international affairs. The company's challenge was phenomenal growth that...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., George Washington University, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, GWU, It Services
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- DIAR: A Dynamic Interference Aware Routing Protocol for IEEE 802.11-Based Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
- A fundamental issue impacting the performance of mobile ad hoc networks is the wireless interference among neighboring nodes. This paper derives an interference aware metric NAVC based on the information collected from the IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control MAC layer. The paper then proposes a novel Dynamic Interference Aware Routing...
- Tags: Aware, IEEE 802.11, Mobile, George Washington University, Interference, Routing Protocol, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2005-09-17
- Choosing Just the Right Level of Project Management for Small Projects
- This paper defines seven key objectives that are satisfied through the application of project management. These include project priority, duration, complexity, risk, resources, business drivers, and financial. To explore the utility of the model, three sample projects have been identified and analyzed in the model. The samples projects are a...
- Tags: George Washington University, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2005-01-18
- A Framework for Sustainable Port Security
- As the United States attempts to improve the security of the homeland, the thousands of vessels, millions of containers, and millions of passengers entering the country each year have been identified as major sources of vulnerability. This paper is based on the premise that a port is best analyzed as...
- Tags: George Washington University, Security
- White papers 2004-12-21
- George Washington University Reduces Data Warehouse Development Costs Using Informatica
- The George Washington University, independent academic institution, was chartered by the Congress of the United States in 1821. Today, the University's enrollment totals more than 19,000 undergraduate and graduate students in nine schools. The company wanted to build a student data warehouse by consolidating all student information across all campuses....
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Informatica, George Washington University, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
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- 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws
- In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...
- Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Is this the New Apple?
- PowerPage podcaster Youngmoo Kim relays his experience with trying to get an iPhone 3G and on being an "IRU" Individual Responsible User. Apple just doesn't want me to have an iPhone 3G. After a few half-hearted attempts bailing at the sight of long lines, I spent about two hours...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., IRU, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- At Netroots, relations warming with Obama
- The netroots are still pissed over Sen. Barack Obama's vote for the FISA capitulation compromise legislation, but relations are warming up again. At the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, bloggers were lining up to do their part for an Obama victory, the Washington Post reports. Said...
- Tags: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Netroot, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- 10 hard drive disasters
- Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard drives, according to a data recovery company. Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard...
- Tags: Hard Drive, hard drives, data recovery, Dan Ilett, Silicon.com
- News items 2008-07-22
- The key barrier to health care reform
- The key barrier to health care reformReducing residenciesHey, at least Georgia [b]has[/b] residencies. Arizona's University Hospital has, thanks to Andrew Weil, turned all of its general practice residencies into NCCAAM-funded "alternative health care" training programs.If you think it's bad now, wait until your insurance only covers "therapeutic touch" and...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, barrier, health care, residency, physician
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- News to know: Amazon S3 outage; iPhone 3G; SOA debugging; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Michael Krigsman: Amazon S3: 'Elevated error rates'. Techmeme GigaOm: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services Dana Blankenhorn: Do open source applications take security seriously? Dancho Danchev: Spam coming from free email providers increasing ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Intel World Mural project - just what will the next 40 years bring?
- Intel is turning 40 and while most of us by fast cars, take up motorcycling, or go bungee-jumping to deal with our mid-life crises, Intel asked 500 kids in 21 countries what they expected the next 40 years of computing to bring us. It's actually a great...
- Tags: Computing, Computer, Intel Corp., Kid, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Towards low-cost LED lighting
- You all know that incandescent bulbs are pretty inefficient, converting only 10% of electricity into light -- and 90% into heat. Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, could soon replace incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs in our homes. They are more efficient and environmentally friendly. But LED lights are currently too expensive...
- Tags: Purdue University, Silicon, LED Lighting, Light-emitting Diode, Silicon Substrate, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.I guess the video maker is contesting that the polar ice isnt meltingntHe showing that you're dumber than dirtYou don't even realize that the ice displaces more volume than liquid water and the melting makes the...
- Tags: wind energy, neighborly concern, ice, thin air
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- Can XM-Sirius merger stand up to Washington politics?
- Can XM-Sirius merger stand up to Washington politics?Every second they delay adds another nail to satelite radio's coffinMajor car makers will all be adding net access to all of their new vehicles soon, which will add yet another choice streaming radio for consumers.I'm not sure if streaming radio in cars...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Federal government, Sirius merger, merger, stand-up, Sirius, XM Satellite Radio Inc., FCC, radio, Sat Radio
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- Can XM-Sirius merger stand up to Washington politics?
- After well over a year of scrutiny, the proposed merger between the country's two satellite radio providers - XM and Sirius - is finally on the home stretch, set for an approval vote as early as Aug. 1. But wait. This week, one of the FCC commissioners proposed even more...
- Tags: Merger, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Satellite, Sirius, Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, Satellite Radio, Advertising & Promotion, Mergers & Acquisitions, Digital Music, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018
- Since my blogging buddy Harry Fuller is on vacation this week, I need to pick up the gauntlet and ensure that we've got some good political fodder for those of you who want to debate the existence of global warming and the necessity of reducing our dependence on foreign oil....
- Tags: San Jose, Mr., Al Gore, Fossil Fuel, Gore, Blogging, Investment, Internet, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- UPDATE: AT&T free WiFi access offer to iPhone owners is up again, NOT!
- We have seen the on and off saga of free WiFi at AT&T hotspots for a couple of months now and it looks like iPhone users may again have access to free WiFi at AT&T locations, such as Starbucks. There doesn't seem to be any time limit on access either,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Starbucks Corp., Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions
- Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictionsProxies"By using a proxy, you can bypass any filtering software on the network"Only if they're incompetent. I work for a company that has hardware that a proxy wouldn't get around the rules, even if it's SSL.Your statement about proxies is wrong.If the university simply sets a...
- Tags: INTERNET, Workforce management, Untrustworthy student, Untrustworthy
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja
- Update: It would seem that Richard Stiennon agrees with me on the concept of a group of experts to advise, also on keeping away from spending ridiculous amounts of money. Cyber-terrorism... ah, what a fancy buzz word that is. Defined on Wikipedia as: "The premeditated use...
- Tags: John McCain, Cybersecurity, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
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In this podcast Intel's Malcolm Harkins and HP's Manny Novoa chat about the latest issues in security technologies, notably the emergence of hardware assisted virtualization.
