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- An Architectural/Engineering Leader Optimizes Its WAN for IP Telephony
- Founded in 1954, Hanson Professional Services is an employee-owned consulting firm, a single source for a full complement of architectural, engineering and management services, engaging in an immense variety of projects - highways and bridges, industrial complexes, schools and universities, radio stations and airports among them. Hanson's communications network demands...
- Tags: Data Network, Consulting Company, Telephony, Nortel Networks Corp., IP Telephony, IP, WAN, Architectural/Engineering Leader, Hanson, VOIP, Network Technology, Outsourcing, Telecommunications, Routers & Switches, Networking, Telecom & Utilities, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Case studies 2006-08-21
- Hanson Aggregates Ltd Improves Control of Business With New Technology
- Hanson Aggregates Ltd is one of the United Kingdom's biggest construction materials businesses, with more than 500 operational sites and 4,000 employees. The company wanted to replace a heavily customized, 20-year-old legacy system and a de-supported technology platform. The challenge was to implement a scalable, flexible, reliable system to meet...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Hanson, Financial Management, Hardware Upgrade, Construction, Investment, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance, Hardware
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- Ten things to know about Microsoft's Live Mesh
- Microsoft took the wraps off Live Mesh at 9 p.m. PDT on April 22, just ahead of the service's official debut at the Web 2.0 Expo this week. (Here's a bunch of screen shots of what testers can expect to see when Microsoft kicks off its...
- Tags: Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Not just hot air: Some details on Dell's server thermal design
- It takes a whole lot more than just a new multi-core microprocessor or even whiz-bang virtualization technology to create a greener server. A few weeks back, I wondered out loud exactly why Dell's latest PowerEdge M-Series blades were getting so much notice as a green option -- after having several...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell PowerEdge, PowerEdge R300, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- GDC '08: Are casual games the future?
- GDC '08: Are casual games the future?Casual GamesI'm interested in casual games, but taking the term literally, all i get is a response for my $20.00. So then I quit. I will do the same this here.Thank you.Vicky von HansonGames on Cell PhonesWhile the business model of casual...
- Tags: Games, game, casual game, cell phone, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- Today's Debate: Cut medical spending in half?
- Writing in the libertarian journal Cato Unbound, George Mason economics professor Robin Hanson claims our national medical budget can be cut in half with no ill effects on health.Hanson writes that longer lifespans are based on lifestyle choices -- drinking, smoking, exercise -- rather than medical advances.Health policy experts know...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Dana Blankenhorn, health care, Robin Hanson
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- 'Day of Silence' for Internet radio
- Gandhi would be proud of what probably is the Internet's first passive resistance protest--the "Day of Silence" coming to Internet radio on June 26. As a response to a court ruling that imposes huge increases on the royalty rates Internet radio operators must pay - which are applied retroactively, no...
- Tags: Courts, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- Open source movie project moves forward
- A Swarm of Angels, an ambitious open source movie project that I wrote about in March, is about to move into its next phase, which should see the community grow to 5,000 paying members from just under a thousand. The aim of the project is to create a UKP 1million...
- Tags: Net culture, Social Networks, Video Sharing
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- NPR file suit in net radio royalty conflict
- National Public Radio has joined the ranks of online radio broadcasters objecting to recent ruling to increase music royalty fees, reports the Associated Press.NPR filed a notice with the DC Circuit Court of Appeals this week, stating that it would challenge the ruling by a panel of copyright judges that...
- Tags: Courts, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Thoughts on the online/offiine apps controversy
- Thoughts on the online/offiine apps controversyWhat's so myopic?David writes: "Nirvana, eh? Hell no. Access to my web applications meant that the one time where I’d actually have serenity to read a book or listen to a podcast or just chill out got sucked into looking just like any other day...
- Tags: INTERNET, Customer relationship management (CRM), Marc
- Discussion threads 2007-04-08
- 'A Swarm of Angels' crowdsourcing film production
- Can open source methodology be applied to film production? Yes, says UK filmmaker and author, Matt Hanson, whose own project, A Swarm of Angels, is attempting to "crowdsource" the funding, production, and distribution of a $1.9+ million dollar movie.And hes not alone; supporters include free culture advocate, Cory Doctorow, the...
- Tags: crowdsourcing, ANGELS, filmmaker
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- Prediction: Predictive markets will be a next big thing
- Prediction markets may be the next big thing. Maybe. At an evening “confab” at Yahoo a number of experts in the prediction market field talked about the value to corporations of tapping into collective intelligence . The author of popular book, The Wisdom of the Crowds, James Surowiecki moderated...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- Blue Security attack linked to blog crashes
- Blue Security attack linked to blog crashesBlue Security attack linked to blog crashesThey were only blogs, its not like they were missed while the site was down.Blue Security....a good thing!I am so sick of all the spam I get, even my ISP and Norton on my computer doesn't trap it...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, blog, BlueSecurity, Blue Security, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2006-05-04
- With search engine subpoenas in the news, searchers turn wary
- You knew Google records every search. Every click. Sets cookies that last years. Stores your gmail forever. Scans your hard drive. And so on. You also realize that there's really no personally identifying information in the mountainous gobs of URLs and search queries the government is asking for. Even so,...
- Tags: WEB SITES, government
- Blog posts 2006-01-25
- Network tool reins in music downloads
- Network tool reins in music downloadsOK...The word coming down from the Big Cheese is that you people better stop downloading those Hanson and Monkees tunes, or there won't be any free pizza at this year's company party. I'm serious, the Head Kahuna is really upset about this. And whomever downloaded...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), network, RIAA, P2P, P2P networking, music download, tool
- Discussion threads 2003-12-02
- A new wave of file-swapping lawsuits
- A new wave of file-swapping lawsuitsRIAA going after wrong people..The RIAA is in the wrong for suing anybody after filing a subpoena against “his or her” ISP. The one major way that ISP’s can stop the RIAA from violating user privacy is by counter-suing the RIAA for false copyrighting. The...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Digital music, Digital media, music, RIAA, file-swapping
- Discussion threads 2003-10-17
- Smartphones Let Attorneys Take Their Offices with Them
- When the San Francisco law firm of Hanson Bridgett needed a wireless solution that would give its attorneys access to data from any location at any time, it chose Palm® Treo™ smartphones with Good Technology's GoodLink service. Among the solution's major selling points: Combined PDA and cell phone functionality...
- Tags: e-mail, cell phone, attorney, smart phone, security, Palm Treo, Palm Inc., PDA, processor, telephone, wireless, phone, wireless access
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- Consulting Company for Nonprofits Manages Bigger Contracts With Accounting Solution
- Based in Pasadena, California, Hanson & Company, a management consulting firm for nonprofit organizations, consists of owner Noel Hanson and three employees. To date, Hanson has run the business on a simple, cash-only basis, with rudimentary use of Quicken, Microsoft Office Excel 2003, and manual accounting processes. However, the company...
- Tags: Accounting, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Consulting, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
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- School District Boosts Web Performance 20 Percent, Gains Security, User Satisfaction
- The Whitman-Hanson Regional School District was using an inflexible router-based Internet access solution that required the local ISP to manage all port-configuration changes. Bandwidth was maxed out without effective tools for bandwidth management or prioritization of users and applications. Denial of service attacks and viruses remained real threats. Whitman-Hanson turned...
- Tags: Web, Bandwidth Management, Microsoft Corp., Internet Performance, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Remote Access, Internet, Security
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