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- Leading Oil Company Ensures Availability of Critical IT Systems
- The Caspian Pipeline Consortium CPC manages a 1,510-kilometre, U.S.$2.6-billion pipeline that connects oil fields in Kazakhstan with a new sea terminal in Russia. To operate effectively, the company relies on IT systems that monitor 24-hour production processes and support communications between employees at 10 regional offices in Russia and Kazakhstan....
- Case studies 2007-04-01
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- Oil Company Improves Branch Office Infrastructure With Server Virtualization
- Caspian Pipeline Consortium CPC runs an oil pipeline system that extends between Kazakhstan and Russia's Black Sea coast. CPC is expanding rapidly and needs to upgrade its IT infrastructure to support business growth. Branch locations often managed their own servers, but space constraints and limited power supplies in remote areas...
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Anchor found at cable cut site
- Anchor found at cable cut siteOf course, if it was a conspiracy, do you think they'd tell US?My theory is still valid: the anchor was actually a disguised weapon, dropped by a secret US submarine to prevent global warming data from being transmitted by eco-terrorists.Did the same anchor cut all...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-08
- Trican Increases Field Worker Productivity with Mobility XE
- Alberta-based Trican Well Service has business operations across Canada, the United States, Russia and Kazakhstan. With over 1,500 field technicians working in some of the most remote areas of the world, Trican struggled with mobile computing issues such as coverage gaps, roaming, application performance and security. With Mobility XE Mobile...
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- A new postal service... from space
- In September 2007, the European Space Agency ESA will launch its Foton M3 microgravity mission from Baikonur. The spacecraft will carry the Young Engineers Satellites (YES2) payload. The goal of this experiment -- designed by 500 European students -- is to send a 6-kilogram package from space to earth. This...
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Charles Simonyi: From Microsoft Word to outer space
- Charles Simonyi is on his way to the International Space Station aboard Expedition 15, which blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 17:31 GMT April 7. Along with other crew members, Charles is slated to rendezvous with the space station on April 9 at 19:15 GMT. He...
- Blog posts 2007-04-08
- Developers petition Microsoft to reconsider FoxPro phase out
- Developers petition Microsoft to reconsider FoxPro phase outM$ and open source[* Microsoft to release the full FoxPro source code to Open Source "even restricted in any way"]I don't think anything short of GPL3 is benefic for the users.To survive Fox Pro needs to be ported to Linux and to be...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-03
- Trip report: Kazakhstan
- Trip report: KazakhstanYou should have visited Borat Esther ;-)Maybe a report about how Reporters Sans Frontières petitioned the ICANN ombudsman to intervene and reverse the decision to suspend the right to use the domain name www.borat.kz, and close down the site that was attached to it.Maybe a report about how...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-31
- Trip report: Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan has probably had more Google hits in the last month than ever before in its short existence as a republic independent of the Soviet Union - since 1992 barely older than Google itself. Thats due to three things: the recent visit of Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstans autocratic ruler, who has...
- Blog posts 2006-10-18
- Blogging from space
- I bet that many of you envy Anousheh Ansari, an American businesswoman born in Iran, who will become on September 18 the first female space tourist. As the previous male ones, Ansari had to pay about $20 million for 10 days in space. After a trip in a Soyuz spacecraft...
- Blog posts 2006-09-16
- Inside Mars rocks in 3-D
- Researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles UCLA have found a way to produce 3-D images of microfossils embedded in rocks. This new technique is not destructive and they were able to spot fossils up to 850 million years old. The scientists are now waiting for samples of...
- Blog posts 2006-02-02
- GeoQuiz (exe)
- An easy to use world Geography quiz application, which presents an accurate map of the world which you can zoom in and pan around to great detail. Select your topic of question, for example, "what country is that?", the area of interest, eg. "Europe", and how you would like to...
- Software downloads 2005-12-23
- Dell flies Red Flag Linux in China
- Dell flies Red Flag Linux in ChinaHow many Chinese are there???Hmm, Sun is selling Red Flag millions of computers, HP is doing the same, and now so is Dell.Just curious, I wonder if any of them have seen so much as a penny from these so called sales???Trade normalization after...
- Discussion threads 2003-12-04
- Kazakhstan Bank Turns to HP for Reliable Print
- As one of the top ten banks in Kazakhstan, Demir Kazakhstan Bank DKB needs to produce professional print. To maintain efficiency, it wanted printers that would deliver fast performance. And above all, it needed machines that would be reliable. Having already used other HP hardware, DKB decided that for reliability...
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- Polcotton Integrates Global Operations With Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition
- Polcotton, a Warsaw, Poland-based cotton trading company, is a global operation - purchasing cotton from Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, and operating storage facilities in Latvia and Iran. To support and manage its widespread operations, the company required an enterprise software infrastructure that would enable seamless communications among all office...
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