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Intel Bridge Speeds Development of PCI Express Instrumentation Solutions

National Instruments, which has been delivering virtual instrumentation solutions built on high-performance, low-cost PC technology for decades, understands the need for haste. Customers are counting on National Instruments NI to provide sound, powerful PCI Express-based measurement and automation products as soon as possible - just as they did when ISA...

Tags: National Instruments Corp., Intel Corp., PCI Express, PCI, Storage, Hardware

Case studies

Choosing the Right Software Application Development Environment (ADE)

Application Development Environments ADEs play a critical, visible role in a test software framework. With these tools, the system developer designs and integrates the system that takes measurements, displays information to the end user, connects with other applications, and much more. Due to the ever increasing role of software in...

Tags: Application Development, National Instruments Corp., Software Development, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Middleware, Software/Web Development, Management, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers

Developing a Modular Software Architecture

The rapid advancement in global design and new product development are creating new opportunities for test managers and engineers to develop test systems that greatly contribute to accelerating the product development cycle. The approach to test system development is shifting from using application-specific, turnkey test systems to focusing on building...

Tags: Software, National Instruments Corp., Framework, Product Development, Tools & Techniques, Product Marketing, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Marketing

White papers

National Instruments Engineers Improve Development Processes With Perforce and NetApp Solution

National Instruments was using a number of different Software Configuration Management SCM platforms, including Microsoft Visual SourceSafe VSS, ClearCase, and various open-source SCM solutions. As the company's development requirements grew to include six separate development facilities spread around the globe, the need to standardize on one cross-platform SCM system became...

Tags: Software Configuration Management, National Instruments Corp., Configuration Management, NetApp, Storage, Hardware

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Additional Resources

UK plans lunar phone network

The UK is planning mission to put a satellite in orbit around the Moon which could one day enable lunar colonists to use mobile phones to communicate with each other A UK-led mission to put a satellite in orbit around the Moon which could one day enable lunar colonists...

Tags: Phone, Mission, Phone Network, Orbit, Satellite, British National Space Centre, Network Technology, Networking, moon, NASA, network, communications, Natasha Lomas silicon.com

News items 2008-12-05

Pepsico Saved from Suicide Campaign by Twitter?

It's not easy to push consumer products these days as discretionary spend dries up and advertising channels become ever fragmented. Understandable then when corporations are seduced into more edgier terrain by their creative agencies. And yet where trust and sustainability is at a premium, its hard to figure how BBDO convinced Pepsico to cross the line...

Tags: Advertisement, PepsiCo, Suicide, Twitter, BBDO, Christine Lu, TBWA, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-12-04

CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped

Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays for

Google is by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth, its share of bandwidth usage is rising rapidly, and its bandwidth use is orders of magnitude greater than its payment for its cost, according to a new study by NETCompetition.org, a site committed to Net Neutrality "pro-competition Internet forum funded...

Tags: Consumer, U.S., Cost, Google Inc., Bandwidth, Study, Broadband, Precursor LLC, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Metatomix seeks to bridge divide between structured and unstructured information

Recently I spoke with Howard Greenblatt, CTO of Semantic Technology company Metatomix. Headquartered in the north-eastern US State of Massachusetts, Metatomix provides a 'Semantic Platform' that; "intelligently connects all of your data in real-time and makes it available to any application, providing a 360° picture...

Tags: Metatomix Inc., Analysis, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Owen Bird Law Corporation a Virtual Iron Customer

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Stephen Bakerman, Director of Information Technology, Owen Bird Law Corporation, a Virtual Iron customer. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with their software. Stephen's comments follow. Please tell me who you are and what your organization...

Tags: Environment, Virtual Iron, Stephen, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Just Bought An HDTV? Are You Now Ready To Buy a 3DTV?

This is a compilation of scenes from "House of Wax," a 1953 horror film about a monster played by Vincent Price who uses live human beings as the base for the displays in his museum. The climactic scene is about three-and-a-half minutes into this YouTube clip....

Tags: 3D, HDTV, Philips Electronics N.V., 3DTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility

Documents created using the Office Open XML document format can now be viewed through a simple Firefox plug-in, while OOXML's compatibility with ODF and Apache has also been enhanced. Microsoft on Wednesday announced several incremental enhancements to the compatibility of its Office Open XML document...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OOXML, standards, ISO, OpenDocument, Standard, OpenOffice, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2008-12-03

News to know: Mac malware, Windows 7, Netbooks, Google

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adam O'Donnell: Despite what blogs and Apple say, Macs will eventually have malware Ed Bott: Windows 7 Beta 1 to arrive January 13? Andrew...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Data Center, Microsoft Windows 7, Malware, Data Centers, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Group calls on Washington to establish national Broadband strategy

Group calls on Washington to establish national Broadband strategyNational BroadbandI'm surprised AT&T is involved, in 1995 they promised us DSL "soon" were we live (20 miles north of Silicon Valley). It's soon to be 2009 and nothing DSL or WiFi yet. I wonder what their definition of 'soon'...

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, Sprint Communications, DSL, broadband, strategy

Discussion threads 2008-12-02

Group calls on Washington to establish national Broadband strategy

It's time for the U.S. to step up to the broadband plate. A coalition of companies that includes Google, Cisco, AT&T and Verizon, among others, has sent an open letter PDF, asking President-elect Obama and Congress to make broadband deployment a high priority for 2009, according to a CNET report....

Tags: Strategy, Washington, Network, Broadband, American, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-02

2009: Will It Be Better For Cable TV Than 2010 ... or 2011 ... or 2012?

Satellite TV has been gaining subscribers, relentlessly this decade. Particularly DirecTV, which had 3.8 million subscribers at the end of June 1998 and counted 17.2 million, at the end of this June, according to this compilation by the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association of America. ...

Tags: Cable Television, Broadcasting, Satellite, Brodsky, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Top Web companies in October 2008

Parent Audience, 000 Time 1. Google 128,667 1:57:26 2. Microsoft 121,819 2:35:43 3. Yahoo! 117,715 3:22:08 4. AOL LLC 88,028 3:34:41 5. News Corp. Online 78,135 1:36:45 6. eBay 60,543 1:40:32 7. InterActiveCorp 60,092 0:17:20 ...

Tags: Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Apple hits Psystar with DMCA charges

Apple hits Psystar with DMCA chargesCan't wait for the iApologistto show up, talking out of the other side of their mouths about how the DMCA is evil except when Apple uses it.Should match their views on patents....But... but... but... Apple doesn't use a TPM DRM chip!!!All the Apple zealots told...

Tags: Digital media, Apple EULA, intel, Apple Inc., DMCA, Psystar, DMCA charge

Discussion threads 2008-12-01

The most slacking-est time of the year

Is this what your office looks like from November to January?Statistically speaking, you're not doing any work today -- or so poll after poll out this time of year about "lost productivity hours" and "distracted workers" claims. You probably won't work for the rest of the week,...

Tags: Workplace, Hour, Aisle, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing Research, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-12-01

AlertPay hit by a large scale DDoS attack

AlertPay hit by a large scale DDoS attackThey make devices that quickly mitigate DDOS attacksThe fact that they failed to impliment them, means they are not serious about protecting their business.If i ran a payment processing system, i would have every protection available running on my systems and network. ...

Tags: SECURITY, distributed denial of service, denial of service, AlertPay

Discussion threads 2008-12-01