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- Distance Learning
- Obtaining education and training from a remote teaching site via TV, the Internet or private education network. Distance learning actually dates back hundreds of years, but not by electronic...
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- Virtual Laboratory Intrusion Detection Experience for Information Systems Professionals
- This paper describes how to design and implement an intrusion detection module that may be implemented in various courses taught in an information system curriculum and covers the industry-standard Snort Open Source Intrusion Detection System IDS. This paper proposes that virtualization offers three significant instructional advantages in delivering a rich...
- Tags: Distance Learning, Information System, Intrusion Detection System, Server, Intrusion Detection, Network Security, E-learning, Security, Strategy, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- White papers 2006-11-06
- Southwest Telecommunications Cooperative Boosts Productivity With WebInteractive and WebDemo
- Southwest Telecommunications Cooperative's staff is required to provide payroll, finance, network and technical support, maintenance of ITV connections, studios and switching centers to its cooperative members, which covers 21 counties and over 14,000 square miles. The significant amount of time spent on travel and administrative projects, made it next to...
- Tags: Distance Learning, Server Software, Inter-Tel Inc., Telecommunications, E-learning, Telephony, Productivity, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking, Hardware
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- Making the electronic medical record transition work
- One way this social networking scheme can be further improved is to provide some incentives for the experienced worker to participate. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Network, Electronic Health Record, Social Networking, E-health, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Four obstacles to implementing VoIP [video]
- Voice over IP is growing in popularity because companies are attracted to its potential for saving money on long distance and international calls. Still, fewer than half of all businesses are using VoIP because of a few drawbacks. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT Executives discusses the biggest obstacles...
- Tags: Video, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Harden Facebook? Sure, but where to start?
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Paul F. Roberts You may have heard the news that everybody's favorite social network, Facebook, won a big legal settlement on Monday against spammers who were using the 100 million strong network to distribute what the...
- Tags: Facebook, Application, Network, Attack, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Buffalo Technology moves closer to returning to U.S. Wi-Fi router market
- Wireless watchers may have noticed that Buffalo Technology disappeared from the router game some time back, due to a successful suit brought against it by an Australian company. But Buffalo may be getting back in the market, due to a new court decision that stayed the injunction against it selling...
- Tags: Buffalo, Buffalo Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Wireless LANs, Routers & Switches, Games, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Facebook Connect goes live; Tell your favorite Web site
- The curtain has been officially raised on Facebook Connect, a feature that links partner Web sites with the profiles of Facebook members.Techmeme Everyday, Facebook looks more and more like a platform instead of just another social networking site. Now, using Facebook Connect, members can share information about...
- Tags: Web, Facebook, Web Site, Curtain, Web Site Development, Social Networking, Web Technology, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz
- 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
- WebAlive: A Virtual World that Means Business
- The campus with its tapered lawns, water fountains, and post-modern styled buildings, were typical of any professional campus. Only this wasn't just any campus. It was Nortel's virtual online campus in WebAlive, its new virtual world service. I was just given...
- Tags: Virtual World, Nortel Networks Corp., WebAlive, Altadyn, LDAP Integration, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Information Agenda: A strategy shift from applications to information
- Stuck between business challenges on the one hand, and information management systems on the other hand which simply limit your ability to respond. IBM's Tom Inman wants an easy way to spread your information across the board. Commentary--As the CIO of a flourishing business, you are happy to report...
- Tags: Information Management, Business, Information, Information Agenda, IL&P, Competency Center, Strategy, Management, customer relations, IBM, application agenda, IT, Tom Inman IBM, Special to ZDNet, Tom Inman IBM Information Management division, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2008-12-04
- The emerging case for open business methods
- The Internet has been the genesis of countless useful business innovations over the last several decades. These include a globally unified e-mail network, the advent of search engines, the rise of rich user experiences and SaaS, and most recently cloud computing to name but a few. But perhaps...
- Tags: Network, Industry, Business, Business Strategy, Business Method, Reasons Organization, Dave Bort, Internet, Strategy, Open Source, Management, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- On Demand Video: Hyper-V Deployment and Best Practices
- Microsoft's Hyper-V provides software infrastructure and basic management tools in Windows Server 2008 that you can use to create and manage a virtualized server computing environment. In this 40-minute video, Bryon Surace, senior program manager on the Windows Virtualization team, provides us with an overview of Hyper-V, including system requirements,...
- Tags: Video, Microsoft Corp., Best Practice, Virtual Machine, Hyper-V, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software
- Webcasts 2008-12-04
- A new laptop for me is really all about the kids
- It's no secret that I want one of the new MacBook Pros. I've blogged about it. I promised Santa I'd be a good boy for the rest of my whole entire life if I could have one. I've explained all of the great new features to my...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Laptop Computer, Computer, Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Productivity, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Car makers could learn from chip industry and unleash a wave of innovation
- The single most important development in the chip industry was not a new technology it was a new business process. In 1987 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSMC was formed, it was a chip company with a difference--it would make chips for other chip companies. This was...
- Tags: Innovation, Car, Industry, Chip, Tesla Roadster, Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream IT
- Open source-based IT jobs will grow and the cloud will be ubiquitous, as long as the community takes certain steps, according to a roadmap from the Open World Forum. Within the next 12 years, 40 percent of IT jobs will be related to open source, and open-source-based cloud computing...
- Tags: Information Technology, Floss, open source, cloud, Floss Roadmap, Open World Forum, predictions, Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-03
- Hospitals may want to upgrade their WiFi
- Hospitals may want to upgrade their WiFiGood hospitals are learningWhen my wife was diagnosed with acute leukemia and sent directly to the hospital for 28 days of treatment WiFi couldn't reach her room at the end of the hall. I bought a better antennae for hospital IT to install...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, hospital, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Information Age landmark: One billionth mouse produced
- Logitech, maker of many mice, has hailed as a major landmark the production of their one billionth computer mouse, which rolled off production lines late last month. The first mouse was created on December 9, 1968 when Douglas C. Engelbart and his group of researchers at Stanford University put...
- Tags: Mouse, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Oracle adds data-integrity code to Linux kernel
- The enterprise-software company has collaborated with networking-hardware company Emulex to produce Linux kernel data-integrity code. Oracle has announced that it has contributed data-integrity code to the Linux kernel. The open-source code, which has been accepted into the Linux 2.6.27 kernel, is designed to reduce data corruption...
- Tags: Data Integrity, Oracle Corp., Emulex Corp., Linux, Data Centers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Storage, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Oracle, Emulex, Linux kernel, code, open source, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-03
- Dimdim offers synchronized co-browsing in web conferencing upgrade
- Dimdim has released an upgrade of its open source web conferencing software that features synchronized co-browsing, enhanced performance and greater scalability. The Boston-based company said the 4.5 version of its namesake software allows users to plug-in URLs and share web-based data and videos with other browser users...
- Tags: Software, Web, Web Browser, Dimdim, Web Conferencing, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Web Browsers, Open Source, Internet, Marketing, Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Soshiku=a reason for cell phones in school
- Soshiku=a reason for cell phones in schoolExcellent!Mailing this one out to those people I know that need it, and those people I know that should code like it.RE: Soshiku=a reason for cell phones in schoolI like the idea for students reminding themselves. However, now add a parent as a...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, PRODUCTIVITY, Learning, cell phone, phone, tool
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
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