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- By Implementing a Sun Java Enterprise System, a 35 Year-Old Mainframe Was Transformed Into an Open Business System
- Employing some 2,152 people (as of March 31, 2004), Nippon Paint is headquartered in the Kita district of Osaka, with sales offices in Tokyo and Neyagawa in Osaka and eight factories in Japan. As a company with an exceptionally long history, it has a conservative image, yet it has always...
- Tags: Osaka, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Java, Sun Java Enterprise System, Mainframes, Sun Solaris, Servers, Java, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
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- The first optical pacemaker
- According to a short news release from the Optical Society of America OSA, an international team of scientists at Osaka University in Japan has used a femtosecond laser pacemaker to control heart muscle cells. So far, this optical pacemaker will only be used for laboratory research. As writes OSA, 'exposing...
- Tags: Heart, Contraction, Laser, Cell, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Protein nanotech in next gen storage
- The magnetic spots in disk storage are already smaller than semiconductor feature sizes, and patterned media and heat-assisted recording will allow 10 TB 2.5" disks in a few years. But then what? Optical protein-based recording could be the answer. Scientists at a Osaka University lab have demonstrated...
- Tags: Disk, Protein, Nanotechnology, Protein Storage, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- A light-powered toothbrush?
- Would you like to use a light-powered toothbrush which needs no toothpaste and no batteries? It's already available in Japan and North America and it costs about $30. Its rod contains titanium dioxide that generates a plaque-removing electrochemical reaction. This 'solar' toothbrush of the future 'works by releasing electrons that...
- Tags: Electron, Light, Rod, Soladey, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-11-24
- How Cisco Redesigned Japanese Offices for Workforce Collaboration
- This case study describes Cisco IT's internal use of Cisco wireless and IP Communications technologies in conjunction with an innovative workplace design to create a highly effective workplace for Cisco Systems employees in Osaka. The Cisco global network is a leading-edge enterprise environment that is one of the largest and...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Cisco Systems Inc., Workforce
- Case studies 2007-11-22
- The cost of mainframe Linux
- Here's the opening bit from a widely quoted network world report by "layer8" on IBM's recently announced plan to save $250 million by replacing 4,000 small servers with 30 mainframes: Talk about eating your own dog food. IBM today will announce it is consolidating...
- Tags: Linux, Data Center, Network, Intel X86, Mainframe, Server, IBM Corp., Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
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- nullVirtualization is not a solution. It's a small feature.The problem with salesman is that they act like sound-byte dumb processing machines.If the current trend was (God Forbid! :) :) ) placing Windows Vista on mainframe no matter how dumb, irrational that would be, they would move mountains to make it...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Servers, kettle, TCO, server, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2007-08-15
- IP Telephony Serves as Backup System for Omron's East-West Call Centers, Critical for Maintenance Operations
- Omron Field Engineering wanted to roll out IP telephony and set up backup system at call centers in Tokyo and Osaka, to reinforce the disaster proof measures of those call centers, which receive calls for the maintenance and repair of mission critical financial and automated train station systems. Omron installed...
- Tags: Telephony, Call-center, Omron Corp., Backup, IP Telephony, IP, Backup System, Avaya Inc., Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), VOIP, Telecommunications, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- Chocolate toothpaste?
- According to a short article from Tulane University Magazine, chocolate toothpaste is better than fluoride. This article doesn't offer lots of details, but has been widely taken up online. It simply states that a researcher found that an extract of cocoa powder "whose chemical makeup is similar to caffeine, helps...
- Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Health &, Medicine
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Are androids 'better' robots?
- The latest issue of Connection Science is dedicated to Android science. This special issue was co-edited by Karl MacDorman, in the Human-Computer Interaction program of the School of Informatics, Indiana University, and Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Lab at Osaka University. As youll find out in "I, Robot;...
- Tags: Robots, android, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Karl MacDorman, special issue, Connection Science, robot
- Blog posts 2006-12-27
- Apple targets adult products named "Pod"
- Its no secret that Apple is clamping down on the term "Pod." Lawyers from everyones favorite fruit company have gone after Web sites, products and magazines using the term "Pod" in their name. Who does Apple council have in their cross hairs next? Adult toy manufacturers.Youve probably been forwarded an...
- Tags: Accessory, iPod, Legal, gPod
- Blog posts 2006-11-10
- Jetstar CIO: Stephen Tame - Transcript
- Host: We'd like to welcome Jetstar CIO Stephen Tame, and to say thank you for being part of our CIO Vision Series. The question that we would like to start today's interview with is this: What are the main areas of technology that you are excited about, and what will...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-10-30
- Jetstar CIO: Stephen Tame - Transcript
- Host: We'd like to welcome Jetstar CIO Stephen Tame, and to say thank you for being part of our CIO Vision Series. The question that we would like to start today's interview with is this: What are the main areas of technology that you are excited about, and what will...
- Tags: Airline, Solution, Virtualization, Information Technology, Success, Business, Airport, Technology, Organization, Jetstar, Engineering System, Bangkok, Strategy, Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2006-10-30
- Dell's image rehabilitation efforts
- Dell is in image rehabilitation mode. In part, Dell is dealing with the aftermath of one of its laptops bursting into flames last month in Osaka, Japan, and the impact of widely publicized photos travelling across the Net. The image makeover is also part of the company's reaction to customer...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-11
- A Led Zeppelin robotic fan
- In a short article, RobotsDreams.com reports about MechaBonham, a Japanese musical robot based on the classic Kondo KHR-1 humanoid robot design. But even if the creators of this robot are fans of Led Zeppelin in general and of John Bonham, its drummer who died in 1980, in particular, MechaBonham, who...
- Tags: robot, MechaBonham
- Blog posts 2006-06-19
- Plant cells for robot control
- Controlling robots in complex environments is not an easy task, but it would greatly increase their usages. Yet living organisms are facing complexity and successfully dealing with it. So why not apply lessons from nature to robotics? This is what did researchers from Japan and U.K. who built an interface...
- Tags: robot
- Blog posts 2006-02-09
- A scarf that changes color
- Here is something you can add to your wish list of gifts, but not for this holiday season. According to a brief article from New Scientist, Japanese researchers from Keio University have made a chameleon scarf which changes color according with what you wear. Put a green jacket, and the...
- Tags: scarf, light-emitting diode
- Blog posts 2005-12-10
- Pilot Project Using Mobile IP-Centrex to Build an Integrated Voice and Data Environment
- With the economy improving, the number of companies initiating strategic and focused IT investments is beginning to grow. In this more flexible environment, corporate IT solutions are in the process of moving to a new stage at which IT is becoming more widely adopted in the workplace. In particular, workplaces...
- Tags: Workplace, Mobile, Information Technology, Environment, Voice, WLAN, Intel Corp., Wireless LANs, LANs, Strategy, Wireless, Networking, Management
- Case studies 2005-11-01
- Pooches, kids and watches prove RFID is for real
- The government of Portugal is funding an initiative to tag up to 2,000,000 dogs in an attempt to control rabies in the country. Digital Angel, a leading supplier of implantable chips for identifying and tracking of pets, fish and livestock, signed a $600,000 deal for the first 200,000 pooches. When the...
- Tags: RFID
- Blog posts 2004-07-23
- Using high-energy physics to preserve old records
- Using high-energy physics to preserve old records"high energy"?Whatever imbecile wrote that headlineneeds a high-energy dope slap.Just buy new copies of this old stuff!Shees! Doesn't the Library of Congress realize they are glorifying illegal pirating by copying the information off these old recordings?Trouble...Just wait until the RIAA hears about...
- Tags: Document management, RIAA
- Discussion threads 2004-05-07
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