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- Search and Rescue Organisation Deploys Intelligent Mapping System to Save Lives at Sea
- The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a charity that provides a 24-hour lifesaving service around the U.K. and Republic of Ireland. The organisation wanted to use technology to prevent the deaths of fishermen on smaller boats. Active Web Solutions AWS developed a system, based on the Microsoft .NET Framework and...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Search And Rescue, Search And Rescue Organisation, Royal National Lifeboat Institution
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- HP Services Advises RNLI on Processes That Support Lifesaving Rescue Work
- The Royal National Lifeboat Institution RNLI is a registered charity that saves lives at sea. The RNLI's IS department wanted to improve its processes so that in addition to its primary role as a technology provider, it could increase its function as a valued contributor to the organisation. RNLI called...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Service Level Management, ITIL, It Services, It Operations, It service Management
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- Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.
- In today's Wall Street Journal, reporter Amy Schatz writes that a proposal to create a free, national wireless Internet service got a boost after Federal Communications Commission engineers "concluded that concerns are overblown about such service interfering with other carriers." Which is all well and good, except...
- Tags: FCC, Airwave, Wireless Internet, Federal Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Government, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- The candidates on tech
- Wired has the obligatory candidates-on-tech piece today. They look at five key tech issues β broadband, H1B, green tech, net neutrality and spectrum β although TechPresident notes the list is not comprehensive and conceivably is biased towards Obama. Here's the breakdown. Broadband. McCain: D....
- Tags: Industry, Broadband, John McCain, Net Neutrality, Spectrum, Obama, H-1B, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- A quick note on Columbus Day
- It's Columbus Day here in the States, so quite a few of us are off. I'm going to consider it a holiday and take the day off from blogging. I do have an interview with Joe Hartley, Sun's VP of Global Education and Healthcare, today, so check back...
- Tags: Holiday, Sun Microsystems Inc., Thin Clients, Virtualization, Blogging, Cloud Computing, Vertical Industries, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Benefits, Hardware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- FCC: Free wireless spectrum won't harm T-Mobile
- Back in May, the FCC was to vote on rules for a national free wireless spectrum along the lines of a proposal by M2Z Networks. But rather than handing over 25MHz of spectrum to the Kleiner Perkins-based company, the FCC decided to auction the spectrum off to...
- Tags: FCC, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Federal Government, Wireless, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- US proposes DNS fix: digital signatures
- US proposes DNS fix: digital signaturesGold mineExpect that if VeriSign has the key authority, they'll require VeriSign certificates. In effect, this will amount to VeriSign being paid for every domain, and considering the number of domains at stake and VeriSign's rates, that's a [b]very[/b] large sum of money that...
- Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, SECURITY, DNS, VeriSign Inc., e-mail, DNS machine, centralized authority, DNSSEC, digital signature
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- America's airways ready for NextGen
- It's time β long past time β to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction and a massive energy wastefulness. But a GPS satellite-based system, on the drawing board for more than a decade, has...
- Tags: FAA, Air Traffic Control, Greenhouse Gas, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Look whoâÃÂÃÂs buying Vista Home Basic hint: itâÃÂÃÂs not home users
- Look whoΓΒ’ΓΒΓΒs buying Vista Home Basic hint: itΓΒ’ΓΒΓΒs not home usersMakes senseMakes sense. Your average small biz probably doesn't want very much. They just want something that works. If it runs the databases and the tax software, it's good enough. For a small business, a single PC is usually...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Vista Basic, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Home Basic hint, Vista Home Basic, Vista Home
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Scientists make ultrathin superconducting films
- U.S. researchers have developed ultrathin films that when sandwiched together form a superconductor, an advance that could lead to a new class of fast, power-saving electronics. CHICAGO--U.S. researchers have developed ultrathin films that when sandwiched together form a superconductor, an advance that could lead to a new class of...
- Tags: Degree, Electronics, Reuters, superconductor, film
- News items 2008-10-09
- Another bit of positive green investment news. Smart grid is again the focus.
- More positive news on the clean-tech investment front announced before the market meltdown but significant nonetheless: Another smart-grid player, GridPoint, is using at least some of its $120 million in recently raised equity financing to buy V2Green, which sells technology for integrating infrastructure for supporting plug-in electric hybrids with the...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Grid, Clean Technology, Hybrid, GridPoint, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Canadian Conservatives vow to implement new copyright law
- Candians who vote to re-elect the Conservative government next week will also be voting for an archly pro-copyright agenda. According to the party's official platform released yesterday: A re-elected Conservative government led by Stephen Harper will reintroduce federal copyright legislation that strikes the appropriate balance among the rights of...
- Tags: Legislation, Copyright Law, Creator, Government, Intellectual Property, Vertical Industries, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Piracy, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Security, Corporate Law, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Report: Data-mining for terrorists doesn't work
- After years of the federal government grabbing all the data it could find, building huge collections through which to data-mine for connections that would yield leads to terrorism suspects, a 352-page study released on Tuesday by a committee of the National Research Council warned that such goals "will be...
- Tags: Terrorist, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Data Mining, Federal Government, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Test drive: First checkpoint-friendly computer bag
- Test drive: First checkpoint-friendly computer bagWhat a piece of turd!This is the ugliest thing one could stick something as beautiful as a MacBook into.No, no and no!I've gone through countless bags over the years and the ONLY ones that provide a comfortable carry are the backpack type offered by InCase....
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, computer bag, Test Drive, Transportation Security Administration, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Large Hadron Collider computing grid launched
- The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, which can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors, was officially launched on Friday. One of the world's largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of three million DVDs a year, was officially launched on Friday....
- Tags: CERN, Scientist, Grid, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, physics, Nick Heath, silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-06
- The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed
- The top five reasons why Windows Vista failedSimpleDo you really think that MS decided to do that on its own? Would that really make sense for them to make it alot more complicated? MS did not want to do that, their own emails to each other prove that...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Intel Corp., top-five, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- The cloud finally comes to education
- Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea what it means: lots of computers somewhere (we don't actually care where) doing lots of processing to deliver services...
- Tags: Education, PC, Thin Client, Computer, Cloud, SIMtone Corp., Desktops, Productivity, Thin Clients, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Wind: A sound investment in unsound times?
- The first intra-state public offering associated with the development of community-backed wind farms in Dodge, Olmsted and Mower counties in Minnesota has been completed in just four months. The project managers, National Wind and High Country Energy, reported this week that the offering pulled in 60 Minnesota...
- Tags: Minnesota, Investor, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- End the spectre of science for sale
- End the spectre of science for saleOr Not[i]He will graduate from high school next spring, an honor student, and cost me a fortune at some elite college.[/i]Depends on what he really wants to study. There are some world-class universities that are also shockingly inexpensive, even for out-of-state students. ...
- Tags: NIH, democracy
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Valleywag, Consumerist sites announce layoffs
- A source close to Gawker Media informed me a moment ago that popular sites Consumerist, Valleywag and NSFW Fleshbot will may be shuttered will lose most of their editorial talent. "Nineteen jobs will be cut," my source says, with a formal announcement from Gawker Media coming later...
- Tags: Layoff, Gawker Media, Site, Consumerist, Workforce Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
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