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AppLabs Case Study: Derbyshire Building Society: Derbyshire Building Society is a UK top 10 building society. It is one of the remaining truly mutual building societies; the company slogan is "Local Matters". Derbyshire's existing core customer administration system was approximately fifteen years old and hosted on a proprietary mainframe. The decision was taken to undertake a...; Tags: Society, Derbyshire Building Society, Mainframes, Performance Management, Servers, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management; Case studies 2007-07-23
New Generation Network Architecture AKARI Conceptual Design: The future holds a computing environment characterized by embedded and pervasive computing and networking that will benefit society worldwide, not just the current state in which computers and networks are proliferating widely. The current Internet, which was not designed with this kind of pervasive information-networked society in mind, cannot handle...; Tags: Network, Society, Network Architecture, Internet, Networking; White papers 2007-04-01
Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-Operative Society Creates an Efficient, Agile Communications Infrastructure Based on Avaya IP Office Solution: The Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-operative Society is different from any other retailer. Its purpose, as a successful co-operative business, is to enhance the lives of its staff, members, customers and the communities it serves and to work towards a better fairer world. The Society has deployed an Avaya IP...; Tags: Avaya Inc., Society, Retail, Food & Beverage, Networking, Manufacturing; Case studies
Building Society IT Department Reduces Development Time by Up to 30 Per Cent With New Application Platform: Scarborough Building Society's mainframe environment was restricting business growth. IT managers wanted to migrate business-critical applications onto a new platform, but didn't want to rewrite or rebuild them. They decided to transfer these applications onto the Microsoft .NET Framework. As a result of the migration to Microsoft, the IT team...; Tags: Society, Information Technology, Environment, Microsoft Corp., Mainframes, Strategy, Servers, Hardware, Management; Case studies

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What a difference one atom makes: A new study by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science shows exactly how important a single atom can be in a complex molecule. Reporting in the Nov. 26 edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Yang Yang, a professor of materials science...; Tags: University Of California At Los Angeles, Solar Cell, Polymer, Solarmer Energy Inc., Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-12-01

Security Lessons and Your Personal Firewall: There's an interesting dynamic I've been noticing and discussing a lot recently - people and companies are grappling with how to project some facets of their lives and information online while keeping other areas secret. As i suggested in my previous post, it...; Tags: Facebook, Firewall, Personal Firewall, Security, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-11-30
Mumbai Attacks : Knowledge is Power: There is a huge difference between verified information, speculation, incorrect information and disinformation. The net is buzzing about the communication enabled by Twitter, Flickr, youtube, wikipedia and bloggers from Mumbai, with CNN stating "It was the day social media appeared to come of...; Tags: Event, Knowledge, Twitter, Attack, Wiki, Security, Online Communications, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-11-28
SOCIAL NETWORKING: THE PROS, THE CONS AND THE SOLUTION: In recent years, social networking sites have permeated society and there is little doubt that they are here to stay. Today's employees expect to be allowed to visit these sites at work. This whitepaper explores how you can to keep your organization and employees safe, while also providing a flexible...; Tags: Network, Marshal Ltd, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion; White papers 2008-11-28
The worst word in the medical lexicon: If ADHD, with its gifts, is a "disorder," what about every other mental or physical condition marking the "gifted?" My experience with life indicates our society sees nearly all who are gifted as disordered. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: Health Care, ADHD, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-11-26
Internet stars come out for RIAA trial: In RIAA lawsuit news, the Tennenbaum case – in which uber-lawyer Charles Nesson now represents the defendant – is taking an Internet star turn. Ray Beckerman reports that in a pretrial memo PDF, Nesson discloses that he intends to call some of the biggest legal names in digital rights. ...; Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, P2P, RIAA, Berkman Center, Charles Nesson, Internet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-11-19
Pre-release Windows 7 needs feature switch mode: I have a dream that one day, little boys and little girls, across this great plain of society, can open up a pre-release version of Windows 7 or Windows 8, and have access to full unstable features which makes them go "oooh" and "ahhh" in excitement, wonder and amazement. ...; Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-11-12
SIM's 2008 Survey: Organizations are looking to IT for help, not cuts: On Monday, the Society for Information Management SIM released the results of its 2008 IT Trends Survey and it contained a generally upbeat forecast for IT in 2009, although the survey was conducted in June, before the global economic meltdown. In Orlando at its annual SIMposium conference,...; Tags: SIM Card, IT Budget, Information Technology, Survey, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner; Blog posts 2008-11-10
Cyber terrorists to face death penalty in Pakistan: According to a recently signed "Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2008" in Pakistan, any person who commits cyberterrorism causing the death of other people will face death penalty or life imprisonment : "Whoever commits the offence of cyber terrorism and causes death of any person shall be punishable with...; Tags: Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-11-10
Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?: Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?Dynabook for $100?"I have a dream" Unfortunately like Martin Luther King, Alan Kay's Dynabook is nothing more at this time.I wish it wasn't so but like socialism it requires a level of cooperation at so many levels that in a capitalist society...; Tags: E-books, Engineering, Dynabook, Alan Kay; Discussion threads 2008-11-10
Al Gore's 'Unified Smart Grid' vision for repowering the USA - will it happen?: This week's Web 2.0 Summit was characterized by some very big picture ideas culminating in final keynote speaker former US vice president Al Gore laying out his vision for a 'Unified National Smart Grid': a new, state of the art integrated electrical infrastructure for the...; Tags: Web, Vision, Al Gore, Grid, Web 2.0 Summit, Michael Wesch, Web 2.0, Transportation, Internet, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-11-08
Computers checking mathematical proofs?: Computer-assisted of mathematical proofs are not new. For example, computers were used to confirm the so-called 'four color theorem.' In a short release, 'Proof by computer,' the American Mathematical Society AMS reports it has published a special issue of one its journals dedicated to computer-aided proofs. 'The four Notices articles...; Tags: Proof, Computer, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille, Mathematician; Blog posts 2008-11-08
Maybe CRM for Facebook Does Make Sense :): My friend and colleague Jim Shepherd of AMR set me straight this morning about what Salesforce.com is doing with Facebook, and I'm embarrassed to admit I didn't get it right the first time. According to Jim, when it comes to SFDC and Facebook, CRM actually stands for Child Relationship Management....; Tags: Facebook, Feature, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-11-06
MI6 searching for the next generation: Whilst walking the streets of London, with half a baguette in one hand and a coffee in the other, I am no more than 10 feet away from someone who tells people you're no more than 10 feet away from a rat. I call them civil servants personally, wandering around...; Tags: Facebook, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Social Networking, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-11-05
Also on Nov. 4, FCC passes White Spaces: Also on Nov. 4, FCC passes White Spacesbroadband or wireless mics - let's see....I am sure that the fellow from Shure did not intend to sound like a horse's ass but to express concern over the white spaces as it would impact the performance of his company's wireless microphones is...; Tags: Federal government, microphone, wireless, White Spaces, Also-On, wireless mic, wireless microphone, FCC, Shure; Discussion threads 2008-11-05
Reengineering HR Solutions - #3: Case #3 – Jobs2Web third in a series of pieces discussing why HR solutions need radical reengineering There is a great maxim in IT circles called Fubini's Law. It goes like this: " 1. People initially use technology...; Tags: Job, Applicant, Job Board, Jobseeker, Re-engineering, Jobs2Web, Fubini, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Brian Sommer; Blog posts 2008-11-04