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The Guildhall at SMU Goes Mobile in Just 3 Weeks With Laptop Solution From Dell

The Guildhall at Southern Methodist University SMU needed a mobile technology platform with outstanding graphics capabilities that would follow students through a 17-month program of intensive use. SMU chose Dell XPS laptops along with Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell PowerVault storage in the data center to support students' educational needs...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Mobile, Southern Methodist University, Laptop Computer, Advertising & Promotion, Data Centers, Servers, Marketing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2009-04-01

Reliable W-CDMA Network Design

This paper investigates the W-CDMA network design problem with reliability considerations. A design model that maximizes revenue net the cost of building and maintaining the network infrastructure to provide reliable communication subject to capacity and quality of service constraints is developed. The model simultaneously determines which customer locations to service,...

Tags: W-CDMA, Southern Methodist University, PSTN, VOIP, Cellular Phones, Telecommunications, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2005-05-18

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Google journeys to the center of the earth (well not quite) with latest alternative energy foray

Apparently Google's philanthropic arm isn't content investing in just one source of alternative energy, which makes sense considering the geographic diversity of the planet we live on. The search and business applications giant last week said it will put up about $10.25 million toward energy technology called enhanced geothermal systems...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Google Inc., Geothermal Energy, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Google.org invests in geothermal

Google.org is investing $10 million in Enhanced Geothermal Systems, a technology that drills miles down into the earth to get that nice, hot granite under the surface, Tom Zeller reports on the dot-earth blog at the Times. As Zeller notes, $10 million ain't a lot in this...

Tags: Geothermal Energy, Google.org, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Waste not. ElectraTherm turns "waste" heat into an electricity source

A couple of months back, I reported about an IBM data center project in Switzerland that was shunting its excess heat "waste" toward warming up a public swimming pool. Along those lines, a company from Carson City, Nev., has come up with a commercial waste heat generator called the ElectraTherm...

Tags: Electricity, KWh, ElectraTherm Green Machine, Data Centers, Podcasts, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-07

HiEd Inc. Recommends and Resells Dell Systems to Keep Students Connected

HiEd Inc., a privately-owned company based in Richardson, Texas, provides outsourced management of on-campus technology stores. HiEd's stores offer quality computers, peripherals, software and services to higher education campuses including the University of Texas at Austin, Southern Methodist University, University of Houston and University of Texas at Dallas. HiEd's goal...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., University Of Texas, Store, Connected Corp., HiEd Inc., Outsourcing, Pricing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing

Case studies 2007-04-01

Data mining test scores

School districts are becoming more reliant on testing, but the data collected is only as good as the analysis they receive. Some Texas schools are finding that new high-tech data processing has ramifications beyond just the yearly tests, but they can also tailor the results to boost students skills, reports...

Tags: teacher

Blog posts 2006-06-01