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Beijing Tobacco Cuts Costs and Improves Resource Use by Adopting Grid Technology: Founded in 1986, Beijing Tobacco Monopoly Administration oversees the tobacco industry in Beijing. Beijing Tobacco Monopoly wanted to construct an integrated IT infrastructure that offers high performance, reliability, and availability and enable online information sharing and collaboration. The challenge was to utilize any spare capacity to improve system performance and...; Tags: Oracle Corp., System Performance, Strategy, Databases, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Data Management; Case studies 2008-03-01
Free System Tweaker (exe): Free System Tweaker consists of many useful modules that can be launched from the startup screen. The startup screen is divided into 2 categories in order to found faster the individual modules. Free System Tweaker gives you the ability of checking your system performance, improving your system performance and repairing...; Tags: System Performance, Free System Tweaker, Startup Screen, Tools & Techniques, Management; Software downloads 2007-12-14
IT Consulting Firm Upgrades Enterprise System and Reduces Costs by 60 Percent: Convergent Computing CCO, a consulting company and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, uses its 21 years of experience with industry-standard best-practice guidelines to help its clients maximize their computing systems' efficiency. In early 2007, a CCO client wanted to expand its enterprise-wide computing system by adding hardware server computers and IT...; Tags: Information Technology, Computing System, System Performance, Client, Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Hardware, Servers; Case studies 2007-12-01
Tiger Cache Cleaner (dmg): Tiger Cache Cleaner is a utility designed to provide easy access to numerous OS X maintenance and utility options. When used in combination with OS X's disk repair tools, it can be very effective in curing many system problems. Tiger Cache Cleaner helps simplify system maintenance chores with an easy...; Tags: System Performance, Tiger Cache Cleaner, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS; Software downloads 2007-03-28
Silent Copy (exe): When you copy many files the total system performance goes down and use of applications becomes inconvenient. Silent Copy allows you to copy your files not diminishing system performance. It moves data and distributes resources of your drives between running applications at the same time. The application is extremely easy...; Tags: Application, System Performance, Desktops, Hardware; Software downloads 2007-03-14

ClearView (exe): ClearView is a Windows 2000, XP and 2003 Server system performance product that provides the ability to simultaneously monitor CPU, disk, memory, and network--four essential computer functions that impact your computer's performance. The capability to perform an investigative drill down on any specific computer process or function is also provided....; Tags: System Performance, Computer, ClearView Technologies, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software; Software downloads 2006-09-11
Is Moore's Law dead at 40 or is this just a mid-life crisis?: Is Moore's Law dead at 40 or is this just a mid-life crisis?More Ghz is deadTwo more generations to go - 65nm and 40nm - then it ends. 40nm process will be VERY expensive - and I bet only InHell will do it. They will chase the elusive 25nm process...; Tags: Performance management, Processors, Semiconductors, system performance, Moore Law, performance, processor, chip; Discussion threads 2005-04-05
Energy-Efficient Cooperative Transmission Over Multiuser OFDM Networks: Who Helps Whom and How to Cooperate: Cooperative transmission has been shown to be able to greatly improve the system performance by exploring the broadcasting nature of wireless channels and cooperation among users. While most of existing works concentrate on improving the peer-to-peer link quality, this paper focuses, on resource allocation among users such that the system...; Tags: Power Management, System Performance, Transmission, OFDM, Wireless; White papers 2005-02-09
TechNet Webcast: Optimizing the Performance of Your Windows Vista System (Level 200): This webcast provides with a comprehensive look at the new, performance-enhancing features of Windows Vista, and describes how to utilize those improvements to achieve optimal system performance. The webcast explains how other new features in Windows Vista harness the power of new hardware technologies and maximize the effectiveness of the...; Tags: Webcast, Performance, Microsoft Windows Vista, System Performance, Hardware, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Performance Features in Windows Vista (Level 200): This webcast explores some of the new technologies in Windows Vista that are designed to enhance system performance and improve the user experience. The webcast shows how features like faster system startup and the new standby mode and resume functions help to boost user productivity. The webcast also explains how...; Tags: Webcast, Performance, Microsoft Windows Vista, System Performance, Hardware, Microsoft TechNet, Digital Media, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software; Webcasts
BOOST: A BOOtSTrapping Protocol for 802.11-Based Self-Organizing Hierarchical Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks: An important aspect of the deployment of wireless LANs lies in careful planning of the locations and the channel assignments of the Access Points APs. The APs need to be placed optimally to provide maximum coverage and minimize interference with other APs. Also, in the case of ad-hoc networks that...; Tags: IEEE 802.11, Network, New Jersey, System Performance, Access Point, Wireless, Networking; White papers

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Late breaking news: Microsoft investigates reports of Office Word 2002 SP 3 exploited in the wild: From Bill Sisk, security response communications manager for Microsoft: Microsoft Security Advisory (953635) Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution Published: July 8, 2008 Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a possible vulnerability in Microsoft Office Word 2002 Service Pack 3....; Tags: Attacker, Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Security, Office Suites, Software, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Microsoft addresses 9 security vulnerabilities with 4 "Important" bulletins: Microsoft announced 4 "Important" security bulletins today that cover 9 separate vulnerabilities. Of note were vulnerabilities reported in Windows DNS server and client, and within SQL Server. Briefly, the vulnerabilities involve: Cache poisoning and insufficient socket entropy flaws in Microsoft DNS Server A remote...; Tags: Attacker, Microsoft SQL Server, Vulnerability, Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook Web Access, Microsoft Outlook, Security, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Microsoft delivers 'important' patches: Microsoft on Tuesday delivered nine important patches to fix vulnerabilities in SQL Server, Exchange Server, Vista and Windows Server. Among the details, which were previewed last week. CVE-2008-0085: A vulnerability in the way SQL Server manages memory page reuse. An attacker with database operator...; Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Vulnerability, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook Web Access, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, Security, Databases, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Geek Sheet: Configuring Synergy2 to Share Keyboard, Video and Mouse: It's time again for another Geek Sheet. This time, we're going to show you how to share keyboard, mouse, and video click for short demonstration between multiple desktop computers, using different Operating Systems with a free Open Source program called Synergy2. Are you geeky enough that you...; Tags: Mouse, Video, Synergy2, Client, Screen, Mice, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Web 3.0 - the future of social networking: Note: re-posted after withdrawing post a few days ago; no changes made since then. I would put this very much on par with a past Scoble moment, as I've been lucky enough to see something which actually impresses me. I've seen a lot over my life, the...; Tags: 3D, Web, Facebook, Network, Web 3.0, Scene, Vivaty Scenes, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-07-08
They don't all really need laptops, do they?: I've been getting this question a lot lately from administrators, parents, and taxpayers. The question isn't malicious, but rather comes from folks with a vested interest in making sure that our technology dollars directly benefit students. Does giving teachers laptops directly benefit students? For people who aren't...; Tags: Teacher, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Productivity, Benefits, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Enterprise IT and the hypercompetition boom: Corporate information technology has led to more winner take all markets and a super competitive business environment where players often flame out as quickly as they showed up. That's the big conclusion from Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson in this month's Harvard Business Review. ...; Tags: Laggard, Information Technology, Leader, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-08
IMHO, PhlatLight LEDs from Luminus are pretty phat: LED screens in notebooks are becoming fairly common, if not standard, not just because of the energy issues but because people are craving smaller, lighter laptops. But what about an LED in your HDTV? Enter Luminus Devices of Billerica, Mass., which has developed an LED chip...; Tags: Home Theater, DLP, Light-emitting Diode, Luminus Technology, Engineering, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Image Gallery: A look at Windows Mobile 6.1 on the Samsung Blackjack II: The Samsung Blackjack II has been out for a few months, but will soon be getting an upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.1. I had a chance to use this cool device with the latest operating system and find it to be a very solid and responsive Smartphone. by Matthew Miller; Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Blackjack, Samsung Blackjack II, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Hardware, Matthew Miller, product photos, windows mobile, samsung, smartphone, at&t; Image galleries 2008-07-08