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- Telecommunications Leader Provides New Opportunities With Subscription Computing
- Slovak Telekom Group is the leading provider of telecommunications services in Slovakia, with fixed-line phone installations in more than half of the country's 1.9 million households. The company also provides mobile, Internet, call-center, and other services and solutions to residential and business customers. In recent years, Slovak Telekom sought to...
- Tags: Broadband, Microsoft Corp., Computing, Telecommunications Leader, Slovak Telekom Group, Telephony, Internet, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Broadband Internet, Networking
- Case studies 2008-02-11
- Telecommunications Leader Forges a Tight Alliance With Internet Security Systems
- IMPSAT was created in Argentina 14 years ago, with the goal of offering telecommunications services to the corporate market. The company needed a powerful security solution infrastructure on which to base its offerings. IMPSAT relied on many ISS products, including the Proventia M50, M30 and M10 integrated security appliances, the...
- Tags: Alliance, Internet Security Systems Inc., Vulnerability Assessment, Telecommunications Leader, Intrusion Prevention, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Security, Telecommunications, Networking
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- Telecommunications Leader Creates Secure Document-Sharing Infrastructure
- Sharing documents electronically is a top priority for many companies, but the proliferation of online document sharing has triggered an increase in digital piracy, which poses a threat to ownership rights, revenue generation, and overall information security. Japanese telecommunications giant NTT COMmunications NTT COM found a way to neutralize the...
- Tags: NTT Corp., Telecommunications, COM, Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services, Telecommunications Leader, NTT COM, Digital Rights Management (DRM), ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development
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- 9/11 suspects get laptop, no Net
- Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed gets a laptop and 12 hours of battery time a day, but no Internet. That's what a military judge ruled last week, according to the Miami Herald. The issue in the 9/11 trail of Mohammed and his coconspirators is what resources they...
- Tags: Battery, 9/11 Commission, Laptop Computer, Engineering, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Wireless soil sensors to help farmers
- A research team at Iowa State University ISU is developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming while minimizing environmental impacts. ISU says that 'the prototype sensors are designed to collect and send data about soil moisture -- and eventually soil temperature and nutrient content -- while working completely underground.' According...
- Tags: Iowa State University, Sensor, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Do we we have a way to defeat global warming?
- Do we we have a way to defeat global warming?WORTHLESSyou article is worthless. you spew a LIE and others believe you, so you make your livelyhood on a LIE, get a real job, earn honest money,Get a clueThr Russian capitalists want more gov't control, not possible. Remember the oil...
- Tags: global warming, government
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Obama, McCain support making debates public
- Both Obama and McCain have come out in favor of the Open Debate Coalition's call to open the presidential debates for fair use on the Internet, Wired reports. Obama sent a letter to Coalition leader Larry Lessig. He quoted his own letter to Democratic Party chairman last...
- Tags: Debate, Internet, Sales Force Management, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- The invisible frontier of our solar system
- On October 19, NASA will launch a new spacecraft named IBEX, short for 'Interstellar Boundary Explorer.' Its mission, which will last about two years, is to refine what the Voyager spacecraft experienced in 2004 when 'an invisible shock formed as the solar wind piles up against the gas in interstellar...
- Tags: Earth, Spacecraft, NASA, Orbit, Solar System, IBEX, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Ask revamps for faster Web search, more relevance
- Ask.com is overhauling its Web search engine to deliver faster results and improved relevance as it bids to win share from market leader Google. NEW YORK--IAC Corp's Ask.com is overhauling its Web search engine to deliver faster results and improved relevance as it bids to win share from market...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Ask.com, Yahoo! Inc., Internet Search, Channel Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Reuters, search, Google
- News items 2008-10-07
- Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A
- There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...
- Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- The Secrets of CEOs
- I just finished reading an advance US manuscript of 'The Secrets of CEOs - 150 Global Chief Executives lift the lid on business, life and leadership' by Steve Tappin, who is a managing partner in the global CEO & board practice of Heidrick & Struggles, and Andrew Cave, a leading...
- Tags: CEO, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- You get what you pay for: Paid contributors drive open source
- What's the difference between a paid contributor to a FOSS project and a volunteer contributor? According to a paper by Evangelia Berdou, quite a bit. Berdou finds that paid developers take up key positions in projects, while volunteers often work on the periphery. In other words -- much of the...
- Tags: Developer, F/OSS, Contributor, Core Contributor, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Could Zoho outgrow Salesforce.com?
- Within two years, Zoho expects to have more users on its CRM application than current market leader Salesforce.com. It may take a few more years to catch up with its rival's billion-dollar turnover, but there are several reasons for thinking Zoho will prosper. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Zoho, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Android has power of a clean sheet
- Android has power of a clean sheetMaybe Android is a big deal?When I first started seeing stories about Android, I figured it was an iPhone wannabe. But, more and more it sounds like my kind of device (os?).This could be the killer app (os?) for phones/PDAs/mp3 players/image viewers.Wow.The key...
- Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Programming languages, Nokia Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Obama releases iPhone campaign tool
- Obama releases iPhone campaign toolSay what you will about his politics but this manis on the ball. His fund raising via the web has been a smashing success. Now this tool for the iPhone. He knows what he's doing. He's not arrogant he's confident.Pagan jimDoes it...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, tool, McCains, Obama, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Microsoft steps up online search R&D in Europe
- Microsoft is stepping up efforts to improve online search, where it considerably lags market leader Google, by establishing a three-center research facility in Europe. LONDON--Microsoft is stepping up efforts to improve online search, where it considerably lags market leader Google, by establishing a three-center research facility in Europe, it...
- Tags: Google Inc., R&D, Europe, Internet Search, Microsoft Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations, Reuters, search, Microsoft, Google
- News items 2008-10-02
- California governor: Silicon Valley should go to Germany
- After more than a hundred years of talk about the Pacific Rim economic opportunities for California, Silicon Valley and other California businesses are firmly focused on the west rather than the east. But Thursday morning California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be at Intel's HQ in the heart of Silicon Valley...
- Tags: California, CeBit, Transportation, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Management, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You
- To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You"We don't pay you to think."As an ex-employee computer technician from the pilot store, this was told to me verbatim several times. To me it sounded curious because if anyone should be thinking, it should be the guy repairing the computers, right?If you...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Best Buy Co. Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., LET IT, sales
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- SOA soon part of the 'cloud'? Hold that thought
- There has been a fair share of speculation that SOA will blend in one form or another into Web Oriented Architecture or Software-as-a-Service SaaS in the foreseeable future, and this discussion has appeared frequently on this blogsite. (A discussion on SOA and WOA posted here. I also posted an account...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Liquid camera lenses controlled by sound
- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute RPI have created an adaptive liquid lens that captures 250 pictures per second. Because these lenses are simply powered by water and sound, they need less energy to operate than competing technologies. According to the project leader, 'The lens is easy to manipulate, with very...
- Tags: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Droplet, Lens, Camera, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
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