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		<title><![CDATA[Non-Location-Based Mobile Sensor Relocation in a Hybrid Static-Mobile Wireless Sensor Network]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1195215]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[An inherent concern for a Wireless Sensor Network WSN is the unbalanced energy consumption problem, where sensors closer to the sink are more likely to exhaust their energy faster than other nodes. To mitigate this problem, this paper considers including some resource-rich mobile nodes, called mobile data-pumps, to conduct data...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Apple iTunes goes all DRM free, with three price tiers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple iTunes goes all DRM free, with three price tiersSo it'll be a net price increaseseeing as most downloads are of newer songs.Not that I mind a fair increase every once and a while. But I wish I had known that before I had purchased some iTune gift cards for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:05:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Are you being gouged on your cable bill?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=483]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Probably, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal detailing how cable customers are paying the same amount for fewer channels.    The FCC has sent letters of inquiry to 11 cable companies asking why their customers are paying the same amount each month, even as the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:44:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bluestripe to tackle application management in virtual environments]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=533]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the launch of Bluestripe, a Research Triangle Park, NC startup focused on application service management in virtualized data centers.    The founders, former execs from Wily and IBM/Tivoli, maintain that most virtual servers deployed today support â€œnon criticalâ€ applications such as file and print servers because...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:26:35 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel Scalability]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel ScalabilityStore procedures and serializationHow did stored procedures solve the serialization problem?If they did, it sounds like an accident due to programmers not understanding transactions and unknowingly switching from a very pessimistic locking strategy to an overly optimistic locking strategy.RE: N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel ScalabilitySo,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 04:46:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft creates GWT clone]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=480]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[While the GWT conference was going on in San Francisco, Microsoft announced its own take on the concept: Volta. GWT compiles Java source code into Javascript, and now Volta does the same thing for C# and other .NET languages. "JavaScript is just an assembly language," says Live Labs product manager...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:12:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[End-to-End Application Performance Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=356079]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The particular challenge of maintaining complex applications is that they cut across separate IT silos. An application will often include a Web tier, application logic, a database, and a storage tier. The successful execution of the application - let's say, transferring money from a checking to savings account - requires...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Improving Recoverability in Multi-Tier Storage Systems]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=342069]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Enterprise storage systems typically contain multiple storage tiers, each having its own performance, reliability, and recoverability. The primary motivation for this multi-tier organization is cost, as storage tier costs vary considerably. This paper describes a file system called TierFS that stores files at multiple storage tiers while providing high recoverability...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Consistent and Scalable Cache Replication for Multi-Tier J2EE Applications]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=391361]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Data centers are the most critical infrastructures of companies and they are demanding higher and higher levels of Quality of Service QoS e.g., availability, scalability... At the core of data centers the paper finds multi-tier architectures providing service to applications. Current infrastructure for multi-tier systems has focused exclusively in providing...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Anatomy of an implosion]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=2337]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post offers a look inside Tier, the troubled company that specialized in processing child-support payments for state and local governments. Tier went public in 1997, grew steadily, moved to DC in 2004, and showed an ability to win contracts from government. It all came crashing down this year,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:15:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Scaling an Internet architecture]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13569_22-155070.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Any great website eventually runs out of capacity.  Horizontal scalability with load balancers between the tiers offers redundancy -- keeping the site up and running.    ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2005 22:12:00 -0700</pubDate>
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