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Time Synchronization in Ad Hoc Networks

Ubiquitous computing environments are typically based upon ad hoc networks of mobile computing devices. These devices may be equipped with sensor hardware to sense the physical environment and may be attached to real world artifacts to form so-called smart things. The data sensed by various smart things can then be...

Tags: ETH Zurich, Advertisement, Environment, Mobile Computing, Ubiquitous Computing Environment

White papers 2009-01-01

Support for Personal and Service Mobility in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

Ubiquitous computing environment is defined by the shift of computing technology from the desktop to the background. One of its most notable attributes is its potential to extend the scope of service and personal mobility. This paper describes an agent-based architecture that brings personal and service mobility to the ubiquitous...

Tags: Agent, Ubiquitous Computing, University Of Ottawa, Mobility, Ubiquitous Computing Environment, Real Estate, Business Operations

White papers 2004-09-16

Additional Resources

What Windows7 could mean for Linux

Success becomes a problemIf Win7 is as trouble-free as advertised, then there will be a mass-migration to it. This will make M$ great money in the short term. But once customers are there, they are less likely to EVER upgrade again! They are "happy" with XP now - save for...

Tags: SOAP, Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Azure, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft SharePoint, Windows Communication Foundation, Microsofts, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-24

Ubiquitous Computing Systems Implementation: Bluetooth Software Development on Windows and Linux

Developing Bluetooth software systems in a very diverse computing environment involves solid understanding of the Bluetooth Specification as well as operating system and programming language nuances. For the author's research endeavors, the author used C and VisualBasic.NET to implement a Bluetooth serial communications system that runs across Windows XP, Windows...

Tags: Operating System, Ubiquitous Computing, Olive Informatics, Bluetooth, Linux, Wi-Fi, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Wireless And Mobility, Software

White papers 2009-10-17

Virtualization Reference Guide

From the time computers became ubiquitous in the business world, IT managers have been trying to find ways to make them more efficient, secure and flexible. As early as the 1960s, engineers at IBM developed a way to partition large mainframes into separate "virtual" machines, essentially carving up the mainframe's...

Tags: CDW Corp., Mainframes, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Productivity, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2009-07-22

Google ChromeOS: Have people taken leave of their senses?

Reading the commentary from the likes of TechCrunch, Mashable, The Guardian and even our own esteemed Sam Diaz on the pre-launch (you've got another YEAR to wait) you'd think the Google ChromeOS was the closest thing to the second coming of Jesus Christ. Get a grip people. First up MG...

Tags: Google Inc., Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Register, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Sun CEO's full e-mail to staff; 'not the end of the road'

Not a day too late after the Oracle-Sun deal was announced, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's chief executive, wrote employees a reassuring internal email. Here's the full text: This is one of the toughest emails I’ve ever had to write. It’s also one of the...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Mergers & Acquisitions, E-mail, Corporate Law, Strategy, Corporate Governance, Leadership, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Investment, Finance, Online Communications, Business Operations, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-22

I've Seen the Future of Computing: It's a Screen.

In the not so far off future, computing for most of us will be reduced to remotely delivered subscriber services, running on cheap, commodity high-definition display units. The last few weeks have been a rush of virtualization and cloud-based announcements. In December, IBM...

Tags: Hypervisor, Thin Client, Virtual Desktop, Computing, Josef Konsumer, Screen, Linux, Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Can I live in the Cloud for a week?

Can I live in the Cloud for a week?Can you clarifyWhat you mean by this:"collaborators can't access documents without setting up new accounts under the guidance of specialists"?Interested to understand what problems you are having.ThanksRE: Can I live in the Cloud for a week?Keen to see how you get on....

Tags: Desktops, cloud computing, Groupware, Student Record, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-01-12

A Mobile Agent Platform for Supporting Ad-Hoc Network Environment

Networks are becoming much more complicated in their support of ubiquitous computing. For example, broadband mobile communications, wireless ad-hoc networks, IPv6, and so on. Technology is moving towards Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks MANETs, which create temporary networks. The use of mobile devices for composing MANETs is growing, and it is necessary...

Tags: Mobile, Network, Agent, Real Estate, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Marketing

White papers 2008-11-28

CRM 2009 Forecast: How'd I Do in 2008? Gimme A High Four!

Usually, when I begin my forecast for the coming year, I like to look at how I did the previous year - which is usually disconcerting to say the least.  So, in honor of my first non-intro post for this ZDNET blog, I'm going to be nakedly transparent and show...

Tags: Social Media, Business, Tool, CRM, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Emulated RFID Security Without Extensive Cryptography

Radio Frequency Identification RFID has recently received a lot of focus as an augmentation Technology in the Ubiquitous Computing domain. RFID system uses Tags which are small, wireless devices that help in identifying objects and people. When read range permits, clandestine scanning of tags is a plausible threat. In consequence,...

Tags: Algorithm, Cryptography, Velammal Engineering College, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2008-10-04

Straight Talking - Secure Remote Access Closes In

Virtual private networks that use internet protocol security used to be seen as a nightmare. But next-generation IPsec VPNs are changing all that. Over the past 40 years or so, the way IT has been delivered to end users has changed dramatically. In the 1960s and 1970s, the mainframe dominated...

Tags: Quocirca, Remote Access, Client-server, VPNs, Internet, IPSec, Network Security, Networking, Servers, Telecommunications, Security, Hardware

White papers 2008-07-25

LocSens - An Indoor Location Tracking System Using Wireless Sensors

Ubiquitous and pervasive computing envisions context-aware systems that gather real world information from many fixed and mobile microchips and sensors integrated in everyday objects. To provide valuable services, it is necessary to estimate the location of users or objects. Outdoor location tracking is achieved by Global Positioning System GPS, but...

Tags: Sensor, Location, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2008-06-23

The 16 TB RAM PC: when?

The 16 TB RAM PC: when?We splurged on the 16K RAM for our //e...We splurged on the 16K RAM for our //e, as well as the 80 column card and Microsoft BASIC card. That was one smokn' Apple II. We even had a data coupler and that new...

Tags: Server-side, RAM, memory, 32-bit, 64-bit, Web

Discussion threads 2008-06-12

Live Mesh: Microsoft hews to open standards rule

As reported pretty much everywhere already (I rarely "scoop" things, a trait that would make me a bad journalist were I ever to become one), Microsoft has provided more details about the new platform that it is calling "Live Mesh." They will likely have the same problem explaining it that...

Tags: Open Standard, Microsoft Corp., Live Mesh, RSS, .Net, Application Servers, Scripting Languages, Middleware, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Development, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-04-23

Kapow's Web-to-spreadsheet data service helps enterprises exploit cloud-based mashups

Kapow Technologies at the Web 2.0 Expo this week will aim to solve one of the biggest problems facing enterprises as they seek to solve external-internal data chaos by leveraging cloud-based data management services. With Kapow OnDemand, a cloud-based service that uses the company's Mashup Server, Kapow...

Tags: Data Service, Web, Service, Spreadsheet, Mashup, Kapow, IT Department, Productivity, Data Management, Channel Management, Microsoft Excel, Marketing, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-21

SaaS and the global virtual stack

When people argue that SaaS is just another deployment option for software, they really are missing the bigger picture. It's as hopeless as a carriage-builder in the early 20th century saying that using motors instead of horses is just another locomotion option for carriages. It ignores the wider revolution that's...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Stack, Enterprise, Service Aggregation, Application Composition, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-02-27

Microsoft antitrust oversight and a changed market

Judge Kollar-Kotelly announced yesterday that she would extend to November, 2009 the non-documentation related sanctions imposed on Microsoft in its 2002 consent decree, matching the extension of the documentation provisions she had made earlier in the month. The extension isn't of the duration for which the State Attorneys-General had hoped - they...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Antitrust, Protocol, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Computing, Internet, Web Browsers, Corporate Law, Business Operations, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-01-30

Microsoft's unveils its grand virtualization strategy

Updated 11:00 AM PST: Microsoft will formally unveil its grand virtualization strategy tomorrow at a Virtualization Deployment Summit in Bellevue, WA, highlighted by the acquisition of Calista Technologies, a deeper alliance with Citrix and initiatives for deploying virtualization from desktops to data centers (see also Mary Jo Foley's take on...

Tags: Combination, Desktop, Server, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, EMC Corp., System Center, Hyper-V, Money Line, Application Virtualization, Presentation Virtualization, Microsoft System Center, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-21