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University of Georgia's Center for Continuing Education Replaces Wired Network With Smart Wi-Fi From Ruckus: Located on the campus of the University of Georgia UGA, the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel is considered the world's largest and most comprehensive university-based conference center. UGA's Continuing Education IT staff wanted to provide ubiquitous, free Wi-Fi to hotel guests and visitors for years. But...; Tags: Education, Wired Inc., Network, University Of Georgia, Ruckus Wireless, UGA, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless; Case studies 2008-03-31
A Multilevel Secure Workflow Management System: The Department of Defense DoD needs multilevel secure MLS workflow management systems to enable globally distributed users and applications to cooperate across classification levels to achieve mission critical goals. An MLS workflow management system that allows a user to program multilevel mission logic, to securely coordinate widely distributed tasks, and...; Tags: Workflow, Workflow Management, University Of Georgia, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations; White papers 2005-10-25
Workflow Management Systems and ERP Systems: Differences, Commonalities, and Applications: Two important classes of information systems, Workflow Management Systems WfMSs and Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems, have been used to support e-business process redesign, integration, and management. While both technologies can help with business process automation, data transfer, and information sharing, the technological approach and features of solutions provided by...; Tags: ERP System, ERP, Workflow Management, University Of Georgia, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2005-10-25
WiFi Clouds and Zones: A Survey of Municipal Wireless Initiatives: This study is one of the first to analytically describe how businesses, governments, communities, and other organizations are using wireless technology to create large WiFi and wireless internet clouds. Going beyond simple hotspots, these implementations offer some of the most pervasive high bandwidth access possible and may shed light on...; Tags: Wireless Internet, Survey, University Of Georgia, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Wireless LANs; White papers 2004-08-25
Sybase Case Study: University of Georgia New Media Institute: The New Media Institute NMI at the University of Georgia is dedicated to exploring the compelling uses of mobile media technology and the creative, critical and commercial ideas that will drive demand. The NMI was seeking a way to reduce the management burden of maintaining software and settings on mobile...; Tags: Mobile, Media, University Of Georgia, Sybase Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing; Case studies

University of Georgia Saves and Lowers Risk With Centralized Security Management Solutions From CA: The University of GeorgiA UGA is the state's flagship institution of higher education. When the new Chief Information Security Officer CISO joined UGA, he quickly realized that the University was in dire need of a centralized security management solution. UGA's network was protected by thousands of disparate security devices that...; Tags: Security Management, Computer Associates International Inc., University Of Georgia, UGA, Security; Case studies

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LHC scientists get death threats: So it's come to this: Death threats against physicists. About what? The earth-destroying Large Hadron Collider, of course. Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University,...; Tags: Black Hole, Physicist, Scientist, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-09-05
Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea: Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...; Tags: Software, Password Management, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Single Sign-on, RoboForm Enterprise, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-09-05
From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture: The appliance computing culture earned its successes by focusing on the revenue generation side - and that, in turn, drove its own evolution to database technology, the "application as interfaces to data" view, and tight evolutionary links between University research groups and companies like DEC and DG. by Paul Murphy; Tags: Job, Processor, Database, Mainframes, Recruitment & Selection, Servers, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-09-05
IE8's "best" feature broken: stick with Firefox: The plug-ins, the add-ons, the "download and use with" programs. So many people have been on about the "porn mode" InPrivate feature, the coloured tabs and the accelerator features, but what seems to be missing from the blogosphere is the entire gallery of additional software for the product. ...; Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, IE8, Internet Explorer 8, Web Browsers, Internet, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-09-04
A new method to study origin of life: U.S. researchers at Penn State University have developed a new computational method to understand how life began on Earth about four billion years ago. According to the scientists, their method 'has the potential to trace the evolutionary histories of proteins all the way back to either cells or viruses, thus...; Tags: RNA, Method, Team, Penn State, Protein, Virus, Biotechnology, Team Management, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Management, Security, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-09-03
A virus in our genes, think about that....: Really fascinating news: Virus is passed from parent to child in the DNA. Researchers found that roseola, an infection that everyone apparently gets but only 20 percent of children develop the characteristic rash that gives it its name, is actually in our DNA. It co-evolved into us, which raises some...; Tags: DNA, Chromosome, Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-09-03
GOOG browser seeks to curb mounting traffic costs and cut payments to Apple and Mozilla: GOOG browser seeks to curb mounting traffic costs and cut payments to Apple and MozillaSure, this WILL reduce traffice costs, and it could reduce the ammount thatGoogle pays Mozilla. But, Google WILL keep funding Mozilla, and the main thing Google is worried about is MS controlling the internet and the...; Tags: Web browsers, payment, Apple Inc., Google Inc., Mozilla Corp., Web browser, Internet, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-09-02
Bid to stop Large Hadron Collider fails but EU, US suits move forward: The Large Hadron Collider -- designed to replicate conditions in the universe immediately after the Big Bang and due to be switched on in 10 days -- is being challenged by a last-minute lawsuit at the European Court for Human Rights. Opponents of...; Tags: Black Hole, CERN, European Court, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-09-02
Samsung OMNIA first impressions show that Windows Mobile can beat the iPhone: Samsung OMNIA first impressions show that Windows Mobile can beat the iPhoneNot fair to compare??Sorry, but I have to disagree. Looking at the price of an iPhone 3G it IS in the same bracket as the more powerful smart phones. All this shows is it is poor value...; Tags: Operating systems, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Matthew, Samsung OMNIA, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., mobile, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2008-09-02
Quick Quest Limited Edition (bin): Quick Quest helps to organize questions-answers bank and generate questions papers in the format which your university recommends. Any education institute in this world can use Quick Quest to prepare equally distributed complexity questions papers. Quick Quest question paper generation engine assures to achieve 100% competency in automated questions selection...; Tags: SrushtiSoft, Financial Services; Software downloads 2008-09-02
The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold War: The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold WarPrivate space transportationInterestingly, the weakening US-Russian relationship may end up being very good for the US private space industry. Even before the latest souring of relations, NASA made contingency plans to limit dependency on Soyuz and avoid relying on the Russian...; Tags: Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, NASA, COTS, Soyuz, Economic Impact, SpaceX, cargo; Discussion threads 2008-09-01
The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold War: Cummings of the Daily Express, 24 August 1953, "Back to Where it all Started" The events of the last several weeks surrounding Russia's invasion of Georgia and its recognition of the rogue provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia have threatened to...; Tags: Russia, Russian, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-09-01
Are we to have two Internets?: Are we to have two Internets?And what machine were you testing?"Apache dies when hit with about seven to ten thousand user floods. Yaws just kept on going on up to 85,000 simultaneous users."What kind of setup did you test this on?Great responseI don't agree with all your premises but I...; Tags: Web browsers, PRODUCTIVITY, NETWORKING, Intranet, Yaws, Microsoft IIS Server, Extranet, Erlang, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet, Microsoft Corp., tool, Web; Discussion threads 2008-09-01
Windows Live Messenger 9: my new best friend: What's this? Posting at 4am in the morning? Are you kidding me? No. I can't sleep. Ahh, a sigh of relief, a breath of fresh air, freshly ironed underwear, or the first sip of an ice cold beer after a crap day at work. All these combined...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-08-31