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- Through a Dell Technology Partnership, University of North Carolina Wilmington Manages Mobile Student Computing Initiative With Minimal Resources
- University of North Carolina Wilmington is located on a 650-acre campus with nearly 12,000 students and approximately 2,000 faculty and staff. Initially notebook computers were sold through the campus bookstore. Ordering computers on behalf of students, receiving the shipments, and distributing and supporting the machines was labor intensive. When the...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Partnership, Mobile, Computer, University Of North Carolina, University Of North Carolina Wilmington, Productivity, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Case studies 2007-07-01
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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
- EA's 'Spore' aims to create new worlds, businesses
- Electronic Arts's creature-building game "Spore" offers players a chance to develop new worlds--and maybe even new lines of business for the video game maker. RALEIGH, North Carolina--Electronic Arts's creature-building game Spore offers players a chance to develop new worlds--and maybe even new lines of business for the video game...
- Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Spore, Games, Personal Technology, Reuters, Electronic Arts, video games, Nintendo
- News items 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
- Updated: Recycled ink cartridges in your garden?
- UPDATED TO FIX BAD LINK AND REPLACE PHOTO Printer maker Lexmark is the first U.S. printer maker to ink (at least publicly and, yes, pun intended) a deal with Close the Loop, a recycling concern that has come up with a patented new use for discarded printing...
- Tags: Cartridge, Lexmark International Inc., Loop, eLumber, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Social networking growth by worldwide region in June 2008
- Jun-07 Jun-08 Growth Worldwide 464,437 580,510 25% Asia Pacific 162,738 200,555 23% Europe 122,527 165,256 35% North America 120,848 131,255 9% Latin America 40,098 53,248 33% Middle East - Africa 18,226 30,197 66% Source: comScore ...
- Tags: Growth, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
- 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
- Ruminating on Chrome
- On an otherwise non news day, the comic book launch of Chrome by Google has got the digital ether all aglow with excitement. I can only shrug. Despite the thinking this is 'big news' and garnering mainstream media attention at both the WSJ and the UK's Guardian, I can't see...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Chrome, Web Browsers, Open Source, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Visits to Beijing2008.cn by region, August 8-17, 2008
- Visitors, 000 Share of Visitors Total Visitors to Beijing2008.cn 16,546 100.0% Asia-Pacific 7,508 45.4% North America 5,041 30.5% Europe 2,696 16.3% Middle East-Africa 677 4.1% Latin America 625 3.8% Source: comScore ...
- Tags: Visitor, NB
- Blog posts 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
- Worldwide Growth for Facebook in June 2008
- June 2007 June 2008 % Change FACEBOOK.COM 52,167 132,105 153% North America 35,698 49,248 38% Europe 8,751 35,263 303% Asia Pacific 3,712 20,712 458% Middle East - Africa 2,974 14,951 403% Latin America 1,033 11,931 1055% ...
- Tags: Facebook, NB
- Blog posts 2008-08-30
- Can computers sort data like humans?
- Can computers sort data like humans?. . . and we're still guessing.Gotta like the field of AI. These people claim "we'll have human intelligence in 50 or so years." Yet we have a slight problem: We haven't the slightest idea how to objectively measure intelligence, much less recreate it. We...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, John N. Warfield, OPMS
- Discussion threads 2008-08-30
- ROFLthing 2008
- Have you ever been to an internet culture conference? Earlier this year, Harvard senior Tim Hwang threw one in Cambridge, Mass., and it was a massive success. This time, Hwang wanted to have a smaller get together in San Francisco to chat about memes. Welcome to ROFLthing...
- Tags: Humor, Rickroll, Chuck Norris, Internet, Strategy, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
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