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Current Research in the Bluetooth Security Architecture

This paper aims to provide an overall understanding of the Bluetooth specification security architecture and its shortcomings. A technical foundation of the overall security architecture will be reviewed, primarily focusing on the standard's implementation of device authentication and encryption. The report then provides a brief review of the Security Modes...

Tags: University Of South Australia, Security Architecture, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Security, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-08-30

Towards Data Quality and Data Mining Using Constraints in XML

Quality data is necessary for different data mining techniques and reversely, data mining techniques can be utilized to measure quality of data. Data mining and data quality issues got much attention for relational data in past. But, as a massive amount of data is being stored and represented over the...

Tags: Data Quality, XML, University Of South Australia, Quality Data, Data Mining Technique, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2009-03-01

QoS Issues of Using Probabilistic Non-Repudiation Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Network Environment

So as to guarantee the fairness of electronic transactions, users may require a Non-Repudiation NR service in any type of network. However, most existing NR protocols cannot work properly in a Mobile Ad hoc NETwork MANET due to their characteristics (e.g. limited resources and lack of central authority). The design...

Tags: QoS, Mobile, University Of South Australia

White papers 2007-01-12

Additional Resources

Firefox faces browser clone war in China

Come on ZDNet!!!!Is this really newsworthy????Newsworthy? That's not the point...ZDNet's intent was not to write about anything worthwhile. It's intent was to draw you in and to have you read further in order to get you to visit at least one more page in their web-site.If they had...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Democrats threaten to grow backbones over health reform

Good analysis.ntthis bill is DOA!Thanks to the efforts of real Americans in Congress and townhalls, the road to socialism in America has been blocked for now.The liberal plan to take over our healthcare and turn it into an expensive third world healthcare has been foiled, but the real test comes...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Reform, health care

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Microsoft to change default browser setting option in IE 8

Microsoft to change default browser setting option in IE 8I hope FireFox follows suitAfter installing FireFox 3.5, not only did it hijack the default browser setting - but even after setting it back, it's STILL the browser being selected when clicking on a link in Trillian.The ONLY reason I have...

Tags: Web browsers, Government, Microsoft Internet Explorer, default browser setting, university education, IE8, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

University's Web Budgeting Saves Costs and Improves Forecasts

The University of New South Wales UNSW is one of Australia's leading teaching and research facilities. As the university expanded, its finance team struggled to gather sufficiently comprehensive budget data from individual faculties and schools. In February 2008, UNSW implemented the CALUMO Performance Management suite, which is built on Microsoft...

Tags: Web, Microsoft Corp., Financial Accounting, Personal Finance, Finance

Case studies 2008-11-01

Survivor Buddy, a friendly robot rescuer

The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida USF, 'plans to add a heart to robot rescuers.' As says USF, the goal is to develop 'a robot that will be a companion...

Tags: Details, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-17

A 100-million-year dragon killer

Komodo dragons are one of the largest living species of lizards, growing to a length of up to 3 meters and weighing around 70 kilograms. They're living on several central Indonesian islands for more than 100 million years. Why are they still alive? According to an international team of researchers,...

Tags: Researcher, Species, Komodo, UNSW, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Hewlett-Packard (HP) Case Study: University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA)

The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA) plays a central role in ensuring Australia's security by training the nation's future military leaders. When its existing network infrastructure started causing lengthy delays and became too expensive to run, UNSW@ADFA sought a new solution. UNSW@ADFA considered...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., University Of New South Wales, Retail, Networking, Network Administration, Channel Management, Marketing

Case studies 2007-08-01

Holograms used to test your vision

Australian researchers have developed a test that uses holograms to diagnose the astigmatic error of the human eye. 'In this new test, patients view a hologram consisting of sunburst patterns; by reporting which sunburst lines appear clearest, the eye doctor can obtain information he or she can use in determining...

Tags: Health &, Medicine, Science &, Nature

Blog posts 2007-07-06

Remote-controlled humans?

Researchers from Australia announced last week that it is possible to guide people movements by remote control. This technique, known as galvanic vestibular stimulation GVS, is not new and has been demonstrated for the first time in 1999. But until now, this technique, which uses electrodes placed just below people'...

Tags: rotation, technique

Blog posts 2006-08-08

Google buys new algorithm?

Orion, an advanced method of searching created by computer science student, Ori Allon, at the University of New South Wales in Australia has been getting a lot of attention lately. It looks like Google may have chalked another one up by acquiring the creator and potentially the technology behind...

Tags: Google Inc., Ori Allon

Blog posts 2006-04-09