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Wireless Internet Applications

Web services provide the ability to design new exciting internet applications and innovative mobile applications. Web services are a family of XML-based standards designed for the communication of loosely coupled, dynamically bound applications. Web services can be seen as the evolution of the Web where not only humans interact with...

Tags: Web, Internet, Vienna University, Wireless Internet, Web Service, Wireless, Channel Management, Web Services, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-12-11

Low-Complexity Time-Domain ICI Equalization for OFDM Communications Over Rapidly Varying Channels

This paper considers wireless OFDM communications over rapidly varying channels as occurring e.g. in high-mobility scenarios. Here, InterCarrier Interference ICI is the major source of impairment that limits the transmission quality. This paper proposes novel equalizers to combat ICI and enable reliable communications even at high Doppler frequencies. In contrast...

Tags: Channel, Vienna University, OFDM, Wireless

White papers 2006-11-28

Quality of Spatial Data for e-Government From an Ontological View

Discussion on quality of spatial data is traditionally separated in different groups. Data quality mainly covers the observation process and the process of data manipulation. Uncertainty describes the problems of inaccurate boundaries between different classes. Usability concentrates on the view of the data user and tries to answer the question...

Tags: Uncertainty, Vienna University, E-government, Government

White papers 2006-04-20

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Vs. Component Based Architecture

SOA is a buzzword and topic for many discussions in nearly every professional journal and conference. Opinions differ from "Some technical rubbish" to "The technology of the future". The problem about these different opinions partly depend on another problem: What precisely is SOA? Whatever it is and will be, it...

Tags: Vienna University, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-02-13

Protecting Users Against Phishing Attacks

Phishing is a form of online identity theft that aims to steal sensitive information such as online banking passwords and credit card information from users. Phishing scams have been receiving extensive press coverage because such attacks have been escalating in number and sophistication. This paper presents a novel browser extension,...

Tags: Vienna University, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing

White papers 2006-01-10

Wrapping Legacy Software for Reuse in a SOA

Legacy programs, i.e. programs which have been developed with an outdated technology make-up for the vast majority of programs in many user application environments. It is these programs which actually run the information systems of the business world. Moving to a new technology such as service oriented architecture is impossible...

Tags: Vienna University, SOA, Legacy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Asset Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Operational Planning, Business Operations

White papers 2005-12-06

Challenges and Solutions for Model Driven Web Service Composition

System theory propagates the use of models which raise the level of abstraction to cope with complexity, evolving out of variety and connectivity. Different modeling techniques have been invented for the abstract description of certain aspects of dynamic system behaviour. Nowadays process models are also an accepted part of service...

Tags: Web, Vienna University, Web Service, System Theory, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Research & Development, Productivity, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations

White papers 2005-06-01

A Service Oriented Architecture Framework for Collaborative Services

The demand for flexible, efficient and user-friendly collaborative services is becoming more and more urgent as the competition in the current market-oriented arena is getting more intense and fiercer. Enterprises have to be more dynamic in terms of collaboration with partners and even competitors. The Service Oriented Architecture is a...

Tags: Vienna University, Distributed Computing, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Network Technology, Software, Networking

White papers 2005-04-05

Web Engineering - Old Wine in New Bottles?

Modern Web applications are full-fledged, complex software systems. Therefore, the development of Web applications requires a methodologically sound engineering approach called Web Engineering. It is not clear, however, to which extent existing solutions from relevant areas, most notably software engineering can be reused as such for the development of Web...

Tags: Software, Web, Development, Web Application, Vienna University, Wine, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Management, Marketing

White papers 2004-09-03

Soft Real-Time Linux Overview

As real-time capabilities are becoming relevant in main-stream desk-top Linux more and more, and new variants and ideas are popping up all over the Open-Source world, a notoriously incomplete, overview of the existing variants of soft-real time Linux is given in the paper. Many of the variants are for special...

Tags: Vienna University, Variant, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software

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Additional Resources

The future of tech IPOs

At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, Frank Quattrone, co-founder of Qatalyst, talks about the dismal condition of the current IPO market, why venture capitalist backed companies are not going public right now, and what the future holds.

Tags: IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Venture Capital, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Tech IPOs

Videos 2008-07-25

10 essential gadgets for students

I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...

Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-25

10 essential gadgets for students

Showing you some of the gadgets college and university students really shouldn't live without. by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Student, Zack Whittaker, Gadgets, University, Pen drive, Cell phone, Laptop, Computer

Image galleries 2008-07-25

Government, markets and regulation

Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...

Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Is open source hurt by piracy?

Is open source hurt by piracy?Only hurts Open Source if proprietary is seen as "better"Sounds like what you are saying is for example, that the competition in the office suite space is Open Office Vs MS Office Vs pirated MS Office. Those willing to pirate see both Open Office...

Tags: Operating systems, open source, piracy, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship

NASA officials recognized last week that dead bodies were used to develop Orion landing systems. According to NASA, 'three human bodies were used in the tests at Ohio State University Medical Center' in 2007. Even if the results of the experiments helped NASA, one of its spokesman said that the...

Tags: NASA, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Google opens Knol website, a wiki with bylines

In a direct challenge to the popular Wikipedia, Google opened Knol, an encyclopedia-like wiki site that requires writers to post their names and expertise. SAN FRANCISCO--Google opened its website Knol to the public on Wednesday, allowing people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a...

Tags: Google Inc., DuPont Co., Web Site, Wikipedia, Knol, Wiki, Online Communications, Reuters, Google, encyclopedia

News items 2008-07-24

Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875

Editors' note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875 is a thoroughly average, entry-level laptop. It wasn't too long ago that an average, entry-level laptop meant one that was underpowered and shabbily...

Tags: Notebooks, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Satellite, Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875, laptop computer

Product reviews 2008-07-23

75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws

In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...

Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Is this the New Apple?

PowerPage podcaster Youngmoo Kim relays his experience with trying to get an iPhone 3G and on being an "IRU" Individual Responsible User. Apple just doesn't want me to have an iPhone 3G.  After a few half-hearted attempts bailing at the sight of long lines, I spent about two hours...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., IRU, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-22