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ProCurve Adaptive Network Attracts Tenants to New Saudi World Trade Center

World Trade Center WTC Saudi, one of the newest members of the World Trade Center Association wanted to install the most secure and best possible networking solution in a brand new office building servicing a variety of permanent and temporary international business tenants. Having looked at the various alternatives including...

Tags: Tenant, Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, World Trade Center, HP ProCurve, Utility Computing

Case studies 2007-08-01

Behind Purdue's computing simulation on the 2001 World Trade Center attack

Behind Purdue's computing simulation on the 2001 World Trade Center attackNIST also did a simulation without the graphicsThe NIST did a simulation of the damage and compared against debris. They took into account a huge amount of information. Turns out that the physical damage just from the...

Tags: WTC, World Trade Center

Discussion threads 2007-06-20

Behind Purdue's computing simulation on the 2001 World Trade Center attack

Researchers at Purdue University have completed a computing simulation to detail what likely happened to the World Trade Center when an airline struck the North Tower in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack.Here's how Purdue describes the simulation results see video:The simulation depicts how a plane tore through several stories...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Science, IT Management, Innovation, Hardware Infrastructure, General

Blog posts 2007-06-20

Today's Links on 9/11: Bush in NYC, video archives, my personal story

SPECIAL EDITION OF TODAY'S LINKSSeptember 11, 2006: Five Year Anniversary of theAttacks on the World Trade CenterPRESIDENT BUSH Revisits WTC Site on 5th ANNIVERSARYPresident Bush is on a commemorative journey in New York City and as part of his mission he is gving all New Yorkers a big thumbs up,...

Tags: 9/11 commission, 9/11, Bush, New Yorkers

Blog posts 2006-09-11

Remembering Katrina and 9/11: On data and the terror of nature and mankind

We mark the first anniversary of the seemingly unavoidable 2005 Katrina hurricane “act of God” which terrorized New Orleans and the Gulf Coast and resulted in thousands of deaths and uncountable shattered lives and prepare to mark the fifth anniversary of the 2001 September 11 seemingly preventable terrorist attacks on...

Tags: 9/11 commission, 9/11, World Trade Center, Islamist, terrorist attack

Blog posts 2006-08-30

New York City Screen Saver 1.1 (Windows)

This screensaver of 80 pictures of various places in New York City includes the Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Center, Central Park, Battery Park, the Empire State Building, Harlem, and Times Square.

Tags: World Trade Center, Baynards Castle, Microsoft Windows, Engineering, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2001-10-12

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

Dell's answer to Apple's Mac mini - The Inspiron Zino HD

People Actually Buy These Things?Almost a $1000.00 for a cutsey, low powered designer computer? Do people actually buy these things? Maybe they should check out your Very Best Kit list.adrian please 959$ you dont put 959 for a low-end entry level machine you can have...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Mac Mini, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Palm Pixi (Sprint)

The debut of the Palm Pre got the tech world and gadget enthusiasts excited about Palm once again. Long considered dead in the water, Palm's innovative WebOS operating system buoyed it back into the spotlight, and the Pre was certainly a boon for the company as well as Sprint. While...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Keyboards, capacitive touch screen, Pixi, Pre, Palm Inc., Palm Pixi, Sprint Communications, smart phone

Product reviews 2009-11-12

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

2010 Scion xB

Photo gallery:2010 Scion xBWith funky styling and a reputation built around the tuner crowd and the sound-off set, the Scion xB almost single-handedly established the market for little boxy city cars in the North American market. However, the current generation xB faces stiff competition from the likes of the even-quirkier...

Tags: Performance management, Scion xB

Product reviews 2009-10-27

Toshiba Satellite T135-S1300

Thin-and-light laptops may look similar, but they're not all made the same. It's a deceptive world out there, especially since many thin-and-lights trade performance for a stylishly thin chassis, all while marketing a mainstream look that suggests performance equal to other notebooks.The Toshiba T135 is part of Toshiba's new T100...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Performance management, Processors, Toshiba Satellite, Toshiba Corp., laptop computer, T100, processor, performance

Product reviews 2009-10-09

The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing

Watch this space for future problems! There’s a lot going on in the outsourcing world lately. Things like: - Perot Data Systems being acquired by Dell - ACS getting bought by Xerox Add to these deals,...

Tags: Solution, BPO, Outsourcing Company, Customer, BPO Deal, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, It Services, Managed Hosting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-05

How Internet surveillance, IT sleuth work helped indict suspected terrorist Zazi

Kinda eerieMakes me wonder if I should delete that "Socialism" picture of Obama as the Joker from my machine.There are 2 Issues HereThe first is whether such forensics have a legitimate place in law enforcement and the second is whether these methods can be misused. I believe that the...

Tags: Blogging, information technology, Zazi, Internet Surveillance, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

The good news about WalMart

The magic of jiu jitsuYou praise what a company reviled by the left is doing. The right rises. Then you point to WalMart's support of true health reform, and pound them with it. How does this help the public option?I don't see it.So you are saying that because of some...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Benefits, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

Small signs of a health care deal forming

what deal?The New York Times is the least reliable source of information.If you want signs of a deal in the making just watch the conservatives talk shows: O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity, etc as real Americans do.They would tell us if there are any talks about it. RE: Small signs of a...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Nissan Leaf, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Edvision 5.1 (Windows)

Welcome to Edvision, the Education Center Management System. Edvision is a software application designed to address all aspects of non-traditional and traditional education. Edvision is used by training center, tuition center, language center, institutes, colleges, associations, Montessori, private school, pre-school, martial arts school, dancing school, music school, acting school, art...

Tags: School, Microsoft Windows, Infobina, Edvision 5.1, E-learning, Training And Certification, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Hardware, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-08-17

Behind the failure of OpenSourceWorld

And yet..if the place was full you would be singing the praises of how popular and good OSS is. Surely even the OSS crowd could have got together for 1 day of the year to help generate the buzz around the software - a bit similar to seeing long lines...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, operating system, OSS, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

News to know: Culture of cheap; Microsoft, Nokia; eBay; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Culture of cheap: How discount computers cost the consumer Jason Perlow: Der Frankenputer: A Last Hurrah at...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Nokia Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Cloud Computing, Phishing, Virtualization, Sales Strategy, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Word, Smart Phones, Security, Spam And Phishing, Hardware, Sales, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-13

OpenSource World kicks off with sparse crowds, nothing-new keynote

If the attendance at the opening keynote for OpenSource World formerly known as LinuxWorld serves as a barometer for anything to do with the economy, the tech industry or even trade shows, things are not looking good. There were no lines this morning to get inside San...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Cloud, Keynote Speech, Data Centers, Strategy, Linux, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-12