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RSS 999Hospital Sirio-Libanes Cut Maintenance Time in Half While Increasing Uptime for Critical Hospital Applications to 99.9% With Dell
White Paper The hospital needed to improve operating efficiency and availability for important medical and administrative applications. IT infrastructure staff spent all their time maintaining legacy hardware and had no time for new projects. [06 Nov 2008]
Southern Company Powers Up Distribution Centers With Priya
White Paper When faced with the challenge of improving inventory tracking and productivity at two major material distribution centers, Southern Company turned to Motek's Priya, the only Tier 1 Warehouse Management System (WMS) based on Microsoft... [03 Nov 2008]
Google pledges reliability for its cloud-based Apps
News Customers paying Google for Gmail are guaranteed the email service will be available 99.9 per cent of the time or they get a refund. Now the company has extended the promise to Google Calendar, Google Docs, and all the... [31 Oct 2008]
Are you an Oxbridge grade techie?
News As well as getting top GCSE and A-Level grades, would-be computer science students applying to Oxford University have to sit a written maths test and undergo at least two interviews as part of what the university terms a "rigorous"... [22 Oct 2008]
Photos: Apple's MacBooks refresh their flavour
Photo Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Tuesday announced updates to the company's MacBook laptop line-up, including Nvidia graphics, a glass multitouch trackpad, a thinner casing crafted from a single block of aluminium, solid-state drives, some price... [15 Oct 2008]
Apple chasing budget buyers with MacBook newbies
News The big news with Tuesday's MacBook announcement is obviously the new design. Replacing the white or black plastic chassis is an aluminium body built from a single piece of metal. Gone is the mouse button, consumed by a large glass... [15 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.08.08
Round-Up It's not often the Round-Up gets riled. Well, other than at crying babies on planes, cars parked in the Round-Up's space, queuing in general, that sort of thing. OK, so a few things get the Round-Up riled, thank you very much. [01 Aug 2008]
Police shame 999 time wasters on YouTube
News Losing your glasses or forgetting the answer to a quiz question could hardly be classed as a matter of life or death. But that did not stop some callers in Somerset from hitting 999 and berating exasperated emergency... [29 Jul 2008]
Microsoft OS update service availability tops Apple, Ubuntu
News Pingdom, a company that measures internet service reliability, has given Microsoft the top score in a test of operating system update services. Microsoft's Windows Update was available 100 per cent of the second quarter of 2008, Pingdom... [15 Jul 2008]
Focusing on Retail Visibility
White Paper In the first major field test of RFID for consumer item-level tracking, clothing retailer, Gap Inc.demonstrated the value of the technology from back-end supply chain operations to the front of the store. [03 Jul 2008]
Ambulance service loses 999 details
News The Scottish Ambulance Service has lost a disc containing the encrypted 999 call details of almost one million people. The disc was reported lost last week by courier TNT, and had been mislaid earlier this month while in... [25 Jun 2008]
Photos: India 999
Photo The Indian government will help fund the rollout of a scheme created by an Indian outsourcing veteran to provide the country's first dedicated ambulance service. For years the country has had no dedicated single number to call an... [01 May 2008]
Web Development Company Accelerates Site Delivery by Up to 300 Percent
White Paper With spotty availability, long development cycles, and no single source for technical support, the world of Linux-based Web hosting prevented InDIMENSIONS from meeting its customers' needs. For the Toronto-based Web development firm's... [10 Apr 2008]
Gates Outsources System Management Across Asian Sites and Gains 99.9% Availability
White Paper In 2004, Gates Corporation directed that all disparate databases and applications software under Gates Unitta administration be replaced with an Oracle-based IT infrastructure. However, the age and diversity of hardware and software used... [09 Feb 2008]
Vodafone cuts mobile broadband prices
News Vodafone is hoping to ramp up mobile broadband uptake in the UK by waving the carrot of a £15 per month 3GB price plan in UK consumers' faces. But the 50 per cent price will only run for a limited 'promotional period'. [01 Feb 2008]
