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'Noisy' anti-Phorm tool developed

News Phorm aims to serve targeted adverts to people by observing their anonymised web-browsing habits, and sending them tailored ads. An electronic privacy advocacy group has launched a tool they claim will inundate controversial ad-serving technology...

Tags: ad, phorm

[20 May 2008]

Getting Started with Master Data Management

whitepaper Master data management forms part of an overall enterprise governance program that aims to establish trusted data throughout the enterprise. This white paper from Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies defines master data, examines why it...

Tags: knowledge and data management, master, data management, aims

[20 May 2008]

An Introduction to OMA Device Management: Improve the Interoperability Between Devices and Servers With the Latest Specification

whitepaper To avoid this, the OMA Device Management (OMA DM) specification aims to unify them. Device management pertains to configurations, provisioning client applications, and detecting problems of remote devices from servers.

Tags: cellular equipment

[20 May 2008]

A Brief Guide to Securing Wireless Networks: Closing the Back Door in APA Style

whitepaper This paper aims to give a brief history of wireless security, educate the WLAN administrator about the dangerous vulnerabilities of wireless networking. Wireless computer networks (WLANs) are being used in greater numbers now than ever before.

Tags: wireless lan, numbers, wireless security, wired

[20 May 2008]

Nato fires up cyber defences

News A Nato cyber defence centre of excellence has been formally established to carry out research and training in how to combat cyber warfare. The centre will be based in Tallinn in Estonia and will be used to train Nato's civilian and military staff...

Tags: security, training, estonia, cyber attack

[16 May 2008]

Google lays out mobile future

News One of the main aims with the mobile search app was to reduce keystrokes due to the tricky nature of typing on mobile devices, so the app suggests possible search terms as the user types, potentially allowing them to navigate much more quickly.

Tags: web, apps, android, mobile

[13 May 2008]

Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power

News The US space agency's Pleiades programme aims to give peak performance of 1,000 trillion operations per second - or one petaflop - by 2009. Nasa is upgrading its supercomputer to cater for an expected surge in workload associated with future...

Tags: petaflop, performance, upgrade, supercomputer

[09 May 2008]

Vendor Aims to Double Customer Base in Three Years With Software as a Service

whitepaper Kooijman software, an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) in the Netherlands, develops record management systems for schools and construction companies. It wanted to expand its market by helping schools to comply with Dutch government legislation for...

Tags: database management

[02 May 2008]

Colgate drives innovation through strategic focus on IT optimization

whitepaper Using SAP and IBM technologies, Colgate has optimized its IT environment by adopting the IBM IT Resource Optimization approach, which aims to create a responsive IT infrastructure that is easier and less expensive to manage, upgrade and run.

Tags: infrastructure management

[28 Apr 2008]

Fifa World Cup to get high-tech makeover

News The Indian outsourcing giant aims to use technology to give football fans the ability to forensically examine every match. Indian IT company Satyam is promising to "transform" the way fans watch football on the back of its World Cup deal with the...

Tags: outsourcing, fifa, satyam

[23 Apr 2008]

Microsoft embraces cloud computing with 'Live Mesh'

News The project is the brainchild of Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, and underscores the company's carefully balanced online strategy, which aims to capitalise on the reach of the internet without damaging its software business.

Tags: google, cloud, microsoft

[23 Apr 2008]

Surveying Wireless Networks

whitepaper This Technical paper aims to provide all the information needed to perform wireless surveys and design networks around them. Wireless networks are a useful complement to a wired network, allowing network connections to be obtained anywhere within...

Tags: wired, perform, connections, aims

[11 Apr 2008]

Dynamic Firewalls and Service Deployment Models for Grid Environments

whitepaper The second approach aims at minimizing the interactions between Grid applications and firewalls, through the definition of a firewall-friendly, homogeneous and consistent deployment of Grid middleware across all entities participating in a Virtual...

Tags: firewalls

[11 Apr 2008]

Managing C++ APIs

whitepaper This paper summarizes Symbian’s central insights into OO system design gained while developing Symbian OS.Its two main aims are to show how C++ language constructs are used to implement object oriented designs and deliver object oriented APIs; and...

Tags: object-oriented, os, oriented, object

[10 Apr 2008]

Restructured Environment Serves as the Foundation for Globally Consolidated Management

whitepaper As part of that process, the company aims for "the right people at the right time, able to acquire the newest data in the right format. Fuji Photo Film Co.leads the world in the creation of "the culture of images and information.

Tags: upgrades and migration, sap, stability, photo

[10 Apr 2008]

Business Impact Analytics: Bridging Business Continuity and IT Management

whitepaper Business Impact Analytics aims to create a bridge between these functions. The Information Technology and Infrastructure Library (ITIL) documents best practices for IT Service Management, including service support and service delivery.

Tags: disaster recovery, continuity, service management, configuration

[10 Apr 2008]

Europe Telecom Services - WiMAX & Family: Threats and Opportunities

whitepaper This paper aims to explore the technical viability of these various new technologies and, as such, assess their ability to disrupt the market. After a number of false dawns of alternative wireless broad band technologies outside the main stream...

Tags: wi-fi (802.11), generation, range, telecom

[10 Apr 2008]

Melisa - A Distributed Multimedia System for Multi-Platform Interactive Sports Content Broadcasting

whitepaper The MELISA platform aims at the cross media broadcasting of sports events featuring interactive advertising and sports-related games over digital television and next generation mobile network infrastructures.

Tags: generation, television, sports, commerce

[10 Apr 2008]

Administaff Uses VMware ESX Server to Reduce Costs, Server Sprawl

whitepaper After their success using ESX Server on the project, Administaff deployed VMware software in several other capacities, including various Web server environments and a production rollout of Citrix METAFrame XPe hosting Administaff's core...

Tags: machines, physical, esx server, administaff

[10 Apr 2008]

Who's Got the NAC? Best Practices in Protecting Network Access

whitepaper This report from Aberdeen aims to further the market's understanding of NAC - its function and capabilities - as seen through the eyes of those organizations that are getting the best results in protecting their network access.

Tags: network security

[08 Apr 2008]

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