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RSS amsterdamPeter Cochrane's Blog: How the telcos could save themselves
Comment Compiled at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi network in a London coffee shop four days later. Over the past six months the internet has seen a noticeable slow down and an... [23 Nov 2009]
Clouds clear as Microsoft gives Azure a January launch date
News Azure's storage service will also be updated, with data geo-replicated across pairs of datacentres - for example, in Europe, datacentres in Amsterdam and Dublin - from January. Microsoft's cloud-based computing platform... [18 Nov 2009]
Silverlight 4: Microsoft casts light on next version of Adobe Flash rival
News Ahead of a broadcasting conference that starts later this week in Amsterdam, Microsoft on Tuesday shared some details on the next version of Silverlight. In particular, Microsoft said the next version of the Adobe Flash... [09 Sep 2009]
City of Heemskerk Improves Data Availability, Scalability, and Security
White Paper This area, which was originally agricultural and is located in the triangle between Amsterdam, Haarlem, and Alkmaar, was among the fastest-growing municipalities in the Netherlands in the 1960s. The City of Heemskerk is... [01 Sep 2009]
Border Security Systems: The Hungarian Case Study
White Paper Hungary plans to operate future external and internal borders pursuant to the Schengen and Amsterdam requirements. The Hungarian Republic is making significant efforts in trying to comply with European Union requirements. [31 Jul 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Baker's dozen - a lesson for broadband
Comment Compiled on KLM 1508 flying Norwich to Amsterdam and dispatched to silicon.com via wi-fi from my Amsterdam hotel a day later The expression 'a baker's dozen' originated around the 13th century in an... [11 Jun 2009]
IT Services Provider Reduces Annual Costs by $96,426 With Operating System Upgrade
White Paper Located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Wortell is a systems integrator and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. To deliver innovative solutions to customers, it adopts new technology as early as possible. [30 May 2009]
Microsoft Online Services Expands Opportunities for Dutch IT Service Provider
White Paper IT Solution Partners (ITSP) of Amsterdam was looking for new ways to enable small and mid-sized businesses to gain access to enterprise-class messaging and collaboration solutions. Many prospective clients were... [30 May 2009]
Martin Brokers cashes in on back-up swap
Case Study The next step for Martin Brokers will be to set up a disaster recovery site in Amsterdam in 2010. London-based broking firm Martin Brokers has saved money and improved the management of critical data by moving to a new... [23 Apr 2009]
IT Analysis - Small Networks, Big Prizes
White Paper At last week's Femtocell Deployment World Summit 2008 in Amsterdam, the community of interest around this particular technology got together and tried to thrash out some reasons why business and consumer users might... [01 Mar 2009]
Length Normalization in XML Retrieval
White Paper The importance of document length normalization is a recurring theme in Information Retrieval (IR). The advent of the Text Retrieval Conferences (TREC) in 1992 introduced large-scale test collections with full-text documents. [04 Dec 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Presentation SNAFUs
Comment Written on KLM1508 flying from Amsterdam to Norwich, and dispatched to silicon.com from London via a free wi-fi service Several times over the past decades I have contemplated writing a book detailing all the things that... [25 Nov 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Synthetic people
Comment Written on KLM1515 flying from Norwich to Amsterdam and dispatched to silicon.com the same day via a company wired LAN I've just been looking at avatars and synthetic people over the past 15 years and must say the... [11 Nov 2008]
Virtual strip scanners move closer for EU airports
News The meeting looked at key privacy, regulatory and operational issues surrounding the scanners' use and the results of trials of the technology at London Heathrow, Schiphol in Amsterdam and Helsinki's Vantaa airport. [10 Nov 2008]
Heathrow Airport: Lost laptop hotspot
News In Europe most laptops go missing at London's Heathrow airport with 900 going astray per week, closely followed by Amsterdam and Paris Charles de Gaulle. Airports are a hotspot for lost or missing laptops with around... [30 Jul 2008]
