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RSS beaconDartmouth College: Realizing a Campus-Wide Video and Voice Network
White Paper Nothing in life happens without purpose, a guiding beacon that drives innovation. Over the past five years at Dartmouth College, Brad Noblet, CIO of Dartmouth College developed the industry's first totally converged... [12 Nov 2009]
Bottom falls out of online pants market but e-tail hits £3.8bn
News Online shopping continues to be a beacon of hope for retailers as high street sales stall. UK shoppers spent £3.8bn online last month - 16 per cent higher than in August last year, the latest figures from the IMRG... [22 Sep 2009]
Facebook adds Nielsen to friends for ads
News Part of that 2007 announcement included Beacon, the ill-fated advertising programme that Facebook finally put the kibosh on this week. As part of the Advertising Week festivities in New York, Facebook chief operating... [22 Sep 2009]
Facebook to kill Beacon: Info-sharing programme crumbles under privacy concerns
News It's finally over for Beacon, the ill-fated advertising programme that Facebook launched two years ago. The social network has settled a year-old class action lawsuit that targeted its alleged failure to provide adequate... [21 Sep 2009]
Facebook faces lawsuit over privacy concerns
News The social network went through a user backlash over the introduction of its News Feed in 2006, and a bigger one over the controversial Beacon advertising programme. A group of Facebook users filed a civil lawsuit in the... [18 Aug 2009]
Six Best Practices of IT Security
White Paper Of course, every organization's mitigating controls are highly contextual, so adopting all five may not be right for them - but if they allow these to serve as a beacon, they will be much more informed about information... [01 May 2009]
Angle of Arrival Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper They propose a new localization and orientation scheme that considers beacon information multiple hops away. Awareness of the physical location for each node is required by many wireless sensor network applications. [23 Apr 2009]
Priority Based Power Saving Mode in WLAN
White Paper Although AM-STAs usually have no concern with energy, their contention degrades the energy efficiency of PS-STAs, which usually have life concern, by increasing the time duration for data retrieving and increasing the number of PS-STAs... [01 Apr 2009]
Perytons Time View
White Paper For increased efficiency, a network coordinator station may transmit a repetitive beacon, allocating time slots for network members' transmissions. 802.15.4/ZigBee networks comprise several devices that communicate with... [14 Feb 2009]
First large-scale ID card trials coming to Manchester?
News The Home Office will lobby banks, retailers, councils and universities in these "beacon areas" to allow the cards to be used with their services, such as opening a bank account or proving age when buying alcohol. [29 Jan 2009]
Manchester rejects high-tech transport plans
News The road pricing scheme was going to use tag and beacon technology - as seen in Sydney and Singapore - to charge people travelling into the city at peak times. Manchester's ambitious high-tech transport plans have been... [15 Dec 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Hearing Morse Code?
Comment So listen to the signal and see if it repeats regularly: If yes - then it is undoubtedly some form of beacon. About an hour ago a lady from Belgium emailed me saying she was worried about the fact she keeps hearing... [14 Oct 2008]
Jonathon Porritt
AS Profile Described by an Agenda Setters judge as a "beacon for the sensible and intelligent green movement", Porritt - a former director of Friends of the Earth and co-chair of the Green Party - is setting the 'green' agenda in... [07 Oct 2008]
Five reasons I don't miss my 3G iPhone
Comment I had previously seen GPS working on a friend's iPhone - albeit occasionally still inexplicably dropping the homing beacon for long periods - yet my loan phone never seemed able to offer that current location pin-point. [10 Sep 2008]
Manchester on the road to high tech transport
News The road charging technology will use tags and beacon technology - as seen in Sydney and Singapore - to charge people travelling into the city at peak times. Manchester is aiming to develop a world class transport system... [10 Jun 2008]
