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RSS birdBusiness Continuity: Managing Through Workforce Disruption
White Paper Whether a workforce disruption takes the form of a bird flu pandemic, winter storm or transit strike, your business needs to keep running even when your employees can't make it to the office. A successful business continuity strategy includes a way... [04 Jun 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo Here is the Beijing National Stadium - also known as the 'Bird's Nest'. This month silicon.com editor Steve Ranger visited China for a behind the scenes tour of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and its technology. [30 May 2008]
Editor's Blog: The race to get the Olympic tech ready
Comment And overlooking the Water Cube and the 'Bird's Nest' Beijing National Stadium is the home of the technology team and their testing lab. I had a fascinating if rather rushed 46 hours in Beijing recently, getting a sneak preview of the 2008 Olympic... [08 May 2008]
Photos: Beijing Olympics 2008 - tech keeping the games on track
Photo Here is another view from the testing lab showing some of the applications that will be used - and the Bird's Nest in the background. This is the Beijing National Stadium - also known as the 'Bird's Nest'. [07 May 2008]
Arizona's SIREN Speeds Information Flow, Helps to Avert Potential Epidemics
White Paper Whether the disease is SARS, the Bird Flu, or the West Nile Virus, the key to addressing a medical emergency - as well as to quell a dangerous public panic - is to identify a potential outbreak early, marshal medical resources rapidly, and contain... [30 Apr 2008]
Web Analytics: A Bird's-Eye View of Practices and Plans
White Paper Read TechRepublic's white papers to discover emerging trends and learn more about the growing importance of Web Analytics in today's e-business infrastructure. [10 Apr 2008]
Geographic Surveillance and Hotspot Detection for Homeland Security: West Nile Virus: An Illustration of the Early Warning Capability of the Scan Statistic
White Paper Scan statistical detection of dead bird clusters provides an early crisis warning and allows targeted public education and increased mosquito control. All unique non-pigeon dead bird reports were categorized as 'cases' if occurring in the prior 7... [10 Apr 2008]
Geographic Surveillance and HotspotDetection for Homeland Security: Disaster Management: Oil Spill Detection, Monitoring, and Prioritization
White Paper Damage produced by marine oil spills includes soiled beaches, bird and mammal mortality, destruction of fisheries, impaired recreational facilities, and catastrophic impairment to entire ecosystems. The scan statistic hotspot delineation and poset... [10 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up Planes, trains and automobiles - the title of an amusing comedy flick starring Steve Martin is also a neat segue into the Round-Up's opening gambit, after a week gorging itself senseless on chocolate eggs and iPlayer programmes. [28 Mar 2008]
Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky…
Photo The US Army wants a six-inch spy plane to gather data on sights, sounds and smells in urban combat areas. It has given the University of Michigan's College of Engineering $10m and five years to help make "the bat" plane happen. [17 Mar 2008]
Communications Solutions in Support of Pandemic Planning
White Paper The H5N1 virus (A bird-adapted strain of H5N1 has been commonly referred to as the Bird Flu), today's most likely pathogen, has been passed sporadically from animals to humans, and while continuing to evolve, has not mutated into a form highly... [08 Jan 2008]
The Importance of Remote Access in Disaster Recovery Planning
White Paper Although disaster recovery planning is often driven by natural disaster risks such as hurricanes, tornadoes, or even a bird flu pandemic, it's more likely your company's next "disaster" will be caused by a hardware failure or power outage. [12 Dec 2007]
Webcast: Why Remote Access is Critical to Your Disaster Recovery Plan
White Paper Although business continuity planning is often driven by natural disaster risks such as hurricanes, tornadoes, or even a potential bird flu pandemic, it's much more likely that your company's next "disaster" will actually be caused by a hardware... [12 Dec 2007]
Security and Usability: Privacy Analysis for the Casual User With Bugnosis
White Paper Like Privacy Bird , Bugnosis is a benevolent snoop: it taps into the user's web browser so that it can deduce the privacy characteristics of the web sites the user visits. It uses some of the same Internet Explorer facilities as Privacy Bird, and... [17 Oct 2007]
Killer Game Programming in Java: Flocking Boids
White Paper Flocking represents group movement - as seen in bird flocks and fish schools - as combinations of steering behaviors for individual boids, based on the position and velocities of nearby flockmates. Flocking is a computer model for the coordinated... [17 Oct 2007]
