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IBM and Pay by Touch Make Checking Out at Thriftway Supermarkets a Soft Touch

whitepaper In May 2004, Thriftway Supermarkets became the first grocery retailer in the United States to install a payment system using biometrics. Thriftway Supermarkets wanted to provide top level customer service, reduce fraud in electronic payments and...

Tags: customer support services

[11 May 2008]

Fuel Transporter Improves IT Efficiency and Security With New Management Tool

whitepaper Explorer Pipeline managed its distributed network with a variety of tools, but the IT staff still had limited information about the environment and spent hours each week manually checking its health. By deploying Microsoft System Center Essentials...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

End-to-End Application Performance Management

whitepaper The successful execution of the application - let's say, transferring money from a checking to savings account - requires the successful, coordinated execution of transactions within each tier. The particular challenge of maintaining complex...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

FIREMAN: A Toolkit for FIREwall Modeling and ANalysis

whitepaper FIREMAN performs symbolic model checking of the firewall configurations for all possible IP packets and along all possible data paths. Security concerns are becoming increasingly critical in networked systems.

Tags: firewalls

[03 May 2008]

iPhone vs BlackBerry: What the users love...

News Unsurprisingly - considering popular anecdotes of so-called 'CrackBerry' users checking email at inappropriate moments - the runaway winner for the title of 'most loved BlackBerry feature' is its access to email.

Tags: smart phone, blackberry, iphone

[30 Apr 2008]

FSA warns banks to wise up on security

News Instances of bad security practice found in the audit included a lack of due diligence in checking third-party suppliers vet their employees or have adequate security arrangements, too much emphasis on IT controls at the expense of staff awareness...

Tags: fsa, disclosure, bank

[25 Apr 2008]

Adaptive Correctness Monitoring for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Hierarchical Distributed Run-Time Invariant Checking

whitepaper It presents a framework, Hierarchical SEnsor Network Debugging (H- SEND), for lightweight checking of invariants. This paper presents a hierarchical approach for detecting faults in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) after they have been deployed.

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 Apr 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Inside Application Layer Filtering (Level 300)

whitepaper This webcast shows how Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 features such as URL filtration, pre-authentication, syntax checking, and intelligent content inspection help deliver a high-degree of protection through application...

Tags: firewalls

[11 Apr 2008]

Changes to retail bricks to match online clicks

News More than two thirds (70 per cent) expect to introduce new formats that may incorporate some form of self checking out and digital information services between 2012 and 2015. Retailers are planning to close stores or alter existing store formats to...

Tags: kiosks, self checkout, visa

[09 Apr 2008]

Adobe ColdFusion 8 Performance Brief

whitepaper Administrators can also tune ColdFusion 8 for increased performance with additional server monitoring and profiling controls such as Disable CFC type checking and request controls. Adobe ColdFusion 8 soft ware strengthens the proven performance of...

Tags: software engineering

[03 Apr 2008]

Protecting Virtualized Environments With System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

whitepaper Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 provides a comprehensive feature set to provide continuous data protection for virtual machines with byte-level replication and integrity checking, plus full support for disk-to-disk, disk...

Tags: security management

[28 Mar 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08

Round-Up Fancy checking your emails or updating your Facebook profile at speeds above 320kmph? 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...

Tags: ofcom, wi-fi, train, plane

[28 Mar 2008]

Photos: Road testing wi-fi at 320kmph

Photo After several hours of browsing, checking email, testing Skype and accessing the VPN, it's time to leave the train and take in the sights of Basel, Switzerland. Photo credit: Natasha Lomas TGV passengers on the wi-fi-equipped trains can use the...

Tags: business traveller, train, wi-fi

[28 Mar 2008]

Nonprofit MADD Embraces New Server Virtualization and Boosts Remote Access

whitepaper MADD had remote access issues and needed a solution that would provide anti-virus checking at the gateway before allowing access to the network, as well as an SSL VPN solution. Irving, Texas-based Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) provides...

Tags: network security, hewlett packard, intel xeon, ssl vpn

[23 Mar 2008]

Private Country Club Serves Up 100% More Network Stability

whitepaper The most common tasks the club performs in its IT environment include setting up new accounts, checking permissions on shared resources, and monitoring server performance, so the club wanted reliable, fast tools to perform these tasks.

Tags: application servers, country, windows server, tasks

[23 Mar 2008]

How to detect data leaks

Comment Losing laptops or other storage is still one of the most common sources of data leaks and DLP tools can help by checking whether confidential data is encrypted. Yet most firms don't know how sensitive data is getting out, let alone how to stop it.

Tags: security, data protection, data leaks, comply

[19 Mar 2008]

Poll: Email addiction a hard habit to break

Poll: Email addiction a hard habit to break

News Email addiction is taking over people's lives with almost half of silicon.com readers unable to stop themselves constantly checking their inbox during the day. Just over a quarter of respondents (26 per cent) aren't much less addicted, checking...

Tags: email, poll, addiction, inbox

[14 Mar 2008]

Editor's Blog: An everyday tale of e-crime

Comment A bit of credit card statement checking later, it became clear that his identity had been stolen - or at least borrowed - by someone who had managed to buy three or four mobile phones on his plastic. A little while ago a friend of mine got a mobile...

Tags: crime, police, identity fraud, hacking

[13 Mar 2008]

Outsourcing - life after the contract

Comment This constant checking, referral and change is needed to achieve the outsourcing objectives and to keep the contract properly aligned with those objectives. But the work is not all done just because the ink has dried on the paper, argues Paul Bentham.

Tags: contracts, legal, outsourcing, objectives

[12 Mar 2008]

Mobility: Make The Case

whitepaper To get the very latest information, keep checking the relevant sections of ZDNet.co.uk. Welcome to the PDF version of ZDNet's Intel-sponsored Mobility special report.The main theme of the report is the May 2007 launch of Intel's 'Santa Rosa' mobile...

Tags: portable computers, intel, centrino, picture

[07 Mar 2008]

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