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Heatwave? No sweat for CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT Director, Nottingham City Council The latest silicon.com CIO Jury poll asked tech chiefs whether they'd taken any extra steps to protect their technology infrastructure during this week's heat wave, with... [03 Jul 2009]
More privacy choices in Facebook revamp
News Members could share content selectively with members of their regional network, but representatives said that it was never quite clear as to exactly who else was in that regional network, and the delineation of networks was messy - some... [02 Jul 2009]
ID cards: 'A project nobody wants and the nation can't afford'
News Plans to make ID cards compulsory for airside workers and pilots have also been dropped this week by the Home Office with trials planned for Manchester and London City airports both scrapped. The government has been... [01 Jul 2009]
Busting the myths about QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions and IBM Smart Business
White Paper So you already know there aren't actually any alligators in the New York City sewers and that the Loch Ness monster doesn't really exist, but how many myths about IBM Smart Business and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions do... [01 Jul 2009]
ID cards U-turn: No compulsory cards for pilots
News As a result, a pilot scheme to issue workers with compulsory cards, which was planned for two airports, Manchester and London City, will not take place. The government has taken the decision to make identity cards... [01 Jul 2009]
Hewlett-Packard (HP) Case Study: Nottingham City Hospital
White Paper Nottingham City Hospital is one of the largest acute teaching hospitals in the UK's East Midlands, with a staff of more than 5,000. The Hospital wanted to keep pace with demand for more healthcare services and support... [25 Jun 2009]
Hydro Ottawa: Outsourced Billing System Allows Tighter Focus on Core Competencies and Customer Service
White Paper Hydro Ottawa Limited is the second largest municipal electricity distribution company in the Canadian province of Ontario and serves more than 275,000 residential and business customers in the city of Ottawa. [25 Jun 2009]
MATCH: Multimodal Access To City Help
White Paper Their sample application MATCH (Multimodal Access To City Help) provides a mobile multimodal speech-pen interface to restaurant and subway information for New York City. Interfaces to mobile information... [25 Jun 2009]
Multimodal Applications From Mobile to Kiosk
White Paper MATCHKiosk is a multimodal interactive city guide which provides users with the freedom to interact using speech, pen, touch or multimodal inputs. Multimodal interfaces provide more flexible and compelling interaction... [25 Jun 2009]
Collecting Mobile Multimodal Data for MATCH
White Paper These limitations are addressed by the "On-board" multimodal data collection method developed for MATCH, a multimodal mobile city guide. Next-generation multimodal systems designed for use in mobile environments present... [25 Jun 2009]
Congestion Control in MPLS Networks
White Paper IP networks are widely used as a common platform between different operators, technologies and applications. However, in IP networks, it is difficult to deploy effectively traffic engineering due to the limitation capabilities of the IP... [25 Jun 2009]
An MPLS Based Architecture for Differentiated Web Service
White Paper Today's telecom service provider arena is more competitive than ever. Pressures from eroding raw bandwidth margins are driving providers to offer enhanced services such as managed quality of service, managed Virtual Private Networks... [25 Jun 2009]
QoS Routing as a Tool of MPLS Traffic Engineering
White Paper Multimedia traffic and real-time e-commerce applications can experience quality degradation in traditional networks such as the Internet. These problems can be overcome in networks which feature dynamically set up paths with bandwidth... [25 Jun 2009]
Does IEEE 802.11 MAC Protocol Work Well in Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks?
White Paper Wireless Ad-hoc networks are required where a fixed communication infrastructure, wired or wireless, does not exist or has been destroyed. In a multi-hop ad hoc network, nodes communicate with each other using multi-hop wireless links... [25 Jun 2009]
City of Topeka Eradicates Spam and Ensures Delivery of Valid Messages With Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway
White Paper The City of Topeka, Kansas, had been dealing with the growing spam problem for years. The City of Topeka researched a variety of anti-spam solutions, but quickly decided on the Proofpoint Messaging... [25 Jun 2009]
