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London: Card fraud hotspot

News London, specifically the south east of the capital, saw the most card-not-present fraud over the past six months, with Romford and Manchester close behind at third and fifth in the top 10. The UK's top card fraud hotspots have been revealed in a... [24 Jul 2008]

Microsoft training Black Country kids in joys of IT

News I think they've got something close to a 98 per cent rate of successful placement of people that pass the course," he said. Microsoft is helping youngsters in the Black Country learn about the joys of IT - and also plugging a skills gap for... [23 Jul 2008]

Spam Spikes: A Real Risk to Your Business

White Paper A close look at MessageLabs own data - derived from processing 1.5 billion emails a week - provides a clear picture of how spammers vary their tactics to overwhelm traditional corporate email defenses. [23 Jul 2008]

Dynamic Routing in Translucent WDM Optical Networks

White Paper Translucent WDM optical networks use sparse placement of regenerators to overcome the impairments and wavelength contention introduced by fully transparent networks, and achieve a performance close to fully opaque networks with much less cost. [18 Jul 2008]

Dynamic Routing in Translucent WDM Optical Networks: The Intra-Domain Case

White Paper Translucent WDM optical networks use sparse placement of regenerators to overcome physical impairments and wavelength contention introduced by fully transparent networks, and achieve a performance close to fully opaque networks at a much less cost. [18 Jul 2008]

Time to green-light sustainable IT

Comment Travel substitution through teleconferencing or home working, for example, cannot happen without tech's close involvement. True sustainability is much more than hammering the data centre over power, says Martin Atherton. [17 Jul 2008]

Apple OS gaining ground on Windows

News Apple's operating system is gaining ground on Microsoft Windows, with second-quarter results showing the company inching close to a 10 per cent market share in the US. While Windows certainly still dominates the computer market, Apple's share... [17 Jul 2008]

Improving Intercompany Reconciliation for a Faster Close

White Paper Of the various initiatives supporting this shift, the fast close--a concept used to describe a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and close its books quickly--is perhaps one of the best documented. [17 Jul 2008]

The Fast Close: Achieving Quick Wins and Big Wins

White Paper The "fast close," a concept used to describe a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and close its books quickly, is re-emerging as an important project for today's global finance function. [17 Jul 2008]

Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab

Photo This is a close-up of Everest, showing a set of data related to the spread of volcanic ash around the globe after eruptions. Pictured here is one row of the lab's Cray X1E, the largest vector supercomputer in the world. [14 Jul 2008]

Global IP Infrastructure Keeps Refrigeration Leader Close to Its Customers

White Paper Epta Group, a multinational leader in supplying high-quality retail food refrigeration and product displays, traces its origins to the acquisition of an Italian refrigeration company by the Nocivelli family in 1986. [11 Jul 2008]

Efficient Bandwidth Guaranteed Restoration Algorithms for Multicast Connections

White Paper Results show that the heuristic algorithm performs competitively close to the ILP-based algorithm, and is more bandwidth efficient than other existing heuristic algorithms that are based on different restoration strategies. [11 Jul 2008]

Load Balancing of the Direct Linear Multisplitting Method in a Grid Computing Environment

White Paper Many scientific applications need to solve very large sparse linear systems in order to simulate phenomena close to reality. Grid computing is an answer to the growing demand of computational power but communication times are significant and the... [10 Jul 2008]

Decentralized Dynamic Load Balancing: The Particles Approach

White Paper Besides load balancing, the goal is to place intensively communicating tasks close together to minimize communication delays. This paper considers the problem of mapping tasks to processor nodes at run-time in multiprogrammed multicomputer systems... [10 Jul 2008]

MSDN Webcast: Digital Blackbelt Series: Developer Security Principals and Guidelines (Level 200)

White Paper Then the presenter will close by comparing Rich Client, Web Client, and Web Service applications and modeling the functional areas of security concern. It is important to realize the different types of security attacks that might be encountered. [10 Jul 2008]

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