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RSS conceptTechies swap BlackBerrys for the beach
News That's excluding the five per cent of stressed out and overworked tech workers for who the whole idea of a holiday was a foreign concept. silicon.com readers say they will have no problem putting down their BlackBerrys and getting on with the... [25 Jul 2008]
Photos: Motor Show showcases the future of car tech
Photo This is a Toyota concept car, which also uses the hybrid technology. Another concept car on show was Vauxhall's Flextreme, which uses a combination of a lithium-ion battery-powered electric motor and a 1.2 diesel engine. [25 Jul 2008]
Making IT Invisible: NetApp Storage for Virtual Server Environments
White Paper ESG believes that server virtualization is acting as a catalyst for virtualization at all layers within the data center, a concept ESG refers to as Infrastructure Virtualization. The goal of IT is to become an invisible entity within a larger scale... [24 Jul 2008]
UK officials going snoop crazy
News But a separate report by the chief surveillance commissioner, Sir Christopher Rose, criticises techniques used by local authorities for misunderstanding the concept of proportionality. Officials made more than 500,000 requests to snoop on private... [23 Jul 2008]
Strategies to Run a Lean Supply Chain: How Principles of Lean Manufacturing Transfer Benefits to Operations
White Paper One manufacturing concept stands out as most successful: the concept of lean. The blurring of the line between manufacturing and supply chain logistics provides the opportunity to move efficient manufacturing management concepts to supply chain... [23 Jul 2008]
Achieving a Cultural Revolution
White Paper The Service Support and Service Delivery ITIL publications refer to "service culture" as one in which the entire organization embraces the concept of service and customer care, where the satisfaction of customer requirements is the number one... [23 Jul 2008]
EC shies away from data-roaming regulation
News Speaking at the same event, independent telecoms consultant Ewan Sutherland said the concept of a megabyte was "meaningless" to users in any case, because data overheads would mean that even those who are aware of such technical terms would be... [22 Jul 2008]
An Evolved 3GPP QoS Concept
White Paper GPP QoS concept and, based on these, explain why that demand is currently not met. Based on a set of requirements identified for an evolved 3GPP QoS concept, the paper proposes four small additions to the 3GPP specifications. [18 Jul 2008]
The Meta-QoS-Class Concept: A Step Towards Global QoS Inter-Domain Services
White Paper This paper demonstrates that having QoS services that maintain these features, especially the ability to easily connect any pair of users worldwide, naturally leads to the definition of the new concept of Meta-QoS-Class. [18 Jul 2008]
Open-Xchange Server High Availability: High Availability Concept for OX - Example Configuration
White Paper This paper describes how an Open-Xchange Server (OX Server) can be set up to achieve best possible high availability without the need to purchase any extra software. Only free Open Source software is used in the examples. [18 Jul 2008]
QoS-Enabled Internet-on-Train Network Architecture: Inter-Working by MMP-SCTP Versus MIP
White Paper Internet-on-the-train is a rising concept in the last few years. Several trials in different countries have proved the feasibility of offering Internet access to train commuters, but none of them combines broadband access, scalability, seamless... [18 Jul 2008]
A Shoelace-Based QoS Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Using Directional Antenna
White Paper The scheme offers a bandwidth-based routing protocol for QoS support in MANET using the concept of multi-path. This paper proposes a new QoS routing protocol for Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) using directional antenna. [18 Jul 2008]
Modeling and Simulation of MAC for QoS in IEEE 802.11e Using OPNET Modeler
White Paper IEEE 802.11e QoS is implemented using the concept of varying levels of service for different traffic types. This paper presents an IEEE 802.11e model developed using the OPNET Modeler, which is employed for Medium Access Control (MAC) enhancements... [18 Jul 2008]
Delivering Audiovisual Content With MPEG-21-Enabled Cross-Layer QoS Adaptation
White Paper Television over IP service) with a unified QoS management concept that enables an IP driven integration of different system components (terminal, user, content, and network). Future multimedia communication systems have to support the user's needs... [18 Jul 2008]
Novell Case Study: Siemens
White Paper In 2001, Siemens, Fujitsu-Siemens and Oracle jointly performed a proof of concept by achieving a new world record for concurrent users for the SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) benchmark. Siemens IT Solutions and Services is an internationally... [18 Jul 2008]
