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Samsung chief steps down after tax indictment

News But analysts pointed out Lee Kun-hee and his family still control the country's largest conglomerate, sometimes dubbed the "Republic of Samsung", whose dozens of affiliates account for around a fifth of South Korea's exports.

Tags: ceo, samsung, tax

[22 Apr 2008]

Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML

News Since a vote narrowly accepted OOXML as a draft international standard, ISO is now in control of the specification. Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under...

Tags: microsoft, office, word, ooxml

[21 Apr 2008]

Google reports sterling quarter

News Google's hard-hit shares surged 18 per cent above $500 - a level last seen in February - as the company showed signs of better cost control and earned more revenue abroad than at home for the first time, partly because of the weak dollar.

Tags: profits, google

[18 Apr 2008]

Microsoft invites hobbyist developers to light a spark

News Frank Prengel, a Microsoft Windows Embedded developer evangelist, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk: "We are aiming to remove the barriers that hobbyists and academics have faced in the past, by allowing them access to the best software and...

Tags: developers, microsoft

[17 Apr 2008]

SLA-Based Coordinated Superscheduling Scheme and Performance for Computational Grids

whitepaper The key advantages of the approach are that it allows: resource owners to have finer degree of control over the resource allocation that was previously not possible through traditional mechanism; and superschedulers to bid for SLA contracts in the...

Tags: sla, contract, mechanism, resource

[27 Mar 2008]

Petri Net Approach to Improving SACK TCP Resilience

whitepaper The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) was designed to provide a reliable end-to-end network connection. The most up-to-date TCP version, SACK TCP, was designed to be capable of surviving multiple segment loss.

Tags: tcp - ip

[14 Jan 2008]

Getting more out of the net

Comment But how do you optimise performance over a public infrastructure where control is limited, asks Quocirca's Bob Tarzey. It also provides a practical way of separating IT infrastructure from IT users because keeping them housed in the same building...

Tags: internet, saas, hosting, networks

[02 Nov 2007]

2007 Comparative Assessment Methodology Process for BPEL

whitepaper The question is often posed: "Why BPEL for Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) and net-centric applications," when BPEL is a business process or workflow execution language.

Tags: programming languages, bpel, execution, language

[24 Oct 2007]

Fail-Safe IPS Integration With Bypass Technology

whitepaper Net Optics offers intelligent bypass solutions for a secure in-Line deployment with remote control and monitoring. Threats that require the installation, redeployment or upgrade of in-Line IPS appliances often affect uptime on business critical links.

Tags: optical networking, ips, switch, prevent

[24 Oct 2007]

Editor's Blog: Burmese days on the internet

Comment When commentators have in the past talked about net censorship in other countries - notably the 'great firewall of China' - the emphasis has been on the control the government can exert and how Western comms equipment-makers appear only too happy...

Tags: pro-democracy, china, censorship, burma

[27 Sep 2007]

DoS attack could shut down the net

News Criminal groups selling services online are increasingly threatening the fabric of the internet, as the size of the compromised networks of computers they control increases, VeriSign said. Denial of service attacks are growing faster than bandwidth...

Tags: cyber attack, verisign, dos

[26 Sep 2007]

Judge calls for "universal" national DNA database

News The judge said this should include visitors to the UK as well, with everyone being forced to give a DNA sample as they pass through passport control. A senior judge has called for a universal national DNA database containing the details of every UK...

Tags: database, dna

[05 Sep 2007]

Structure and Performance of the Direct Access File System

whitepaper The benefits of this architecture include lightweight, portable and asynchronous access to network storage and improved application control over data movement, caching and prefetching. DAFS takes advantage of new user-level net-work interface...

Tags: file and network servers, file, file system, user level

[23 Aug 2007]

Diffusion Boundary Determination and Zone Control Via Mobile Actuator-Sensor Networks (MAS-net) - Challenges and Opportunities

whitepaper This paper presents challenges and opportunities related to the problem of diffusion boundary determination and zone control via Mobile Actuator-Sensor networks (MAS net). This research theme is motivated by three example application scenarios: the...

Tags: monitoring systems, ground, zone, determination

[01 Aug 2007]

Speeding up the net - is it possible?

Comment Control means first making sure employees are focused on the things they should be doing and not inadvertently consuming bandwidth for non-work purposes such as browsing YouTube, downloading MP3 files or keeping up with the cricket via IPTV.

Tags: public internet, vpn, wan

[09 Jul 2007]

Shiseido Singapore Greatly Improves Software and Asset Management Using Hitachi JP1

whitepaper The administrative and time burden on the IT function was heavy, end-user support was laborious, and there was little control over the client environment. Shiseido Singapore is a wholly owned subsidiary of cosmetics and beauty care giant Shiseido...

Tags: asset management, distribution, asset, singapore

[08 May 2007]

WhyMax

whitepaper Finally a brief introduction is made on the Media Access Control (MAC) layer of WiMAX. This paper gives a brief overview of currently available and future mobile communication systems, compares their performance in terms of net throughput and...

Tags: wireless lan, wimax, media access control, media

[13 Apr 2007]

Berners-Lee: Internet must not discriminate

News World wide web father Tim Berners-Lee told politicians on Thursday that it's critical to shield his seminal innovation from control by a single company or country. Although he has previously voiced support for Net neutrality, Berners-Lee on...

Tags: tim berners-lee, net neutrality, us congress, web

[02 Mar 2007]

Skype to get corporate security buddies?

News Skype is planning to announce a partnership with a security company to help organisations gain control over usage of the net telephony tool at work. Also, until the release of Skype 3.0 in December, there had been little administrators could do to...

Tags: security, skype, facetime, voip

[01 Feb 2007]

VeriSign granted dot-com til 2012

News The US government has approved a much-debated deal which grants internet domain name registrar VeriSign control over the dot-com domain until 2012. The US Department of Commerce has retained some management of VeriSign and has the final say-so over...

Tags: com, us congress, dot, icann

[05 Dec 2006]

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