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VoIP a perfect fit for Gieves and Hawkes

Case Study The tailor, which has a history dating back to the late 1700s, has 25 outlets in the UK and a flagship store in Savile Row, London. Bespoke tailor Gieves and Hawkes has moved over to a VoIP link between its two back offices to improve customer...

Tags: viatel, bt, voip

[15 Apr 2008]

Match.com Halves Server Farm, Doubles Speed with ASP.NET and Windows Server

whitepaper A proven leader in online dating services, Match.com's implementation as a huge ASP 3.0 site was harder to modify and debug than the team would have liked. In a total of 8 months, the team re-implemented and improved the site in C# with Microsoft...

Tags: windows nt - 2000 - 2003, asp, implemented, leader

[10 Apr 2008]

Data breaches: Don't blame 'stupid' employees

News There has been a spate of high-profile security breaches dating back to mid-2007, which has led the government watchdogs to demand action be taken against organisations and individuals who fail to safeguard data and information.

Tags: education, breach, data

[03 Apr 2008]

City Embraces Information Management Solution to Improve Operational Efficiencies

whitepaper The City of Camden, New Jersey, has an illustrious history dating back to 1626 but had fallen on hard times in recent years to the point that the State of New Jersey stepped in to help the ailing municipality.

Tags: accounting applications

[04 Mar 2008]

Bot attacks target those looking for romance

News Those entering online dating forums risk having more than their hearts stolen. A program that can mimic online flirtation and then extract personal information from its unsuspecting conversation partners is making the rounds in Russian chat forums...

Tags: bot attacks, id, dating, russia

[10 Dec 2007]

TCP-RTM: Using TCP for Real Time Multimedia Applications

whitepaper By conventional wisdom dating back to the genesis of the Internet, TCP is not suitable for realtime applications because it favors reliability over timeliness. The result has been a proliferation of application-specific and candidate real-time...

Tags: tcp - ip

[05 Dec 2007]

Which Is the Best Desktop Search Tool?

whitepaper Amazing desktop search was the promise of the eternally delayed WinFS component of Longhorn, dating back further to the ancient Egyptian file system formerly known as Cairo. Desktop search is the holy grail of personal computing.

Tags: file, search, vision, component

[13 Sep 2007]

Which Is the Best Desktop Search Tool?

whitepaper Amazing desktop search was the promise of the eternally delayed WinFS component of Longhorn, dating back further to the ancient Egyptian file system formerly known as Cairo. Desktop search is the holy grail of personal computing.

Tags: file, search, vision, component

[13 Sep 2007]

Mobile social networking 'to ring up $6bn'

News User-generated revenues from social networking services, dating and content uploaded to third party sites will increase from $572m in 2007 to more than $5.7bn in 2012, analyst house Juniper Research predicts.

Tags: ugc, mobile, social networking

[15 Aug 2007]

Romance Goes Mobile: Match.com Lets Singles Chat and Flirt Anytime, Anywhere

whitepaper As the leading provider of Internet dating services with over 15 million subscribers, Match.com wanted to enable customers to chat on the go and to attract new audiences. Enpocket provided an end-to-end dating solution allowing Match.com Mobile...

Tags: subscribers, chat, dating, phones

[02 Aug 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 29.06.07

Round-Up Match.com - an online dating site, rather than a website selling Swan Vestas - tried to break the world record for the most people snogging simultaneously. So goodbye Tony Blair, the world of high-tech will miss you.

Tags: match.com, symantec, carphone warehouse, e-voting

[29 Jun 2007]

Judge rejects Google's Vista search plea

News The search giant also asked the judge to consider extending the 12 November expiration date for certain parts of the consent decree to ensure Microsoft was truly complying with an antitrust agreement dating back to 2002.

Tags: google

[27 Jun 2007]

National Library of Scotland to digitise archive

News The NLS - established in 1925 - holds copies of every publication in the UK dating from the middle ages, right up to the latest novels. Many of these are original printed volumes dating from 1455. The National Library of Scotland (NLS) has kicked...

Tags: storage

[16 May 2007]

Jobs plays options brouhaha for laughs

News Several proposals were submitted by shareholders, including one calling for an option-dating policy and another that would subject executive compensation to a shareholder vote. Apple CEO Steve Jobs shrugged off questions about stock option...

Tags: scandal, options, steve jobs, apple

[11 May 2007]

Avaya Case Study: SBLI USA

whitepaper SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance Company, Inc.a financial services company with roots dating back over 65 years, originally offered life insurance exclusively through banks and only in New York State. SBLI USA wanted to provide the appearance of...

Tags: voip - ip telephony, life, insurance, usa

[28 Apr 2007]

Co-op Bank extends mortgage tech deal

News The multi-million pound contract builds on an existing relationship dating back to the beginning of the decade.silicon.com Financial Services The Co-operative Bank has extended a deal with mortgage systems company TietoEnator (TE) for a further...

Tags: banking, co-operative bank, outsourcing

[27 Apr 2007]

Switch to Thin Clients Boosts Builder's Productivity

whitepaper BGC was also an early adopter of Linux as its network infrastructure for e-mail, DNS, and file-sharing is hosted on Debian GNU/Linux dating back in 1998. Privately held construction and building group BGC has ousted half of its fleet of Wintel PCs...

Tags: thin clients, linux, clients, solaris

[19 Apr 2007]

The Museum of Broadcast Communications: Recasting Radio and Television Content

whitepaper The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) serves as a reservoir and safe haven for radio and television programs, some dating back to the 1930s. The Museum of Broadcast Communications was hampered by an out-of-date infrastructure, a vast...

Tags: application servers, video, audio, broadcast

[05 Apr 2007]

Improve Your Dating: The INTNX Function Alignment Value SAMEDAY

whitepaper The data step function INTNX returns a SAS date value incremented by a specified number of intervals (days, weeks, months, quarters, years, etc. INTNX's optional fourth argument determines how the SAS date is aligned before it is incremented.

Tags: sas, date, alignment, cases

[31 Jan 2007]

MS to Omit Anti-Virus From Vista

whitepaper As with previous versions of Windows dating back to Windows 2000 at least, Redmond is promoting Vista as a landmark improvement in Windows security. Microsoft will omit anti-virus protection in Vista, the next version of Windows.

Tags: anti-virus, vista, anti, protection

[05 Dec 2006]

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