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RSS discsSilverlight 4: Microsoft casts light on next version of Adobe Flash rival
News That feature should allow studios to offer extras commonly found on DVD and Blu-ray discs on movies that are distributed digitally, Microsoft said. Ahead of a broadcasting conference that starts later this week in... [09 Sep 2009]
Spoleto Creates Portals to Share Data and Establishes Best Practices for Franchisees
White Paper The Spoleto Franchising Ltda.wanted to Improve decision making by integrating and updating information that was being maintained on spreadsheets Centralize fragmented franchise-related data, which was kept in binders and on microcomputer... [30 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.06.09
Round-Up One big improvement Ballmer and chums have made to Windows 7 is the ability to actually remove the software discs from their packaging. The Round-Up is a big fan of Scandinavian countries. They've got some of the most... [26 Jun 2009]
HP Integrity Servers Provide a Robust Platform for New Croatian Healthcare Portal
White Paper HZZO replaced its practice of posting letters and floppy discs with a new Web Portal where information can be obtained electronically by 5,000 doctors, 1,000 chemists and 65 hospitals. Hrvatski Zavod za Zdravstveno... [21 Jun 2009]
When will organisations pay for data breaches?
Comment The first big story, in November 2007, was HM Revenue and Customs' loss of discs containing child benefit data on 25 million people. More than a year after appearing on the statute books, the info watchdog's power to... [02 Jun 2009]
Vista service-pack update ready for rollout
News The update provides, among other things, support for Bluetooth 2.1, an updated Windows search technology and the ability to natively record data to Blu-ray discs. Microsoft has wrapped up work on the second service-pack... [29 Apr 2009]
Compliance with Data Handling Procedures in UK Government
White Paper The Report was drafted at the request of Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, in response to HMRC's loss of 2 compact discs containing 25 million child benefit records in November 2007. The UK Data Handling Procedures in... [17 Apr 2009]
Ad Hoc Wireless Networks With Noisy Links
White Paper Using ideas from percolation theory, they compare networks of geometric discs to other simple shapes, including probabilistic connections, and they find that when transmission range and node density are normalized across... [03 Apr 2009]
Removing Viruses From Your Computer
White Paper It is possible that the PC might have been infected with a virus that one have downloaded unknowingly from the internet, or copied from other removable storage Medias like floppies or compact discs. One of the biggest... [01 Apr 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: How to delete sensitive data
Comment And this happens to be true on hard drives, flash memory and so on, and was also true of floppy discs and read/write CDs of our recent past. Written on BA289 flying from London to Phoenix, and dispatched to silicon.com a... [15 Dec 2008]
Photos: The Cern computers cracking the Big Bang
Photo To store the huge amount of data the LHC produces, the centre houses eight petabytes of hard discs and 18 petabytes of magnetic tapes. The Cern Computer Centre in Geneva, seen here, is the number-crunching hub that... [06 Oct 2008]
Microsoft bows to demand and throws XP a lifeline
News Although the largest PC makers can't sell XP anymore (except for ultra-low-cost machines), they can sell Vista Ultimate and Vista Business machines with XP discs in the box, or even Vista machines that are "factory... [06 Oct 2008]
Photos: Missile detecting DEC computer
Photo This DEC PDP 1134 is a disc-based computer system, using 2MB discs. This is a DEC seismometer array station processor, used to detect earthquakes, on display at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. [16 Sep 2008]
The £500k hunt for missing HMRC discs
News The taxpayer has been landed with a £473,544 bill for the hunt for the missing HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) data discs. The Metropolitan Police Service mounted a months-long search for the data discs... [18 Jul 2008]
Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Photo Here are some of those discs, which are arranged all around the supercomputer. The Cray X1E supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory requires a separate array of discs to handle its storage needs. [14 Jul 2008]
