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Photos: Windows 7 - the latest PCs from Acer to Samsung
Photo The shot below shows how users can use the machine's touch interface to explore the world using Microsoft's Virtual Earth app. The official release of Windows 7 last week has seen the debut of a slew of hardware sporting... [26 Oct 2009]
Photos: Sony unleashes latest Vaios - from mini laptops to touchscreens
Photo Users can also explore the earth on the L Series using Microsoft's Surface Globe software, which allows users to zoom in on cities around the world and even find individual streets. Last week saw Sony unveil its new... [14 Oct 2009]
Earth System Grid Authentication Infrastructure: Integrating Local Authentication, OpenID and PKI
White Paper Climate scientists face a wide variety of practical problems, but there exists an overarching need to efficiently access and manipulate climate model data. Increasingly, for example, researchers must assemble and analyze large datasets... [02 Oct 2009]
Developing Sustainable Designs for Enduring Value
White Paper SolidWorks enables engineering enterprises in developing Better Designs for a Greener Earth. Sustainable Designs are achievable for higher efficiency, lower cost and greater reliability. Every product designed, leaves an... [02 Oct 2009]
Stephen Wolfram
AS Profile Wolfram's ideals are ambitious enough for the panel to elevate him to the top table of geekdom, with one panellist saying: "If the geeks shall inherit the earth, Stephen Wolfram will lead them". Professor Stephen Wolfram... [30 Sep 2009]
Forecast Value Added Analysis: Step-by-Step
White Paper There is nothing earth-shattering about this metric; it just gives a name to a fundamental method of science that is too often overlooked in business. Of late forecasting performance metrics, such as Mean Absolute... [16 Sep 2009]
Big Blue wants tech to get water management flowing
News The goal is to sketch out the technical architecture required to more efficiently use fresh water, only one per cent of the available water on Earth. IBM is developing a portfolio of IT-related water management... [08 Sep 2009]
Ukrop's Super Markets Case Study
White Paper Ukrop's Super Markets are refreshingly down to earth in an age of mega superstore chains.With more than 29 stores in central Virginia, this family-owned business still adheres to founder Joe Ukrop's guiding principles of... [01 Sep 2009]
GeoDMA: A Novel System for Spatial Data Mining
White Paper Although a huge amount of remote sensing data has been provided by Earth observation satellites, few data manipulation techniques and information extraction in large data sets have been developed. In this context, the... [29 Aug 2009]
Emergency Service Agency Cuts Disaster-Response Time With Award-Winning IT Tools
White Paper The agency collaborated with Microsoft Certified Partner Geodan to develop Eagle Suite, an IT solution based on Microsoft Office Groove 2007, Microsoft Bing Maps for Enterprise (formerly Virtual Earth), Microsoft Office... [28 Aug 2009]
Security: Why Adobe could be the new Microsoft
News It's only natural, given the fact that some of our products like Reader and Flash Player are some of the most widely distributed on earth, that they would be targeted by attacks," Brad Arkin, director for product... [07 Aug 2009]
Underwater robots, Google Moon, edible beetles and ID cards
Photo Last month marked the 40th anniversary of the first moon walk, an event Google celebrated by launching Moon in Google Earth, an addition to its Google Earth mapping software that lets people virtually... [04 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.07.09
Round-Up Chances are old school civil service types only wanted the document so they can get their secretaries to print it off and read what on earth all this tweeting is about - and whether it should be taxed. [31 Jul 2009]
Migrating to IPv6 on the Solaris OS
White Paper IPv6 can be used to specify 2 128 (about 3.4 x 10 38) addresses or about 5 x 10 28 unique addresses for each of the 6.5 billion people alive on planet Earth today. The biggest difference between IPv4 and IPv6 is... [31 Jul 2009]
Photos: Do the moonwalk, Google-style
Photo On the 40th anniversary of the first moon walk, Google launched Moon in Google Earth, an addition to its Google Earth mapping software that lets people virtually travel to the moon. Behind the photo, you... [21 Jul 2009]
