economics
RSS economicsWhite paper: SOA solutions using WebSphere on IBM System p5 servers
White Paper All this while improving the economics of IT. This white paper explains how, by deploying SOA on top of an IBM System p platform, you can enable innovation across your company, simplifying the complexity of the IT environment and helping reduce... [02 Sep 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Bordering on stupidity
Comment L is for London School of Economics Written in a coffee shop in Mountain View CA and dispatched the next day from a free wi-fi service in the hotel. What could be easier? Take that old paper passport and add some electronics to turn it into a super... [21 Aug 2008]
Effective Software Testing: An Approach to Better Products
White Paper And, in many IT organizations, the developers double up as testers meaning the complexity and economics of testing are not understood adequately. The cost of fixing a software defect is cheaper if the defect is detected in the phase in which it was... [04 Aug 2008]
Tucker Anthony Sails Through Capacity Challenges With Expand
White Paper Tucker Anthony conducted a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) study to better understand the economics of leasing additional lines versus the option of deploying Expand Network's Accelerators to obtain more available bandwidth. [04 Aug 2008]
Two-Level Content Delivery System in PIONIER Optical Network for Interactive TV Services
White Paper The paper describes the two-level content delivery system that is developed within iTVP project and will be deployed in the PIONIER network. The system will enable rich media delivery to a large number of users allowing to deliver them interactive... [04 Aug 2008]
Sun Java Enterprise System and Its Impact on Software Economics
White Paper What has been the impact on software economics and licensing models? When Sun introduced the Java Enterprise System it launched a bold new approach to the acquisition and integrating of enterprise software. [30 Jul 2008]
UK youths going mobile web crazy
News Mobile social networking is also popular with many gadget-owning Brits, the survey conducted by ICM Research and the London School of Economics (LSE) for mobile operator Vodafone has found. Britain is fast becoming a nation peopled by hunchbacked... [17 Jul 2008]
Berners-Lee and friends promote web science study
News He said: "[Students] need to be taught something about techniques for looking at structures, tracking data through complex networks, how to understand the basic economics and social psychology of interaction so they've got some appreciation of how... [14 Jul 2008]
PEGASUS: Competitive Load Balancing Using Inetd
White Paper As it is proven by practice, load balancing techniques are the only tools that network service provider have, in order to support and handle scalable network load. This paper presents PEGASUS, a novel framework that provides load balancing in... [10 Jul 2008]
The Economics of New Ethernet/IP Access Networks
White Paper New Ethernet/IP architecture-broadband loop carrier using new distributed intelligence and employing Ethernet and IP-enables carriers to overcome the existing barriers to healthy profit margins and deliver new bandwidth-intensive services. [10 Jul 2008]
Intrusion Detection Systems as Evidence
White Paper Although the main aim of IDSs is to detect intrusions to prompt evasive measures, a further aim can be to supply evidence in criminal and civil legal proceedings. However the features that make a ID product good at providing early warning may... [09 Jul 2008]
ID cards face student scorn
News L is for London School of Economics Young people have condemned ID cards as "illegal" and "creepy" on a website to canvas their views. People aged 16 to 25 have been using the site MyLifeMyID.org, launched today, to discuss the £4.4bn National... [09 Jul 2008]
The Role of Credentials in the Canadian Labour Market
White Paper This paper studies the role of credentials or 'sheepskin effects' in the Canadian labour market. Sheepskin effects refer to increases in wages associated with the receipt of a degree after controlling for educational inputs such as years of schooling. [03 Jul 2008]
Farm Households' Wealth and Off-Farm Supply of Labor
White Paper The off-farm labor supply of a sample of Kansas farmers is evaluated. This paper focuses on the role of wealth in determining off-farm labor supply decisions. If farmers' risk preferences are of the sort where risk aversion is affected by wealth... [03 Jul 2008]
EMEA Net Talk: Is Sun's Java Enterprise System Changing the Economics of Software?
White Paper During this special online EMEA Sun Net Talk hosted by Peter Cordery, Director of Sun Software EMEA, they will put the Java Enterprise System under the microscope. Sun executives Jonathan Schwartz - Executive Vice President of Sun Software Group... [03 Jul 2008]
