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RSS fire£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The National Police Improvement Agency has signed the £39m contract with Airwave, the company that provides the mobile radio network used by every UK police force and currently being rolled out to every ambulance trust and... [03 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google's Android 2.0 unifies email
Photo By tapping a contact's photo, you can choose to call them, send them an email, or fire off a text message. The Android 2.0 'Eclair' update will add a unified email inbox. On previous Android phones, users have complained... [28 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.10.09
Round-Up Want to roam a virtual world as a fire-breathing sheep? How many times have you heard a tale of woe that features 1) an incriminating photo from an office party and/or 2) a comment on the skills of a co-worker along the... [16 Oct 2009]
Property Services Firm Implements CRM Tool, Generates Return on Investment in Less Than Three Months
White Paper This led to "Friendly-fire" incidents, whereby multiple salespeople from different groups contacted customers and prospects - much to the irritation of everyone. User adoption increased nine-fold while... [02 Oct 2009]
Regulatory Compliance: The Art of Being Prepared
White Paper In the paper-based world of yesteryear, producing documents quickly on demand was complicated, with damaged, destroyed, or unreadable files due to fire, water leaks, humidity, illegible writing, or deteriorated microfiche. [02 Oct 2009]
Disaster Recovery Techniques for SQL Server
White Paper The time to think about how to put out a fire is not after it has started, but before. The same principle applies to mitigating data loss in a SQL Server or any other database environment. This white paper will focus on... [01 Oct 2009]
How to Replicate the Fire: HA for Netfilter Based Firewalls
White Paper With traditional, stateless firewalling (such as ipfwadm, ipchains) there is no need for special High Availability (HA) support in the firewalling subsystem. As long as all packet filtering rules and routing table entries are configured... [30 Sep 2009]
Photos: Tech wins big in US Army 'best inventions' awards
Photo The Army describes the PDCue 4-Corner System as a low-cost acoustic gunfire detection system that can detect and pinpoint the origin of incoming sniper fire. Crows allows the soldier to remotely aim and... [30 Sep 2009]
Four steps to smarter outsourcing
Comment A 'fire and forget' approach to security - simply dumping all the obligations onto the provider - is short-sighted and probably unenforceable. Whatever IT services you outsource - desktop support, network maintenance... [02 Sep 2009]
Deploying SAS Intelligence Storage on the Sun Fire X4600 Server and the Sun StroageTek 6540 Storage: A Solution for True Scalability Tested in the Sun Solution Center
White Paper The Sun Fire X4600 is an 8-socket dual core AMD processor server that offers excellent performance for SAS applications. Sun and SAS have published performance results of SAS Intelligence Storage technologies running on... [02 Sep 2009]
Considerations in HP StorageWorks XP Cluster Extension Configurations to Stop Automatic XP CA Disk Pair Resynchronization When CA Link Is Suspended
White Paper This improves availability by providing disaster tolerance in case of core component failures such as storage systems and site disasters like fire, power outage, and even larger natural disasters. HP StorageWorks XP... [02 Sep 2009]
Broward County Sheriff's Office Improves Billing Processes for Thousands of Detail Assignments
White Paper Broward County Sheriff's Department (BSO), the nation's largest county law enforcement agency, employs more than 6,000 law enforcement, fire, paramedic, and emergency workers serving Broward County as a whole and, on a... [31 Aug 2009]
Efficient Forest Fire Detection System: A Spatial Data Mining and Image Processing Based Approach
White Paper Fire plays a vital role in a majority of the forest ecosystems. The drastic ascent in the volume of spatial data owes its growth to the technical advancements in technologies that aid in spatial data acquisition, mass... [29 Aug 2009]
Requirements-Driven Testing: The Journey From Business Needs to Test and User Acceptance
White Paper Requirements-Driven Testing (RDT) is a sure-fire way to improve project outcomes. With nearly two-thirds of IT projects failing, the pressure is on to strengthen the connection between requirements and the QA and test... [27 Aug 2009]
Can Yahoo! facelift help it ditch the 'peanut butter'?
News While the delay may prompt some to wonder exactly what has been going on in Sunnyvale over the past two years, the fire that Carol Bartz lit under Yahoo! finally got to the point where it's exchanging peanut butter for... [25 Aug 2009]
