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A Firewall for Routers: Protecting Against Routing Misbehavior

whitepaper This paper presents the novel idea of route normalization by correcting on the fly routing traffic on behalf of a local router to protect the local network from malicious and misconfigured routing updates.

Tags: switching

[11 May 2008]

Travel site bookings fly when glitch fixed

Case Study Usability testing software has helped a holiday company boost its sales by spotting a glitch in its website's navigation that could have been costing it tens of thousands per week in lost business. Thomson Holidays is a subsidiary of TUI Travel.

Tags: testing, ecommerce, travel

[09 May 2008]

Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle

Photo Here, the aerial unit will fly a set flight path, identifying potential threats and direct the ground vehicle to that location for a closer inspection. The Grand Challenge is a science and technology competition set up by the Ministry of Defence to...

Tags: military, sensor, robot

[06 May 2008]

A Firewall for Routers: Protect Again Routing Misbehavior

whitepaper This paper presents the novel idea of route normalization by correcting on the fly routing traffic on behalf of a local router to protect the local network from malicious and misconfigured routing updates.

Tags: switching

[03 May 2008]

The Price of Progress: Assessing the Need for a Mobile Computing Migration

whitepaper Birds fly south every winter because instinct tells them their biological systems can't withstand changing weather conditions. For birds, the choice is simple: migration or extinction. The migration decision for enterprise mobile computer owners is...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, migration, mobile computing, mobile computer

[01 May 2008]

Spam's Good Twin: If E-mail is Done Just Right, People Will Want to Receive It. Really.

whitepaper Isn't spam from fly-by-nights just so dreary, so predictable, with its breathless come-ons for cheap Viagra, porn sites, and get-rich schemes that depend on the production of still more spam? Delete. Delete.

Tags: privacy issues, spam, mail, marketing

[10 Apr 2008]

Pitney Bowes boosts efficiency with mobile worker app

Case Study Pitney Bowes has boosted the productivity of its field force engineers with a mobility app to enable on-the-fly access to core Siebel and SAP systems. The company, which supplies mailroom equipment such as franking machines to offices, has deployed...

Tags: pda, sap, siebel, mobile worker

[08 Apr 2008]

Backseat driver keeps armed forces in line

News The system can even chide or reward drivers on the fly with red, yellow or green LEDs in the vehicle. The UK's armed forces are to get an electronic backseat driver aimed at saving lives on the road. The GreenRoad Technologies box will record 120...

Tags: road, mod, army

[04 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 04.04.08

Round-Up Had the Round-Up been a fly on the wall at that particular meeting it would have swatted itself. You're not always taken entirely seriously when you have wings, antlers and don't exist. However, as it happens, the rather strange but law-abiding...

Tags: microsoft, apple, vista, hmrc

[04 Apr 2008]

Using NASA's World Wind Component in Your Java Technology Applications

whitepaper Users can literally fly across the world in any direction. World Wind is open-source software, developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that allows the user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on earth.

Tags: satellite communications

[28 Mar 2008]

Free wi-fi wings its way to BA lounges

News BA lounges' development manager Emily Clark said lounges are an integral part of the travel experience for premium customers and the wi-fi service will enable business people to remain connected to the office right until they fly.

Tags: free, wi-fi, bt, openzone

[27 Mar 2008]

Wikis for Supporting Distributed Collaborative Writing

whitepaper However, wiki technology also complicates notions of usable design as the information architecture of a wiki site may be created on the fly by all participants rather than by a dedicated technical communicator.

Tags: wiki, distributed, projects, documents

[24 Mar 2008]

Be Green With the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array

whitepaper These increased storage prerequisites complicate power, cooling, and space requirements by creating a need for: greater array performance, higher density arrays, storage consolidation, better utilization of the purchased capacity and seamlessly...

Tags: high availability

[19 Mar 2008]

HP Case Study: Ontario, California Police Department

whitepaper What Ontario has is the ability to check fingerprints on the fly, using handheld devices and wireless connectivity to link to the city's fingerprint database and potentially prove or disprove a person's identification at an incident scene.

Tags: tablets, hate, police, person

[08 Mar 2008]

Heathrow T5 - it's not just about the tech

News Our whole philosophy is [T5] has to be a great place to fly from and to work in. British Airways' tech chief Paul Coby has explained some of the IT challenges behind Heathrow's soon-to-be-unveiled Terminal 5.

Tags: staff, heathrow, customers, baa

[03 Mar 2008]

MHMR Center Health Workers Spend More Time with Patients

whitepaper Mobility XE provides them with a secure, persistent connection to their medical and patient database letting them retrieve information on-the-fly wherever and whenever they need. The Camino Real Mental Health Mental Retardation (MHMR) Center...

Tags: wireless internet

[02 Mar 2008]

Virtual Software Demos Reduce Sales Expense and Shorten Sales Cycles

whitepaper They either have to fly prospective customers to demonstration centers, or salespeople have to configure custom demos and carry around expensive computers to run them. Makers of complex software programs run into challenges when trying to...

Tags: processors

[29 Feb 2008]

Turning IT Vision Into Business Value: Insights on SOA Readiness and Adoption From 1,100 Leading Enterprises

whitepaper This IT and business strategy organizes the discrete functions contained in enterprise applications into standards-based services that can be combined, configured and reused on the fly to meet the ever-changing dynamics of business.

Tags: infrastructure management

[28 Feb 2008]

Scientists track bees with RFID

News Scientists hope to unlock the secrets of the insects' tiny brains - they have about 950,000 brain cells to a human's 100 billion - by examining how they make complex choices about which routes to fly between flowers.

Tags: rfid, science, tag, tracking

[28 Feb 2008]

Photos: Virgin goes Galactic for SpaceShipTwo

Photo The WhiteKnightTwo aircraft, expected to be ready for test flights this summer, is a high-altitude aircraft that will fly SpaceShipTwo to the upper atmosphere. Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson (left) and Scaled Composites CEO Burt Rutan...

Tags: plane, virgin, space, founder

[24 Jan 2008]

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