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Photo He is an acclaimed French racing yachtsman with a previous attempt at the Vendée Globe already under his belt in 2004. The BT IMOCA 60 is the fruit of a title sponsorship deal between Team Ellen - headed up by iconic British yachtswoman Dame Ellen...
[02 May 2008]
News The organisation called the French move "the single most important initiative to help win the war on online piracy that we have seen so far". People should not be criminalised for the file-sharing of copyrighted material if they are not profiting...
[14 Apr 2008]
whitepaper This proposed case study will investigate the creation of a computerized land registry in the Alsace-Moselle, a French regional administrative entity. This case study will thus investigate the long-term preservation of digital signatures within a...
[10 Apr 2008]
Round-Up Turning to trains and there's great news for the thrill-seeking, French pastry-loving mobile workers. Now you can browse the web and enjoy a pain au chocolat at the same time thanks to the stupendously clever people running the French high-speed...
[28 Mar 2008]
Photo French train operator SNCF is running a trial of a wi-fi internet service onboard three TGV trains that travel eastbound from Paris via the Gare de l'Est station. Photo credit: Natasha Lomas TGV passengers on the wi-fi-equipped trains can use the...
[28 Mar 2008]
Round-Up Podcast Up for discussion this week are the French language purists fighting back against the 'invasion' of English words such as email and podcast, and the 'smart goggles' invented by Japanese boffins that can find your lost keys.
[14 Mar 2008]
News The mobile service will initially be available in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish. Business network LinkedIn is getting a makeover to offer an improved service to its almost 20 million users and make it available on...
[25 Feb 2008]
Comment French president Sarkozy's early moves to introduce a three-strikes system set a potentially interesting precedent but surely we should learn from the experiment rather than immediately follow suit. But legal liability cannot rest solely on ISPs...
[22 Feb 2008]
Round-Up One suggestion from the music industry is to adopt the French model, where warning messages are sent to those who frequently download music or films illegally. In a deafening cacophony of ringtones that could be heard from outer space (and...
[15 Feb 2008]
whitepaper The group has an industrial and logistics unit close to Dieppe, manufacturing multifunction devices and toners, as well handling logistics for the French market. Known in Europe for its laptop microcomputers and as a manufacturer of sophisticated...
[08 Feb 2008]
News Last November French President Sarkozy unveiled plans for ISPs to co-operate to fight piracy. IFPI chairman, John Kennedy, said ISPs must take responsibility now and the French approach shows an urgency "badly needed in every market where music is...
[25 Jan 2008]
News CERN - Geneva, French Swiss border Cern - Geneva, French Swiss border Now both Jodrell Bank and Cern are among the technological landmarks that could be immortalised alongside the pyramids of Egypt and Taj Mahal on Unesco's World Heritage Site (WHS...
[22 Jan 2008]
whitepaper SNCF (Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer), France's national railway company, is charged with operating freight and passenger rail services, including the TGV high-speed passenger train service. SNCF wanted to promote its online services in...
[17 Jan 2008]
whitepaper Rapid expansion - plus technical cooperation with German, French and American manufacturers - inspired state-owned China Northern Locomotive and Rolling Stock Industry Group to upgrade its backup and security systems.
[17 Jan 2008]
whitepaper Renault VI and Mack Trucks adopted Tecnomatix digital manufacturing solutions to streamline assembly and cut production costs at French facility. The company collaborated with sister plant in United States to facilitate virtual manufacturing...
[14 Jan 2008]
whitepaper The study discussed in this paper is the performance of TCP over a wireless link implementing hybrid FEC/ARQ-SR at the link layer. The study is done by simulating a large number of TCP transfers over a wireless link showing Bernoulli errors.
[14 Jan 2008]
whitepaper The focus in this paper is on the undesirable phenomenon of early buffer overflow during Slow Start (SS) when TCP operates in large Bandwidth-Delay Product networks such as those including Geostationary satellite links.
[14 Jan 2008]
whitepaper Since the TCP protocol uses the loss of packets as an indication of network congestion, its performance degrades over wireless links, which are characterized by a high bit error rate. Different solutions have been proposed to improve the...
[14 Jan 2008]
whitepaper This paper describes an ns-based simulation analysis of TCP Tahoe, Reno, NewReno and SACK congestion control over hybrid wireless and wired networks. The paper compares the throughput performance between the four TCP versions.
[14 Jan 2008]
whitepaper This paper studies the variation of the throughput achieved by TCP resulting from both the individual behavior of a connection and the interaction with all other connections sharing the same link. In particular, it calculates the Tail Distribution...
[14 Jan 2008]
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