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Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action

Photo Although operated by hand crank, the Difference Engine is still considered an automated machine because it does the computations automatically. A forward-thinking mathematician and engineer, Babbage designed the Difference Engine in 1847.

Tags: history museum, babbage

[12 May 2008]

Medical Device Manufacturer Makes Hand-Carried Ultrasound a Reality

whitepaper Its lightweight, hand-carried, point-of-care ultrasound products enable clinicians to deliver safer, better, faster care, right at the patient bedside. SonoSite, Inc.is leading in the race to make medical imaging devices smaller and more portable.

Tags: embedded systems

[11 May 2008]

How to Choose a Mobile Platform: Six Mobile Development Technologies Compared

whitepaper This month's column lends a helping hand by teaching one to ask all the right questions before one gets started. With so many great options, choosing the right technology for one's mobile development projects can leave one spoiled for choice.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications

[11 May 2008]

Applying an Analytical Framework: Organize and Reuse Valuable Techniques, Tools, and Examples

whitepaper Standard design and analysis patterns are helpful but don't usually show how to apply techniques or demonstrate working examples that are similar to the problem at hand. Modeling complex software and business systems can be a challenging task.

Tags: application development

[11 May 2008]

The MDA Architect: Where Does the Architect Fit in MDA?

whitepaper The exception is that in an MDA process the design issues, architectural style, patterns, and so on, are all determined and implemented using the MDA tool, rather than by separate processes of diagramming and then hand coding.

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Getting to Know You: Activities for Young Students

whitepaper The user can make these activities simple fill-ins that he or she can print and hand out to the students, or the user can create a template that students can fill in by using the computer. Teaching is all about borrowing ideas, and the author would...

Tags: it hr - staffing - training

[11 May 2008]

Growing an Architecture-Driven Team: Moving From a Hero-Based Environment to an Engineer-Based Environment

whitepaper How does one grow the development team to adopt a new viewpoint that encompasses the entire system rather than focusing just on the task at hand? As a developer of software systems, one typically focuses on the finest level of detail.

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Erlanger Boosts Back Office Functionality for Improved Patient Care

whitepaper Erlanger Health ensured nurses are no longer responsible of performing inventory counts, allowing more time to bedside care and interfaced with hand-held devices to transmit counts directly into PeopleSoft Enterprise Supply Chain Management system.

Tags: back-office

[11 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08

Round-Up After all, when does a minister ever take heed of the overwhelming advice of advisors when there's a personal crusade at hand? Benefit fraudsters beware. If you're trying to pull a swift one on the authorities you may find their "liar, liar, pants...

Tags: yahoo, microsoft, governement

[09 May 2008]

Cloud computing: Silver lining…

Comment On the other hand you might hear about a marvellous setup from a barely known vendor and find yourself worrying about the likelihood of them going out of business and taking your application and data with them.

Tags: saas, data centres, cloud computing

[09 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…

Comment So before you dismiss open source out of hand I suggest you acquire some expertise in the area yourself, if only so you can understand what your staff are doing. Then we have silicon.com resident Naked CIO who has been ruffling some feathers again...

Tags: password, offshore, outsourcing

[08 May 2008]

NHS cleans up keyboard act

News The warning light system has also been proven by UCLH to increase hand washing by up to 10 per cent. The NHS is introducing 7,500 infection-resistant keyboards in hospitals across England as part of efforts to make hospitals cleaner and safer.

Tags: hospitals, health, keyboards, connecting for health

[07 May 2008]

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS)

whitepaper Hand-in-hand with card acceptance comes the responsibility to safeguard and protect all transaction and consumer data. Accepting credit and debit cards is a fact of life at campuses nationwide. Unfortunately, education institutions because of their...

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Analysis of Firewall Policy Rules Using Data Mining Techniques

whitepaper These firewall rules are mostly custom-designed and hand-written thus in constant need for tuning and validation, due to the dynamic nature of the traffic characteristics, ever-changing network environment and its market demands.

Tags: firewalls

[06 May 2008]

Write Effective Business Letters

whitepaper On the other hand, upon receiving a handsomely spaced, well-constructed, and well-organized letter, a customer unconsciously assumes it has come from an up-to-date, well-organized, and successful business.

Tags: business management

[03 May 2008]

Photos: Tech ensures a smoother course

Photo On the left-hand side is the media and communications hub. The BT IMOCA 60 is the fruit of a title sponsorship deal between Team Ellen - headed up by iconic British yachtswoman Dame Ellen McArthur - and BT inked in September last year.

Tags: yacht, ellen mcarthur, bt

[02 May 2008]

About Ways to View a Word Document

whitepaper Microsoft Word has different ways for the user to get a good view of the work, depending on the task at hand. One can't set a default for all documents that one views in Word, because the view setting is stored with each individual document as a...

Tags: business management

[02 May 2008]

Upgrade or Retire an Old Computer

whitepaper Hand it down to someone else? One knows how to set up a new computer. But what does one do with an old office computer? Give it to charity? Throw it in the trash? Before one decides, take a few minutes to review the options.

Tags: upgrades and migration

[02 May 2008]

Satyam spices up silver screen with latest effects

News The glamour of Hollywood and the Indian outsourcing industry will collide on the big screen this year. Outsourcer Satyam will bring CGI effects to the silver screen when First Fear hits the cinemas around June this year.

Tags: hollywood, bpo, india

[29 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity

Comment After 9/11, an occasional lapse of memory meant my hand baggage continued to contain items no longer permitted in the cabin. First drafted on flight BA633 from Athens to London and finished on BA093 to Toronto a week later.

Tags: travel, airports, security

[29 Apr 2008]

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