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Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Sunday

Comment But of course MWC is not just a showground for newbies with their weird and wonderful wares (and as many instantly forgettable names starting with 'mobi' you can think of) - the event is a must-attend magnet for mobile royalty - from the Arun...

Tags: mobile world congress, mobile, 3gsm, mwc

[10 Feb 2008]

Magnet Bank: Bridging the Gap Through Video IP Communications

whitepaper Magnet Bank delivers faster and more efficient service to customers with Cisco IP Communications technology.

Tags: video conferencing

[07 Jan 2008]

North-South pay gap narrows

News Employers are offering big incentives to draw IT staff away from the South East, which tends to be a magnet for technology professionals. IT wages are growing faster up North than in London but tech workers in the capital still enjoy considerably...

Tags: pay, skills, north, professionals

[02 Jan 2008]

Linux Multimedia Hacks: Watch Videos Within Firefox

whitepaper If one chats with a group of geeks for any extended period of time, the conversation inevitably steers into talks of the "Good old days" of computing, when geeks were geeks and one edited the files with a magnet and a magnifying glass.

Tags: streaming media, video, geeks, files

[24 Oct 2007]

Case Study: TRIZ Solves a Hard Drive Reliability Problem

whitepaper This could be achieved by replacing the current latch magnet with a stronger one. But the arm would not be able to overcome the force of any magnet stronger then the current one. TRIZ is the Russian acronym for The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving.

Tags: hard drives, force, stronger, magnet

[11 Sep 2007]

IBM working on spinning magnetic memory

News In STT-RAM, an electric current is applied to a magnet to change the direction of the magnetic field. IBM has linked with Japan's TDK to develop so-called spin torque transfer RAM or STT-RAM. The direction of the magnetic field (up-and-down or left...

Tags: magnetic, ram, memory, ibm

[20 Aug 2007]

Millimetric UWB OFDM PHY Layer Designs for VHDR WPANs and Performance Analysis (IST Magnet Project)

whitepaper This paper presents a new UltraWideBand concept designated as the "millimetric UWB OFDM system" where the UltraWideBand communication is defined at 60 GHz to draw benefit from the small wavelength. Original UWB-OFDM and WB-OFDM parameter sets are...

Tags: wireless lan, ofdm, modes, uwb

[01 Aug 2007]

Moving From the Mission Statement to Reality: Achieving a Customer Centric Bank

whitepaper So what exactly does that mean, and more important how does it really become a customer-centric bank and move the idea from a refrigerator magnet to the day-to-day operations? The phrase "A customer-centric bank" has become a cliche and probably...

Tags: bank management, centric, bank, customer centric

[05 Jun 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: VoIP reality check

Comment It still persists with standards that hark back to the limitations of the carbon microphone and the fixed-magnet earpiece. Written at home and dispatched to silicon.com from a free wi-fi node in Lower Ufford near Woodbridge, Suffolk

Tags: telecoms industry, bandwidth, voip security, voip

[26 Mar 2007]

Cryogenic Magnet Tests for the LHC: Process Operation Using Web-Based Tools and Facilities

whitepaper For the Large Hadron Collider under construction at CERN, an essential requirement is the acceptance test of its 1706 Cryo-magnets in cryogenic conditions in a purpose-built facility at CERN. Several teams ensure the proper operation of the...

Tags: database applications, facility, operation, cern

[14 Sep 2006]

Elementary School's Students Leave Prepared to Work on Any Computer

whitepaper Indian Creek is a science and technology magnet school that serves 660 students in grades one through five. Located in Indianapolis, Indiana, the school promotes science education through experiential learning in a technology-enriched environment.

Tags: students, learning, school, science

[08 Sep 2006]

Photos: An early look at LG's Christmas presents

Photos: An early look at LG's Christmas presents

Photo Here's another LG offering that brings together two technologies which are normally as close as two identical magnet poles - the LG U400. Korea's LG has been doing well of late and when it comes to ensuring a bumper Christmas, it is not one to wait...

Tags: lg, lg electronics

[20 Jul 2006]

Tech giants attacked for web censorship stance

News Google, which launched a censorship-friendly version of its search engine in China last week, was a particular magnet for criticism. Politicians on Wednesday attacked Cisco, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!

Tags: censorship, china

[02 Feb 2006]

My Personal Adaptive Global NET - MAGNET

whitepaper The scope of this paper is to introduce the research project MAGNET supported within the 6th framework of the European Commission. The project acronym MAGNET stands for "My personal Adaptive Global NET".

Tags: european commission, magnet, centric, commission

[15 Sep 2005]

East Rock Magnet School Leverages Wireless HP Laptops for Elevated Student Learning

whitepaper East Rock Magnet School, an inner-city school located in New Haven, Connecticut, services a diverse student population - with approximately 17 countries and 20 languages currently represented in the student body.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, school, student, curriculum

[05 Jul 2005]

Xerox Case Study: East Rock Magnet School

whitepaper East Rock Community School is an urban K-8 School in the New Haven Public School System, New Haven, CT. The challenge was twofold - finding the funds and the right technology. For a technologically rich learning environment, Domenic realized the...

Tags: printers - plotters, low cost, school, printer

[14 Feb 2005]

Gates slams US' tighter immigration

Gates slams US' tighter immigration

News According to Gates, the US' restricted ability to brain-drain foreign countries for computer science students is a "disaster" and the country's status as "IQ magnet of the world" was threatened, the Financial Times reports.

Tags: davos, immigration, gates

[31 Jan 2005]

Magnet Internet Banking Suite Version 3.2.x

whitepaper The Magnet Internet Banking Suite (Magnet IBS) is a Web-based application that runs on a network of servers. Magnet IBS is an Internet banking services platform, and a set of applications consisting of a "core" set of software, which allows various...

Tags: online banking

[24 Feb 2004]

HTS Conductor and Magnet Technology in Magnetic and Inertial Fusion Experiments

whitepaper High temperature superconductors have a high promise for improving the cost/performance of magnetic and inertial fusion. The ability to operate without Joule heating at higher temperatures dramatically lowers the cost of cryogenic refrigeration and...

Tags: semiconductor tech. - manufacturing, temperature, temperatures, improving

[24 Feb 2004]

Superconducting Magnetic Separators in Mineral Processing

whitepaper Developments in superconducting magnet engineering, including cryogen free operation, combined with experience in mineral processing enable new forms of wet and dry superconducting magnetic separation to be developed.

Tags: metallurgy, force, processing, separation

[24 Feb 2004]

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