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iPhone 3.0, holograms and the shed birthplace of Silicon Valley
Photo Pictured here is cabinet newbie defence secretary Bob Ainsworth - the man who, among other tasks, will take over responsibility for managing the £7.1bn Defence Information Infrastructure tech change programme. [03 Jul 2009]
Top IT Security Threats: How to Protect Your Users From Increasingly Sophisticated Attacks
White Paper The presenter of this webcast explores the top IT security threats that the users (and therefore, the data) face, including both established and new methodologies in targeted phishing, malware, and man-in-the-middle... [01 Jul 2009]
TalkTalk gets its very first CIO
News TalkTalk has hired a CIO for the first time. The company announced today that it has appointed David Cooper to the newly created post in April, after previously splitting responsibility for IT across a number of individuals within the... [30 Jun 2009]
Photos: Top 10 smartphones you could take a shine to
Photo While every man and his dog seems to be bringing out a smartphone at the moment, several devices stand out from the crowd. Here silicon.com rounds up the current crop of smartphone heavy-hitters - starting with Apple's... [30 Jun 2009]
Why Email Fails
White Paper While it is widely known that natural and man-made disasters can lead to email outages, new data shows that email systems are more frequently brought down by technological failures and human error. Email has become the... [30 Jun 2009]
Mitigating Man-in-the-Middle and Trojan Attacks: Best Practices for Combating Emerging Threats With Layered Security
White Paper Man-in-the-middle, Trojans and other malicious software ("Malware") attacks are the emerging means that fraudsters are using to target financial institutions and their customers. Man-in-the-middle and... [30 Jun 2009]
Secure Delegation for Web 2.0 and Mashups
White Paper Mashups, by their very definition, involve a man-in-the-middle. Service providers are letting users completely control and use data through proxies, such as Web.mashups. This trend is bringing renewed interest in the... [30 Jun 2009]
Next stop HMRC: How TfL CIO will shake up the taxman
Comment In a matter of months, there will be a new man in charge of taming the tangle of fragmented systems that power the British taxman. From TfL to HMRC, CIO Phil Pavitt talks to silicon.com about the nerves surrounding his... [26 Jun 2009]
Success Through Innovation: IBM eServer p5 and SAP at the Wurth Group
White Paper The Wurth Group is a real success story: in only six decades, it has evolved from a two-man business into a global trading company. The company wanted to replace existing servers and establish a new IBM IT platform for... [25 Jun 2009]
Comparison of IEEE802.16 WiMax Scenarios With Fixed and Mobile Subscribers in Tight Reuse
White Paper WiMax broadband MAN based on the IEEE 802.16d/e standard supports mobile as well as fixed wireless access services. Both types of subscriber data links are characterized by totally different radio conditions such as... [25 Jun 2009]
WiMax (IEEE 802.16)
White Paper WiMax technology is based on IEEE 802.16 specifications and offers a standardized technology for a microwave point-to-multipoint protocol known as Wireless MAN (Metropolitan Area Network). The WiMax standard is intended... [25 Jun 2009]
Ethernet in the MAN: A Case Study in "Disruptive Technology"
White Paper In the current telecommunications landscape, SONET is the dominant transport standard used in the Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) markets. Ethernet continues to make rapid gains in... [25 Jun 2009]
Integrating Multilevel Command and Control Into a Service Oriented Architecture to Provide Cross Domain Capability
White Paper Traditional information sharing methods such as automated guards or a "Man-in-the-loop" has well documented problems including data loss through the guards and operational picture integrity. Information superiority, the... [25 Jun 2009]
Chinese Power Company Uses Network to Improve Connectivity
White Paper GPG chose Cisco Systems as its MAN solution provider. Guangdong Power Grid Corporation (GPG) is a subsidiary of China Southern Power Grid (CSPG), the largest provincial power grid company in China, with registered... [25 Jun 2009]
Scalability of a Packet-Switched WDM MAN With Support for Optical Multicasting
White Paper This paper addresses the scalability (in terms of the number of nodes) of a packet-switched WDM all-optical bi-directional ring for metropolitan area networks. The nodes enable adding/dropping packets to/from all WDM channels on the ring. [25 Jun 2009]
