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RSS masonExperian checks in new global CIO
News The appointment is an internal one, with Mel Mason, who was previously MD of technology services for Experian UK and Ireland, being promoted to the global role. The position of global CIO is a new role in Experian and Mason will be responsible for... [18 Aug 2008]
Wireless broadband to be cellular feast
News Telecoms analyst Analysys Mason predicts there will be a total of 2.1 billion wireless broadband customers globally generating $784bn in service revenue by 2015 - an increase of some 2,400 per cent. Massive growth in wireless broadband services is... [05 Aug 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News Matt Yardley, analyst at Analysys Mason, said that the move by BT will "remove some of the awkward questions about why are we languishing behind many other nations in the provision of high-speed broadband". [15 Jul 2008]
A Column-Generation and Branch-and-Cut Approach to the Bandwidth-Packing Problem
White Paper The bandwidth-packing problem is a combinatorial optimization problem arising from telecommunication networks where demand exceeds capacity and where point-to-point calls with varying bandwidths are routed on this network such that each call uses... [11 Jul 2008]
Extensible Modeling and Simulation Framework (XMSF) Challenges for Web-Based Modeling and Simulation
White Paper To meet the DoD M&S transformation challenge, government, academic, and industry experts under the leadership of representatives from the Naval Postgraduate School, George Mason University, and SAIC are defining an Extensible Modeling and... [03 Jul 2008]
Enterprise Content Management: IBM Content Manager OnDemand for Customer Service Solutions
White Paper This industry report by Mason Grigsby and Gordon E.J. Hoke of IMERGE Consulting addresses the use of IBM Content Manager OnDemand to connect e-business, e- billing, customer service and other front office functions with back office generated... [03 Jul 2008]
VoIP Intrusion Detection Through Interacting Protocol State Machines
White Paper Being a fast-growing Internet application, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) shares the network resources with the regular Internet traffic, and is susceptible to the existing security holes of the Internet. [19 Jun 2008]
George Mason Mortgage Replaces BlackBerry With Good Mobile Messaging and Good Mobile Intranet to Increase Productivity and Enhance Customer Service
White Paper George Mason Mortgage, LLC, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cardinal Bank. George Mason Mortgage wanted to compete in the ultra-competitive and rapidly changing mortgage business by improving employee productivity and enhancing customer service. [12 Jun 2008]
iPhone 2.0 - ready for business?
News Mark Heath, Analysys Mason associate, agrees with this view: "The key thing - which we've got to wait and see - is how the applications are developed. With Apple CEO Steve Jobs set to unveil the hotly anticipated iPhone 2.0 on Monday, rumoured... [06 Jun 2008]
iPhone 2.0 - the rumours and the reality
News But as consultancy Analysys Mason associate Mark Heath says, Apple knows how to keep its iPhone secrets fresh 'til D-Day: "People talk about having GPS capability in there, perhaps a slightly changed device to make it more suitable, more robust... [05 Jun 2008]
Femtocell market hotting up
News Analysts suggest femtocells could specifically help deliver mobile TV services - a new Analysys Mason report, entitled Critical Ingredients of Mobile TV: femtocells and sideloading, says femtocells could have a significant role to play as a high... [21 May 2008]
E-Commerce Security Technologies: An Evaluation Using the Metasploit Framework (MSF)
White Paper This research will evaluate the effectiveness of two publicly available network security products using penetration tests conducted with the Metasploit Framework. Metasploit is an open source toolkit and development platform used for software... [21 May 2008]
Critics label Microsoft's OOXML a 'marketing tool'
News Mason said in an email: "I didn't think [OOXML] needed to be a standard; getting it that designation is like vanity-press publishing. Mason said: "We know that most of ISO/IEC 29500 has been implemented; the questions for a lot of us are mainly... [21 Apr 2008]
"Out-of-the-Box" Monitoring of VM-Based High-Interaction Honeypots
White Paper Honeypot has been an invaluable tool for the detection and analysis of network-based attacks by either human intruders or automated malware in the wild. The insights obtained by deploying honeypots, especially high-interaction ones, largely rely on... [11 Apr 2008]
Virtualization: Concepts, Applications, and Performance Modeling
White Paper Virtualization was invented more than thirty years ago to allow large expensive main-frames to be easily shared among different application environments. As hardware prices went down, the need for virtualization faded away. [01 Mar 2008]
