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Conflict Resolution and the Project Manager
White Paper At some point in your career, you will be called upon to resolve some type of conflict. Project managers deal with conflict. If you are a project manager, and you have not yet... [30 Sep 2008]
Structured Firewall Design
White Paper A firewall is a security guard placed at the point of entry between a private network and the outside Internet such that all incoming and outgoing packets have to pass through it. This function is conventionally... [16 Apr 2008]
Structured Firewall Design
White Paper A firewall is a security guard placed at the point of entry between a private network and the outside Internet such that all incoming and outgoing packets have to pass through it. This function is conventionally... [16 Apr 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Open source 'brotherhood' closed to co-operation
Comment Thus it seems average open source developers are at a point in their life where they are driven towards achievement and the hope of recognition. To clarify this point, a brief digression is needed. Most... [03 Apr 2008]
Google's engineer talks OpenSocial and the price of innovation
News From our point of view, we think it would be great if they all did OpenSocial. The point is that open standards are better than closed standards, and open source software is better than closed-sourced... [03 Mar 2008]
High Speed Switch Scheduling for Local Area Networks
White Paper This paper describes issues in the design of a prototype switch for an arbitrary topology point-to-point network with link speeds of up to one gigabit per second. The key to the switch's operation is a... [06 Dec 2007]
Why must IT go green?
Comment The National Grid is reaching breaking point. Retail gas prices increased by 25 per cent in 2006 and volatility in the Middle East from the proposed sanctions on Iran and the conflict on the Turkish-Iraq... [03 Dec 2007]
How to resolve outsourcing feuds
Comment Communication: The starting point is to use a mechanism that requires the parties to talk to each other. Irrespective of polarised views, people are generally more amenable to seeing the other side's... [12 Feb 2007]
Microsoft to pay blogger for Wikipedia 'corrections'?
News Paying people to push a point of view on Wikipedia is regarded as an obvious conflict of interest. Most people don't need to be told that conflict of interest is a bad idea. Microsoft... [25 Jan 2007]
UK vs the developing world
Comment Concerns also abound about the political situation in China and the country's human rights record has raised doubts from an ethical point of view. Thomas Friedman outlined in his 'Golden Arches Theory of... [29 Nov 2006]
Learn to configure and troubleshoot Cisco IOS Mobile IP with this lab example
White Paper Cellular wireless networks allow clients to roam from one wireless access point to another. Normally, this would cause an IP conflict; however, the use of the Mobile IP protocol creates a kind of... [19 May 2006]
SAP: 'We want deep, meaningful relationships'
News Don't dilute yourself, or you are in the same spot as everyone to the point you won't bring in value. Brendan Barnicle, an analyst with Pacific Crest Securities, said SAP and other companies that seek to build a software... [19 Apr 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Vendor battleground - filtering
Comment The IT industry came up with a series of point solutions to address the problem. In short, we can see lots of vendors starting with point solutions and extending their services in different directions. [02 Mar 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.10.05
Round-Up Hats off to the BBC at this point for finding a picture which looks more like an internet drugs den than an internet café. That last point illustrates a number of the failings here - such as you still... [14 Oct 2005]
Homeland Security Dollars and Sense #1: Current Spending Formulas Waste Aid to States
White Paper Federal grants for homeland security programs are a case in point. The global war on terrorism will be a protracted conflict. And it will be a real war, a competition of action and counteraction against... [08 Feb 2005]
