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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Uneconomics
Comment Infinite markets - Not true for a finite population and ecosystem. Compiled at the IoD, Pall Mall, London, and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi connection. For more than a year now I have been in a state of... [29 Oct 2009]
Mobile Workforce Management and the Aging Utility Workforce
White Paper Utilities face the imminent retirement of many of the most dependable and experienced workers, hired from the large cohort of the population born immediately after World War II. Maintaining utility efficiency,... [18 Oct 2009]
WiMAX and Its Applications
White Paper For these reasons WiMAX is a MAN, highlighting that "Metropolitan" is referred to the extension of the areas and not to the density of population. WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is considered the... [09 Oct 2009]
PuppetCast: A Secure Peer Sampling Protocol
White Paper A peer sampling protocol continuously provides each node in the system with a uniform random sample of the node population, and is an important building block for gossip-based protocols for information dissemination,... [02 Oct 2009]
Nandan Nilekani
AS Profile But this year Nilekani will embark on what is arguably his toughest challenge yet, delivering biometric ID cards to every one of India's 1.2 billion population. Most people would be satisfied with being a co-founder of... [30 Sep 2009]
Are dinosaur managers and poor teaching holding back Digital Britain?
News The folk who drive the companies, the folk that own the budgets in the big business that can invest in this to really make it quite exciting and dynamic in the way we interact with consumers and the population - we need... [23 Sep 2009]
Copy Number Analysis With Illumina DNA Analysis BeadChips
White Paper The ability to perform statistical tests on large population data sets allows for the determination of those regions of copy number and/or allelic variation which are generally in common in the disease state versus the... [16 Sep 2009]
Mobile-Banking Adoption and Usage by Low-Literate, Low-Income Users in the Developing World
White Paper Research in understanding actual usage and adoption by this target population, though, is sparse. Due to the increasing penetration of mobile phones even in poor communities, mobile-phone-enabled banking (m-banking)... [16 Sep 2009]
De-Anonymizing the Internet Using Unreliable IDs
White Paper With this information, one is able to analyze the host population, to conduct forensic analysis, and also to blacklist malicious hosts dynamically. Today's Internet is open and anonymous. While it permits free traffic... [16 Sep 2009]
A Real-World Approach to Planning the Right Workforce for Tomorrow's Organizations - Part 1: An Introduction to Workforce Planning
White Paper A wide range of factors including an aging population, changing education trends, outsourcing, globalization and the increased focus on worklife balance promise to pose significant future workforce challenges for the... [12 Sep 2009]
Business Intelligence for the Health Care Industry: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
White Paper Legal requirements, an aging population in many developed countries, and an ever-increasing need to be service-oriented are forcing hospitals to do more with less. Hospitals from across the world are facing increased... [31 Aug 2009]
County of San Joaquin Information Systems Division Modernizes and Integrates Law and Justice Systems
White Paper The County of San Joaquin Information Systems Division is the central IT organization serving the County of San Joaquin, which is a midsize California county with a population of more than 600,000. It needed to replace... [31 Aug 2009]
Energy Efficiency in the Data Center: Exploring the Inherent Compatibility of Green Initiatives and Corporate Profitability
White Paper In the face of increasing pressures on the world - population growth, economic development, and climate change, to name but a few - customers, stakeholders, and analysts are making it clear that they expect companies to... [30 Aug 2009]
Municipality Consolidates IT, Cuts Costs, Improves Service
White Paper Summer visitors flock to the beautiful Danish island of Bornholm, a Scandinavian Riviera on the Baltic, doubling its year-round population of 43,000. Bornholm aligned business technology investments with strategic... [28 Aug 2009]
The perfect device for the developing world is not the PC
Comment As a result, the Masai now live peacefully alongside the lions, and are seen as helping to maintain the lion population, which then brings in money through tourism as well. Yet many people still try to fit the computer... [27 Aug 2009]