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Data Center Sustainability

whitepaper It's not only on the computers, but the mobile phones, televisions and portable music players. The internet is everywhere. Very few users of digital content consider how data arrives on these devices.

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Medical Device Manufacturer Makes Hand-Carried Ultrasound a Reality

whitepaper SonoSite, Inc.is leading in the race to make medical imaging devices smaller and more portable. Its lightweight, hand-carried, point-of-care ultrasound products enable clinicians to deliver safer, better, faster care, right at the patient bedside.

Tags: embedded systems

[11 May 2008]

SQL Server Compact 3.5

whitepaper This is driven by market changes such as a growing mobile workforce and its need for productivity even when not "Connected" and an explosive growth of new devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), portable music players, and gaming...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Nationwide WiMax in next two years?

News WiMax is currently only available in very limited deployments in the UK and only in its "fixed" variant, with the prospects for "mobile WiMax" - the type needed for portable devices - depending on upcoming spectrum auctions.

Tags: 3g, wimax

[09 May 2008]

Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear

News According to the report, in-body networks could be implanted in patients to monitor their movements and/or vital health signs, such as blood sugar level, and to send data wirelessly via a home hub or portable monitor to keep doctors informed of...

Tags: e-health, ofcom, wireless

[08 May 2008]

PorKI: Making User PKI Safe on Machines of Heterogeneous Trustworthiness

whitepaper This paper presents the design and prototype of PorKI, a software application for mobile devices that offers an alternative solution to the portable key problem. As evidenced by the proliferation of phishing attacks and keystroke loggers, everyone...

Tags: pki

[02 May 2008]

How to Choose the Best Data Capture Technology

whitepaper As bar codes became commonplace, companies realized the advantage of carrying more data, leading to new symbologies such as PDF417 and matrix codes that convey far more information, and now radio frequency identification (RFID), which can serve as...

Tags: asset management

[01 May 2008]

Glasgow NHS keeps tabs on equipment with RFID

News The initial driver of this part of the project is to reduce the amount of time maintenance staff waste in locating portable medical equipment, such as defibrillators, infusion pumps and blood monitors.

Tags: wifi, rfid, nhs

[28 Apr 2008]

US no longer king of the PC?

News Like the US, buyers in the region are moving toward more inexpensive portable PCs, particularly in emerging markets where many consumers are making their first PC purchase. The US PC market is beginning to have less influence on the global market...

Tags: asus, dell, us, pc

[17 Apr 2008]

Trend Micro ServerProtect 5.5 for Microsoft Windows

whitepaper ServerProtect enables network administrators to manage multiple Windows servers from a single, portable management console. Easy access to information is critical in today's fast-paced business environment.

Tags: anti-virus

[12 Apr 2008]

BBC iPlayer comes to the Wii

News Huggers said in a statement: "The BBC's catch-up TV service can now be accessed on an increasing number of different platforms - from the web and portable devices to gaming consoles. The BBC has announced its iPlayer online TV catch-up service is...

Tags: tv, nintendo, iplayer

[10 Apr 2008]

Healthcare Provider Uses Windows XP Professional to Help Standardize and Secure the Desktop and Prepare for HIPAA

whitepaper Centura needed a simplified, standardized, and more secure operating system environment for its 4,800 desktop and portable PCs. Through a deployment of Microsoft Windows XP Professional on desktop and portable PCs at facilities throughout the state...

Tags: windows xp, pcs, desktop, portable

[10 Apr 2008]

AppDancer/FA - How To: Monitor an Email Server SLA

whitepaper The purpose of this paper is to show how to use the AppDancer/FA Portable Flow Analyzer to monitor SLA agreements for Enterprise and Service Provider application servers. First we define what an SLA is, the types of servers that can be measured...

Tags: sla, monitor, sla, fa

[10 Apr 2008]

Authenticating Aperiodic Connections to the Campus Network

whitepaper The demand for dial-in access to our campus networks is likely to be exceeded by demand for direct connections from personal portable computers. Well over 50% of UC Berkeley students own their own computers and an increasing number of these are...

Tags: local area networks (lan), campus, connections, computers

[10 Apr 2008]

Power Consumption Estimates for Bluetooth

whitepaper However, a major concern is increased battery consumption in products such as mobile phones, personal communicators, PDA's, wireless headsets and other portable devices designed for Bluetooth wireless communications.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, consumption, phase, wired

[10 Apr 2008]

A Comparison of Mobile Agent and Client-Server Paradigms for Information Retrieval Tasks in Virtual Enterprises

whitepaper In next-generation enterprises it will become increasingly important to retrieve information efficiently and rapidly from widely dispersed sites in a virtual enterprise, and the number of users who wish to do using wireless and portable devices...

Tags: middleware, agent, client, agents

[10 Apr 2008]

Ingenix Discovers "You Can't Go Wrong With Tools.h++ and DBTools.h++"

whitepaper Using Rogue Wave Tools.h++ and DBTools.h++ Tools.h++ gave Ingenix's team a collection of fundamental C++ building blocks from which to build the foundation of their program and DBTools.h++ gave them a portable, object-oriented interface to access...

Tags: software engineering, united states, engine, databases

[10 Apr 2008]

OFDM Versus Single Carrier With Cyclic Prefix: A System-Based Comparison

whitepaper This paper shows that for the same data rate, bandwidth and transmit power constraints Single-Carrier with Cyclic Prefix (SC-CP) allows the design of a more power efficient modem than OFDM and is therefore a better candidate for portable wireless...

Tags: bandwidth issues, ofdm, modem, rate

[10 Apr 2008]

Phishers attack social networking generation

News There is an increased security threat from portable media devices, whether it be a USB flash drive or an MP3 player," he said. Scroggie said the spread of malicious code was expected to increase, with the growing use of portable data-storage devices.

Tags: social networking, phishers

[09 Apr 2008]

Programming With XML for DB2, Part 1: Understand the XML Data Model

whitepaper A primary goal of XML is to make the application development process simple, cheap, portable, and of high quality. XML programming is bringing about the same kind of radical shift in the application development paradigm in this decade as object...

Tags: xml

[09 Apr 2008]

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