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RSS power linesKnowledge Is Power: Your Software Is Trying to Tell You Something
White Paper Buried in the millions of lines of source code that power organization are the vulnerabilities that put data at risk, and the security mechanisms that protect it. The knowledge one gain will give one the... [12 Nov 2009]
How to Design Low Power Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper This paper is about this new approach towards truly wireless networks - without any network cables or power lines. Driven by the demand for "Green" technology and better use of power, a... [12 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Software - keep it short and sweet
Comment The best mission statement of any software company I've ever seen is: "We intend to ship fewer lines of code on each successive upgrade. Thousands of features have gone unnoticed and unused, while hard drives have had to... [07 Sep 2009]
Virtualisation: Get the contract right
Comment Another concern is that some organisations are finding that their existing IT infrastructure, reporting lines and governance are not suitable for the move to a virtualised environment. Virtualisation offers enhanced ways... [12 Aug 2009]
Rural Britain needs faster, more reliable broadband
Comment Despite hours on the phone to tech support and the installation of new telephone lines and a junction box at the house, the faults persist at my parents' house. Even BT has cast doubt on whether the 50p tax on phone... [04 Aug 2009]
HP Thin Clients Help Tube Lines Cut Costs and Use Less Power
White Paper Tube Lines maintains and upgrades half of London's underground system and finds Thin Clients the most efficient way to deliver crucial IT to over 90 remote depots. Tube Lines has installed 700 HP Compaq... [30 Jul 2009]
FortisAlberta Powers Its Service, Safety, Reliability and Productivity With HP and Microsoft
White Paper FortisAlberta distributes electricity over 107,000 kilometers of power lines to 453,500 customers across plains and mountains that are buried in snow one-third of the year. The company wanted to reduce... [12 Jun 2009]
Shocking iPods, netbooks and an offshoring backlash
News Not so in engineer and futurist Peter Cochrane's case, as the silicon.com columnist explained how he has maximised the bandwidth of his home broadband by using a broadband aggregation service, along with two phone lines... [01 Jun 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Why are we so wasteful?
Comment Any form of modern software is a prime example with gigabytes of storage and millions of lines of code required to produce a simple letter or an email. Going back a few decades to our analogue technology beginnings, the... [28 May 2009]
Is your business run by chance?
Comment This could reflect an organisation's security fears, not wanting to share information beyond those entrusted with safeguarding such information, or it could be more along the lines of the 'knowledge is... [14 May 2009]
Leading Teen Addiction Treatment Center Relies on SmartDraw for IT Diagrams
White Paper Kennon needed a fast and easy way to capture, and display non-visible infrastructure such as power, phone, networks, as well as sewer lines and underground water. Kennon Baker is the IT & Facilities... [15 Apr 2009]
Native American Tribes Manage Wind Power Generation Turbines in Brutal Sub-Zero Conditions With D-Link Wireless Solution
White Paper While the power lines from turbines carry power to the reservation, there was no way to efficiently monitor turbine operations on an intelligent network. The northeast section of... [03 Apr 2009]
Constructing an Optical Router With Minimum Complexity
White Paper This paper studies the number of fundamental optical components (2 x 2 switches and fiber delay lines) needed to emulate ideal routers. As their power consumption has grown exponentially and already... [01 Apr 2009]
Will Sun set IBM up for some rainy days?
News But given how directly Sun and IBM product lines overlap, there are no shortage of serious difficulties, too. IBM already has four major server lines running a variety of operating systems - AIX, z/OS,... [19 Mar 2009]
Ericsson racks up 500Mbps speeds over copper
News According to Ericsson, a benefit of vectorised VDSL2 lies in improved power management and lower power consumption, as the lines in a cable are decoupled in terms of interference.... [17 Mar 2009]
