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Is short-termism holding back public sector outsourcing?
Comment Recent research from Compass Management Consulting found public sector outsourcing contracts are 75 per cent above the going market rate. The research conducted by Compass Management Consulting found many outsourcing suppliers price their contract... [20 Aug 2008]
Nokia retains smart phone crown
News Concern over usage costs also looms large for smart phone consumers, said Cunningham, though he added the wider availability of flat rate data plans will help. However, while demand remains strong, this growth rate was the lowest figure seen for 18... [19 Aug 2008]
O2 snaffles HomeServe mobile contract
News From real time updates on PDAs to communicating with customers via SMS, this new partnership with O2 will support our future ambition to stay ahead of the pack and ensure we are delivering a first rate service for our customers," he said in a... [18 Aug 2008]
MIMO OFDM Receivers for Systems With IQ Imbalances
White Paper Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a widely recognized modulation scheme for high data rate communications. The resulting IQ distortion limits the achievable operating SNR at the receiver and, consequently, the achievable data rates. [10 Aug 2008]
Orange beefs up 3G network for Northerners
News It said the improvements will bring faster 3G data services along with a more reliable combined voice and data service, and a 99 per cent call connection success rate. The mobile operator has announced it is moving to a new network infrastructure... [04 Aug 2008]
Blowing up hard drives, stinky broadband and super cars
Photo This piece of equipment measures a patient's blood oxygen level and takes their pulse - in this case a plucky volunteer guinea pig has 98 per cent blood oxygen and a very low resting pulse rate of 47. [01 Aug 2008]
Security in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper An even wider spectrum of future applications can be envisioned, such as real-time traffic monitoring, pollution tracking, home surveillance, fire and people sensors in buildings and other smart environments, wildfire tracking, water quality... [30 Jul 2008]
Kwik Fit Insurance drives up website performance
News According to Kwik Fit Insurance online operations and planning manager Annie McRae, the companies online business is growing at such a rate that it needed sophisticated monitoring systems to keep competitive. [28 Jul 2008]
On the Throughput-Cost Tradeoff of Multi-Tiered Optical Network Architectures
White Paper This results indicate that: OFS is the most scalable architecture of all, in that it is most cost-efficient when the average user data rate is high and the number of users in the network is large. This paper conducts a throughput-cost study of... [18 Jul 2008]
Modeling Traffic Management in ATM Networks With OPNET
White Paper Available Bit Rate (ABR) service in ATM has been designed to fairly distribute all unused capacity to data traffic and is specified in the ATM Forum's Traffic Management (TM4.0) standard. This in turn allows users to integrate voice, video, and... [18 Jul 2008]
Photos: It's virtual everything in Cisco's future
Photo This piece of equipment measures a patient's blood oxygen level and takes their pulse - in this case a plucky volunteer guinea pig has 98 per cent blood oxygen and a very low resting pulse rate of 47. [16 Jul 2008]
EC to outline slash in roaming rate
News In data, operators will get more time over the summer to cut prices further otherwise caps may be included in the autumn proposal, the source said. Reding will also call for greater transparency in data-roaming tariffs to avoid "bill shock". [15 Jul 2008]
Seagate unleashes 1.5TB desktop
News The 1.5TB capacity Barracuda 7200.11 drive has four platters and uses a Sata 3Gbps interface with a sustained data rate of up to 120Mbps. Seagate has unveiled 1.5TB desktop and half-terabyte laptop hard drives, claiming industry firsts for both. [15 Jul 2008]
VoIP in K-12 Education: Leveraging Data Networks and E-Rate Funding
White Paper Phone systems in schools across the country are undergoing a major transformation, fueled by E-Rate funding and VoIP technology. Phones and advanced applications are being deployed to every teacher and classroom at minimal cost, by leveraging data... [14 Jul 2008]
Optimal Routing, Link Scheduling and Power Control in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
White Paper First it address the problem of finding an optimal link scheduling and power control policy that minimizes the total average transmission power in the wireless multi-hop network, subject to given constraints regarding the minimum average data rate... [11 Jul 2008]
