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Microsoft users surf the skies from the web

News The program, which was developed by Microsoft's research arm, marries together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and others. Roy Gould, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian...

Tags: google sky, space, microsoft

[14 May 2008]

Caption Competition: Clamped!?

Photo The winning caption, from reader John Ray was "H.G.Wells arrives in sillycone valley. This competition is now closed. Photo credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com

[09 May 2008]

Sun unveils JavaFX for rich web apps

News Every Blu-ray disc player - the consumer and industry standard for high-definition content delivery - includes Java technology. Sun officially started its JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco this week with a series of keynote...

Tags: ria, java, sun

[08 May 2008]

Microsoft embraces cloud computing with 'Live Mesh'

News The project is the brainchild of Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, and underscores the company's carefully balanced online strategy, which aims to capitalise on the reach of the internet without damaging its software business.

Tags: google, cloud, microsoft

[23 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.04.08

Round-Up There was one bright ray of hope for entrenched IT managers, though. What sort of company admits to introducing features in its product designed to deliberately "annoy users"? Microsoft, apparently. Insert your own general Windows joke here…

Tags: microsoft, windows, google, broadband

[18 Apr 2008]

Sun Microsystems Case Study: West Bay Semiconductor Inc.

whitepaper West Bay engineers found the Sun Ray ultra-thin client delivered equivalent performance to their desktops, specifically their Ultra 60 workstation. Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, West Bay Semiconductor is focused on making the high-density optical...

Tags: workstations, optical, sun microsystems, networking

[11 Apr 2008]

Hitachi Storage at Work: Sykehuset Ostfold HF

whitepaper To improve the efficiency of their x-ray facilities, Sykehuset Ostfold HF decided to replace their traditional film-based image systems with the latest digital imaging technology (RIS PACS). Implementation of the new x-ray systems required a...

Tags: storage management, capacity, film, ray

[10 Apr 2008]

Caring for Patient Information: Using a New Approach to Simplify Medical Image Management, Reduce Storage Costs and Accommodate Growth

whitepaper Healthcare organizations need new strategies for managing patient information, especially film media, such as MRI and X-ray images. Analyzing retrieval patterns for medical images provides valuable insight into the who, where and how often of...

Tags: cost control - risk mgmt., images, retrieval, storage strategy

[10 Apr 2008]

Danish Technical University: Sun Helps University Educate New Generations of Engineers

whitepaper Sun Ray appliances have successfully fulfilled the needs of DTU. Danish Technical University (DTU) is the leading center of engineering education and research in Denmark, and is one of Northern Europe's largest technical universities.

Tags: learning management systems, education, engineering, northern europe

[10 Apr 2008]

Sun Case Study: Ligare Book Printer

whitepaper By deploying Tarantella Enterprise 3 software in a Solaris environment with Sun Ray thin clients, Ligare is able to provide the head office, multiple manufacturing and distribution sites, as well as remote staff, with access to business critical...

Tags: book, manufacturing, printer, sun ray

[03 Apr 2008]

Storage Resource Broker (SRB) Integrated With the Sun StorageTek 5800 System

whitepaper Integration with the Sun StorageTek 5800 system provides SRB the ability to store objects in a new category of storage system optimized to store large amounts of digital content, such as x-ray scans, photographs, images, research data sets...

Tags: storage management

[28 Mar 2008]

Heathrow 'temporarily delays' fingerprint checks

News X is for X-ray Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know about biometric security. A is for Accuracy B is for Behavioural biometric C is for Cash machine D is for Database E is for Ear

Tags: baa, biometrics, ico, heathrow

[26 Mar 2008]

Massively Parallel Processing for Monte Carlo Ray Tracing

whitepaper It is important that a point sampling algorithm uses the Monte Carlo ray tracing in a realistic image synthesis. It is known to cost a huge calculation to obtain the high quality image by the Monte Carlo ray tracing method, and it is very useful to...

Tags: parallel processing

[19 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars

Comment Blu-ray on the other hand was a bigger undertaking that demanded significant industry retooling and a lot of additional cost. We already see super high definition formats such as SHD and SHD 3D being developed and demonstrated, with some initial...

Tags: formats, blu-ray, dvd, storage

[17 Mar 2008]

Google Sky gets browser app

Google Sky gets browser app

News The browser version allows users to zoom in and out and pan around the celestial bodies, search for planets and galaxies and view the sky through infrared, x-ray, ultraviolet, and microwave views. Google has unveiled a browser version of its Google...

Tags: google, photos, earth, sky

[14 Mar 2008]

Police gets to grips with body cameras

Case Study X is for X-ray The trial is funded from the £3m that the Home Office has set aside for camera technology pilots. Inspector David Edge, who is coordinating the camera trial, told silicon.com: "Once the officer's finished his tour of duty or taken...

Tags: police, compliance, management, cameras

[12 Mar 2008]

Microsoft unveils web tool betas

News The web is at the centre of everything Microsoft is doing," said Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect. Microsoft has used its MIX08 event in Las Vegas to announce beta releases of web tools including Internet Explorer 8, Silverlight 2...

Tags: microsoft, beta, silverlight, ie

[09 Mar 2008]

ID cards are dead

Comment X is for X-ray If you wondered what the loud screeching of brakes was in Whitehall this week it was the sound of the government attempting to halt the ID cards juggernaut and execute an almighty handbrake u-turn as the wheels started to come off...

Tags: id cards, physical, cards, register

[07 Mar 2008]

Caption Competition: Give him a big hand!

Photo The winning caption, from reader Ray Derkacz was "Son of a gun! This competition is now closed. Photo credit: SwissMiniGun

Tags: address, submit, reader comment, bottle

[07 Mar 2008]

VIZARD II: A Reconfigurable Interactive Volume Rendering System

whitepaper This paper presents a reconfigurable, hardware accelerated, volume rendering system for high quality perspective ray casting. The volume rendering accelerator performs ray casting by calculating the path of the ray through the volume using a...

Tags: data visualization

[28 Feb 2008]

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