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The Weekly Round-Up: 25.07.08
Round-Up This cautionary tale is symptomatic of our increasing dependence on technology and our ever-decreasing reliance of common sense, map reading and not noticing the English Channel doesn't lie between Turkey and Spain.silicon.com readers are divided... [25 Jul 2008]
Techies swap BlackBerrys for the beach
News silicon.com readers say they will have no problem putting down their BlackBerrys and getting on with the sunbathing this summer. In our poll of more than 230 silicon.com readers, almost two thirds said they would leave their voicemail and email at... [25 Jul 2008]
Oyster outage hits London again
News The problem was resolved by mid-morning with card readers progressively coming back online. London's Oyster travel smart card system has failed for the second time in a fortnight with many commuters enjoying a free trip to work during rush hour on... [25 Jul 2008]
Are sat-navs causing havoc on the roads?
News Sat-navs not only drive motorists to distraction, they've also been driving silicon.com readers to rage following a recent story concerning the devices. This prompted many silicon.com readers to argue that regardless of whether a sat-nav device... [24 Jul 2008]
eBook: Exploring IBM SOA Technology & Practice
White Paper Intended for readers who are already familiar with service oriented architecture (SOA), it is appropriate for a wide range of people involved with adopting SOA within an organization: IT executives, business analysts, project managers, architects... [24 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Why we write about the iPhone
Comment These are just three of the comments posted recently by silicon.com readers about the latest Apple iPhone. And if this is what our readers think - and there are others making similar points - why do we still write about the iPhone? [17 Jul 2008]
iPhone 3G, terrorists and tech, file sharers vs ISP
Comment It seems seven days can't pass without the government giving our readers something to rant about… see why one reader thinks we're in "deep sh*t" below. And, according to a certain anonymous poster, here at silicon towers we need to get over the... [15 Jul 2008]
London travellers hit by Oyster outage
News Card readers on the Transport for London (TfL) network weren't working for much of the day as a result of the problem, which occurred between 05.30(BST) and 09.30. Travellers in London were forced to pay full price fares on Saturday as the computer... [14 Jul 2008]
Gates exit will have little impact
News That's according to more than half (56 per cent) of the readers who responded to the latest silicon.com poll which asked how Microsoft will fare in the post-Bill Gates era. Bill Gates' departure from Microsoft will have no impact on the company he... [11 Jul 2008]
Load Balancing in Large-Scale RFID Systems
White Paper A Radio Frequency IDentifier (RFID) system consists of inexpensive, uniquely-identifiable tags that are mounted on physical objects, and readers that track these tags (and hence these physical objects) through RF communication. [10 Jul 2008]
White Paper: Tips for Writing Good Use Cases
White Paper This paper helps readers develop use cases that more clearly communicate their detailed information to a diverse audience to effectively support the goal of creating successful software and systems development projects. [10 Jul 2008]
An Approach to Adaptive Load Balancing for RFID Middlewares
White Paper Workloads of RFID middlewares can have a considerable variation according to the location of the connected RFID readers and can abruptly change at a particular instance. Recently, there have been an increasing interest in RFID system and RFID... [10 Jul 2008]
Traffic Engineering With MPLS in the Internet
White Paper Putting these together, the paper presents the readers the practical issues of Traffic Engineering and a working solution for Traffic Engineering with MPLS in the Internet. This paper discusses Traffic Engineering with Multi-Protocol Label... [10 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
Comment The issue that got readers talking this week was the IT-teacher drought - is "boring" IT to blame? Also getting readers reaching for their keyboards this week, the OFT and Kangaroo and phones on planes - love them or loathe them? [03 Jul 2008]
Mentor Engineering Case Study: MONOC (Monmouth Ocean Hospital Service Corporation)
White Paper The company fitted its ambulances with 55 Mentor wireless data computers (MDCs), which include internal GPS receivers, built-in Smart Card readers, and odometer readers. MONOC is a non-profit company owned by nine hospitals in Monmouth and Ocean... [03 Jul 2008]
