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EC shies away from data-roaming regulation
News Several recent high-profile cases have involved UK customers receiving bills for thousands of pounds after using their handsets to download television shows while on holiday in Europe - often called 'bill shock'. [22 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.07.08
Round-Up After receiving an increasing number of disparaging and pitying glances from passers-by for queuing in the rain for what was for all intents and purposes 'just a phone', the Round-Up tried to cheer itself up by casting disparaging and pitying... [18 Jul 2008]
VoIP Hits the Bull's Eye for Sporting Goods Supplier's Call Center
White Paper Since adding the ShoreTel system, McKenzie Sports has realized significant cost savings, employees and the IT department are more productive due to improved call management capabilities, and customers are receiving much more consistent service... [14 Jul 2008]
A Statistical Bandwidth Sharing Perspective on Buffer Sizing
White Paper The issue of buffer sizing is rightly receiving increasing attention with the realization that the bandwidth delay product rule-of-thumb is becoming unsustainable as link capacity continues to grow. The present paper examines this issue from the... [11 Jul 2008]
Clearing System Transmits Settlement Data to Trading Firms Via MQ Series Bridge
White Paper Trading parties were not receiving trade data until well after the fact. Well-aged, proprietary mainframe technology on its clearing and settlement system made modification and maintenance cumbersome and expensive. [10 Jul 2008]
For the City of Livonia, Dell Delivers Fast Shipments and Quality Products Help
White Paper The City of Livonia's technology team was not receiving timely or accurate equipment orders from a major computer vendor. As a result, the city's employees had to wait weeks for the hardware they needed to provide community services, and the... [09 Jul 2008]
Achieving High Throughput in Low Multiplexed, High Bandwidth, High Delay Environments
White Paper In the scheme, a TCP source reacts differently on receiving an ECN than it does on inferring a packet loss in terms of congestion window update. This paper explores combining ECN bits and loss feedback to achieve a high throughput connection in a... [08 Jul 2008]
Trickle: A Userland Bandwidth Shaper for Unix-Like Systems
White Paper Trickle works by taking advantage of the Unix dynamic loader's preloading functionality to interposition itself in front of the libc API interfaces that are used for sending and receiving data through BSD network sockets. [08 Jul 2008]
Linux MPS Firewall Supplement
White Paper A firewall prevents the account from receiving an overwhelming quantity of unwanted traffic. A firewall monitors and controls the traffic coming into and out of the account. The traffic of the Internet consists of information which takes the form... [06 Jul 2008]
Does Money Protect Health Status? Evidence From South African Pensions
White Paper Elderly Black and Colored men and women who did not anticipate receiving large pensions in their lifetimes, and who did not pay into a pension system, are currently receiving more than twice median Black income per capita. [03 Jul 2008]
Providers Need to Prepare for HIPAA-Compliant Payments
White Paper Providers might ask payers to send electronic remittance advice with electronic funds transfer to their receiving bank, obtain the data from a clearinghouse, or obtain the data themselves. In this paper, the Health Insurance Portability and... [03 Jul 2008]
Fujitsu Implements One Stop Services for Bolton Metro
White Paper Receiving positive feedback from customers, Bolton decided to look at how the One Stop services concept could be extended to the rest of the Borough, and how existing services could be improved. Bolton Metro continuously tries to improve the... [03 Jul 2008]
Satellite Records Spins a Better Web Site with IBM DB2 for Linux
White Paper Satellite Records’ entire business - point-of-sale, ordering, receiving, the Web site and other crucial applications was originally managed by an internally developed enterprise business software solution running on Linux. [03 Jul 2008]
Through a Dell Technology Partnership, University of North Carolina Wilmington Manages Mobile Student Computing Initiative With Minimal Resources
White Paper Ordering computers on behalf of students, receiving the shipments, and distributing and supporting the machines was labor intensive. University of North Carolina Wilmington is located on a 650-acre campus with nearly 12,000 students and... [02 Jul 2008]
The National Cancer Center in Japan Employs Advanced Text Analysis Tools to Help Match Patients With Treatment Protocols
White Paper MedTAKMI-CDI currently handles information on roughly 7,000 patients receiving treatment at the National Cancer Center. IBM Research, working together with Global Business Services (GBS), teamed with the National Cancer Center in Japan to develop a... [01 Jul 2008]
