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RSS bottleCaption competition 1: Win a bottle of champagne
Photo You think silicon.com should give that guy over there a bottle of champagne? This competition is now closed, below are the top five captions submitted - including the lucky winner. For this week's competition and your chance to win, click *here* [27 Oct 2006]
Old Wine in a New Bottle: RFIDs and Cookies
White Paper A number of public interest organizations led by the Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) and the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse have put forth guidelines for the consumer use of RFID technology (2003). [09 Feb 2006]
Model Management: Old whine in nearly-new bottle
Comment With a thud, the publisher's envelope landed on the desk. This is an ordinary daily event for journalists, there being no shortage of new titles to read and review. But this particular envelope contained something of a surprise, and not an entirely... [14 Aug 2001]
The Beer Bottle Cipher
White Paper Last week an MIT student hacker broke into the famous Yale University secret drinking society known as "Skull and Bones". He made a startling discovery that has implications for national security, saloons, and camp counselors nationwide.What he... [24 Feb 2004]
The Code Red Message in a Bottle
White Paper On July 12th 2001, computers worldwide began seeing signs of what would arguably become one of the most significant security events of the past few years. The original Code Red Worm (CRv1) had a rather quiet beginning, but Intrusion Detection... [03 Jul 2008]
QUALCOMM Case Study: Tomra East
White Paper Tomra East, a subsidiary of the North American division of Norway-based Tomra, builds, markets and maintains reverse vending machines that offer customers automated bottle redemptions. Tomra East wanted a more flexible, less expensive alternative... [14 Jul 2005]
US techie invents 'Robo-barman'
News The robot, called Abor (autonomous beer-opening robot), moves along the bar, steadies a bottle placed before him and removes the cap before moving away to allow the drinker to enjoy his brew. As such, cynics may say Abor is little more than a... [26 Apr 2002]
State Transition Diagrams
White Paper Here the machine is a bottle in a bottling plant. If the squirt event causes the bottle to become full, then it transitions to the full state, otherwise it stays in the empty state (indicated by the transition back to its own state). [24 Feb 2004]
iTunes loses 95 million songs
News Customers with winning bottle caps have until Friday to redeem their free music tracks. Apple said last fall that it hoped to distribute 100 million tracks in its first year, but when that figure was calculated, it was expected that more winning... [29 Apr 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 8.12.06
Round-Up The problem of course is not with your experienced drinkers who will be happy with their tipples of choice - probably wine or beer, perhaps the occasional foray into a well-loved, short-lived bottle of scotch, via a charming glass of port to wash... [08 Dec 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 1
Comment With a bottle of baby oil. It's a different pretty girl this time - though holding what looks like the same bottle of baby oil. For in-depth coverage of this fact-finding trip inside China, including analysis and exclusive stories, click here. [08 Jun 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.09.05
Round-Up Not to be mistaken with 'Wales 'n' a bottle' which is just a Saturday night out for Charlotte Church. The Round-Up says 'bargain'.it of course means '£24 for a bottle of air, are you mental? 'Oops we did it again. [02 Sep 2005]
Why Rights Management is Wrong (and What to Do Instead)
White Paper The bits are free and they can't be put back in the bottle. Digital rights management based on enforcement is moribund. Yet, content creators want to get paid and users want superior quality content. Assuming that users are willing to pay for... [24 Feb 2004]
"Tested, Tested, Tested?"
White Paper A large bottle of aspirin should be added to the shopping list for those putting together an IT infrastructure. If choosing and assembling the right combination of hardware, middleware and applications hasn't given each person a headache, then the... [14 Nov 2006]
Analysis of a TCP Hybrid Model
White Paper This paper uses hybrid systems to model and analyze the transient and steady-state behavior of multiple TCP flows that share a single common bottle-neck link. The main contributions of this paper are a characterization of the transient behavior of... [19 Dec 2007]
