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New Technology Provides Robust Business Platform for Contact Lens Maker
Innovative contact lens maker Clearlab UK Ltd needed a robust, high performance computer system to support expansion of its automated contact lens manufacturing operations. This became an issue when the... [03 Nov 2007]
Contact Lens Provider Has Clearer Vision of Business With New Data Warehouse
White Paper 1-800 CONTACTS, the leading contact lens provider in the world, sells to consumers across the United States through its Web site and toll-free call center. Company management was frustrated with its limited ability to... [01 May 2007]
New Technology Provides Robust Business Platform for Contact Lens Maker
White Paper Innovative contact lens maker Clearlab UK Ltd needed a robust, high performance computer system to support expansion of its automated contact lens manufacturing operations. This became an issue when the... [03 Nov 2007]
Preparing for Asymmetry: As Seen Through the Lens of Joint Vision 2020
White Paper This paper assesses the revisions to Joint Vision 2020, DoD's roadmap to the future that must be undertaken in order to prepare for asymmetric challenges. The 1997 Quadrennial Defense Review, for instance, stated, "U.S.dominance in the... [28 Dec 2004]
BBC commercial units go under the lens
News Chris Smith, the culture secretary, has appointed a watchdog to investigate whether the BBC is competing fairly with the online information sector and using licence fee-payers' money to subsidise the web adverts. [12 Feb 2001]
The Computer Productivity Paradox through a Single Lens
White Paper We have to educate business leaders to match the performance of the technology. They still must learn how to market properly, how to train workers, how to motivate etc. It is not that they need new leadership skills just use the old ones. [03 Jul 2008]
Visibility Breakthrough: CooperVision Gains Clear Vision for Future
White Paper CooperVision has been helping contact lens wearers "see beyond the ordinary" since 1958. When CooperVision acquired Ocular Sciences, Inc.in 2004, the company became the world's third largest contact lens... [02 Jun 2007]
Wi-Fi gets a sense of direction
News An optical antenna that uses a geometrically shaped lens promises to bring greater security to wireless networks for businesses, according to UK scientists. The new device, developed by researchers at the University of... [12 Nov 2002]
LaCie d2 Blu-Ray Drive
White Paper Because the data layer on a Blu-ray disc is placed much "Closer" to the laser lens than on a DVD/CD, the laser beam provides more precision. The LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive uses a blue-violet laser and improved... [25 Aug 2007]
Night Vision Equipment — Part Three
White Paper You need a relay lens and a T ring. A relay lens threads in where the eyepiece normally lives. Another function of the relay lens is to turn the image right side up and forward again so... [25 Feb 2004]
LensCrafters: Assortment Customization
White Paper Accenture developed a lens assortment planning (LAP) tool so that merchants could specify certain "core" or "new" products that would be carried in all stores and receive recommendations for which and how many non-core... [07 Jan 2005]
IT Service Management Process Maps: Select Your Route to ITIL Best Practice
White Paper The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) has become the de facto standard in IT Service Management (ITSM) best practice and the lens through which the value of IT service is viewed and measured. [07 Oct 2007]
Boots Prescribes Its Opticians, Kyocera Mita ECOSYS Technology
White Paper Boots offers full eye examinations for both NHS and private patients; spectacle dispensing; and contact lens fitting. With over one million eye examinations each year, the company needed a good quality, robust laser... [02 Oct 2004]
Deposit Insurance and Risk Management of the U.S. Banking System: How Much? How Safe? Who Pays?
White Paper We examine the question of deposit insurance through the lens of risk management by addressing three key issues: 1) how big should the fund be; 2) how should coverage be priced; and 3) who pays in the event of loss. [25 Feb 2004]
XQuery Flowers
White Paper XQuery's purpose is to find, retrieve, and rearrange data viewed through the lens of XML. Query is an XML query language developed and standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). XQuery is the syntax, and XML... [13 Oct 2006]