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RSS point a-zBroadband wireless gets spectrum boost
News Ofcom plans to open up more spectrum for very high capacity point-to-point wireless links.silicon.com's A to Z of Broadband A is for ADSL Z is for Zombies The high bandwidth combined with narrow-beam signal technology means a very large number of... [10 Nov 2006]
Cardiff poised to steal Swindon's fat pipe crown?
News Nearly three-fifths (59.8 per cent) of homes in the Wiltshire town had broadband as of 30 June 2006, according to Point Topic research. Back in December 2005, when Point Topic conducted its previous survey of UK broadband penetration, Cardiff... [11 Dec 2006]
Java - 100 per cent open source by end of this year
News Mark Taylor, the founder of the Open Source Consortium, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Friday it was "great that Java is at some point in the future going to be fully open source and GPL", but added that the announcement was a... [28 Apr 2008]
Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods
News The ICO also said Phorm had already approached the Home Office to check it was complying with Ripa - a point which Phorm reiterated in its statement. We would point to the many important and valuable consumer internet services such as Gmail or spam... [11 Apr 2008]
AstraZeneca brings its email bang up to date
Case Study The old system was becoming out of date from a support point of view. So users could be on either of the virtual systems and it would effectively, from their point of view, feel the same. The list from A to Z [23 Jan 2008]
Beware the insider security threat
News He said: "However good the security, there's always a point when data or IP needs to be used by employees and at that point it's always insecure whatever security product set is used. Security from A to Z [17 Apr 2008]
Broadband Britain cheaper and faster than ever
News CN, which is due to reach almost 10 million Brits by the end of 2008 provided it doesn't slip behind schedule, will give a boost to broadband services by enabling cheaper and more flexible offerings, said Point Topic. [01 Feb 2008]
Google's engineer talks OpenSocial and the price of innovation
News We've been iterating with different developers, going around and finding what we need to change and updating that for the last few months, and now we're at a point where we've got some code that we're ready to release on three very large social... [03 Mar 2008]
Vista security: What's in it for you?
News The downside is they are going to be prompted a lot more but if people and the wider industry get a sense that this is a more secure environment then I think that will have the biggest impact from a positive point of view. [20 Nov 2006]
Broadband growth fastest in Eastern Europe
News The region saw a growth rate of 12.7 per cent during the period with global market share increasing to 3.5 per cent from 2.6 per cent, according to market researchers Point Topic. The figures are part of Point Topic's quarterly World Broadband... [20 Dec 2006]
Biometrics the future for flying bliss?
News Finn added: "At that point 99 per cent of people will only face manual checks by exception rather than by rule. It gets to the point where it can almost be carried out as you walk. By 2015, biometric technology will make getting on a plane almost... [21 Feb 2008]
IBM eServer zSeries z/OS Upgrade From SAP Release 4.6C: Measurements, Advice, and Sizing
White Paper At this point only Windows 2000 and z/OS are supported. Upgrading from one release of SAP to a newer release has always been complex. With the SAP Release 4.6, the zSeries solution supports doing the upgrade application server processing on a... [15 Apr 2004]
An Australian Freight and Transport Conglomerate Uses an IBM Solution to Clone Their SAP Environment
White Paper An Australian freight and transport conglomerate needed to quickly build a usable production support SAP R3 DB2 environment from a point-in-time copy of the production environment taken using HDS ShadowImage. [16 Nov 2007]
Mainframe Appliance for Storage
White Paper A MAS, on the other hand, is totally disk-based storage system that does not use any tapes - at any point in its operations. Mainframe Appliance for Storage (MAS) is a 'TAPE-ON-DISK' virtual tape controller for IBM zSeries class [or compatible... [23 Aug 2007]
The Managewise Advantage
White Paper This means you can accomplish all management tasks from a single point of administration. From that one point, you can perform NDS monitoring, NetWareŽ and Windows NT server management, network traffic analysis, desktop management, virus protection... [24 Feb 2004]
