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Does your business really need an office?
Comment As general manager of Group Property at mining giant Rio Tinto, Neil Usher has a remit to determine the shape and form of the company's future workplace. In this age of mobile working, should businesses consider ditching... [17 Nov 2009]
How green credentials are shaping IT contracts
Comment The ISO 14000 series was developed as a result of the Rio Summit on the Environment of 1992. Being green does not come naturally to the information technology sector. As most of us know, manufacturing IT equipment... [10 Sep 2009]
Packet-Switching Network-on-Chip Features Exploration and Characterization
White Paper The era of bus-dominated communication architectures for SoCs might end soon: the increasing number of cores used on a single die used in response to the power-hungry applications tends to make SoC designs more and more... [12 Jun 2009]
Investment in 3Com Security Technology Yields Top Marks for Ibmec Educational Institute
White Paper Ibmec is dedicated to educational and professional training in business, law, and economics, with five facilities located in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte. Security has consistently been a primary... [12 Jun 2009]
Caroline Serfass
CIO Profile She began her career as the first IT manager of a small mining company in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1988. Caroline Serfass was appointed CIO of European operations at pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company in 2004... [01 Jun 2009]
Tech-world wonders, cyber art and Windows 7...
Photo Here navigator Aksel Magdahl checks the weather onboard Ericsson 3, on leg five of the race, from Qingdao to Rio de Janeiro. You can't get much more cutting edge than recording the moment a star is born and looking into... [11 May 2009]
Photos: Tech ahoy in round the world yacht race
Photo Pictured here is one of the two Ericsson teams - Ericsson 3 - finishing first into Rio de Janeiro on leg five of the race after 41 days at sea. During the event each team will clock up more than 37,000 nautical miles,... [16 Apr 2009]
Analysis of Protocols to Ethernet Automation Networks
White Paper The Ethernet technology dominates the market of computer networks. However, it was not been established as technology for industrial automation, where the requirements demand determinism and real-time performance. [02 Apr 2009]
Using Agents and Ontologies for Application Development on the Semantic Web
White Paper The Semantic Web provides access to heterogeneous, distributed information, enabling software products to mediate between user needs and the information sources available. Agents are one of the most promising technologies for the... [05 Feb 2009]
Using UML as a Front-End for an Efficient Simulink-Based Multithread Code Generation Targeting MPSoCs
White Paper UML provides all benefits from the object-oriented paradigm, such as encapsulation and reusability, while Simulink is targeted to support multiple models of computation such as stream processing and control. [11 Dec 2008]
County Government Plugs the Web Security Gap at the Internet Gateway
White Paper Rio Blanco County covers an area of 3,228 square miles in northwestern Colorado and includes the two communities of Meeker and Rangely. Rio Blanco County had a severe problem of spyware and viruses... [10 Dec 2008]
Applying Refactoring Techniques to UML/OCL Models
White Paper The Object Constraint Language (OCL) plays an important role in the elaboration of precise UML models. Although OCL was designed to be both formal and simple, UML/OCL models may be difficult to understand and evolve, particularly when... [03 Dec 2008]
A Bottom-Up Approach for Integration of XML Sources
White Paper XML raises as the standard for semistructured data representation and data exchange in the Web. In this context, data integration mechanisms are required to provide an unified view of semantically related information of a same domain. [03 Dec 2008]
Specifying Security Aspects in UML Models
White Paper Expansion of computer systems and the increasing number of services provided by Internet has lead software engineers to worry about security issues of their software. The reason is the short amount of time dedicated to test these... [30 Nov 2008]
NHS IT to benefit Southern England - at last
Comment Before the termination of the Fujitsu contract, there were rumours Fujitsu was going to adopt the same approach as BT and deploy Rio to mental health trusts. Six of the 10 mental health trusts in London were happy with... [30 Oct 2008]