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The Effect of Coast Guard Maritime Security Rules on EPA-Regulated Facilities
White Paper The preambles to the rules clarify the relationship between EPA requirements for oil spill prevention, preparedness, and response and USCG requirements for marine security. Although the two agencies have initiated steps... [03 Jul 2008]
Geographic Surveillance and HotspotDetection for Homeland Security: Disaster Management: Oil Spill Detection, Monitoring, and Prioritization
White Paper The scan statistic hotspot delineation and poset prioritization tools will be used in combination with oil spill detection algorithm to provide for early warning and spatial-temporal monitoring of marine oil spills and... [10 Apr 2008]
Facebook CEO: No IPO for "years"
News What with all the hype and frenzy surrounding Facebook, Zuckerberg not surprisingly attracted a spill-over audience crowding into the main ballroom of the Palace Hotel, an elegant throwback which opened its doors in 1875... [18 Oct 2007]
Novell to spill beans on Microsoft patent pact
News Novell will share details of its patent pact with Microsoft this month in a regulatory filing that had been delayed by a stock option investigation. Novell plans to reveal the details in conjunction with filing its upcoming annual report... [24 May 2007]
HP, Microsoft hint at services deal
News HP and Microsoft are expected to announce a new partnership in enterprise software at a press conference on Wednesday. The deal is to be unveiled by Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, and Ann Livermore, an executive vice... [13 Dec 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.06.06
Round-Up The Telindus research was conducted around Oxford Circus - less than a mile from the heart of London's sex trade where naked flesh and obscenity spill out onto the public streets of Soho, morning, noon and night. [02 Jun 2006]
NASA Optimizes Operations by Tracking Hazardous Materials With RFID
White Paper This webcast demonstrates how safety and security can be enhanced by supplying critical data to first responders and decision-makers so they are equipped to make timely decisions for the safety, security and protection of people, as well... [12 May 2006]
Analysis: Microsoft's OS update
Comment Mouse over a navigation button and the button will glow and spill light onto neighbouring windows or onto the background. Now set to ship in January 2007, Windows Vista will be Microsoft's first major operating system... [22 Mar 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.12.05
Round-Up And if you need further proof that a diamond-encrusted laptop may not be the wisest investment, consider these two tales of woe.silicon.com this week heard from data recovery firm Ontrack who were keen to spill the beans... [09 Dec 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.12.05
Round-Up So that leaves a toss up between whether it is more surprising that HR managers, those trusted keepers of company secrets, were so quick to spill the beans at the first opportunity or that they spend their evenings... [02 Dec 2005]
Supercomputers still too slow to forecast storm surges
News Marc Levitan, director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, said his organisation came up with models that predicted Hurricane Katrina's storm surge had the potential to spill water over the levies that... [21 Sep 2005]
Human Capital Spill-Overs Within the Workplace: Evidence for Great Britain
White Paper For the first time using British data this paper directly investigates the possibility that there are spillover effects of education within industrial workplaces. Spillover effects are found to positively influence own earnings, and... [25 May 2005]
Colour mini and Bluetooth in-car iPod on their way?
News Apple is believed to be planning updates to its ubiquitous music player, including Bluetooth connectivity and a colour screen for the iPod mini. With Motorola already working with Apple on an iTunes-enabled phone, it seems the handset... [22 Feb 2005]
U.S. Coast Guard Oil Spill Response Research & Development Program, a Decade of Achievement
White Paper The Coast Guard R&D Program has made significant progress over the past decade in addressing the various technological needs to enhance Coast Guard oil spill response capability and further the development of systems and... [28 Dec 2004]
PeopleSoft wins poison-pill reprieve
News Oracle's efforts to remove PeopleSoft's anti-takeover measures via a court order will spill over into December, a Delaware Chancery Court judge decided on Wednesday. Vice chancellor Leo Strine indicated he wants further... [25 Nov 2004]