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Inbox: Snooping bills, spam mountains, boring IT
Comment Andrew Beaumont, Switzerland The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. Flooding silicon.com's inbox this week was comments regarding the rather hefty bill the... [21 Aug 2008]
UK execs looking for jobs on the continent
News By contrast, Switzerland recorded a 42 per cent net inflow of exec talent, proving itself the most attractive nation for senior-level employees in Europe. Senior execs in the UK are looking to take jobs abroad to further their careers and escape... [15 Aug 2008]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News Terabytes of data are streaming through dedicated fibre optic links between laboratories and universities globally in preparation for the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), being switched on in August at Cern in... [15 Jul 2008]
Ensuring Premium Data Quality and Precision at One of Switzerland's Leading Health Insurance Providers
White Paper CONCORDIA AG is one of Switzerland's top five health insurance companies. The company wanted to ensure complete data quality and integrity across its production and development environment. The challenge was to introduce new DB2 database... [11 Jul 2008]
Deploying Ethernet Access for Business Services
White Paper The leading provider of telecommunications services in Switzerland, Swisscom wanted to stay ahead of the competition with best-in-market business services and enable more bandwidth for video and other services demanded by corporate customers. [11 Jul 2008]
Swiss Canton Enhances Vote Management
White Paper The Etat de Vaud is the local government body of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The government of the Canton of Vaud wanted to develop a full value chain for the entire voting process. The suggested approach was to utilize Internet as the... [10 Jul 2008]
Virtual Private Networks: International Data Tunnels Offer New Possibilities
White Paper PubliGroupe is one of the main partners for advertisers and publishers in Switzerland. PubliGroupe, which operates around the globe, uses classic frame-relay technology to exchange data with its partners. [09 Jul 2008]
eProduction delivers qualified car buyers to insurer’s door.
White Paper Insurance giant Zurich Switzerland (Zurich), sought a way to improve its success rate for selling car insurance directly online. To maximize Zurich’s reach as cost-effectively as possible, eProduction created an application that retrieves... [03 Jul 2008]
Satair Takes Off With Linux and Lotus
White Paper From its headquarters in Copenhagen and through its subsidiaries in the USA, Singapore, France and Switzerland, Satair handles distribution and sales of aircraft spare parts to markets all over the globe. [03 Jul 2008]
IBM eServer Helps heal FMI’s IT Ailments
White Paper The Friedrich Miescher Institute was founded in Basel, Switzerland in 1970. The hard work of FMI’s scientists has earned the organization an international reputation for scientific excellence, and the information technology (IT) infrastructure that... [03 Jul 2008]
Towering Success in the World of High Finance
White Paper Credit Suisse is one of the leading financial services companies in Switzerland. It aimed to meet a 24 hour response deadline for client inquiries, to provide the correct documentation to new prospects on pre-printed forms in many languages and to... [03 Jul 2008]
HP Case Study: AS Elevator Ltd
White Paper AS Elevator Ltd (AS) manufactures, modernises and services elevator throughout Switzerland. The challenges were to improve production speed and accuracy of quotations and contracts, reduce errors when providing quotes for customers, automates... [03 Jul 2008]
Vipera Mobile Network Operator: Vision Whitepaper
White Paper Vipera is a mobile data network operated by Vipera GmbH (Ltd.a company founded early in 2003 with registered offices near Zurich, Switzerland. In contrast to most other mobile operators Vipera does not offer traditional voice services, Vipera's... [03 Jul 2008]
Missing Link Gives Tech Data a Win Win Win Advantage
White Paper One of its most successful European subsidiaries is Tech Data (Switzerland) AG. Founded in 1974, Tech Data Corporation is the second largest distributor in the world. The challenges were to support its re-sellers by providing next-day delivery... [03 Jul 2008]
Marconi Achieves Pre-Selected International Carrier Status in France and Switzerland
White Paper Marconi began operating in France as a calling card service provider offering prepaid services at attractive prices from France to Portugal. Seeking to expand into France's lucrative ILD market, Marconi applied for an ILD carrier license from the... [03 Jul 2008]
