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Comment Make the most of space Customers decide whether they wish to pursue a product within eight seconds of seeing it, so it is crucial to make sure they can find it displayed in the best way possible. History suggests those retailers that continue to... [24 Jul 2008]
GRE Encapsulated Multicast Probing: A Scalable Technique for Measuring One-Way Loss
White Paper Internet service providers increasingly wish to monitor the performance of customer traffic within their networks. This paper addresses the problem of scalably performing one-way loss measurements across specific network paths. [18 Jul 2008]
On the Throughput-Cost Tradeoff of Multi-Tiered Optical Network Architectures
White Paper The simple, multi-tiered optical network that the paper consider comprises two groups of users, each in a distinct Metropolitan-Area Network (MAN), which wish to communicate over a Wide-Area Network (WAN). [18 Jul 2008]
Price hike for SAP's Enterprise Support
News While SAP is claiming this as an enhanced offering, it is difficult to see how it will be able to justify this level of fees for customers whose deployments are complete or which do not wish to upgrade. [16 Jul 2008]
iPhone 3G, terrorists and tech, file sharers vs ISP
Comment Is this just another way to try and justify the government's wish to monitor all email and phone calls for their latest gigantic database project? And, according to a certain anonymous poster, here at silicon towers we need to get over the iPhone... [15 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News Speed is second only to reliability when it comes to broadband consumers' wish-lists, the survey found. Almost a third (28 per cent) of fat pipe subscribers - an estimated 4.2 million customers - in the UK are not satisfied with the speed they... [14 Jul 2008]
10 things we'd change on the 3G iPhone
Comment So a better text client is on our wish list - "designed by a European instead of a backward US perspective", in the words of silicon.com columnist Peter Cochrane. There's plenty that's great about the new iPhone, says Natasha Lomas. [14 Jul 2008]
Load Balancing Routing With Bandwidth-Delay Guarantees
White Paper At the same time, the carriers inherently wish to maximize the usage efficiency of their network infrastructure. Current generation of network carriers compete intensely to satisfy the diverse wide-area connectivity requirements of customers. [10 Jul 2008]
Photos: Wi-fi in the great outdoors
Photo And while I did remember my sunglasses, I start to wish I'd brought some sun cream or at least a hat. Outdoor office: A quiet corner of St James' park in London was turned into an outdoor office last week by tourism and visitor promotion... [08 Jul 2008]
Cisco's PIX Firewall Series and Stateful Firewall Security
White Paper And what about internal employees who wish to transmit highly sensitive data from the corporate intranet to the outside world? With the spectacular growth of the Internet and online access, companies that do business on the Internet face greater... [06 Jul 2008]
HP Integrity gets Parallel virtualisation
News HP has said it will offer technology from virtualisation company Parallels to those customers who wish to virtualise Microsoft Windows and Linux workloads on HP Integrity servers. The deal, announced on Tuesday, will see Parallels Virtuozzo... [03 Jul 2008]
Hitachi Implements mySAP Financials Worldwide: Inspiration from Tokyo to the World
White Paper In addition, the wish to invest in software with lots of potential for future applications, for instances in supply chain management, helped tip the scales in favor of SAP. Hitachi is proud of its SAP system. [03 Jul 2008]
Video Back Office Deployments for Service Providers
White Paper This paper provides an overview of the challenges faced by service providers that wish to efficiently streamline the rollout of "triple-play" services while lowering the total cost of ownership for video content management. [02 Jul 2008]
In his own words: Bill Gates' best quotes
News I wish I wasn't [the richest man in the world]. Here's silicon.com's pick of the best: The early days… There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of. Did he honestly believe that? From an interview in 80 Microcomputing (1980). [26 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Prison IT, iPhone wi-fi, and the clock ticking on XP...
Comment I lament the passing of XP, having recently bought a Vista equipped laptop, I wish Microsoft would listen to its customer base and merely continue to improve XP. IT in prisons Prisoners to gain IT skills [19 Jun 2008]
