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The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08

Round-Up They [Microsoft] started it and they walked away," he said, making the whole thing sound like a school-yard punch-up rather than some multibillion dollar deal-making. Benefit fraudsters beware. If you're trying to pull a swift one on the...

Tags: yahoo, microsoft, governement

[09 May 2008]

The Green Mile

whitepaper There are a wide variety of yard management software products available from large warehouse management system vendors or companies who specialize in yard management. The number of features and functions that can be incorporated in YMS is as large...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, yard, warehouse, vendors

[10 Apr 2008]

Idtechex Case Study: Warrnambool Livestock Exchange, Tracking Cattle, Australia

whitepaper In 2003, Warrnambool Livestock Exchange became the first livestock sales yard to implement an RFID system that was designed to help cattle owners comply with Australia's stringent National Livestock Identification System (NLIS).

Tags: data acquisition / etl, exchange, eu, european union

[10 Apr 2008]

Police seek full costs of HMRC CD search

News Scotland Yard will demand HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) foot the record bill for the force's hunt for the missing data discs containing 25 million child benefit records. The Met would not confirm the exact cost of the investigation but an article in...

Tags: hmrc, child benefit, police, data loss

[14 Jan 2008]

Rail Transport Leader on the Right Track to Cut Costs With Tablet PC Reporting Solution

whitepaper BNSF conductors use the Tablet PC to upload inventory information from the rail yard to headquarters. Conductors for BNSF Railway Company report on work events and rail-car status for management and customers, but using manual reporting methods to...

Tags: warehouse inventory management, inventory, reporting, pc

[30 Aug 2007]

Forensically Unrecoverable Hard Drive Data Destruction

whitepaper Most users never stop to think that their credit card, bank account number, or social security number may be stored somewhere on their computer before they dispose of it at the local thrift shop, flea market, or family yard sale.

Tags: hard drives, account, stored, sale

[25 Aug 2007]

India diary, day 2: Emergency calls and rural life

Comment Then a snake-bite victim, and then an attempted suicide, before an accident in a railway yard. Monday 5 February - Hyderabad There's a crash, with two motorcyclists hurt. Just another Monday afternoon for the Hyderabad emergency services.

Tags: bpo

[05 Mar 2007]

Did Scotland Yard 'hack' Downing Street computers?

News Scotland Yard told silicon.com it would not comment on the reports. Downing Street computers have been forensically examined by police searching for email and other electronic evidence in the cash-for-honours investigation, according to newspaper...

Tags: downing street, metropolitan police service

[22 Jan 2007]

Data Mining and Decision Support for Operational Problems Solutions in the Railroad Industry

whitepaper This paper describes the data mining process to identify crucial factors for an unstructured problem, like Yard Elapsed Time (YET) reduction and usage of the identified factors in decision making. Reliable crucial factors can be obtained through...

Tags: decision support - dw front end, sas, mining, data mining

[13 Dec 2006]

Upwardly Mobile: The operators' new clothes

Comment Long considered an upstart with the odds stacked against it, 3 now seems to have stopped using its stick to poke in the other guy's back yard. Jo Best looks at how well two operators - O2 and 3 - are doing in coming up with new strategies.

Tags: o2, upwardly mobile, hutchison, 3

[03 Dec 2006]

Photos: The best of Google Earth

Photo The distinctive orange boiler suits of prisoners, clustering in the recreation yard at San Quentin prison, California.copyright: Google Where else to start but above the GooglePlex in Mountain View, California.copyright: Google

Tags: google earth

[06 Nov 2006]

Will's Web Watch: Life on Google Earth

Comment Or what about the unmistakable orange boiler suits of prisoners in the exercise yard of San Quentin prison in California. Who would have thought maps could be so much fun? I've always been fascinated by travel and able to lose myself in maps and...

Tags: google earth, google

[06 Nov 2006]

Union Pacific Implements RF System in a Timely and Cost-Effective Manner

whitepaper The problem that Union Pacific faced was that, periodically, one of the containers would get misplaced in the yard. When this happened, the only way to find it was to dedicate a single person to drive around the yard and look at each of the...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, union, consultant, pacific

[01 Oct 2006]

Mining for Gold in Your Back Yard: Uncovering Unknown Carrier Costs

whitepaper Since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the FCC and the carrier community have been at odds over tariffs and the rules that govern general carrier billing. It's not the carrier's fault that things may fall through the cracks now and then - it's...

Tags: telecom regulation, carrier, telecommunications, fault

[07 Sep 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.08.06

Round-Up Hawke's mother told the media: "I don't care if they dig up the entire yard. Ever since crazy old Waylon Cratchett emerged from a Californian mountainside in 1849 to declare "I don't know what it is but it sure is shiny" man has had a fascination...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[18 Aug 2006]

AOL after spammer's buried gold

News I don't care if they dig up the entire yard," she said. After threatening to get tough on serial junk emailers three years ago, AOL intends to show its conviction has not wavered by digging up the garden belonging to the parents of a convicted...

Tags: spammer, spam, aol

[16 Aug 2006]

Tax office CIO gets 20 per cent pay rise

News Lamey, previously a director at BOC and CIO at British Gas, took over the HMRC job from the Inland Revenue's previous IT director John Yard just after the department's £3bn IT Aspire outsourcing contract was switched from EDS to Capgemini, and...

Tags: steve lamey, hmrc

[15 Aug 2006]

Emails probed in "cash for honours" swoop

News Scotland Yard officers are using forensic software to look for deleted emails that could link people who offered loans to the Labour Party with media reports that the government promised honours to lenders.

Tags: cash

[12 Jul 2006]

RFID Case Study: Warrnambool Livestock Exchange

whitepaper In 2003, Warrnambool Livestock Exchange became the first livestock sales yard to implement an RFID system that was designed to help cattle owners comply with Australia's stringent National Livestock Identification System (NLIS).

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, identification, livestock, european

[10 May 2006]

Exploring User Experience in "Blended Reality": Moving Interactions Beyond the Screen

whitepaper The authors define this interaction as "Blended Reality" (BR) and designed, developed, and evaluated a BR game prototype called "Apple Yard. In many video games, players map their physical actions to control their on-screen avatars.

Tags: physical, screen, player, game

[03 May 2006]

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