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Four things I learned from readers in 2012

January 7, 2013 11:40am PST

Susan Sales Harkins shares a few Microsoft Office tricks she learned from TechRepublic readers during 2012.

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Connecting Mobile Things to Global Sensor Network Middleware using System-generated Wrappers

January 7, 2013 12:00am PST

Internet of Things (IoT) will create a cyber-physical world where all the things around us are connected to the Internet, sense and produce "Big data" that has to be stored, processed and...

Provided by: ACM

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The Executive's Guide to the Internet of Things

January 7, 2013 12:00am PST

This guide introduces the basic concepts of the Internet of Things, shows how it can generate business benefits, looks at security and privacy hurdles, and offers examples of how it's being used...

Provided by: TechRepublic

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10 things to try when applications won't work with Windows 8

January 6, 2013 12:17pm PST

10 things to try when applications won't work with Windows 8 article root Windows 8 and WAA to me I'm not liking W8. My Virginmobile U600 wireless broadband isn't recognized by Windows 8, nor are...

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10 things to try when applications won't work with Windows 8

January 6, 2013 5:42am PST

If you have problems getting an app to run on Windows 8, all's not lost. One of these strategies or workarounds may get the application running.

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10 things to consider when you outsource IT

January 4, 2013 6:02am PST

10 things to consider when you outsource IT article root Well said Very straight-forward article that lays out the basic issues to consider. Well done Mary! I manage offshore developers in...

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10 things to consider when you outsource IT

January 4, 2013 4:58am PST

Some IT organizations are reverting to an 'in-sourcing' model because outsourcing hasn't met their needs. Here's a look at both sides of the equation.

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Five things you should know about Google Analytics

January 2, 2013 12:51pm PST

Five things you should know about Google Analytics article root Google Analytics? Do you use Google Analytics for your or your organization's website? Article on Google Analytics - Great tops...

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Five things you should know about Google Analytics

January 2, 2013 12:47pm PST

Google Analytics is a free analysis service which measures website activity and performance. These five tips can help you get more out of it.

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A Resilient Failure Evaluation and Patch-up (R-FEP) Algorithm for Heterogeneous Distributed Databases

January 1, 2013 12:00am PST

Blocking methodologies sometimes fail to stop malicious things. Attacks on data oriented applications are a serious threat as per the database management systems concern. The required objective of...

Provided by: International Journal of Computer Applications

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A Science Gateway - MOWIC: Modern Web Interface for Cluster

January 1, 2013 12:00am PST

High performance computing has been developed over the years providing researchers with the most powerful computational machines available at a given time. The National Science Foundation, which...

Provided by: International Journal of Computer Applications

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FFPF: Fairly Fast Packet Filters

January 1, 2013 12:00am PST

FFPF is a network monitoring framework designed for three things: speed (handling high link rates), scalability (ability to handle multiple applications) and flexibility. Multiple applications...

Provided by: Vrije Universiteit

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The 10 hottest 10 Things lists of 2012

December 31, 2012 5:04am PST

Favorite posts this year included several IT career topics, along with Windows 7 speed tips, HTML5 tags, development project mistakes, and cross-platform tools.

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10 things you should do to write effective RESTful Web services

December 28, 2012 6:13am PST

10 things you should do to write effective RESTful Web services article root .Net is NOT a language. It is a framework. VisualBASIC or C# are both languages that work in .Net. A couple of points...

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Before you hand things over to a Big Data vendor, do this

December 24, 2012 4:00am PST

The good news about Big Data is that when you say the word, potential vendors will be lined up at your door, each claiming to be able to handle the mass of data you propose to send them. But...

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IoT Challenges

December 20, 2012 12:00am PST

In this paper, the authors claim that the challenges posed by Internet of Things cannot be managed with the current policy tools and research programs, as these are too slow and too instrumental....

Provided by: Springer Healthcare

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Five things that Windows 8 ultrabook tablets need to deliver

December 19, 2012 11:33am PST

Five things that Windows 8 ultrabook tablets need to deliver article root Convertibles in the workplace With increasing request for small lightweight laptops and tablets in the workplace, I...

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The Web of Things: A web-connected world of smart devices

December 19, 2012 2:04am PST

The Web of Things: A web-connected world of smart devices article root Internet of THINGS To me, the idea of a human instructing a device is not novel or futuristic. The real WOT is where...

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The Web of Things: A web-connected world of smart devices

December 13, 2012 7:00pm PST

The Web of Things: A web-connected world of smart devices article root cell phone jammer Different from other electronics, cell phones have become the necessity of every one's daily life. If...

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