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Blog Post

Why CIOs struggle as board members

October 22, 2012 6:00am PDT

There are incumbent struggles that many board members face. For CIOs, these challenges can be doubly difficult.

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Discussion Threads

Raspberry Pi upgrade juices up memory

October 19, 2012 12:46pm PDT

Raspberry Pi upgrade juices up memory article root Memory "The new board has 512MB of memory, double that of the existing model..." "The specs for the rest of the board remain the same, with a...

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Whitepapers

A FPGA-Based Scalable Architecture for URL Legal Filtering in 100GbE Networks

October 19, 2012 12:00am PDT

Legal filtering is common practice in many countries to avoid access to websites with criminal or violent content. This kind of filtering is typically implemented at the edge routers of ISP's core...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

Blog Post

Raspberry Pi upgrade juices up memory

October 15, 2012 1:09am PDT

A new version of the Raspberry Pi board has been released with double the memory for the same price.

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Discussion Threads

Laptop screen flickers

October 10, 2012 8:16am PDT

Laptop screen flickers Hi, I have a Toshiba Qosmio X550-8100x. I bought it a year and a half back. It fell down once from my bed, and since then, though not immediately, the laptop screen...

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Whitepapers

Efficient Transmission of Measurement Data from FPGA to Embedded System Via Ethernet Link

October 2, 2012 12:00am PDT

This paper presents a system consisting of the FPGA IP core, the simple network protocol and the Linux device driver, capable of efficient and reliable data transmission from a low resources FPGA...

Provided by: Warsaw University

Whitepapers

Design and Construct of Broadband Printed Rectangular Monopole Antenna

October 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

In this paper, the authors have investigated an rectangular monopole antenna that was printed on a Printed Circuit Board (PCB). The antenna consists of a rectangular patch and a ground plane so...

Provided by: IOSR Journal of Engineering

Case Studies

Century Council: Public Service Organization Uses Operating System to Shorten Project Completion Time

October 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

The Century Council is an independent National Advisory Board composed of distinguished leaders in education, medicine, government, and business who work with law enforcement, public officials,...

Provided by: Microsoft

Whitepapers

A Novel Octagonal UWB Antenna for Cognitive Radio

October 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

This paper presents about a new antenna design of ultra wide band antenna for cognitive radio wireless communication. This antenna consists of an irregular octagon (polygon with 8 sides) aperture...

Provided by: IOSR Journal of Engineering

Whitepapers

A Review on Substrate Integrated Waveguide and Its Microstrip Interconnect

October 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

Substrate Integrated Waveguides (SIW) are used for transmission of Electromagnetic waves. They are planar structures belonging to the family of Substrate Integrated Circuits. Because of their...

Provided by: IOSR Journal of Engineering

Whitepapers

Meeting today's data security challenges

September 28, 2012 12:00am PDT

The threat environment is rapidly evolving, more stringent regulatory regimes are approaching, staff want to use their own devices instead of the organisations PCs and board-level stakeholders...

Provided by: Proofpoint

Webcasts

Chrome Apps Office Hours: Controlling an AR Parrot Drone

September 19, 2012 12:00am PDT

In this webcast, the presenter explains about Chrome App to control an AR Parrot Drone! This is just one of the many cool things that the user can do with Chrome Apps. Using the networking APIs,...

Provided by: Oleksiy Kovyrin

Discussion Threads

The personal side of board relations: Three things CIOs should know

September 18, 2012 6:43am PDT

The personal side of board relations: Three things CIOs should know article root Interesting counting method! (haha) All good points. As for point one, I attempted that solution and had only one...

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Blog Post

The personal side of board relations: Three things CIOs should know

September 18, 2012 4:12am PDT

Mary Shacklett talks about the "behind the scenes" side to relations with the board of directors that can catch many CIOs off guard.

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Whitepapers

IODetector: A Generic Service for Indoor Outdoor Detection

September 16, 2012 12:00am PDT

The location and context switching, especially the indoor/outdoor switching, provides essential and primitive information for upper layer mobile applications. In this paper, the authors present...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

Discussion Threads

Alan Turing Monopoly: Board game celebrates the life of the father of computing (pictures)

September 12, 2012 5:52am PDT

Alan Turing Monopoly: Board game celebrates the life of the father of computing (pictures) article root A tactful oversight. Never has the "get out of jail" card seemed sadder or more ironic....

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Image Gallery

Alan Turing Monopoly: Board game celebrates the life of the father of computing (pictures)

September 11, 2012 2:47am PDT

A special edition of the board game Monopoly celebrates life of Alan Turing, and Google picks up the first 1,000 copies.

4 Latest comment by Tony Hopkinson

Case Studies

vCom Success Story - West Coast Bank

September 11, 2012 12:00am PDT

West Coast Bank (WCB) is one of the most prominent banks in the Pacific Northwest. The WCB IT team received poor customer service and multiple bills. As the data network evolved over time, it grew...

Provided by: vCom solutions