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Apps of the month (December 2011): CamCard, Splashtop Remote Desktop, and more

December 30, 2011 5:00am PST

In Scott Lowe's latest app roundup, he features four useful mobile applications: CamCard, Splashtop Remote Desktop, Tie & Mirror, and Norton Snap QR Code Reader.

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Chrome to Phone: Interact with your mobile Android device from your desktop

January 9, 2012 2:36pm PST

Jack Wallen believes the free Chrome to Phone application is the easiest way to send URLs and pasted text from your desktop to your Android phone.

Case Studies

Shifting to XML Authoring is Helping the Citrix Education Team Write a New Chapter in Efficiency

April 8, 2010 12:00am PDT

Citrix is at the forefront of desktop, application and server virtualization, application networking and cloud computing. Citrix wants to create a more efficient method for authoring product...

Provided by: Justsystems

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Side-Channel Leaks in Web Applications: A Reality Today, a Challenge Tomorrow

March 5, 2010 12:00am PST

With software-as-a-service becoming mainstream, more and more applications are delivered to the client through the Web. Unlike a desktop application, a web application is split into browser-side...

Provided by: Indiana University

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Introducing the Azure Services Platform

October 1, 2008 12:00am PDT

Using computers in the cloud can make lots of sense. Rather than buying and maintaining one own machines, why not exploit the acres of Internet-accessible servers on offer today? For some...

Provided by: Microsoft

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A Video Browsing Tool for Content Management in Postproduction

December 17, 2009 12:00am PST

The authors propose an interactive video browsing tool for supporting content management and selection in post-production. The approach is based on a process model for multimedia content...

Provided by: Hindawi Publishing

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100GbE and Beyond for Warehouse Scale Computing Interconnects

October 31, 2011 12:00am PDT

Increasing broadband penetration in the last few years has resulted in a dramatic growth in innovative, bandwidth-intensive applications that have been embraced by the consumers. Coupled with this...

Provided by: Reed Elsevier

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eMedyx: Electronic Medical Records Security Using Smart Card Technology

February 8, 2011 12:00am PST

EMedyx is an automated medical records system, for much easier storage, retrieval and manipulation of information. It reduces medical errors and causes health services to be much cheaper and...

Provided by: University of the Philippines

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PEPSC: A Power-Efficient Processor for Scientific Computing

October 27, 2011 12:00am PDT

The rapid advancements in the computational capabilities of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) as well as the deployment of general programming models for these devices have made the vision of a...

Provided by: University of Michigan

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Low-Power Scientific Computing

December 31, 2009 12:00am PST

Scientists and mathematicians are increasingly realizing the computational benefits of using modern, multi-core architectures. In response to this, manufacturers of traditional desktop...

Provided by: University of Michigan

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Extending Multicore Architectures to Exploit Hybrid Parallelism in Single-Thread Applications

January 1, 2012 12:00am PST

Chip multiprocessors with multiple simpler cores are gaining popularity because they have the potential to drive future performance gains without exacerbating the problems of power dissipation and...

Provided by: University of Michigan

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Exploiting Narrow Accelerators With Data-Centric Subgraph Mapping

January 3, 2007 12:00am PST

The demand for high performance has driven acyclic computation accelerators into extensive use in modern embedded and desktop architectures. Accelerators that are ideal from a software...

Provided by: University of Michigan

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Power-Proxying on the NIC: A Case Study With the Gnutella File-Sharing Protocol

December 6, 2006 12:00am PST

Edge devices such as desktop and laptop computers constitute a majority of the devices connected to the Internet today. Peer-To-Peer (P2P) file-sharing applications generally require edge devices...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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No Application Is an Island: Using Topes to Transform Strings During Data Transfer

February 9, 2011 12:00am PST

Users and programmers frequently need to move information between applications, including desktop and web applications. Transferring data often involves reformatting strings such as phone numbers...

Provided by: Oregon State University

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Mobile Web Widgets: Enabler of Enterprise Mobility Work

April 24, 2009 12:00am PDT

Increasingly, many Smartphones (i.e., Apple iPhone, Google Android, PalmPre, Blackberry Storm and Bold, and Nokia S60) today are equipped with standards-based Web browsers that facilitate access...

Provided by: Nokia

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Declarative Programming of User Interfaces

January 13, 2009 12:00am PST

This paper proposes a declarative description of user interfaces that abstracts from low-level implementation details. In particular, the user interfaces specified in the authors' framework are...

Provided by: Springer Science+Business Media

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Specifying and Verifying the Correctness of Dynamic Software Updates

December 2, 2010 12:00am PST

Recently, there has been much interest in Dynamic Software Updating (DSU) systems, which allow running programs to be patched on-the-fly to add features or fix bugs. Open-source and commercial...

Provided by: University of Maryland

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Design of an Optical Character Recognition System for Camera-Based Handheld Devices

July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

This paper presents a complete Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system for camera captured image/graphics embedded textual documents for handheld devices. At first, text regions are extracted...

Provided by: International Journal of Computer Science Issues

Case Studies

BlueFire: Hoster Offers Customers Flexible Desktop Access With Desktop Virtualization Software

December 8, 2011 12:00am PST

BlueFire, a leading managed and cloud hosting service provider in Australia, wanted to expand its hosted desktop business and lower the costs associated with hosting and managing the service. It...

Provided by: Microsoft

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OBT the OBT Anywhere Suite Powers Growth and Competitiveness at Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

September 29, 2011 12:00am PDT

OBT is a hosting services company that specializes in providing applications to small and medium-sized businesses, particularly professional service companies and security-conscious organizations....

Provided by: Microsoft