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Five ways to make Google Apps safer

March 29, 2012 12:50pm PDT

David Politis suggests five specific and practical steps you can take to make your enterprise installation of Google Apps more secure.

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A Proxy Based Approach for Pre-Authentication in Media Independent Vertical Handover

March 12, 2012 12:00am PDT

With the proliferation of multiple wireless technologies and Smartphones with enhanced radio capabilities, it has become imperative to deliver services that can work seamlessly across...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

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OSS Managed Services - A New Business Model for Service Providers

January 26, 2012 12:00am PST

According to analyst firm Informa Telecoms and Media, today, time to market and cost control pressures are leading service providers to consider outsourcing their Operations Support Systems (OSS)...

Provided by: Amdocs

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Ice.com: Combining the cloud and open source

January 25, 2012 1:27pm PST

Not everyone is ready to make the leap to the cloud, but one innovative retailer is showing what benefits they realized by combining open source and cloud tech for a brand-new platform.

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Secure Top-K Query Processing Via Untrusted Location-Based Service Providers

January 10, 2012 12:00am PST

This paper considers a novel distributed system for collaborative location-based information generation and sharing which become increasingly popular due to the explosive growth of...

Provided by: Arizona State University

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Analysis of Leakage Reduction Technique on Different SRAM Cells

January 3, 2012 12:00am PST

Leakage components is very important for estimation and reduction of leakage power, especially for low power applications. This provides the motivation to explore the design of low leakage SRAM...

Provided by: International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology

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A Conceptual Model for an Efficient Personnel Monitoring System Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology

January 1, 2012 12:00am PST

In the era of knowledge economy, organizational success totally depends on performance of Human Resources. In the past decades, HR has shifted its emphasis to knowledge sharing and strategic...

Provided by: International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)

Webcasts

Revisiting Storage for Smartphones

January 1, 2012 12:00am PST

Conventional wisdom holds that storage is not a big contributor to application performance on mobile devices. In this webcast, the presenters present evidence that storage performance does indeed...

Provided by: USENIX

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The data center of the future: Less space, more capacity

November 14, 2011 8:45am PST

Joyent VP Lisa Petrucci considers the technological advances that will enable significant growth in compute capacity while the data center space required for it shrinks.

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Webcasts

Google I/O 2011: Python@Google

October 21, 2011 12:00am PDT

Python is one of the key languages at Google today. It runs on many users internal systems and shows up in many of their APIs. Some of the key contributors to the language are Googlers and...

Provided by: Oleksiy Kovyrin

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An Experimental Study of WSN Power Efficiency: MICAz Networks with XMesh

October 20, 2011 12:00am PDT

This is an investigation of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) using Memsic's XMesh routing protocol on MICAz wireless motes. It focuses on the study of the practical aspects of WSNs' power...

Provided by: Hindawi Publishing

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Why the Batphone keeps ringing in the cloud: Hardware matters more than ever now

October 12, 2011 9:03am PDT

Guest Contributor Lisa Petrucci explains why you can't forget the importance of hardware even when you've moved to the cloud.

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Emerging Ubiquitous Knowledge Services: From Mobile Sensing to Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing and Beyond

October 6, 2011 12:00am PDT

Recent advances of information and communication technologies (e.g., smartphones and Web 2.0) have facilitated ubiquitous sensing and networked collaboration among people. This trend has...

Provided by: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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Six ways to use Linux Live CDs in your business

October 3, 2011 6:00am PDT

Running a Live Linux CD or USB is a convenient way to perform a number of tasks when an installed OS is not necessary.

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Charging Scheduling With Minimal Waiting in a Network of Electric Vehicles and Charging Stations

September 23, 2011 12:00am PDT

Environment preservation has become a prominent issue around the world. As traditional Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles have been major contributors of air pollution, Electric Vehicles...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Managed network vs. managed router: What the carriers aren't telling you

July 5, 2011 9:00am PDT

Guest Contributor James Whitemore explains why he thinks a cloud-based managed network is a better alternative than managed routers and lists seven benefits this approach can provide.

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Asymmetric Data-Centric State Driven Architecture for Energy Management of Appliances

June 2, 2011 12:00am PDT

The drive to reduce carbon emissions and the move to less controllable energy sources has forced governments, energy producers, utilities and consumers to make the management of energy consumption...

Provided by: Liverpool John Moores University

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LeechLock: Preventing Selfish Clients in the BitTorrent Protocol

May 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Although the BitTorrent protocol incentivizes sharing by increasing a peer's download rate, tools have demonstrated that the tit-for-tat mechanism alone is insufficient to prevent peers from...

Provided by: University of Maryland

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LinkedDataLens: Linked Data as a Network of Networks

April 28, 2011 12:00am PDT

With billions of assertions and counting, the Web of Data represents the largest multi-contributor interlinked knowledge base that ever existed. The authors present a novel framework for analyzing...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

Webcasts

Plays Well With Others: Leadership in Online Collaboration

April 28, 2011 12:00am PDT

In this Webcast, the presenter finds the accomplishments of such online collaborations as Wikipedia, Apache and Firefox "Nothing less than astounding," and is both eagerly seeking and hoping to...

Provided by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology