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Evaluation of H.264/AVC Over IEEE 802.11p Vehicular Networks

April 11, 2013 12:00am PDT

The capacity of vehicular networks to offer non-safety services, like infotainment applications or the exchange of multimedia information between vehicles, have attracted a great deal of attention...

Provided by: EURASIP

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Sensing Vehicle Dynamics for Determining Driver Phone Use

April 11, 2013 12:00am PDT

This paper utilizes Smartphone sensing of vehicle dynamics to determine driver phone use, which can facilitate many traffic safety applications. The authors' system uses embedded sensors in...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Quick Tip: Take fast screenshots with Windows 8 shortcut

April 10, 2013 11:42am PDT

Capturing and saving a screenshot in Windows 8 can be as simple as a basic keyboard shortcut.

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Q&A

Online Training

April 10, 2013 11:16am PDT

Online Training Which company, in your opinion is the BEST for online IT training. Mostly Microsoft and Cisco? I am looking for an affordable solution. I was looking at New Horizons, but, It seems...

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OK, so stick with Windows XP: But how big a risk do you run?

April 10, 2013 6:00am PDT

Some organisations intend to keep using Windows XP even in the post-apocalyptic world after Microsoft ends support in 12 months. It's a calculated risk and one they should weigh up carefully.

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Troubleshooting Your Network without Breaking the Bank

April 10, 2013 12:00am PDT

As a network manager, application manager or security manager, you need systems in place that can collect data across your WAN, continuously analyze the data to discover problems, and allow you to...

Provided by: Riverbed

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Miercom Lab Testing Summary Report

April 10, 2013 12:00am PDT

Cisco engaged Miercom to evaluate the performance of the newly launched ASA 5500-X Series of Adaptive Security Appliances against comparable products selected on the basis of intended markets and...

Provided by: Cisco

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2013 Cisco Annual Security Report

April 10, 2013 12:00am PDT

Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the rapidly expanding attack surface found in today’s "any-to-any" world, where individuals are using any device to access business applications in a network...

Provided by: Cisco

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IDC Shows How VCE Saved Customers Time and Money

April 10, 2013 12:00am PDT

IDC research with five companies that have implemented Vblock Systems from VCE indicated substantial business benefits associated with IT convergence and improved asset sharing. The results also...

Provided by: Cisco

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A Network Control System for Scene Adaptive Semiconductor Lighting

April 10, 2013 12:00am PDT

This paper presents a design for intelligent control system of scene adaptive semiconductor lighting. The new design contains the host computer and the terminal in a control network. The lighting...

Provided by: JATIT

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An Improved Fair Guard Band Allocation Scheme in Cognitive Networks

April 10, 2013 12:00am PDT

In this paper, an improved fair dynamic channel algorithm allocation based on guard band scheme is presented. The adoption of the channel strategy in wireless communication has been ensuring the...

Provided by: JATIT

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Maximal Profit Service Task Partition and Allocation in Computer Grid Considering Service Reliability and Security

April 10, 2013 12:00am PDT

The paper considers grid computing systems in which the Resource Management Systems (RMS) divides a service tasks into Execution Blocks (EBs) and sends these blocks to different available...

Provided by: JATIT

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Troubleshooting Your Network without Breaking the Bank

April 10, 2013 12:00am PDT

As a network manager, application manager or security manager, you need systems in place that can collect data across your WAN, continuously analyze the data to discover problems, and allow you to...

Provided by: Riverbed

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Self-service cloud: Windows Azure Services for Windows Server (WASWS)

April 9, 2013 1:07pm PDT

John Joyner completes his series on building and managing a private cloud using the components of System Center 2012 SP1 and Windows Server 2012.

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It's Microsoft Patch Tuesday: April 2013

April 9, 2013 12:45pm PDT

Deb Shinder gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft's April 2013 patches in your organization.

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Connect your Windows Phone 8 with Box

April 9, 2013 7:34am PDT

Jack Wallen highlights how to install and use Box on your Windows Phone 8.

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Enterprise Anti-Virus Protection - Analyst Report by Dennis Technology Labs

April 9, 2013 12:00am PDT

The results are in. Symantec Endpoint Protection rated best overall in total accuracy in independent, real-world tests recently published by Dennis Technology Labs.This report by Dennis Technology...

Provided by: Symantec

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Client Management Tools

April 9, 2013 12:00am PDT

End-user computing and support organisations use client management tools to automate system administration and support functions that would otherwise be handled manually. The client managemenet...

Provided by: LANDesk Software, Inc.

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The Linux desktop 'mess'

April 8, 2013 7:37am PDT

Is the Linux desktop really a "mess" as some pundits call it? Jack Wallen takes issue with this claim and explains why he thinks the desktop is getting a bad rap.

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