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Portable Media Centers in Action (Video)

Portable Media Centers in Action (Video) 01/08/2004 07:34 PM
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Scalable Systems Software for Terascale
Computer Centers

Scalable Systems Software for Terascale
Computer Centers 07/20/2004 04:24 PM
ORNL Review Jul 20 2004 7:32PM GMT

Lights! Computer! Action! It's A Movie

Lights! Computer! Action! It's A Movie 09/19/2004 02:42 AM
The movie "Tarnation" marks a milestone in cinema history. It was made by one person sitting in front of a personal computer. By Allan Hoffman, The Star-Ledger (via MyAppleMenu)

Computer Associates May Face S.E.C.
Action

Computer Associates May Face S.E.C.
Action 01/16/2004 11:32 AM
The S.E.C. may file civil charges against the giant software company for booking sales before contracts were signed, a securities violation, the company said on Monday.

EU welcomes French action on computer
chips

EU welcomes French action on computer
chips 04/30/2004 10:40 AM
Forbes Apr 30 2004 3:09PM GMT

What's New in Our Knowledge Centers

What's New in Our Knowledge Centers 12/02/2003 01:28 AM

My Action Figure Can Beat Up Microsoft's
Action Figure (30-Aug-2004; 4.2K)

My Action Figure Can Beat Up Microsoft's
Action Figure (30-Aug-2004; 4.2K) 08/30/2004 10:39 PM

IBM opens four SOA design centers

IBM opens four SOA design centers 05/18/2004 08:43 AM
Hoping to give its strategies surrounding Systems Oriented Architectures (SOAs) a boost among corporate users, IBM on Tuesday announced it has opened four SOA Design Centers to help corporate users sculpt enterprise-level solutions, at its CIO Summit on SOAs in Toronto.

Oracle To Add R&D Centers In China

Oracle To Add R&D Centers In China 07/19/2004 03:18 AM

U.S. Call Centers Declining

U.S. Call Centers Declining 08/28/2004 07:49 AM
Techzonez Aug 28 2004 11:27AM GMT

Anti-Spam Centers

Anti-Spam Centers 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
Eric passes along this article about ending spam by altering the terms of the Internet, something World of Ends recommends against unless the new agreement is genuinely in the interests of the users. In this case, the group discussing changes to SMTP has been convened by the group that created SMTP 20 years ago....

MCI Upgrading 17 Data Centers

MCI Upgrading 17 Data Centers 05/19/2004 11:48 PM
theWHIR May 20 2004 4:10AM GMT

Cisco, IBM Target Data Centers

Cisco, IBM Target Data Centers 04/29/2004 01:15 PM
Cisco and IBM have integrated their data center architectures in an effort to further on-demand computing.

Travel Centers of America Goes Wi-FI
Nationwide

Travel Centers of America Goes Wi-FI
Nationwide 05/27/2004 01:37 PM
It's not a truck stop, it's a travel center, and its 150-plus locations will be wireless by July: Travel Centers combine truck stop features with RV and auto drivers needs, and they'll add Wi-Fi to the mix--it's a must have for any place in its category now. The 40 company-owned stores are already unwired; the franchisees will be ready to go by July 3. Service will cost $1.49 for an hour, $4.49 for 24 hours starting at the time of purchase, $22.49 for two months, and $169.99 per year. These longer plans are designed truckers to ensure brand loyalty. Diesel-fuel buyers can cash in RoadKing Club points they earn from buying gas against the Wi-Fi service....

Contact centers stay home

Contact centers stay home 12/24/2004 12:27 PM
Analyst says that the cost-effectiveness of outsourcing contact centers has not been broadly perfected.

Portable Media Centers set to ship

Portable Media Centers set to ship 07/09/2004 05:10 PM
ZDNet Jul 9 2004 9:27PM GMT

Miss. Testing Centers to Have Computers

Miss. Testing Centers to Have Computers 12/18/2003 11:52 AM
SiliconValley.com Dec 18 2003 10:56AM ET

Call Centers Ride Out Disaster

Call Centers Ride Out Disaster 01/04/2005 06:25 AM
Some U.S. customer support lines outsourced to India experienced a brief failure in service following the deadly Asian tsunami, but economists say U.S. companies won't have to move their call centers. By Elisa Batista.

HP to open centers in Poland and Russia

HP to open centers in Poland and Russia 04/15/2005 12:05 PM
Hewlett-Packard is strengthening its presence in Europe's emerging markets by opening a BPO (business processing outsourcing) center in Poland and a technology testing and integration center in Moscow.

Feds Launch Bioinformatics Centers

Feds Launch Bioinformatics Centers 08/07/2004 05:32 AM
Feds Launch Bioinformatics Centers By Michael Hardy
http://snipurl.com/88fk

Feds Launch Bioinformatics Centers - Institute contracts for databases and portals to compile info on diseases. Officials at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) are enlisting private companies and universities to help make data available about disease-causing organisms. Under eight five-year contracts, companies and academic institutions will develop databases and Web portals to compile information about a small number of pathogens, the germs that cause disease. Some of the pathogens are considered possible bioterrorism agents, while others are public health concerns unrelated to terrorism. With NIAID footing the bill, the data will be freely available to scientists, said Valentina Di Francesco, bioinformatics program director in NIAID's Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Officials at NIAID, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, have awarded seven Bioinformatics Resource Center (BRC) contracts, and one more is in negotiations, she said. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Academics get NSF grant for Net security
centers

Academics get NSF grant for Net security
centers 09/22/2004 08:13 AM

Notebook: Scaled-Down Diskcon Centers on
CE

Notebook: Scaled-Down Diskcon Centers on
CE 09/23/2004 05:19 PM
Consumer electronics draw the most interest at the show, along with small-form-factor storage and phones equipped with hard drives.

Netflix opens three more distribution
centers

Netflix opens three more distribution
centers 09/21/2004 04:26 PM
InternetRetailer.com Sep 21 2004 7:59PM GMT

3 Charged in Plot on U.S. Finance
Centers (AP)

3 Charged in Plot on U.S. Finance
Centers (AP) 04/12/2005 11:06 PM
AP - Three men with suspected al-Qaida ties, already in British custody, were charged Tuesday with a years-long plot to attack the New York Stock Exchange and other East Coast financial institutions.

Hackers breach supercomputer centers

Hackers breach supercomputer centers 04/14/2004 05:23 PM
Computer systems at universities in the U.S. and worldwide were infiltrated by malicious hackers in recent weeks, raising questions about the security of scientific research data, according to an official at the National Science Foundation.

BC Government Consolidates Data Centers

BC Government Consolidates Data Centers 05/20/2004 05:18 PM
theWHIR May 20 2004 9:40PM GMT

US Call Centers Move to Canada

US Call Centers Move to Canada 08/27/2004 03:48 PM
theWHIR Aug 27 2004 7:59PM GMT

Brother intros new Multi-Function
Centers

Brother intros new Multi-Function
Centers 08/03/2004 10:39 AM
Brother International Corp. on Tuesday introduced new inkjet all-in-one "Multi-Function Centers" designed to work with Macs and Windows PCs. The devices include the MFC-210c, MFC-420cn and MFC-620cn.

First Portable Media Centers Hit Store
Shelves

First Portable Media Centers Hit Store
Shelves 09/02/2004 05:56 PM

MS Portable Media Centers to ship
mid-Sept

MS Portable Media Centers to ship
mid-Sept 09/02/2004 04:02 AM
Creative Zen PMC arrives in US, coming to UK

I.B.M. Plans to Buy an Indian Owner of
Call Centers

I.B.M. Plans to Buy an Indian Owner of
Call Centers 04/09/2004 04:03 PM
I.B.M. said it would acquire Daksh eServices, the third-largest outsourcing company in India with call centers providing technical support and customer care services.

Big Blue sambas Linux centers into
Brazil

Big Blue sambas Linux centers into
Brazil 12/05/2003 05:25 PM
IBM opens two centers in Sao Paulo devoted to developing the open-source operating system for use in the country's public sector.

Universities, research centers retrench
after hacks

Universities, research centers retrench
after hacks 04/15/2004 03:53 PM
Academic supercomputing labs continue this week to clean up Linux and Solaris servers targeted by unknown attackers, as law enforcement officials investigate.

Zeta to Open Altec Demo Centers

Zeta to Open Altec Demo Centers 08/31/2004 02:32 AM
TechTree Aug 31 2004 6:28AM GMT

'Love Story' Centers on Truman Letters
(AP)

'Love Story' Centers on Truman Letters
(AP) 02/13/2004 07:16 AM
AP - As president, Harry S. Truman earned the moniker "Give 'Em Hell Harry." As a husband, he might have been better described as a man who gave his wife his heart.

MCI Upgrades Data Centers with More
Services, Security

MCI Upgrades Data Centers with More
Services, Security 05/19/2004 02:52 PM
The company builds on its acquistion of Digex with the advanced data centers, in which customers have limited access to equipment, on-site technical support and a range of IP bandwidth options.

Exploring New Roles for Community
Technology Centers

Exploring New Roles for Community
Technology Centers 12/16/2003 05:15 PM
Exploring New Roles for Community Technology Centers: Can CTCs Serve as Nonprofit Technical Assistance Providers?
http://www.compumentor.org /ctcstudy/

CompuMentor Report Examines the Capacity of CTCs to Provide Technology Assistance to Nonprofits. Over the past several years, much discussion has taken place in the nonprofit sector and particularly in the community technology movement around the evolving roles of community technology centers (CTC). One idea that has received significant attention is whether CTCs may expand their roles to act as nonprofit technology assistance providers (NTAPs).

With the support of the AOL Time Warner Foundation, CompuMentor took a closer look at this issue and published its findings in the report "Exploring New Roles for Community Technology Centers: Can CTCs Serve as Nonprofit Technical Assistance Providers?" CompuMentor's interest in this subject came from two vantage points. First, as an NTAP we understand there is a very large unmet need in the nonprofit sector for technology support services. Second, as a provider or services and technical assistance to CTCs, we know that sustainability is a huge challenge.

The key findings of the report, conducted by Rem Hoffmann, include:

* Although CTCs are perceived as tech-savvy organizations, they may not have the capacity to function as NTAPs.

* Technology skills are only one of five categories of qualifications necessary to serve as an NTAP. Others are mission congruency, business capabilities, the ability to subsidize the cost of providing service, and position in the community. While a number of CTCs meet some of these qualifications, very few meet all or most of them.

* NTAPs reported that fundraising to subsidize the cost of providing services was critical to succeeding. The report found that it costs much more to provide these services than nonprofits are able to pay, which directly contrasts the perception that CTCs acting as NTAPs can generate earned income to support their other programs.

There appears to be a small subset of CTCs that can offer NTAP services. The paper concludes with a recommendation to conduct further research of new models for NTAPs and CTCs to partner to deliver services to community-based organizations.

911 Call Centers Won't Be Ready For E911
Deadline

911 Call Centers Won't Be Ready For E911
Deadline 02/10/2004 04:48 AM
Last year we had a story about how the money that NY was supposedly collecting for E911 service (so police have the ability to locate mobile phone callers), was instead put into "dry cleaning bills, ballpoint pens, travel, car leases, grounds maintenance for precincts and winter boots." In response to this revelation, a bill was introduced in Congress to give more money to governments that don't divert the funds. You read that right, the plan to save the system was to give more money to governments that actually do what they're supposed to - rather than throwing away money on other things. So, is it really any surprise to find out now that a new study shows that 50% of all 911 emergency call centers won't be ready in time for the deadline? Apparently, they need more money. Perhaps if they hadn't squandered the money specifically earmarked for this purpose there wouldn't be a problem. It sounds like many of the call centers haven't even started the process of getting ready, despite knowing about the deadline for many years. The wireless carriers have fulfilled their end of the bargain and should all be ready when the December 31, 2005 deadline hits. It's just the local governments that have been ignoring the mandate in favor of spending money elsewhere. In the meantime, don't be surprised if the E911 fees on your mobile phone bill go up as the local governments need to make back all the money that went into those boots and ballpoint pens. Hope those new boots are comfy and the ballpoint pens write smoothly.

Offshoring threat downplayed for UK call
centers

Offshoring threat downplayed for UK call
centers 08/05/2004 12:41 PM
As in the United States, many in the tech sector are tuned to the trend of moving jobs overseas.
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