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RFID: Thinking Outside the Box, Part 2

Radio frequency identification technology (RFID) vendors are now seeing demand from a wider range of end users for a broader range of applications -- from ID and access control to asset tracking, traceability and supply chain management. Vendors and developers are looking forward to the day when process improvements and demand reach a point where competing suppliers will drive down costs and lever RFID growth to the next level, as was discussed in Part 1 of this series...

East-West Tech Transfer: The Greening of IT, Part 2

Governments, international development organizations and transnational corporations are looking to technology transfers and the growing number of budding green IT initiatives to address economic and social development, as well as concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, climate change and environmental degradation resulting from industrial processes, as was discussed in Part 1 of this series...

RFID: Thinking Outside the Box, Part 1

Vendors and developers have invested large sums in RFID (radio frequency identification) and heavily promoted its use, especially in the retail, credit card and transportation industries, as well as across sectors for supply chain and inventory management ...

New Opportunities for RFID in the SMB Arena, Part 2

Improving RFID (radio frequency identification) systems for specific applications and industry sectors -- along with mandates from governments and large companies with extensive supply chains and logistics needs -- is spurring adoption by a wider range of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the public and private sectors ...

East-West Tech Transfer: The Greening of IT, Part 1

The sharing of new technology -- particularly in the high-tech sector -- is taking place faster than ever before, yet economics, political and socio-cultural differences, vested interests and national agendas remain obstacles constraining the potential benefits ...

New Opportunities for RFID in the SMB Arena, Part 1

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) has been a highly touted technology in recent years, but concerns -- particularly among small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) -- about high costs and actual benefits have hindered its adoption ...

What’s Eating Citywide WiFi, Part 2

Mayors and city governments around the U.S. bought into citywide WiFi project plans, which often included unsupportable performance claims and grossly inflated forecasts for the numbers of users they would attract. Those decisions have come back to haunt them and have led to some abrupt reversals of fortune in cities large and small, as was discussed in Part 1 of this series...

What’s Eating Citywide WiFi, Part 1

In their eagerness to bring the benefits of wireless internetworking to their cities, mayors in Chicago, Houston, San Francisco and other U.S. cities have bought into untested, inflated claims. Now, they are revising their plans to roll out municipal WiFi networks ...

Beyond Text: Intensifying Multimedia Search

The stakes are rising in the race to develop multimedia search engines capable of searching, indexing and cataloging the growing amount of music, images and video available on the Web ...

Meeting SOA and Web Services Security Challenges, Part 2

Making use of distributed computing, such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) and integrated Web application services, means greater complexity and security design challenges for organizations and IT managers ...

Meeting SOA and Web Services Security Challenges, Part 1

Software designers and developers are being challenged to build efficient security measures into their project work as computing is increasingly distributed via Web application services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) ...

Open Source: Changing Models, Changing Mindsets, Part 2

The open source model of developing software is making a significant impact, not only in the software development and broader high-tech community, but more generally within corporations, other types of businesses and organizations around the world, as Part 1 of this series describes ...

Mixing It Up With SOA and SaaS, Part 2

Organizations large and small are increasingly able to make use of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Software as a Service (SaaS), employing a mix of in-house, on-premise, vendor-supplied and hosted on-demand applications and platforms to meet the need for fast, flexible application development and deployment, as Part 1 of this series illustrates...

Open Source: Changing Models, Changing Mindsets, Part 1

Open source software -- think Linux, Firefox, Wikipedia, Apache, Ajax and a host of other projects -- has introduced a radically different development model -- and mindset -- to the stream of high-tech innovation. It is one that is having repercussions in the corporate world that go beyond how software, telecommunications and other information technologies are developed...

Good Reasons for Sticking With In-House, Part 2

While use of on-demand Software as a Service (SaaS) is expected to grow rapidly in the next few years, many organizations continue to prefer in-house application development and on-premise deployment to support a range of key business functions and processes, as is discussed in Part 1 of this series ...

Mixing It Up With SOA and SaaS, Part 1

Organizations continue to innovate, develop and distribute applications in-house, taking a cautious approach to the adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS) and associated service-oriented architecture (SOA) ...

Good Reasons for Sticking With In-House, Part 1

From all indications, the Software as a Service (SaaS) model of developing and distributing applications is gaining traction and is poised for a phase of rapid growth, whether it be in small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) or large-scale enterprises ...

The Customer Data Tug of War

Opposing tensions are much in evidence in the legal wrangle over individual privacy rights and security in the digital environment. The dizzying pace of technological innovation continues as individuals and organizations public and private struggle to come to grips with its implications and ramifications ...

The Internet and the Law: Work in Progress

New laws and regulations inevitably follow massive and profound technological changes as societies come to grips with how new technologies may be used ...

Bringing P2P File-Sharing Out of the Shadows, Part 2

The number of consumers downloading music from authorized sites could exceed that of peer-to-peer (P2P) users this year, according to research conducted by the NPD Group ...

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