Fleet Management: A GPS-GIS Integrated Approach
[ Source: GISdevelopment.net ]
January 2008-
Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite system that provides highly accurate location with the use of special GPS receivers and their augmentations. This accurate GPS data is of limited use by itself, unless it is coupled with a powerful visualization tool like the Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The GIS is a widely accepted visualization tool that presents data in a graphic form, which is a convenient and effective means of communicating complex information.
SNMP Monitoring for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server
[ Source: Research In Motion ]
January 2008-
One can use Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to assess the configuration, health, and status of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry user accounts. SNMP monitoring consists of multiple components. An SNMP service is a Microsoft Windows service that one can run on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. An SNMP service contains an SNMP agent that sends notifications, or traps, to an SNMP trap management tool when certain conditions are met. These conditions are described in ....
Firefox 3 Video Tour: The Awesome Awesome Bar
[ Source: TechWeb ]
January 2009-
InformationWeek's Mitch Wagner demonstrates some of the latest features found in FireFox3.
Amazon Debuts Version 2 Of Its Kindle In NYC
[ Source: TechWeb ]
February 2009-
With a little help from novelist Stephen King, Jeff Bezos took the stage at the Morgan Library in New York City today (February 9th, 2009) to show off the latest revision of its ebook reader: Kindle 2
Why Virtual Worlds Can Matter
[ Source: University of Southern California ]
January 2008-
Virtual worlds are persistent, avatar-based social spaces that provide players or participants with the ability to engage in long-term, joint coordinated action. This paper is an effort to outline some of the things happening in and around virtual worlds which make them more than ""just games"" and which may in fact point in the direction of new forms of knowing and acting in virtual spaces and give insight into what new, technologically mediated worlds may ....
The Friday ITch: Season 1, Episode 2
[ Source: TechWeb ]
January 2009-
Techweb's Weekly Comedy Show On YouTube lawsuits, Intel anti-trust suits, Mac vs. PC spoofs and More
Security Evaluation of Apple’s iPhone
[ Source: Independent Security Evaluators ]
January 2008-
The Apple iPhone was released to much fanfare on June 28, 2007. Because of the large amount of personal information stored on these mobile devices, the authors decided to conduct a security analysis of the iPhone. The iPhone’s applications for surfing the web and checking emails are potentially at risk to remote attacks. This paper examines exactly how well the software on the iPhone is designed to resist such attacks.
ReviewCam: I HeartMath
[ Source: TechWeb ]
August 2009-
emwave's Heartmath is a great little program that lets you monitor your heartrate, and then it translates that into a coherence score. This score measures your physio-emotional state, and helps you get all of that in balance.
Wolfe's Den Vlog: iPhone Mophie Battery Pack
[ Source: TechWeb ]
March 2009-
Apple's iPhone gets a battery boost with the Mophie Juice Pack. InformationWeek's Alex Wolfe demos the hot new accessory.
Extending IBM Lotus Domino Databases to BlackBerry: An Overview for System Administrators and Application Developers
[ Source: Research In Motion ]
January 2008-
This paper provides information about extending existing IBM Lotus Domino databases to BlackBerry users. A person can extend applications in two ways: he or she can use the BlackBerry Browser or create a custom application. Using the IBM Lotus Domino conversation forum template as an example, this paper exhibits how one can quickly mobilize an IBM Lotus Domino database for BlackBerry users. IBM Lotus Domino databases store, process, and display data in an easy-to-understand format. ....