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Corporations find bargains in basements of eBay
News Some of our customers were doing business on eBay on an ad hoc basis, doing some auctions to get rid of excess inventory and end-of-life assets that they couldn't otherwise get rid of," said Ajit Nazre, managing director of the SAP unit that runs...
[September 5, 2003, 12:25]
US military invests in 'active' RFID
News We were using active RFID tags in Operation Iraqi Freedom, but part of the problem that we have there is that it is ad hoc. It will be the law. For the Pentagon, RFID systems are part of a major logistics revamp.
[March 23, 2004, 13:25]
ROI, security and management: three necessities of the WLAN
News These ad hoc wireless connections -- called rogue access points -- introduce serious security issues. JP Gorsky, product line manager for Enterasys said, "I think one of the real compelling reasons beyond the 'gee whiz, it's cool' stuff is that it...
[March 24, 2003, 13:46]
IDF: Enterprise wireless networks secure at last?
News He identified the rogue access point as one of the five major areas where more work was needed: the others were ease of use, managing users, securing ad-hoc networks where no access point was present, and coping with denial of service attacks.
[September 12, 2002, 8:50]
Information overload: How vital data can get overlooked
News When possible, your policy should prohibit the creation of ad-hoc reports, which is any reporting request that is a solitary request with no plans of rerun. While the delivery of this information is crucial to decision making, providing too much...
[August 2, 2006, 16:50]
Brother MFC-845CW review
Reviews The presence of both Ethernet and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi means you can either connect the MFC-845CW to a wireless router via an Ethernet cable or print wirelessly in either infrastructure or ad hoc mode. The silver-and-black MFC-845CW measures 39.8cm wide...
[March 26, 2007, 12:20]
Reaping business intelligence's harvest
News Cognos, for example, has long been strong in ad hoc data query processing, while SAS Institute's business performance focus has made its systems more of an applied business tool. If you've been working in business for any length of time, you would...
[January 5, 2004, 10:59]
Internet governance battles to continue
News When the US government was considering how to privatise those functions in 1996, the society's president chaired an "International Ad-Hoc Committee" that proposed to take over the job, and to add seven new domain names including .arts and .web.
[November 18, 2005, 15:50]
IBM integrates Rational into Tivoli tools
News One of the problems with IT [shipments] now is that everything is solved on an ad hoc basis — all of the processes for doing things like adding a user or resolving a problem," Ptak said. IBM next month plans to highlight products from its Tivoli...
[April 29, 2005, 9:35]
80/20 rule helps you work smarter, not harder
News This may seem contrary to the time management guidelines from Step Three, but if you've created your schedule with enough flexibility to handle ad hoc requests, this shouldn't affect your timeline. You can minimise your workload without shirking...
[July 10, 2002, 14:30]
MessageLabs: Filtering your email sewage
News Short-term projects arrive as-and-when for ad hoc fire-fighting. "ISPs do the equivalent of pumping out raw sewage into your home. You wouldn't expect to have to filter your own water, so why do home users have to filter their own data?
[November 30, 2005, 12:45]
Microsoft: Now HTTP needs replacing
News It's all hackery, it's all ad-hoc and none of it is interoperable," he added. Delivering the keynote at European DevWeek in London on Tuesday, Microsoft .Net evangelist Don Box said HTTP presents a major challenge for Web services, for peer-to-peer...
[February 26, 2002, 15:19]
Photos: Red Hat boss seeks The Truth
News These laptops contain ad hoc wireless networks - all those kids can share and collaborate with each other. Speaking to a crowd made up of a mixture of enterprise technology professionals and hardcore open source enthusiasts, Szulik chose to side...
[June 1, 2006, 10:05]
Business intelligence tools up for the recession
News But that ad hoc approach can make life difficult, especially as it can spark departmental infighting.over whose views should be accommodated first. The economic downturn could speed up the deployment of business-intelligence tools to non-specialist...
[November 28, 2008, 11:22]
Windows chief fields readers' questions
News You can create ad hoc meetings between users, whether it be at Starbucks or in a conference room. As the man in charge of getting the operating system out the door, Allchin's schedule is understandably tight.
[January 30, 2006, 9:35]
Microsoft discloses more Windows code
News This type of broad support leads to the creation of ad hoc communities to provide features and functions not in Media Player natively and therefore helps build adoption rates" for third-party programs.
[August 28, 2002, 8:07]
Join The Mass Work Skive On May 15
Blog The notion of nine to five might even gradually vanish, with staff working ad-hoc hours around their home commitments, but that just can’t happen to traditional businesses that deal with the public or clients who have a life outside work.
[May 9, 2008, 11:50]
Two takes on reality
Blog I can recommend being editor as a way to stimulate the little grey cells - I blinked at around five o'clock and realised that the day had passed in a blur of emails, ad-hoc meetings, stories, questions and answers.
[July 16, 2008, 1:47]
Comdex '99: keeps growing from its roots
News One pavilion spotlights development tools and wireless communication products based on Bluetooth, the emerging international specification for short-range, ad hoc networking. The 20th anniversary edition of COMDEX/Fall promises to be bigger, better...
[November 11, 1999, 11:15]
Building a better intranet
News If your organisation is like most, your intranet infrastructure was never a priority until it had already grown into a mess. The intranet wasn't a planned addition to the network. It grew out of a hodgepodge of Web applications that were added...
[January 9, 2004, 10:50]
