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A New <endeca_term>Optimistic</endeca_term> Replication Strategy for Large-Scale Mobile Distributed Database Systems

A New Optimistic Replication Strategy for Large-Scale Mobile Distributed Database Systems

This paper proposes a new optimistic replication strategy for maintaining the eventual consistency in large-scale mobile distributed... Read more

1 November, 2010
Replication Management and <endeca_term>Optimistic</endeca_term> Replication Challenges in Mobile Environment

Replication Management and Optimistic Replication Challenges in Mobile Environment

...is a fundamental technique for supporting concurrent work practices in mobile environments. Optimistic replication algorithms allow replica contents to become stale but in a controlled... Read more

1 November, 2011
The <endeca_term>Optimistic</endeca_term> Weather 1.8.5

The Optimistic Weather 1.8.5

Optimistic Weather, will it be sunny tomorrow? Almost certainly. You can't control... Read more

24 August, 2011
Short-Term Prediction-Based <endeca_term>Optimistic</endeca_term> Object Tracking Strategy in Wireless Sensor Networks

Short-Term Prediction-Based Optimistic Object Tracking Strategy in Wireless Sensor Networks

...considerations. In this paper, the authors propose a short-term Prediction-based Optimistic Object Tracking (POOT) strategy to reduce energy consumption and prolong the lifetime... Read more

1 July, 2011
A Survey on <endeca_term>Optimistic</endeca_term> Fair Digital Signature Exchange Protocols

A Survey on Optimistic Fair Digital Signature Exchange Protocols

...does. This paper, gives a survey on the most important fair and optimistic digital signature exchange protocols. Optimistic, means the Third Trusted Party (TTP) is... Read more

2 February, 2011
An <endeca_term>Optimistic</endeca_term> Parallel Simulation Protocol for Cloud Computing Environments

An Optimistic Parallel Simulation Protocol for Cloud Computing Environments

...delays due to load sharing among other active services, and can cause optimistic simulation protocols to perform poorly. This paper discusses problems such as increased... Read more

30 September, 2010
<endeca_term>Optimistic</endeca_term> Way of Accessing Open Storage Using Collaborative Approach

Optimistic Way of Accessing Open Storage Using Collaborative Approach

Files are sent and delivered only if the Source-System and the Receiving-System is Switched-On. The system is on... Read more

23 March, 2012
Three-Round Abuse-Free <endeca_term>Optimistic</endeca_term> Contract Signing With Everlasting Secrecy (Short Paper

Three-Round Abuse-Free Optimistic Contract Signing With Everlasting Secrecy (Short Paper

Contract signing is an important part of business transactions. Fairness is a basic requirement for contract signing.... Read more

1 January, 2011
A New <endeca_term>Optimistic</endeca_term> Mobility Model for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

A New Optimistic Mobility Model for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

To produce a real-world environment within which an ad hoc network can be formed among a set of nodes, there is a need... Read more

1 October, 2010
Research on <endeca_term>Optimistic</endeca_term> Fair Protocol for Cascading P2P Exchange

Research on Optimistic Fair Protocol for Cascading P2P Exchange

In simple electronic commerce transaction, some parties serve as vendors, and the others act as buyers. Usually vendors... Read more

31 July, 2010

Looking ahead â?? cloud developments this year

In my previous posting I referenced some Forrester Research that took an optimistic position on cloud growth during 2012. In this post, I’m going... Read more

1 February, 2012
Verifying Linearizability With Hindsight

Verifying Linearizability With Hindsight

...authors present a proof of safety and linearizability of a highly-concurrent optimistic set algorithm. The key step in their proof is the Hindsight Lemma... Read more

28 July, 2010

HP cuts 27,000 staff as Autonomy chief Lynch leaves

Mike Lynch, who saw his UK software analytics provider sold to HP last year for £7.1bn, is to be replaced by HP's strategy chief after the company reports a 'disappointing' second quarter Read more

24 May, 2012 by David Meyer
Lenovo ThinkPad T420s

Lenovo ThinkPad T420s

Much of this ThinkPad's design — and particularly the excellent keyboard — is traditional, but it packs plenty of up-to-date specs too: Core i7 CPU, hybrid discrete/integrated graphics, solid-state drive, USB 3.0 and a high-quality multimedia subsystem. All this makes for an expensive notebook, but it's one we're happy to recommend. Read more

15 March, 2012 by Charles McLellan

Further lessons of closed source software

...was already in place is a Windows 2008 R2 server. But, being optimistic we moved forward on the project. After digging around we soon found... Read more

24 April, 2012

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Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

6 minutes ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

47 minutes ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

3 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

4 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

4 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

5 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

6 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

7 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

8 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

8 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

12 hours ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

14 hours ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

17 hours ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

23 hours ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

24 hours ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

1 day ago by Iain Sutherland via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

1 day ago by SoapyTablet on Huawei, ZTE face EU 'illegal state subsidies' probe
Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

1 day ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

1 day ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

1 day ago by Jake Rayson on xTreme Triple Booting: Linux, Mac & Windows