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Nortel Network Case Study: Barker College
White Papers The company wanted greater bandwidth and network speed to increase productivity, Barker College began a staged network upgrade. A leading Australian independent school for Years 3 to 12, the School's site at Hornsby covers twenty hectares on a...
[January 10, 2008, 23:00]
Nortel Networks Extends Corporate Efficiencies To Education
White Papers Barker College, a leading Sydney independent school, prides itself on its well-appointed Information Technology Centre. Needing greater bandwidth and network speed to increase productivity, Barker College began a staged network upgrading with Cisco...
[November 29, 2004, 23:00]
Wireless LAN Software White Paper
White Papers Rather than using the Barker code, CCK uses a series of codes called Complementary Sequences. Because there are 64 unique code words that can be used to encode the signal, up to 6 bits can be represented by any one particular code word (instead of...
[November 24, 2003, 23:00]
Farm Equipment Dealer Improves Customer Service And Employee Productivity
White Papers In the rapidly consolidating retail implement market, Barker seeks to use technology to gain competitive advantage through superior customer service. Barker salespeople need to provide a variety of data, including quotes, marketing communications...
[January 17, 2008, 23:00]
Learn Virus Writing Skills In Canada
News Ken Barker, head of the school's computer science department, contends that such a class is needed to better understand what motivates those who write malicious software, which he says is a growing problem.
[May 28, 2003, 13:50]
Waterstone's Closes Book On Amazon
News The market was very undeveloped [five years ago]," said HMV Group spokesman Paul Barker on Wednesday. Internet book retailing was only five percent of total book sales in the UK, and it looked at that time as though the market would probably grow...
[May 10, 2006, 13:10]
Time Crisis: Will Customers Get Their Goods?
News Any claim that could have been brought against Time or Tiny can be brought against the credit provider under Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974," said Joanne Barker, senior lawyer at Which? As Barker explains, "if they had paid £500 deposit...
[July 27, 2005, 15:35]
Startup Spotlight: Human Search Engine Launches
News The Internet has become a victim of its own success, with lots of search engines struggling under the weight of its content," says Richard Barker, managing director of Questico. Barker's attitude highlights the limitations of search engines such as...
[October 24, 2000, 8:10]
IBM Sneers At EMC's Storage Virtualisation
News IBM virtualisation spokesperson Gary Barker said his company saw EMC as "a strong competitor", and admitted the statement was a little dramatic. Barker said IBM in general was a proponent of open standards, but he stopped short of welcoming EMC's...
[May 19, 2005, 8:55]
Who Owns Whom?
Talkback Colin Barker Well done for spotting that I had referred to the "VMware owned EMC" when it is so obviously the other way around. By now the mistake will have been corrected, this sparing my blushes. Still, some may argue that this could only be a...
[September 12, 2007, 8:31]
Clarification From The Author
Talkback Colin Barker IBM has asked me to make it clear that the industry standards discussed here are "industry standards, not IBM standards". The way it currently reads, they say, "it appears as if IBM is trying to get everyone to use proprietary IBM...
[July 11, 2007, 21:37]
Good Points
Talkback Colin Barker Yes, it is confusing and your points are essentially correct. The BSA is an independent organisation and not a company and you are right that it has no legal right to sue anybody. Instead it works with, and has the co-operation of...
[June 27, 2007, 9:57]
You May Not Fit The Profile.....
Talkback Colin Barker, ZDNet UK ….but whatever your age, if you are going to use a word like “distros” you are most certainly young at heart!
[May 9, 2007, 19:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Reports are filtering back from Dell's bash yesterday in Monte Carlo where Colin Barker, our man in the Saville Row suit and the gold Wednesday 7/6/2006 Rolls-Royce, has been dutifully taking notes. The bash was ostensibly to talk about Dell's...
[June 9, 2006, 18:40]
ChoicePoint Trusts System Security To CA's ETrust Solutions
White Papers Join Gedeon Hombrebueno, CA's eTrust business manager, and Chad Barker and Bill Bloom from Choicepoint for an informative webcast as they discuss how Choicepoint is proactively identifying vulnerabilities and monitoring security events using CA's...
[September 15, 2003, 0:00]
Thanks To All For The Ideas
Talkback Colin Barker When you try to do a top ten you know you will not fit everything in but thanks for all the suggestions. I kick myself for missing out the Denver baggage mess. That is one computer disaster that can still make me smile years later - it...
[November 28, 2007, 10:36]
Not Covered In This List
Talkback Colin Barker I would point out the footnote to this piece that makes it clear we would not included incidents and issues that involved loss of life. This point was in the last paragraph so it is understandable that it was not picked up.
[November 23, 2007, 8:12]
SNW Offers The Frights...
Blog Comment I thought I would comment on Colin Barker's piece in ZDnet titled "SNW offers the frights". The article starts out with an oversimplification: The storage industry is enjoying a boom currently thanks to the requirement for IT managers to keep...
[November 6, 2007, 12:22]
Midwest Farm Machinery Provider Solves E-Mail Problems And Improves Security
White Papers An independent dealer of John Deere, Barker Implement, an Iowa farm equipment retailer, was in need of a security solution that would restore interrupted e-mail communication with its customers, a critical method for receiving orders and...
[December 18, 2007, 23:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I'm not sure what the opposite to a cub reporter is — presumably Great Bear — but whatever the term is, Colin Barker is your man. Wednesday 26/10/2005 He has the unflappability born of years of experience: if Steve Ballmer ripped off all his...
[October 28, 2005, 19:30]
