Bandwidth Provisioning in Infrastructure-Based Wireless Networks Employing Directional Antennas
White Papers Motivated by the widespread proliferation of wireless networks employing directional antennas, the paper study the problem of provisioning bandwidth in such networks. For both the problems, it first designs algorithms for a network with only one...
[August 10, 2007, 11:08]
Sun lays an open source licence to rest
News Part of the non-proliferation effort involves encouraging companies to retire their own open source licences. The Open Source Initiative, the organisation that bestows official open source status on licences, has been trying to cut down on the...
[September 5, 2005, 9:35]
Google accused of bio-piracy
Talkback The private database businesses of Celera, Incyte and Human Genome Sciences were initially quite successful, but with the proliferation of public databases, the for-profit business model of selling access to genome databases was seriously...
[April 3, 2006, 19:07]
ARM plans fast Java chips
News Java comes at a time when people are looking at a more connected society," said Mike Muller, ARM chief technical officer, referring to the proliferation of consumer electronics devices connected to the Internet and to each other.
[May 10, 2001, 8:24]
Can Microsoft win the media format war?
News Past behavior indicates, "it's the proliferation play," Jones said. The question is whether they're going to use their technology as a pawn for Microsoft proliferation or whether they're going to sell good technology," said Yankee analyst Ryan Jones.
[February 4, 2003, 16:05]
Software developers win engineering award
News IBM claims that while most IT suppliers advocated solving the proliferation of non-compatible systems by replacement, the Hursley team "came-up with the simple but heretical idea" of connecting existing systems.
[June 11, 2004, 17:40]
Australia to ban spam
News Asked whether countries that are not renowned for international cooperation on issues such as human rights or nuclear non-proliferation were likely to be interested in working with Western governments on the spam issue, Alston's spokesperson said...
[July 23, 2003, 10:03]
Firms find more reasons to monitor workers
News The study, published Monday, blames the proliferation of such privacy-invasive technology on its low cost. The comments follow a report from the non-profit Privacy Foundation that found up to 14 million workers in the United States -- one out of...
[July 10, 2001, 12:21]
Linux servers 'attacked more often'
Talkback We all know, for instance, that the main security issue of the past year has been the proliferation of microsoft worms and virii, one after another. So this so-called study begins by discarding all the serious microsoft security issues, then...
[February 21, 2004, 1:33]
Business: IM is getting out of control
News This proliferation of secure products comes just as corporate IM users are taking a second look at the wisdom of exchanging sensitive information via instant message, the hazards of which were brought into high relief after the purloined ICQ logs...
[April 26, 2001, 15:14]
2000: The year of the chip
News Chief chip analyst at Dataquest, Joe D'Elia says the European market has been helped by the proliferation of telecoms technology, including mobile phones. The September quake in Taiwan played a part, causing panic on the "spot market" -- where...
[January 7, 2000, 10:10]
Fedora development 'worth $10.8bn'
News This year has seen an incredible proliferation of Linux-powered devices outside of traditional Linux strongholds: devices powered by the Moblin platform, netbooks like the Eee PC, mobile phones like the [G1 Android phone], and consumer devices...
[October 23, 2008, 16:55]
Distributed computing racks up anti-cancer wins
News The UK-based Find-A-Drug group announced on Wednesday that it has helped identify more than 40 molecules that may have the potential to fight the proliferation of cancer. Find-A-Drug, which is a non-profit making organisation, is also looking for...
[November 13, 2003, 15:15]
Sun to sell Zaurus at JavaOne
News Sun Microsystems will be selling the long-awaited Zaurus SL-5500 Linux-based handheld computer at the JavaOne developer conference beginning on Monday in New York, as a publicity exercise and to raise awareness of the proliferation of Java in...
[March 22, 2002, 18:04]
Microsoft simplifies Shared Source programme
News As with other individuals and organisations, we too have seen the proliferation of source code licenses become problematic," Jason Matusow, the director of Microsoft's Shared Source programme, wrote in a blog on Wednesday.
[October 19, 2005, 17:05]
Can wikis change the Web?
News The popularity and proliferation of wikis are particularly significant in an age of increasing distrust of mainstream media. Wikipedia and Wikinews were created by the same non-profit organisation, Wikimedia Foundation, and are available free of...
[November 16, 2005, 17:05]
Former FBI chief takes on encryption
News Freeh acknowledged last week that he has been campaigning "about this problem for many years" and said that the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the 50 state attorneys general, and the National Association of District Attorneys have...
[October 15, 2002, 10:43]
