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Integrating eBooks with physical books listed in the traditional card catalog allows libraries to catapult into the 21st century rather than be left in the digital dust.
Recent Reports Examine Smartphone Shopping Behaviors
Several recent studies and data reporting the shopping habits of smartphone users provide potential glimpses into what’s in store for mobile shopping.
Intel Courts Green Datacenters
Intel’s first server processor designed exclusively for the & green& datacenters of the future features eight cores per chip, a supercomputer-on-a-chip architecture, and novel new turbo- and energy efficiency-modes.
Leveraging User Predictability to Improve Mobile Web Browsing
Researchers from Microsoft and the Indian Institute of Technology think they have found a way to improve the mobile browsing experience. The heart of their idea is to use machine learning technology to predict a person’s future web accesses and pre-fetch the content so it can be presented in a timely manner.
Mobile Apps Driving Global Services
As mobile apps proliferate wildly, savvy enterprises are crafting strategies for satisfying their customers' needs to stay connected and conduct business using smartphones, tablets, and other handheld devices.
Cloud Desktop Boosts Small Business
The next generation of cloud-based apps will be integrated by virtual desktops targeting small businesses with software-as-a-service (SaaS) that is accessible from any popular browser for smartphones, tablets, laptops, or desktop computers.
Auto-Correcting Cloud Could Fight Threats as they Occur
DARPA and MIT are teaming up to create a cloud network that automatically identifies and fights security threats. Critical to the system is a model of a healthy cloud, which systems could use as a roadmap for standards.
Tool Educates SMBs on the Cloud
A new app for the iPad contains key tools to help small and medium-sized businesses learn more about the benefits and risks of cloud computing. The interactive app includes case studies and interviews with cloud experts.
Africa Poised to Leapfrog Developed Regions in Technology Adoption
Lacking the legacy IT infrastructure elements of more developed world regions, Africa's Greenfield situation presents the continent with great opportunities for the introduction of innovative, economic-boosting services.
Smarter Net Boosts Tough Apps
Compute-intensive applications executing on-the-fly processing of network data are turning to a new genre of accelerator that harnesses field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
Cloud Brings New Jobs, Study Finds
A study by the London School of Economics recently found that cloud computing brings new jobs and does not increase the risk of unemployment in the U.S. and Europe. It also predicted huge growth of cloud-related jobs in the coming years.
Cloud Computing at the Quantum Level
Using quantum computers to create cloud infrastructure could enable faster and more complex cloud systems. But the intricacies at the quantum level could risk security. Now a team of Austrian researchers has successfully demonstrated a security feature for future quantum cloud computing.
Make the Move to Cloud for the Right Reason
A smart cloud infrastructure automates many IT tasks, such as virtual machine creation and deployment, which needed to be manually performed in the past. This makes automation the key reason why companies should move to the cloud.
Rent a Virtual PC in the Cloud
Your next PC may be in the cloud, where free storage and rentable apps allows anyone to sync their Windows desktop with an iOS device such as an iPad, an Android tablet, a laptop and a desktop computer, whether its Windows, Linux or even a Mac.
WiFi Putting Everything on the Internet
Cheap, tiny WiFi on-a-chip modules can now make any electronic device smarter by giving it an IP address.
Cloud Server Market Exploding
Cloud servers are on track to become the fastest-growing and most important segment of the server market by 2015.
Mobile Fuels Africa's Economic Growth
The mobile explosion in African countries is producing a number of benefits to businesses and the people of the continent.
Federal Initiatives Provide Cloud Security Guidance
Two efforts aimed at improving the security of cloud services used by federal agencies provide guidelines for providers. As the provisions of those specifications are adopted, businesses will reap the benefits of improved security for their cloud services.
Cloud-Based System to Improve Disaster Response
Scientists have created a cloud-computing system to connect first responders, organizations, city officials and others during emergencies. The tool would provide up-to-date information and enable collaboration and communication between those in need.
Cloud Solves Health Care Problems for the Elderly
As populations age worldwide, cloud-based health services manage the care of the elderly, whether at home or at assisted-care residential communities.
