Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
- Improving Quality and Increasing Cost-Efficiency and Effectiveness of Care Delivery
- While healthcare costs in the United States are rising faster than in the rest of the world, coverage, quality of care, medical science are falling behind comparable nations. A recent Commonwealth Fund study compared the ability of 19 developed countries to provide timely and effective healthcare and ranked the United...
- Tags: U.S., Health Care, Oliver Wyman, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- White papers 2008-03-24
- Coverage With Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks
- This paper studies coverage with connectivity properties in large wireless sensor networks. The paper considers three classes; full coverage with connectivity; partial coverage with connectivity; and constrained coverage with connectivity. This paper outlines two simple network topologies to satisfy the constrained coverage with connectivity criterion. The paper compares the surveillance...
- Tags: Network, Coverage, Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless, Networking
- White papers 2006-07-19
- How to Make Your Wireless LAN Work: Design for Context, Coverage & Capacity
- To create a wireless network that will meet your capacity and quality of service QoS expectations, you must consider the three "C's" of wireless network design: The Context of the wireless network location The wireless signal Coverage The network's required Capacity (based on the number...
- Tags: QoS, LAN, Network, WLAN, Wireless Network, Motorola Inc., Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Small Steps Lead to Big Improvements in Java Code Quality
- So continuous integration is an important part of one's development process and one is eager to include a code-coverage check as part of the automated builds, but which coverage-rate targets should the development team set? Seasoned supporters of code coverage suggest that one aims for 75 percent, 85 percent, or...
- Tags: Jupitermedia Corp., Team Management, Programming Languages, Java, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2007-12-14
- CCNP ONT 642-845 exam guide: Master IP quality of service (QoS)
- Successfully passing the Optimizing Converged Cisco Networks exam (ONT 642-845) certifies that you have the knowledge and skills necessary to optimize and apply effective quality of service QoS techniques for converged networks. The CCNP ONT Official Exam Certification Guide helps you prepare for the the ONT 642-845 with...
- Tags: QoS, IP, Chapter Coverage
- Book chapters 2007-06-08
- Use these Fourteen Points to improve the quality of your data
- In today's business climate, poor-quality data can threaten the livelihood of your enterprise. This article shows how you can apply a quality-management expert?s Fourteen Point program to improve your data ?product.?More than ever, enterprises are dependent on data quality because it is our data—and the information we craft from that...
- Tags: Databases, Leadership, Dan Pratte, data quality, W. Edwards Deming
- Technical articles 2001-06-20
- MSDN Webcast: Code Coverage and Profiling in Visual Studio Team System (Level 200)
- This webcast explains about two valuable services - code coverage and code profiling - included in the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and about how code coverage tools help to test modules during development to ensure the quality of the applications. The webcast also shows how code profiling enables to...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Visual Studio, Team, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Webcasts
- Efficient Coverage Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks
- One of the biggest disadvantages of large scale wireless sensor networks lies on the complexity of logistics involving selective replacement of sensors that have ran out of energy. Fortunately, efficient power management schemes provide some relief as they are designed to extend network's lifetime and thus reduce the need of...
- Tags: Algorithm, Power Management, University Of Virginia, Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless, Supply Chain, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-04-14
- Optimize digital photo quality: Reduce noise, correct chromatic aberrations and control vignetting in RAW files with these Photoshop techniques
- To varying degrees, all digital cameras produce images with electronic noise, chromatic aberrations, and vignetting. Electronic noise shows up as extraneous pixels sprinkled throughout an image. Chromatic aberrations appear in transitional tonal areas as colored halos, color banding, or purple fringing, especially around backlit edges. Vignetting—darkening around image edges—occurs with...
- Tags: Technique, Adobe PhotoShop, Digital Photograph, O'Reilly Media Inc., Photograph, Noise, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Productivity, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Book chapters 2006-08-23
- Universal WiMAX: The WiMAX Solution for Both Fixed and Mobile Operators
- WiMAX 802.16e-based solutions are available, perform much better than WiMAX 802.16d-based solutions for fixed applications, and are the only possible WiMAX solutions for mobile deployment. Thanks to mandatory advanced radio feature support in the terminal, WiMAX 802.16e will benefit from the availability of mass-market terminals with guaranteed interoperability performance. Alcatel's...
- Tags: Mobile, Alcatel, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Product QA - Coverage Testing
- The client's Unified Messaging System UMS allows customers to send and receive messages using multiple methods including voice, fax, email etc. The client wanted their flagship product to be independently tested in order to deliver a quality product to its customers. The UMS system is the flagship product of the...
- Tags: Unified Messaging, QA, Flagship Product, BLUE STAR INFOTECH, Unified Messaging System System, Collaboration, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies 2006-07-27
- wireless internet for my laptop
- I travel a lot and need an internet card for my laptop. I would like to get rid of the DSL (AT&T) I have at home and use the laptop internet card as the only internet card in the house. Can it supply internet to the 2 other...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Home networking, wireless, wireless Internet, router, Linksys Inc., DSL, laptop computer, Internet, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Get IT Done: How to place your wireless access point
- Some administrators might have you believe that setting up wireless access points for optimal coverage is an exact science. Let me first dispel that notion. Selecting the best spot for your wireless access points can be a little like trying to use an old radio dial to tune in a...
- Tags: access point, cell, Del Smith CCNA, CCA, MCSE, Get IT Done, wireless
- Technical articles 2003-01-30
- Sprint’s wireless woes may derail WiMAX
- Sprint's wireless woes may derail WiMAXIt will be interesting to see what the next move will be. While the initial costs are high for WiMAX, the rewards could be great. Or do you agree that it's time for Sprint to abandon innovation, at least for the moment, and get back...
- Tags: Product marketing, Customer relationship management (CRM), Wi-Fi, wireless, Sprint Communications, customer service, WiMAX
- Discussion threads 2008-01-18
- VoIP wants to cut the computer cord
- Softphone technology lets people download a piece of software to make a call using VoIP from any computer--and it could eventually let everything from an iPod to a PDA act like a telephone. However, before softphones achieve wide deployment, the technology needs to be accessible to more devices than just...
- Tags: computer, networking, softphone, Sonja Thompson, telephone, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2005-09-26
- Audio Oxford Multilanguage Pack Pro (Symbian S60 5th Edition) (Mobile)
- Comprehensive Coverage of All Major European LanguagesThe MSDict Oxford Multilanguage Pack Professional is a collection of 5 Oxford dictionaries from the Concise Oxford series, covering the most used European languages today - English, German, Spanish, French and Italian, with English as a base language. Each of the bilingual dictionaries includes...
- Tags: Audio, Word, Symbian Inc., Dictionary, Audio Pronunciation Database
- Software downloads 2009-03-11
- Real-world tests of 802.11n technology: How does it rate?
- Last week, I took a look at what various hardware providers are saying about the performance of their new 802.11n or Wireless N product lines. The general message was that the next generation of wireless systems are faster and more powerful than ever before: up to five times faster along...
- Tags: Wireless, Wifi, Testing, Networking, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Sanity check: Will WiMAX be a 3G killer, or is it vice versa?
- Fierce competition can bring out the best and the worst in businesses, and it also makes for great theater. In the technology world over the past three decades, we have watched commercial empires rise and fall with amazing swiftness and drama. New competitors have arisen out of nowhere and trumped...
- Tags: VoIP, Mobile, Network, 3G, Ericsson Inc., Sprint Communications, Verizon Wireless, HSPA, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2007-10-07
- Systematic Structural Testing of Firewall Policies
- Firewalls are the mainstay of enterprise security and the most widely adopted technology for protecting private networks. As the quality of protection provided by a firewall directly depends on the quality of its policy (i.e., configuration), ensuring the correctness of firewall policies is important and yet difficult. To help ensure...
- Tags: Firewall Policy, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2008-07-29
- Can you mitigate risk by replacing sensitive resources?
- I get grief from friends and family over my bike for similar reasonsIt's not a road racing engineering marvel but it's well into the "light" quality range and not something I could afford to replace. Being from a biking family, some levels of quality and equipment are a requirnment more...
- Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, Outsourcing, Operational accounting, SECURITY, bike
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
