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- RFID for Asset Management at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
- The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in The Netherlands has been giving considerable attention to their collection registry system for many years. Museum Boijmans wanted to integrate the RFID system with their current registry system. This system is able to give an overview of all the objects that are available in...
- Tags: Asset, Omron Corp., Museum, RFID, Asset Management, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Operational Planning, Business Operations
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- The Museum of Broadcast Communications: Recasting Radio and Television Content
- The Museum of Broadcast Communications MBC serves as a reservoir and safe haven for radio and television programs, some dating back to the 1930s. The Museum of Broadcast Communications was hampered by an out-of-date infrastructure, a vast collection of time-worn audio and video tape formats, and costly manual processes. With...
- Tags: Audio, Radio, Museum, IBM Corp., TVs, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing
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- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Exhibits New Savings and Productivity With Avaya Communication System
- Founded in 1935, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast of the United States devoted solely to works from the 20th century. The museum wanted to ease IT management burden and decrease recurring costs by streamlining communication infrastructure using a single...
- Tags: Museum, Avaya Inc., VOIP, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Networking
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- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Deploys Cisco IP-Based Network to Deliver Interactive Learning Experiences
- The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, located at the former dividing line between slave and free territories on the Ohio River, helps foster global empathy for freedom using exhibits that provide on-the-spot learning and personalization of the freedom experience for each visitor. The museum is deploying an end-to-end...
- Tags: Network, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., Museum
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- I-CODE Identifies Museums Old Masters
- Attached to some 15,000 drawings at the Boijmans Van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam - which includes works by Rembrandt, Renoir and Picasso - I?CODE-based Talking Tags provide museum staff with a fast and easy solution for locating an individual piece of art, as well as helping with increased security. The...
- Tags: Museum, I-CODE, Security
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- I-CODE Enables Museum Visitors to Take Their Memories Home
- With the support of its partners, Philips Semiconductors, Austria Card and Datatronic, the Technical Museum of Vienna has unveiled the world's first RFID multimedia system. The system enhances the experience of visitors to the museum's medien.welten media worlds exhibition, which provides a complete overview of the development of storage and...
- Tags: Multimedia, Museum, I-CODE, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Museum Switches From Microsoft Windows to SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server and IBM iSeries, Reducing Administrative and Licensing Costs by Nearly 80 Percent
- Located in San Francisco, California, the Asian Art Museum is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art. While most of the museum's core desktop applications are Microsoft Windows, the organization wanted a more cost-effective operating system that would make the most of its...
- Tags: IBM iSeries, Window, Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Microsoft Corp., Museum, SuSE Linux, SuSE, IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
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- Success Story: Hewlett Packard/Canadian Museum of Nature
- The Canadian Museum of Nature, which includes its premier research facilities, turned to Hewlett Packard's HP managed services to maintain the museum's IT infrastructure and deliver maximum system uptime. One of the challenges the HP team had was keeping server documentation up-to-date on a monthly basis. When the HP team...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Ecora Software Corp., Museum, Team Management, Management
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- Extreme Networks Case Study: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- As one of the world's most innovative museums of modern and contemporary art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SFMOMA is committed to an active technology refresh program based on the idea that a museum should continually strive to improve the ways in which it serves a diverse public. When...
- Tags: Museum, Extreme Networks, Routers & Switches, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
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- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Merges Art and Technology With a Wireless Network From Extreme Networks
- As one of the world's most innovative museums of modern and contemporary art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SFMOMA is committed to an active technology refresh program based on the idea that a museum should continually strive to improve the ways in which it serves a diverse public. When...
- Tags: Network, Museum, Extreme Networks, Wireless Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless
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- Canadian Museum of Civilization Improves Visitor Experience With the Power of CA
- The Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation CMCC encompasses two world class museums, the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum. CMCC wanted to improve financial self-sufficiency of the Corporation and explore new and cost-efficient ways to ensure the operational viability of the Corporation. The museum also wanted to...
- Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., Museum, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Security, Management, Finance
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- Photos: A high-tech museum for news junkies
- The Freedom Forum's museum of news shows how technology has influenced news-gathering techniques over the decades. by CNET News.com
- Tags: news, museum
- Image galleries 2008-04-16
- Geek Trivia: A good (space)walk spoiled
- As research continues toward the goal of building a better spacesuit, one has to wonder if one of the unstated drives of these efforts is to ensure that outer-space golfers can grip a club with two hands. Because 37 years ago -- Feb. 6, 1971 -- when astronaut Alan Shepard...
- Tags: Olympic Games, Iron, Museum, Games, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- County Museum Integrates Gift Sales, Admissions, Memberships, and Finances
- With no IT solution to build upon, Dallas County's forming Old Red Museum had to extrapolate future data needs for souvenir sales, customer records, donations, admissions, memberships, and social events. Data had to integrate with a comprehensive financial system and reports had to meet tight non-profit standards. Museum-specific solutions proved...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Admission, Microsoft Corp., Museum, County Museum, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Sales, Finance
- Case studies 2008-01-11
- Network Access Protection Helps Art Museum Share Information More Securely
- The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam is a museum in the Netherlands that showcases Dutch art from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The museum has a long history of making art accessible to the public, and the tradition of accessibility also extends to its technology environment. Visiting colleagues and students can...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Network, Museum, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Workstations, Networking, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Photos: Exhibit lets you star in 'CSI'
- Wannabe forensic specialists are getting a crack at realistic cases with an interactive museum display based on the popular television show. by CNET News.com
- Tags: museum, tv, TechRepublic Inc., Photograph, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-10-05
- woop woop woop, a 3 stooges museum
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20631781/Damn, I lived in Pennsylvania most my life and I never knew there was a 3 stooges museum.Hell, even my x wife let me watch the 3 stooges marathons. Even she knew what lines not to corss with me.;o)Dan
- Tags: DanLM, museum
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
- Video: A computer history museum hidden in the boonies
- You'd naturally expect a museum featuring computers from the history of the PC revolution to be in Northern California. However, you wouldn't expect it to be tucked away in the Santa Cruz Mountains on a 19th century farmstead sharing real estate with pigs and chickens. That's exactly what you'll find...
- Tags: Video, Museum, Computer, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2007-08-23
- Photos: Peace in Los Alamos
- It might be the last place you'd expect it, but at Los Alamos National Lab, scientists are working on ways to keep the world safe from weapons of mass destruction.A replica of "The gadget," the atomic device exploded at the Trinity site in the New Mexico wilderness on July 16,...
- Tags: photograph, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, Bradbury Science Museum, Trinity Test, replica, bomb, droplet, mineral, vicinity, comic, reproduction, sand, museum, New Mexico, suspicion, helm, professor, scientist, director, security
- Image galleries 2007-08-06
- Photos: Revisiting the power of the atom bomb
- In Albuquerque, a museum looks at Fat Man and Little Boy, and the effect they had in 1945 and later years.
- Tags: museum, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-07-30
