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Researchers show off advanced network control technology
Researchers can adjust network infrastructure to boost bandwidth, optimize latency and save power using an experimental technology called OpenFlow. Read more...

Alcatel-Lucent posts $52M loss in Q3

Popular free Web analytics service is opened to all

eBay may offer BI as a service to companies

Data mining for terrorists is an exercise in futility, advisory panel claims

ACH Food scours out its data pantry

Microsoft buys Zoomix to add data quality to SQL Server

NASA: Mars Lander short circuit pushes up ice test

Connecticut uses IT to match jobs with students seeking new skills

Infectious disease surveillance 2.0: Crawling the Net to detect outbreaks

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How to set up a cross-platform network
Your business may have started with an idea that popped into your head while freeloading off of the local coffee shop's wireless network. But you can't work out of the Java Hut forever.

Moo IT: Milking advanced tech to keep dairy cows fat and happy
As dairy farms continue to consolidate and expand, they're increasingly relying on a range of IT systems, biometric sensors and wireless technologies to support that growth.

Boyne Resorts
Using a BI-Web 2.0 mashup, Boyne Resorts marketing staffers can learn about customer behavior at each of the company's properties, such as the number of visits made to a particular resort or how many nights visitors stayed.

Harris Corp.
Harris Corp., a communications equipment maker, uses a business intelligence-Web 2.0 mashup that allows its engineers and others to search for parts information in a Google-like format.

Erlanger (Ky.) Police Department
By mashing together search, BI and mapping, the police department of Erlanger, Ky., can view real-time crime data from multiple agencies as well as crime records and incident reports stretching back five years.

Guy Carpenter & Co.
Location intelligence paired with risk management data lets reinsurance company Guy Carpenter prepare itself and its clients for potentially devastating losses, often caused by weather.

Can Web 2.0 save BI?
Welcome to Business Intelligence 2.0, a world in which a broader class of everyday business users are tapping into innovative new technologies and Web-based BI capabilities.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Using a BI-Web 2.0 mashup, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute can view genetic information from multiple databases with a specially designed Web portal.

IT hits the highway: Big rigs go high tech
From GPS and handheld computers to enhanced vehicle monitoring and safety systems, emerging technologies are poised to transform the trucking business.

Been audited lately? Blame the IRS's massive, superfast data warehouse
Thinking of fudging a bit on your tax return in these troubled times? Don't do it unless you feel smarter than the IRS's 150TB Compliance Data Warehouse, which is responsible for a marked improvement in the agency's ability to spot potential fraud.

If you're like our 7,000 survey respondents, your paycheck this year has been flattened and your bonus obliterated. We offer 12 ways to plump up your paycheck.
Microsoft's next OS might more accurately be called Windows 6.5: It's essentially a better version of Vista.
Twitter can be a valuable business tool -- if you know what you're doing. Here's how to juice it for all it's worth.
By helping Intel with loosened 'Vista Capable' requirements, Microsoft 'severely damaged' its credibility, said an HP exec in a newly unsealed Feb. 2006 e-mail.
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