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Digital Video Recorders and Video on Demand Change the Viewing Habits of TV Audiences Worldwide

Mon, 12/29/2008 - 08:00
December 10, 2008 By Jason Deign If your idea of television is something that comes through an antenna then read on. Because for a growing number of TV viewers worldwide, content now come through ...
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Networking Academy Goes from Strength to Strength in One of Africa's Neediest Communities

Wed, 12/17/2008 - 08:00
December 17, 2008 By Mike Stone In the last year the Nairobi ghetto of Kibera, home to one million Kenyans, has been the scene of an extraordinary achievement by the local people. Kibera is a community that lacks running water and, for the most part, electricity. ...
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Distributing High Quality Video Over A Wireless Home Network Is Coming Fast

Tue, 12/09/2008 - 08:00
December 9, 2008 By Erik Sherman Seventy years ago, a television set in a private home was not just unusual, but actually exotic. Over the following decades, market penetration of nearly 100 percent has made television today nearly ubiquitous in most developed countries. And over the next several years, video will evolve from an isolated TV in the den or bedroom into a networked resource. Sound and images from personal videos, Web videos, DVDs, and downloaded ...
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The Women's Executive Network Extends Audience Reach with Webcasts

Tue, 12/09/2008 - 08:00
December 5, 2008 Challenge The Women's Executive Network (WXN) is Canada's leading organization dedicated to the advancement and recognition of executive-minded women in the workplace. Since 1997, WXN has expanded to meet the needs of the growing number of women executives across Canada through networking, mentoring and professional development. WXN organizes and hosts an exclusive by-invitation-only breakfast series, Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top ...
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Contact Center Technology Brings Improved Customer Service, Business Benefits to Higher Education

Wed, 12/03/2008 - 08:00
December 3, 2008 By Jenny Carless Brandeis University is putting fewer student callers on hold and Florida International University has been able to route fewer calls to voicemail, thanks to network-based contact centers that let them handle calls more ...
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Increasing Business Agility with a Service-Oriented Architecture

Mon, 11/24/2008 - 08:00
November 24, 2008 Given two competing companies with equal capitalization, intellectual property, technology, who wins? The fastest-moving one, of course, but that doesn't mean the one who churns out the most widgets; it means the one that can most rapidly adapt its business model to changing conditions. The ...
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Mobility In The Construction Industry Means Lots of Moving Targets

Wed, 11/19/2008 - 08:00
November 19, 2008 On the surface, a construction company breaks down into the same sort of connectivity chunks as most other firms, except that a lot of its remote offices are actually job sites: dynamic, dirty, dangerous, and often in remote areas with no existing communications ...
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Cisco Creates a Mega-Router for Super Surfing

Tue, 11/11/2008 - 08:00
November 11, 2008 By Charles Waltner It's the story of the little technology that could. Ethernet, once the obscure inhabitant of back office computer systems, has now moved center stage in the communication revolution. In efforts to upgrade the world's networks for handling rapidly increasing traffic payloads brought on by the Internet - particularly video-based communications and entertainment -