In 2006, Chris Loope was working as a consultant implementing a new ERP system for a client. The 18-month project required Loope to clock 80-hour work weeks and to travel frequently between his home in Dallas and his client's office in Atlanta.
By the end of 2010, users in more than 80 U.S. cities may be able to ditch their cable modems, T1 setups and DSL lines -- and the Wi-Fi routers that go with them -- in favor of WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) broadband wireless technology.
China's largest search engine Baidu reported that net profit in the third quarter was up 80 percent year-on-year, as the company saw strong growth in website traffic, and benefited from improvements made to its online ad services.
The European Commission has ordered all makers of portable music players to add a default volume setting of around 80 decibels (dB) and a health warning to all new devices within the next two years.
Most data is "fixed content," or digital information that will be preserved in its original form without change. Examples include most images (think of a medical X-ray or a canceled check); archived transactions; stored e-mail, presentations and business documents; and contracts, medical records and legal papers. EMC Corp. estimates that 80% of all stored data is fixed and that it grows by 90% annually.
Rob Carter, FedEx's top IT executive, received a pay package worth $5.8 million in 2012, a gain of 80% compared to a year earlier, when his pay was $3.2 million.
WhitePages.com does exactly what you'd expect from the name -- it tries to provide phone book-style listings for both the U.S. and Canada. Of course, there's nothing new about that, so WhitePages.com tries to do an especially thorough job. The company claims that at the end of 2007, it had 180 million U.S. adults, about 80% of the population, in its records.
Clearwire Corp. officially launched WiMax services in Atlanta, noting that the launch in its largest city so far keeps it on track to provide service in 80 U.S. markets by the end of 2010.
ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Infor and its investor, Golden Gate Capital, have formed a holding company to buy SoftBrands in a US$80 million deal that will further expand Infor's sprawling, acquisition-driven portfolio.
SAP is suing insurer Swiss Re International, claiming that the company has refused to pay its share of an US$80 million settlement with Waste Management, which had brought suit against SAP in 2008 over a troubled software project.
Beijing appears to have taken a page out of Myanmar's playbook by blocking some Internet access amid rioting in Tibet that has already seen as many as 80 people killed, according to the Tibetan government in exile.
Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Elcot) uses an unusual way to test laptop computers that it plans to deliver to students in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. It places them on a hard floor and asks people weighing over 80 kilograms to walk all over them to ensure that the computers are rugged and durable.
On Monday last week, SunRocket abruptly ceased business operations leaving more than 200,000 VoIP customers without service. The company had already laid off about a quarter of its work force two weeks before it closed the doors. SunRocket started offering services in November 2004 and had secured $80 million in venture capital funding since beginning operations.
Even though Steve was trained as a physicist, we usually spend more time in this newsletter discussing topics such as application delivery than we do talking about physics. In this newsletter we get to discuss both.
In a recent newsletter we described what we referred to as the port 80 black hole. There are a growing number of applications, including peer-to-peer software such as Skype and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), that use port 80 but most IT organizations don’t have the ability to distinguish between the applications that use port 80. As a result, IT organizations are vulnerable to security breaches, cannot comply with government and industry regulations, are vulnerable to being charged with breaking copyright
Compellent unveiled a new storage array last week that it claims can reduce the number of disk drives a user requires by as much as 80%. The Compellent Storage Center 4.0 includes new software that allows tiering and thin provisioning, both technologies that let users reduce their storage costs and power consumption.
Vonage last week announced that it had settled its patent dispute with Sprint and had entered into a licensing arrangement under Sprint's Voice over Packet (VOP) patent portfolio. Under the terms of the agreement, valued at $80 million, Vonage will pay Sprint $35 million for past use of the license and $40 million for a fully paid future license, along with $5 million in prepayment for services. The settlement resolves one legal problem for Vonage, moving the company past a Sept. 25 verdict, which found th
If you are a router company with as much as 80% market share and a $3.2 billion R&D budget to play with, why not bolt a router to a rocket and shoot it into orbit? This is what a group of engineers at Cisco did as part of its Cisco Low Earth Orbit (CLEO) project, which recently completed its second year orbiting Earth.
Cisco in space
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If you are a router company with as much as 80% market share and a $3.2 billion R&D budget to play with, why not bolt a router to a rocket and shoot it into orbit?
I am attempting to analyze some network performance and Internet access issues on our small network. The LAN slows to a crawl and the Internet drops for a short period of time a few times a day. My firewall doesn't see any issues with the exception of every once in a while I get a “Src IP session limit reached” for a particular IP address. I think the traffic is actually on Port 80 but is Data Miner or a Trojan watching the users.
OneStream, a leader in corporate performance management (CPM) solutions for advancing financial close, consolidation, reporting, planning and forecasting, announced the results of its global “AI-Driven Finance“ survey, revealing the majority (80%) of financial decision-makers believe AI will increase productivity in the office of finance.
E-mail: we hate it, but we love it and need it. More than 80% of small business owners believe e-mail is a key to the success of their business, according to a recent survey by SurePayroll, an online payroll service.