Digital Communities - Düsseldorf Deploys WiMAX On it's way to a knowledge-based economy and to become one of the leading business regions in Europe North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) launched one of the most ambitious inter-municipal e-Government projects in Europe. During the next few months Düsseldorf will become one of the first 13 communities worldwide to deploy a Digital Community solution based on WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access).
Key Benefits of WiMAX are

• Transforming business performance with increased flexibility and new usage models
• Reducing costs by eliminating wiring installation expenses
• Improving productivity
• Increasing visitor satisfaction

The solution concept delivers fast and convenient access to information and includes

• a mobile, location-aware multimedia tour guide
• a mobile, integrated visitor information system
• a mobile security monitoring and alert system

Together with geodata location-based services (LBS), dynamic application provisioning, wireless-enabled personal digital assistants (PDAs), wireless-enabled PCs, WLAN surveillance cameras, and a provisioning server, the Digital Communities concept helps to increase government efficiency, to improve citizen satisfaction, to energize economic vitality and improve job satisfaction.
Sources: Intel  ¶ 'Digital Communities - Düsseldorf Deploys WiMAX' posted by eA : 12:20 AM  0 comments links to this post

  TrendSpotting - New Technologies First in Consumer Markets Today, consumers' personal IT infrastructures and services often are equal to or better than even sophisticated enterprises. The emergence of Internet platforms and technologies and a nearly ubiquitous Internet access have driven the instant messaging (IM), collaboration, blog and multimedia environments as well as eCommerce transactions and online banking.

Enterprise management and enterprise IT management need to recognize this trend, since consumers will become increasingly dissatisfied in doing business with low-tech enterprises.

Consumer technology and business concepts can help an organization to

• take advantage of the new social and workplace trends
• lower costs and improve functionality
• embrace innovative new products, services and applications
• increase knowledge and capability

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  Webtrends - Spotlight on Interaction and Participation Driven by challenging activities like communications and content, starting a blog, IP-telephoning, producing and sharing videos, or collaboratively working on a Web-based document becomes as easy as never before. Nex-generation software has to address many trends like:

• Word-of-Mouth, blogs
• Folksonomy and information architechture
• Tags - Social classification and folksonomy
• Decentralization
• Photosharing
• From coordination to syndication (RSS, Atom)
  
• From content management systems to wikis (Wikipedia)
• From presentation to user experience (AJAX, the browser-back-button becomes obsolete)
• From closed SW production to continuous open peer-production (Linux)

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  Clusters - High-performance Computing Discovering the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers 304 systems are now labeled as clusters, making this the most common architecture in the TOP500. The leading IBM Blue Gene/L installation has a total of 65,536 compute nodes and an additional 1024 I/O nodes and reached a new record Linpack benchmark performance of 136.8 TFlop/s.

Today's data-intensive applications like content distribution, webserving, data mining or business intelligence require massive computing power and Linux has become a key operating system, it can be extended to run a computer the size of Blue Gene. But clusters and Linux can also be used for load balancing and high-availability systems.  ¶ 'Clusters - High-performance Computing' posted by eA : 12:58 AM  0 comments links to this post