The Federal Communications Commission has concluded its vote on Comcast, finding the cable operator in violation of net neutrality rules by a margin of 3-2, but it will not issue fines.
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Better known for its automobiles, Toyota is now planning to move into the personal transport business with the "Winglet," scheduled to become available in the early part of the next decade.
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers recently approved IEEE 1394-2008, a faster version of the standard known to most simply as FireWire and used for connecting PCs with digital video devices or external hard drives.
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Videos or photographs implicating members of the police force in acts of misconduct will soon be directly uploadable to the New York Police Department, representatives reported yesterday.
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Nearly three weeks after Microsoft patched its Windows operating system to protect against attacks exploiting a flaw within the DNS system, Apple has delivered its own fix.
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Sun Microsystems has released a preview version of its JavaFX technology for building rich Internet applications, which it announced last year would compete with Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's Flash-based AIR.
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A slowing economy has led computer server and software manufacturer Sun Microsystems to post a 73 percent drop in net income for its fourth fiscal quarter. So far in 2008, the company's stock has lost almost half of its value and most recently dropped 13 percent down to $9.24 per share.
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A bill that calls for a ban on all in-flight cellular voice calls will be put up for vote before the full House of Representatives after being approved by the House Transportation and Infrastructure committee.
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For a few hours, iPhone users got the chance to download an application called NetShare that could turn the devices into a broadband modem for a laptop.
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Yahoo's social bookmarking site Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) has received its long-awaited user interface overhaul, which the company hopes will attract more mainstream users and make the site less niche.
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Several Internet news sites blocked by the Chinese government are now available once again following growing criticism about the country's censorship during the Olympic Games.
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Despite strong apprehension from EU legislators toward Google's Street View mapping technique, the UK Information Commissioner's Office has reportedly found Google's privacy safeguards acceptable and will allow the company's roving 360 degree cameras to record British streets for its mapping service.
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Posters to Apple's support forums are complaining of what appears to be a defect in the iPhone 3Gs casing, which is causing hairline cracks.
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Is a new marketing campaign what Vista really needs? The first stages of it -- already under way with the Mojave Experiment -- are certainly drawing attention to Vista. But in ignoring Vista's problems, could the campaign also be backfiring?
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In mid-2005, Google began experimenting with venture capital investments in startup companies. Now, over three years later, the Wall Street Journal reports the search company has plans to start an arm dedicated only to this kind of investment.
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Bharti Airtel was the little guy of India's wireless world. But a partnership with IBM research and software labs transformed them into the vanguard of a talking revolution. Here's how it happened.
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In developing tailored strategies to address six global trends, governments will need to enact a new kind of intensified, multilayered, multidirectional communication and cooperation that we call perpetual collaboration.
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In a new IBM study, less than 25% of companies know their customer's CSR concerns. Here's why it matters.
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When only 17% of your customers can be described as truly loyal, or advocates, you need to turn that around. That's exactly what apparel retailers are trying to do. Find out who's doing what and how it's working in this must-read feature for shoppers of all ages.
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Airlines and airports face escalating costs, revenue growth constraints and an increasingly dissatisfied customer base. By offering passengers a highly differentiated experience and simultaneously enhancing its operational efficiency, the aviation industry can position itself to become and remain profitable in a volatile business climate.
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The leaders of each of IBM's multibillion-dollar businesses share the challenges they've heard from IBM's clients in recent years, what they see on the horizon, and the strategic business and technology issues on which their own parts of IBM's business are focused.
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Retail banks can't assume that the growth and returns of the recent past will continue. This Institute for Business Value paper and two podcasts discuss why banks have to dare to be different.
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IBM and the IFC help to even the playing field for the world's entrepreneurs with a Web-based portal of powerful tools for small businesses. Step inside the toolkit and meet real business owners who share their stories and their successes.
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With industries and enterprises clamoring to apply mathematical models to innovate for all manner of problems, math has gone mainstream. As a result, the demand for skilled mathematicians is rising with career options burgeoning in fields from finance to medicine to entertainment.
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New technology is now transforming how oilfields operate. While the concept of the intelligent oilfield has been around for some time, what this model means and how it works is changing. So are the results.
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The goal: sustainable energy use that can build economies while protecting the planet. The challenge: rethink and redesign the systems that bring power to the people.
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Here's how some people, working together in the globally integrated enterprise we know best, describe the work they do on a global scale and what it's meant for their lives and careers.
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An emerging understanding of the wide range of human differences and abilities turns questions of accessibility upside down: Instead of creating a world of ideal forms to which we then find ways for people to adapt themselves, shouldn't we be adapting the world to the people?
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Join Jai on a virtual tour of some very real advances in gaming and technology. Plus: three new game consoles powered by IBM.
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Deep Thunder localized, customized weather forecasts are helping businesses and organizationsmanage both routine and emergency weather events, cutting costs, streamlining logistics, even saving lives.
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Today, energy and utilities conservation is a major issue for the public sector, businesses and consumers. Technology is making a major impact on reducing energy costs, and enabling more effective distribution and use of utilities.
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You might have noticed that our new catalog interface says (beta) on the tab. Now if we were Douglas Adams we could be referring to the fish pictured here: But no, in this galaxy, we are referring to something not quite as beautiful and complete–a pilot version of the catalog interface. The interface is still [...]
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In our new catalog, there are books and other items which show as Being Repaired, like this one: Items that are Being Repaired can be requested. Whether they are at the shop getting a new binding or up in one of the levels waiting to be processed, you can click on the title of the [...]
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Last week, Duke Libraries launched a brand new interface to its catalog. There’s a lot that you can do with the new catalog that you couldn’t do before, so get ready for many new tips and tricks here on Library Hacks. This post will focus on using RSS (really simple syndication). RSS “feeds” free [...]
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The Library has published a new interface to the catalog that performs faster and is easier to navigate thanks to a faceted browsing feature similar to those found on retail sites such as Amazon and Home Depot. Things to keep in mind: When you search the form in the “Search Our Resources” box results will display in [...]
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In further Facebook takes over the universe (at least the parts not already claimed by Google) news, there’s a new application in Facebook called CiteMe. You enter the title of the book you want to cite, click go, and the app spits out a formatted citation in one of five styles (APA, Chicago, Harvard. [...]
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Most of Duke’s e-books are provided by a service called NetLibrary. The 24,000+ e-books can be viewed at the site but not downloaded, and printing is cumbersome. You can go directly to NetLibrary and search for e-books, or find them in our catalog and click on the link into NetLibrary. Once at [...]
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I’m late to the party on this, but I recently learned that the winning film in Duke’s 2008 Froshlife first-year movie festival, Wilson’s Making the Grade, features both Lilly and Perkins Libraries. Lilly and its opinionated e-printer make an appearance at about 2:10, and Perkins and the Gothic Reading Room show up at 6:20. [...]
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Some of you avid fans of RefWorks will be happy to hear that you may now access this online research management system FREE through Duke’s OIT. For those of you who haven’t yet been wowed by RefWorks’ user-friendly interface and robust functionality (think Works Cited pages in seconds; in-text citations in a couple of [...]
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A lot of the technoscenti have become coverts to Twitter in the last six months. Twitter is a microblogging platform that allows you to post 140-character snippets (via text message, web or other media) and have them read at the site, fed into your Facebook status page, or delivered in a variety of other [...]
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Duke libraries recently moved from Dewey-Decimal to the Library of Congress (LC) classification system. “In process-LC” generally means that an item has gotten stuck in the reclassification process, and won’t be found in the regular stacks. Since the item might be located in a number of places, the easiest thing to do is request its [...]
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What is PDF/A? Why do we need it and how do we use it? Duff Johnson answers these questions and more in his in-depth look at PDF/A -- the standard for long-term document archival.
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As part of the ongoing series on Planet PDF's sponsors, we wanted to highlight LockLizard's DRM software products including Lizard Safeguard, Lizard Protector and Lizard Guardian.
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With the release of Acrobat 9, Adobe's focus is all about re-inventing collaboration to enhance efficiency and performance. Some features such as forms have been somewhat improved, others, such as preflight, have been considerably enhanced. Yet if there is one signature feature of this release, it is live collaboration with free web services on Acrobat.com. This review by Filipe Pereira Martins and Anna Kobylinska provides an in-depth look at the new version of Adobe's flagship PDF product.
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As part of the ongoing series on Planet PDF's sponsors, we wanted to highlight PDFTron and its innovative PDFNet SDK v4 which was released in February. The latest version added full Java support to the PDF library. Version 4.0 also includes a new Java interface that offers API functionality as a set of Java classes to give developers an easier and more expedient way to integrate PDFTron's PDFNet API into already existing applications.
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The makers of Acrobat's preflight engine, callas software, have released the third generation of callas pdfToolbox to a growing interest among industry professionals in prepress and print. This review by Filipe Pereira Martins and Anna Kobylinska of Soft1T Consulting provides an in-depth look at the new product suite from callas software.
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Christopher Smith, Aquent Graphics Institute, graciously made time to speak with Planet PDF in regard to the upcoming conference and giving us an insider's view on what will most likely be yet another great PDF conference for all!
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Drumlin has been designed to strongly encrypt standard PDF files so that they can only be read by individuals you have authorized and cannot be read if copied from machine to machine.
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Bates-Stamping documents can be a tricky proposition, but, as outlined in this article by PDFforLawyers.com's Ernest Svenson, there's an easier way than going through the effort of doing this manually.
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As the technology of e-signatures continues to grow and as the use expands, more and more companies are turning to this affordable signature automation application as a way to "virtually ink" all their business documents.
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