The Inupiaq village of Qikiktagruk (named Kotzebue by a Russian sea captain in the nineteenth century) is thirty miles above the Arctic Circle, 200 miles from Siberia and 1,000 miles from the North Pole. Not surprisingly, the town is over 75% Eskimo. More unexpected is that 40% of the population is under 18. Kotzebue, Alaska has one of the highest incidences of
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Introduction

It seems that every time you pick up a magazine, you read about a new search engine making its debut. The search engine industry seems to have become the gold rush of the 21st century.  read more »

The wonderful thing about asking "What is Web 2.0?" is that the question is meaningless: there is no such thing as Web 2.0. Nevertheless, we will ask the question, as it will lead us into a fascinating journey, during which we will learn about new technology; complex new tools; the psychology of programmers; and, ultimately, something about ourselves. Are you ready?  read more »

In 1878, Alexander Graham Bell set up the first telephone exchange in New Haven, Connecticut. Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) has been around for over 125 years.  read more »

The old Jules Verne novel Around the World in 80 Days had Phileas Fogg racing around the world in boats, trains, balloons and elephants through parts of Europe, India, and China to traverse the globe within a couple of months. In this article, you are being taken on a tour of the global world of IT outsourcing, in the space of a few minutes.  read more »

Picture the scene: you design and manufacture a very complicated line of computers. All the time your experts are beavering away to find how they can make things run faster and how they can make everything smaller. From time to time you build, and start to sell, new and better versions of existing components.
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Immense interest has been generated around radio frequency identification (RFID) technology over the last several years. Though the technology has been in existence for decades, its early applications were limited.
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Last month in Part I of this two part series we left off by explaining how Command and Control is of utmost importance throughout the first alert process. It is during this critical time immediately following a catastrophic event that rapid and often irreversible decisions are made.
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Mark Zuckerberg"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." ~ Victor Hugo  read more »

Radio frequency identification (RFID) has made inroads in the retail and supply chain industries, allowing companies to track millions of items at many different levels. It is also seeing rapid uptake in healthcare.
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There is no business out there that is not looking to quickly create or renovate business processes to meet changing market and business conditions. Size does not matter, nor does industry sector. There is virtually no one who doesn't have a problem with inflexible or dysfunctional systems and processes.  read more »

Hurricane Katrina is still a recent memory for most of us-and enterprises have taken stock of lessons learned, applying them to "bullet-proofing" their disaster recovery plans.  read more »

TSO has been around, on OS/360 (circa late-1960s) and on later MVT and MVS systems, for many years. Being the "terminal access" mechanism for the Operating System, and being "User and Userid oriented", TSO (in MVS) has always had a messaging system, so that one user could send messages to another user.
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The Importance of Implementing a Disaster Recovery Plan for Messaging  read more »