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- 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 ... - 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 - - November 10, 2008 By Charles Waltner As part of its ongoing initiative to increase sales beyond its sweet spot with major corporations, Cisco Systems is now turning it sights on small businesses, especially those with fewer than one hundred employees. Today the company formally announced a $100 million initiative to re-invent its small business operations. As part of this effort, Cisco has made substantial management, sales, and product changes over the ... - October 29, 2008 By Jason Deign What is a second worth? Possibly not too much to you or me. But if your business has anything to do with trading on the world's major financial markets, where values can soar ... - October 28, 2008 By Alan Radding When Benjamin Craig managed networks at a US Air Force base overseas in the late 1990s , he realized he could not assume even military people were computer security aware. "We needed to train people about social engineering," he recalls. Social engineering refers to techniques hackers use to trick people into revealing passwords or allowing access to computer systems.  - October 27, 2008 By Mike Stone The Cisco® Networking Academy® and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) are working to help ... - October 23, 2008 By Bill Roberts Attending one of the U.S. presidential nominating conventions this year was the experience of a lifetime for Joy Das and Ryan Robison. But for these two budding information technology (IT) professionals, the chance to observe history was only ... - October 23, 2008 IT in a telecommunications firm faces all the usual challenges of its enterprise counterpart, plus a long-running conflict with the other technology-driven departments: engineering and operations. Getting them to work together to more effectively support ... - October 22, 2008 By Mike Stone From the pyramids to the Aswan dam, Egyptians have never been shy about thinking big. And young Ahmed Korany Zaki is no exception. Despite a lack of educational opportunities throughout his childhood, ... - October 20, 2008 By Evan Schuman Static domestic markets-and perceived opportunities in established and rapidly growing emerging markets-have lured Western retailers to cross borders in search of new business. But many have learned the hard way that what ...
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