New Intrusion Tolerance Software Fortifies Server Security Jun 19, 2008
31, 2002) An innovative new software can detect and correct a database impaired by an attack while the database system continues to process transactions, says a Penn State. (Aug. (Science Daily)
Top drugs on street now Rx Jun 18, 2008
He said a state database system capable of tracking the sale of prescription drugs would be helpful. The database, in use by 33 states, would give police and pharmacies access to consolidated records on patients and prescribers, allowing them to determine the legality of a prescription. (Florida Times-Union)
Lee County names new administrator Jun 13, 2008
In addition to his former job as assistant comptroller, Thompson also developed many of the county's information-technology needs and developed several of its in-house database systems. He is married to the former Jodie Clemmer of Ripley and the couple has two children, 6-year-old Laura and 5-week-old Reagan. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
Data, databases are case studies in organization Jun 9, 2008
Some database systems are tiny in terms of the amount space they take up on a computer and go through years of tests before they are put to use in satellites and spacecraft, for example, where reliability is the most important aspect. Some databases hold much more information, such as the one used at , which claims to have approximately 600 terabytes of genealogical data, or the equivalent of 300 billion printed pages. (Missoulian, MT)
Korn/Ferry Implements Verizon Business Solutions to Streamline Its Asia-Pacific Communications May 29, 2008
Korn/Ferry also plans to further consolidate its regional IT resources by co-locating its key IP telephony, e-mail and database systems within the Verizon Business secure data center in Singapore. "Our clients trust us with significant and confidential information," said Stein Bang, senior director, IT Asia Pacific, Korn/Ferry International. (PR Newswire)
Boys & Girls Club earns grant May 29, 2008
The grant will fund the purchase of an electronic donor database system. We believe that a donor database is an investment and a tool which will allow us to cultivate long-term relationships with our donors, said Board Member Jamie Bilyeu-Libra, who chairs the Resource Development Committee. (Lebanon Express, OR)
FISD tax rate likely to jump 2 to 4 cents May 21, 2008
Heard an update from the Frisco Fire Department on a hazard crisis database system project between the City of Frisco and FISD. Approved revisions to the district mission and belief system. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
HP Frees Data From Databases May 16, 2008
The two comprise 75 percent of the open database systems market and most of the mission-critical market. Oracle customers using partitioning can now use HP Database Archiving to archive complete sets of data spanning both partitioned and non-partitioned tables. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Tester: Real ID Act a boondoggle’ (64) May 6, 2008
But he added that the department may put grant money toward a computer database system that needs to be available to all states. He said the federal government should provide money to states, but added, We are bearing a substantial part of the financial burden. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Online accounting review: e-conomic. By Nigel Harris May 6, 2008
For those with IT skills there is a freely available API (Application Programming Interface) which enables you to exchange data in XML format between e-conomic and other in-house applications such as your web shop, cash register, CRM system or any other database system. This means that data can be synchronized and need only be entered once for use in multiple applications. (Accounting Web, UK)
Pope meets abuse victims...Proposal to help homeowners...Warm ... Apr 20, 2008
In addition, all posts are logged and tracked in our database system including the IP Address and source computer details of the individual who submitted the post. All users commenting on KXNet. (KXMC)
Bedbugs biting in the projectsHousing board also deals with alleged jumping on wait lists, new locks Apr 15, 2008
He said that management now uses a database system to order the transfers according to medical needs, and then overcrowding. "I'm having some difficulty with a lot of residents who not only live in the Housing Authority already, but those that are waiting to receive apartments," Russo said. (Hoboken Reporter, NJ)
Google vs. Amazon Web Services Apr 12, 2008
Google App Engine offers dynamic Web serving, storage through Google's Bigtable database system running on its GFS file system, automatic scaling and load balancing, said William Fellows, an analyst with The 451 Group who examined the Google App Engine in a research report April 10. Programmers' applications, which must be written in Python for Windows, Linux or Mac OS X, will leverage Google APIs for authenticating users and sending e-mail. (eWeek)
Healthcare Sector Benefits from Online Community Apr 11, 2008
GoLightly-powered community sites, branded as the client's own, can stand alone or be integrated with an organizations' existing software and database systems. Through viral marketing GoLightly has become one of the premiere providers of custom branded and integrated online community collaboration tools for enterprise and associations. (PR Newswire)
Business people Apr 4, 2008
She is skilled in GIS database systems, automated electrical and design, mechanical and architectural design drafting. Bill Olzack was hired by Michael Baker as a mechanical engineer in the pipeline group. (Anchorage Daily News)
Infiniband eyes million-unit market Apr 1, 2008
High performance computers (HPC), database systems running on clusters and financial systems "with HPC-like characteristics" continue to be the drivers, according to IDC.. Mellanox, the sole maker of Infiniband chips, notes that the shift to 20 Gbit/s links is moving quickly with 40 Gbit/s products on the near horizon for this year. (EETimes)
Oracle's profit rises, but shares fall Mar 27, 2008
Middleware programs operate between a company's database system and its payroll, inventory and other business management systems that use the data. The deal is expected to close later this year. (International Herald Tribune)
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum selects iDAM(TM) Digital Asset Management System Mar 26, 2008
iDAM will work to organize over 50 million museum assets, including documents, photographs, audio and video files while seamlessly integrating with the Museums existing legacy database systems. In addition to the core iDAM engine technology, the Museum will deploy several additional content and records management modules including iDAM-docusearch, iDAM-express, iDAM-live and IDAM-video. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
SASD incresing credits required to graduate Mar 19, 2008
The board approved the purchase of the IEPPLUS computerized database system for special education student records. The $65,000 system, to be paid for with federal grant money, combines and updates what were separate systems. (Springfield Sun, PA)
Eclipse to stress component, runtime efforts Mar 18, 2008
The other two subprojects include , offering an SOA framework, and Riena for building an enterprise desktop with capabilities like the ability to access transaction and database systems. Also on tap at the conference is the introduction of an Equinox community portal to educate developers on Equinox, OSGi, and Eclipse runtime projects. (InfoWorld)
Letter to the Editor • Take commonsense approach to immigration Mar 16, 2008
I am drafting legislation that will allow employers who use a currently existing federal database system, called E-Verify, to do so without fear of facing litigation. It is important that we cut off the economic spigot that draws so many illegal aliens to our country. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Hot Jobs in IT for 2008 Mar 15, 2008
Companies are devoting greater resources to maintaining and upgrading their database systems, creating a need for additional database professionals. Data modelers structure and organize data and address data-quality issues. (Datamation)
Lavasoft Ad-Aware 2007 Pro: Fighting Malware Mar 15, 2008
They've learned to outwit static database systems, so computer users need a program that can identify malware by its behavior, not by whether or not its name is in a central database. While that release is still in the works, Ad-Aware 2007 Pro still offers plenty of other features for safety-conscious professionals. (Datamation)
USDA-APHIS encourages signing up for voluntary NAIS Mar 2, 2008
Henwhisperer wrote on Feb 29, 2008 8:23 PM:" Here is an excellent rebuttal from a rancher in Australia who knows first hand the folly of an animal identification system. MANDATORY RFID FOR AUSTRALIA THE SECOND Y2K BUG GOLDMINE. Speech to R-CALF USA on 21st Feb 2008 in Omaha Nebraska by John Carter. I thank R-CALF USA for its invitation to have me address the Conference. ABA is R-CALFs sister organizationwe too, represent independent producers in the fight against multi national processors,... (Great Falls Prairie Star, MT)
Henwhisperer Mar 2, 2008
The Prairie Star: Montana Ag Newspaper. USDA-APHIS encourages signing up for voluntary NAIS. (Great Falls Prairie Star, MT)
Microsoft releases Windows Server 2008 Feb 28, 2008
Moreover, Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 database system was also promoted at the event; but it won't be available until the third quarter of this year. "We're very early in the virtualization technology cycle," said the company's CEO Steve Ballmer at the Windows Server 2008 launch event, "Today, we launch our virtualization strategy in earnest.". (Xinhua)
SINA and E-House Join Forces to Build the Largest Real Estate Portal in China Feb 25, 2008
E-House's proprietary CRIC database system contains detailed information and transaction data on China's real estate sector including land and residential, office and commercial buildings in 30 major cities in China. The CRIC database system currently has a customer base of over 5,000 real estate developers in China ... E-House believes it has the largest and most comprehensive real estate database system in China, providing up-to-date and in-depth information covering residential and commercial... (PR Newswire)
What Microsoft could learn from Oracle Feb 25, 2008
Approximately half its revenue comes from business customers for its e-mail infrastructure, database systems, developer tools, Office productivity applications and other mainstays. It has also assembled a fledgling line of business software that it calls Microsoft Dynamics. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
GDC: Feelplus' Nakazato Details Lost Odyssey's Collaborative Process Feb 22, 2008
For the ambitious development project, the team divided into several groups: one responsible for building the game itself, a design group responsible for database systems and AI, and a level design team. A production management group was in charge of the game's cutscenes, of which there are over eight hours, including about 40 minutes worth of pre-rendered movies with the rest as scripted real-time events. (Gamasutra)
Latest Apple products subject of presentation Feb 21, 2008
He will also demonstrate "Accordance" Bible software and "Reunion," a genealogy database system for constructing family history using historical information and incorporating photos and videos, charting relationships and documenting sources. The Daily Triplicate is published Tuesday through Saturday in Crescent City, California by. (Daily Triplicate)
Blist offers online home for spreadsheet databases Feb 21, 2008
The web-hosted database system Blist this week added the ability to import spreadsheet files in. CSV format. (Accounting Web, UK)
IIITM-K initiates active web GIS Feb 20, 2008
In an active web GIS, the geographic objects or attributes are powered by dynamic database systems that represent the changes in the real world. Thus, it allows the visualisation of dynamic data in a natural geographic setting, he said. (Business Standard)
QIAGEN and Center for Molecular Medicine Create Research Collaboration for Molecular Diagnostic Markers for Breast Cancer, Other Women's Health Issues Feb 14, 2008
At the center of the collaboration is the CMM's access to clinical samples, its molecular analysis capabilities as well as XenoBase, a one-of-a- kind software and database system developed at the Van Andel Research Institute. This specialized bio-informatic system is capable of analyzing a wide range of molecular and conventional clinical data to help researchers identify clinically actionable associations between diseases, biomarkers and treatments. (PR Newswire)
CME Group Announces Annual Corporate Officer Promotions Feb 13, 2008
-- Walt Litzenberger, 49, Director, Enterprise Database Systems Litzenberger is responsible for the design, installation, tuning and support of all mainframe and distributed mission critical database management systems for CME Group. Prior to joining the company in 1997, Litzenberger held technology roles at Helene Curtis and Chicago and North Western Transportation. (PR Newswire)
Case study: Traditional feed supplier goes paperless Feb 7, 2008
There is no need for training or knowledge of the underlying Dynamics AX"Always on the look-out for new enhancements, Birch wants to get a more accurate handle on stock control. "You're putting feed into sacks that can be out on a vehicle for delivery quicker than you can enter the production into the system," he explains. The current project centres around integrating process control systems to report production to Dynamics AX in real-time. Once achieved, I'Ansons will be better able to... (Accounting Web, UK)
Driving licenses available online Feb 2, 2008
Gatot Subroto, said the regional headquarters was using an online database system that recognized every license issued in each region using the system. "With the new system, driving licenses will be valid at the national level. This means motorists who obtained their driving licenses in Banten, for example, could renew their licenses at the Jakarta Police headquarters," Gatot told The Jakarta Post. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- City)
Heather Dinich Feb 1, 2008
Hollern also cuts highlight videos from recruiting Web sites and logs them into a popular computer database system called Recruiting Radar, a Web site with a logon so coaches can work from home, or send mass e-mails to every recruit at once. "We're definitely efficient," Hollern said. (ESPN -- College Football News)
Federal animal-tracking system irks farmers Jan 27, 2008
"Where is the scientific proof that small farmers pose the same disease risk as large, confined feeding operations?" asked Judith McGeary, an Austin, Texas, farmer and lawyer who founded the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance to fight the database system. Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
Data Warehouse Supplier Greenplum Pulls In $27 Million Jan 24, 2008
PostgreSQL is offered by another commercial company, EnterpriseDB, as an Oracle-compatible database system. Frontier Airlines, the second largest carrier at Denver International Airport, bases its flight management system on Greenplum. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Sun's $1B MySQL Buy May Be Its Entree Into Web 2.0 Software Jan 20, 2008
As Sun Microsystems acquires MySQL AB, the popular open source database system, it's plugging a hole in its software product line while moving into the tony Web 2. 0 neighborhood. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
purchased MySQL AB Jan 17, 2008
Does the purchase of a widely used open source database system mean Sun is transitioning into a Web 2 ... As Sun Microsystems becomes the owner of MySQL, the pioneering open source database system, it plugs a hole that exists in the Sun software product line and moves the company toward becoming a supplier to Web 2. (InformationWeek)
More of this story Jan 17, 2008
"An inquiry is made in the state system in Montgomery and then it does a national check through the database system," he said. Williams said that the system is invaluable and that the department utilizes its resources greatly. (Andalusia Star News, AL)
Oracle will acquire BEA for $8.5 billion Jan 17, 2008
The deal for BEA makes Oracle the undisputed leader in the market for middleware, business software that gets its name from its role as a layer of programming code that resides between a company's database system and the payroll, human resources and inventory systems that use the same data. Related Articles. (International Herald Tribune)
Mapping tool allows emergency management personnel to visually track resources Jan 16, 2008
The combined mapping and database system provides Florida with a robust networked emergency management system that it plans to implement in all 67 of the states counties. The Georgia Emergency Management Agency has been using the system since 2005 to track forest fires and hurricanes. (EurekAlert!)
Google denies infringing search patent Jan 13, 2008
The patent in question describes a distributed database system that breaks queries into fragments and distributes them to multiple computers in a network to get faster search results. The plaintiffs say that Google uses this system to run its search engine, and that the system was invented by Kenneth Baclawski, an associate professor at Northeastern and one of Jarg's founders. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Open Source Code Contains Security Holes Jan 10, 2008
The PostgreSQL database system contains 909,148 lines of code, with a. 041 defect rate. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
DMV back to issuing driver's licenses after hiccup Jan 8, 2008
DMV stopped issuing licenses Monday afternoon after a national database system became overloaded. States use the system to verify information before issuing licenses or identification cards. (The Daily Reflector)
Embedded DB Vendors Face Hurdles Jan 5, 2008
Key users of embedded databases database systems that are part of an application are ISVs. If the consolidation continues in the application market, research firm IDC said that the reduced competition among ISVs could result in smaller embedded database providers being shut out in favor of nameplate vendors such as Oracle. (eWeek)
New state, federal laws go into effect today Jan 1, 2008
The captain said "once the kinks are worked out" the database system will be very beneficial. A 2006 study by the Insurance Research Council found more than 14 percent of drivers nationwide were uninsured. (Conroe Courier, TX)
Records safe with us, says NHS chief Dec 26, 2007
He said the level of security for the proposed new database system part of the protracted 12 billion upgrade of the NHS IT system would be way beyond the level currently in internet banking. This is a very high level of security. (Times Online)
Heard It in the Forums: Small Business Computing Discussion Dec 15, 2007
This is a popular file format for transferring data from one application to another, because most database systems are able to import and export comma-delimited data. Unfortunately for forum member Kernphilip, when he works with a catalog of 4,500 products, he is unable to get the Excel file into CVS format for uploading to his cart. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Photo Release -- Florida's Department of Transportation Paves the Way to the Future With Foundry Networks Dec 11, 2007
8 million motorists traveling across more than 460 miles of toll highways each day, Florida's Turnpike required a massive upgrade to their Toll Operations network infrastructure to save motorists' time, ensure efficient flow of traffic and maintain instantaneous access to multiple geographically distributed internal database systems. The FDOT purchase of NetIron MLX metro routers and FastIron switches supports a statewide network that is being deployed at all Turnpike owned and operated toll... (Primezone Releases)
Madison officer, ex-cop face more charges Dec 4, 2007
Durgin was arrested in October for allegedly using state law enforcement database systems to get personal information on ex-girlfriends and women he worked with as a security officer at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is charged with a first-degree computer crime. (Shoreline Times, CT)
Google gets extension in Northeastern patent suit Nov 29, 2007
The patent describes a distributed database system that breaks queries into fragments and distributes them to multiple computers in a network to get faster search results. The patent was assigned to Northeastern University, which licensed it exclusively to , a company in Waltham, Massachusetts, that was cofounded by Baclawski. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Spam surge drives net crime spree Nov 28, 2007
Child database system postponed. MOST READ. (Yahoo News -- Spam & Junk Email)
Child database system postponed Nov 28, 2007
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State of Arkansas Department of Human Services, Division of Medical Services Selects U.S. Care Management for High-Risk Obstetrics Health Management Program Nov 21, 2007
BirthWait(R) nurses utilize a case management database system, Casewatch(R) that includes guidelines and indicators for high risk pregnancy as well as other chronic conditions the mother may have including diabetes, hypertension, asthma and others. The system offers the same capabilities for at-risk infants. (PR Newswire)
E-House to Present at the CIBC World Markets 3rd Annual Mid & Small Cap 'Best Ideas' Conference Nov 16, 2007
E-House believes it has the largest and most comprehensive real estate database system in China, providing up-to-date and in-depth information covering residential and commercial real estate properties in all major regions in China. For more information about E-House, please visit. (PR Newswire)
Software bid hits snag Nov 16, 2007
Lake Ozark aldermen question 94,000 pricetag on new database system for city hall. By Charis Patires/Lake SunPublished Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:43 PM CST. (Camdenton Lake Sun Leader, MO)
Microsoft launches Office Accounting 2008 Nov 16, 2007
However, the software should support up to eight concurrent users and given the choice of SQL Server as the underlying database system it should be quite robust in any multi-user environment. Express users can upgrade to Professional by buying a 149. (Accounting Web, UK)
Facilities referendum on school board agenda Nov 14, 2007
The district's current student database system includes data on each student such as phone numbers, attendance and grades. Administrators have been looking into different systems to replace the current one and have found the Skyward Student Management System. (Watertown Daily Times, WI)
University Sues Google Over Patent Nov 13, 2007
The patent describes a distributed database system that breaks search queries into fragments and distributes them to multiple computers in a network to get faster results ... "The invention relates to a distributed computer database system which includes a front end computer and a plurality of computer nodes interconnected by a network," the patent states ... Google also uses a distributed database system that breaks queries into multiple parts for faster processing, the lawsuit states. (PC World)
New Scoring System Protects Credit Card Transactions Nov 12, 2007
31, 2002) An innovative new software can detect and correct a database impaired by an attack while the database system continues to process transactions, says a Penn State. (Aug. (Science Daily)
New format for snowmobile, ATV registrations Nov 2, 2007
The DNR and its stakeholders concluded that moving the snowmobile and ATV registration process from a network of 99 individual County Recorder computer systems to one master database system would improve customer service and increase the ability of the Department to locate and recover stolen machines. As with any transitional period, there have been bumps in the road. (Charles City Press, IO)
Mattson gathers data on CAAS Oct 31, 2007
Mattson will be responsible for all CAAS database systems. She will provide training and support to staff and work closely with program and planning directors to improve the management of the agency. (Somerville Journal, MA)
