eStore Advantage – Extending Microsoft eConnect for MBS Great Plains by Josh Cook
eStore Advantage allows front-office applications to communicate with back-office business environments. It has a built-in support for electronic payment processing, and serves as a core integration platform for Nodus Technologies front-to-back office connectivity suites including RMS and CRM... XML-based Architecture: Designed for easy maintenance and durability eStore Advantage Business Objects utilize XML for serialization, queuing and data transport between front and back office environments.

Is Your Printer Spying On You? by Bob Rankin
Even Your Printer Has DNA Yes, it's true. In an effort to snare counterfeiters, the US government has persuaded some color laser printer manufacturers to encode each page with identifying information. The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has recently proven what many have suspected for a... The results are startling, and troubling, and sure enough, the code is there. ... Explains the EFF, "Imagine that every time you printed a document, it automatically included a secret code that could be used to identify the printer - and potentially, the person who used it.

Is It Really Progress by Fran Watson
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? -Paul Sweeney I came across this quote today and it made me stop and think of how impatient we have become. ... Now there is more memory in a calculator than was in those behemoths and computers process that same information in a few seconds or even milliseconds and we have come to expect it. ... The instruction cards were input and the operators went off to do other things while the computer churned away on its task, eventually spitting out the...

In-Memory Database Call Accounting Software Meeting Business Needs For Speed And Security by Karen Ritz
When Oracle announced in 2005 that it was acquiring an in-memory database provider, the term "real time" had become an industry standard. But with the way technology has progressed and broadband driving the demand for speed, the term has now taken on a new relevance. ... "All reports, regardless of size and type, had to run in less than five minutes (start to finish.) Call processing speed had to be sustained, (collecting call records, calculating call price information, and database insertion) it had to exceed a rate of one million calls processed per hour, the speed of processing had to...

OST File Recovery and PST File Recovery by Nehaa Gupta
Email communication has expanded itself from professionals to normal home users. As a child enters into teenage, he becomes familiar with the power and usefulness of email communication and uses emails to correspond within his circle of friends and relatives. ... While working on MS Outlook, the email files are stored in PST and OST file formats and an exchange server is maintained to handle the incoming and outgoing emails. ... This importance has resulted into duplication of data and information, data archives, and waste of hard drive storage space.

Honesty Is The Best Policy by Kevin Smith
Companies that take in whatever orders they can get without first figuring out whether they can produce them on time are asking for chaos says Keyvak. This approach often leads to confusion and ultimately loss of efficiency and profits. One department may have a job nearly finished and told to... Entry level production planning and scheduling software called The Planner, that’s sup- plied by Keyvak Pty Ltd, is low cost of implementation and can get you well on your way to sorting out your production planning and scheduling issues fast.

Flash Mobs Can Defeat International Terrorism by Lance Winslow
Flash Mobs Brought Down Evil Regime in China, Tomorrow they Will Be the Biggest Innovation Against International Terrorists? Power to the People, now and always. Flash Mobs are all the rage, yet they have not done much yet for the common good here in the United States. ... The new industries that such developed technology will open will provide jobs and profits (meaning private sector funding in anticipation of shareholder equity increases and quarterly profits from the sales of devices and network IT and hardware infrastructures).

Logistics Mobility in Australia and New Zealand by Drew Seitam
Do mobility systems provide value to logistics companies in the local market? It has become almost passé to note that the future of competition will be supply chain versus supply chain rather than business versus business. As supply chain competition increases, so does the demand for end-to-end... While other vertical and horizontal industries in Australia and New Zealand such as break and fix field service, merchandising and sales, and express courier services all have widespread adoption of mobility, implementations in general transport and logistics could best be described as sparse.

Using Speech Recognition Software As A Corporate Solution by Amy Nutt
Over the years, companies have searched for many solutions that would help them keep up with emerging technology. During that time, there have been many software packages developed specifically for corporations that deal with a high volume of customers over a short period of time. ... Unified messaging also helps to build more effective communication not only between you and your employees, but also between you, your employees, and your customers. ... For example, through unified messaging, you will now be able to retrieve voice mail messages via E-mail, and E-mails messages via the phone.

What Is Wardriving And How Can You Prevent It by Zackary Anderson
Imagine a car equipped with nothing more than a laptop computer, a portable GPS receiver, and a wireless network card slowly strolls through your neighborhood. Unknown to any onlookers, this is no ordinary vehicle; rather, it is a wardriving machine. ... Furthermore, once in the network, a wardriver can sniff network traffic and can view any information such as passwords and credit card numbers you send out to the internet – even SSL secured data. ... Wireless network vulnerability is a major problem, and as more and more households purchase wireless technology, the problem of insecure...