The technology behind the lawn tennis competition
Two billion viewers in 198 countries and 102 television channels that is the audience of the roland garros lawn tennis competition. The entire technology is powered by six power 6 servers managed by IBM France in partnership with a datacenter based in Raleigh-north carolina?
Source : www.latribune.fr
In a recent meeting with its shareholders Cisco,
the network equipment manufacturer used video
conferencing facilities to answer questions from
shareholders and partners in many countries
around the world
Sources : www.ft.com
and
www.cisco.com
Customs officials & Scanning the contents of lorries and trucks
Is it possible for customs officials to search the contents of each of the 4 500 lorries that cross the borders between france, italy and britain?. Technology is now making the search for drugs, wines and illegal passengers in trucks crossing these borders in real time possible. This is a scanner that can be installed in 30 minutes and can detect drugs and illegal passengers as they cross the border.
Source : Les camions passent au service radiologie, in the Metro of 13 September 2008.
Oracle university live virtual class(see how it works)
Technology in education, that is simply what you will discover here and if you want a way to forge ahead with your IT career, you will need to look at this attentively:
If this link is dead just put oracle university live virtual class in the search box.
Galeries Lafayette the popular retail channel recently deployed oracle retail!
Source : www.01informatique.fr of february 2009
Technology and Metered Parking in the San Francisco area
Policy makers in charge of street parking in the San Francisco area are now using technology to bring into one place parking meters availability, inventories, pricing and information dissemination. An initiative that offers better parking management, better traffic circulation and less pollution to the area.
Source : Profit Magazine, February 2009
Many years ago, it would be difficult to find anything that you lost in a public place and with these web sites technology is now at our disposal for lost objects:
Source : International herald tribune
Pfizer works and technology
Technology is now been used by companies to pass off tasks that are not relevant to the core activities of a company (such as getting information, general business duties and research) to freelancers. With the aid of an online form a request can be e-mailed to external service providers such as Genpact or the Pear interactive network. A company like Pfizer has been able to save over 66 000 hours and improved corporate performance on this method of how to use technology.
Source : www.businessweek.com
We know the importance of collaboration tools in the corporate place and one company has been able to put together a package with document and content management capabilities. This is an open source software but I believe that once a company can past the hosting and installation hurdles this will be a major development for content designers. For the practical part, just point your browser to the url and view the list of early adopters.
I found this link on how the Royal family in the UK has been using technology:
Go to www.royal.gov.uk
At the bottom of the page on the right
you will see
media information:
press releases
speeches and articles and from there you
look for the images and broadcasts links.
