Technology

cScape, one of the most well-established design and technical consulting specialists in the UK, and Metalogix Software, a leading provider of solutions for Microsoft SharePoint migration, management, and archiving as well as Exchange(R) migration and archiving, today announced the extension of their partnership to support large-scale SharePoint deployments throughout the UK with innovative products and services to support the growth explosion of SharePoint as a business critical platform. cScape was among the first international partners to be initially signed by Metalogix.  SharePoint…

WCI Healthcare (WCIH), an industry expert in simplifying processes and technology to reduce waste and improve patient care, and Metalogix Software, a leading provider of solutions for Microsoft SharePoint migration, management, and archiving as well as Exchange(R) migration and archiving, today announced their partnership to optimize SharePoint processes and management for UK-based healthcare organizations and companies in related industries.  WCIH simplifies processes and technology using Lean Consulting, Integration and Microsoft technology including SharePoint and Business…

Company Net, a leading UK business consultancy and software development house, and Metalogix Software, a leading provider of solutions for Microsoft SharePoint migration, management, and archiving as well as Exchange(R) migration and archiving, today announced the addition of Company Net to the Metalogix partner program. Together, Company Net and Metalogix will help organizations throughout the UK and Scotland to derive maximum benefit from their SharePoint investments.  In today's market, companies are looking for innovative and cost effective ways in which IT can bring value to their…

I’ve often written about technology that will help us do everyday things, and I almost always advocate technology that helps, while leaving the choices with us, the control in our hands. Mostly, I think that’s what works best. But what about when the technology is meant to improve safety in cases where we, ourselves, fail? The very point, there, is that our own choices are faulty, and the technology must fill in for us. Where’s the line between “manual override” and preventing us from casually defeating important safety protections? We got one version of that with anti-lock braking systems…

Just ten years ago, researchers assumed that countries needed the freedoms of democracy to cross the digital divide, but a new study in Sociological Inquiry suggests that countries don't necessarily need democracy to join the online community. Rather, social factors such as population growth and violent conflict are much more important -- and capitalism trumps them all. China, a pro-capitalist autocracy, has since joined the Internet by virtue of being an economic powerhouse. While the country struggles to restrict citizens' access to information from the rest of the world, China has…

The New York Times “Bits” blog carried an item a few weeks ago about electronic coupons, sent to your mobile device at appropriate times: How many times have you heard the prediction that one day, businesses like coffee shops will send us coupons on our mobile phones when we walk by? That has long been the dream of mobile marketers. Still, only 9 percent of people have received a coupon or discount code on their phones based on where they were standing, according to new data from Compete, a Web analytics firm. This could be the year that changes. People are increasingly interested in…

On top of the numerous functions our cell phones perform, the Department of Homeland Security says they may one day also protect us from toxic chemicals. In the coming years, Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (S&T)'s Cell-All aims to equip cell phones with a sensor capable of detecting deadly chemicals. A chip costing less than a dollar is embedded in a cell phone and programmed to either alert the cell phone carrier to the presence of toxic chemicals in the air, and/or a central station that can monitor how many alerts in an area are being received. One might be a…

Inexpensive wireless sensors based on nanotechnology could be used to alert engineers to problematic damage to buildings, bridges, and other structures before they become critical, according to a study in the Journal of Materials and Structural Integrity. As a proof of concept, researchers have developed and evaluated two types of wireless devices for the remote monitoring of concrete structures. The devices are sensors based on microelectromechanical systems, MEMS, and were designed to monitor temperature and moisture within concrete. Long gauge nanotube sensors were employed for crack…

Researchers have drastically increased the toughness of a T-shirt by combining the carbon in the shirt’s cotton with boron – the third hardest material on earth. The result is a lightweight shirt reinforced with boron carbide, the same material used to protect tanks. Scientists dipped plain, white T-shirts that were cut into thin strips into a boron solution. The strips were later removed from the solution and heated in an oven. The heat changed the cotton fibers into carbon fibers, which reacted with the boron solution and produced boron carbide. The result was a fabric that’s lightweight…

Princeton Electrical Engineers have developed a new technique for revealing images of hidden objects. The method, a new type of stochastic resonance, relies on the ability to clarify an image using rays of light that would typically make the image unrecognizable, such as those scattered by clouds, human tissue or murky water. The discovery may one day help pilots navigate through fog and doctors peer into the human body without surgery. The findings were reported online in Nature Photonics. In their experiments, Princeton electrical engineers Jason Fleischer and Dmitry Dylov restored an…