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Digitally Integrated Burberry Flagship Store Opens in London

Burberry's London flagship store recently underwent a renovation that turned the 192-year old building into a digitally integrated showroom for the luxury fashion brand.

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Minecraft Partners With United Nations For Urban Planning

Minecraft changed the video game industry by selling millions of downloads of an indie game. Now the free-form building game is inviting players to help redesign real-world locations around the world.

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Architecture

The Tortured History of Internet Protocol v6

Welcome to the new Internet! Last night, some 200 major service providers, including AT&T, Cisco, Comcast, Google, Facebook and Time Warner Cable, switched over to a new version of the Internet protocol. The transition from Internet Protocol v4 to v6 (skipping over the number in between) is the biggest infrastructure shift…

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World IPv6 Launch Day Is Key for the Internet of Things

With today’s celebration of World IPv6 Launch 2012, the Internet is doing something new: growing. And that growth comes none too soon as the rise of the Internet of Things places unprecedented new demands on worldwide Internet infrastructure.

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Can the Cloud "Fix" PLM?

PLM is far from the sexiest acronym floating around the Internet these days. Short for Product Lifecycle Management, PLM is often thought of as an esoteric offshoot of the equally obscure PDM, or Product Design Management - the way engineers track control technical data related to a particular product. PLM is like PDM on steroids, extending the…

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Autodesk CEO Pushes "Democratization" of Technology

Most people think of Autodesk as the maker of AutoCAD, the design software of choice for architects, engineers and other design professionals - typically running on high-powered workstations. So why is Autodesk CEO Carl Bass so hung up on the "democratization" of technology - spreading technology to the cloud computing platforms and mobile…

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Step 2 Under Way for DHS Remote Identity Validation Card Plan

Back in the 1990s, U.S. government agencies were officially transitioning their identity systems to smartcards. The Homeland Security Dept. did not exist yet. So the agency expected to lead the way was the Defense Dept., which had a Common Access Card initiative, but not really enough fuel to keep that initiative going. After Sept. 11, 2001, the…

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New Open Group Cloud Standard Introduces "XaaS" - Something as a Service

As prominent as cloud computing has already become in today's enterprises, it's amazing to realize that the world's reference standards are only now catching up with the concept. On Tuesday, the consortium of industry stakeholders known as The Open Group updated its reference standards for Service-Oriented Architecture. You remember SOA, don't…

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Architecture

Extreme Scale File System to Premiere in Windows Server 8

The one really big problem with file systems designed for compatibility with PCs - and by that, I mean IBM Personal Computers - truly is the "big" problem. They do not scale, and as the size of databases expands far beyond the capacity of any cluster of storage devices, let alone any single device, a new class of "sharding" technologies has had to…

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IPv6 Promotional Push Will Shift Gears at CES

The urgent push to move the whole of Internet addresses off of a system never intended to replace telephone, television, and computing simultaneously, and onto the IPv6 address system, is now entering its 13th consecutive blockbuster year. Despite high-level government recommendations for action plans, a global DNS poisoning scare that many say…

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Digitally Integrated Burberry Flagship Store Opens in London

Minecraft Partners With United Nations For Urban Planning

The Tortured History of Internet Protocol v6

World IPv6 Launch Day Is Key for the Internet of Things

Can the Cloud "Fix" PLM?

Autodesk CEO Pushes "Democratization" of Technology

Step 2 Under Way for DHS Remote Identity Validation Card Plan

New Open Group Cloud Standard Introduces "XaaS" - Something as a Service

Extreme Scale File System to Premiere in Windows Server 8

IPv6 Promotional Push Will Shift Gears at CES