Facebook Technology Infrastructure Needs Constant Care
Started in a dorm room four years ago, the social networking site Facebook now claims to be the fourth most-trafficked site in the world. Ninety million active users pound on 10,000 servers every day, uploading millions and millions of pieces of ... [... more]
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Handbook for Evaluating Infrastructure Regulatory Systems
 This handbook provides an analytical framework and supporting instruments for evaluating the performance of new infrastructure regulators in developing countries. It argues that an evaluation must examine both regulatory governance (the how of regulation) [... more]
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Infrastructure at the Crossroads: Lessons from 20 Years ...
Infrastructure at the Crossroads brings together lessons from the last two decades of World Bank engagement in infrastructure. It analyzes trends in the Bank's infrastructure lending, describes the evolution of the external environment and the Bank's own [... more]
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Connecting East Asia: A New Framework for Infrastructure
Aimed at senior policy makers and development practitioners, this report is organized into three main themes-- inclusive development, coordination, and accountability and risk management-- demonstrating how infrastructure has always played a central role [... more]
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Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts, and ...
In the 1980s and '90s many countries turned to the private sector to provide infrastructure and utilities, such as gas, telephones, and highways--with the idea that market-based incentives would control costs and improve the quality of essential services. [... more]
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The Role of Communication in Large Infrastructure: The ...
This book describes how the timely use of two-way communication in large water infrastructure projects leads to improved project design and is key to identify and address problems that could result in project delays and incremental costs. [... more]
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Securing the Information Infrastructure
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Nortel CEO Maps Out "Hyperconnectivity" Strategy
Nortel Networks CEO Mike Zafirovski told shareholders on May 2 that the company aims to become a leader in helping companies and carriers take advantage of an explosion of network connections. The network infrastructure vendor, plagued by an ... [... more]
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Nokia Comes with Music Comes to Market At Last
Consumers in the U.K. will be the first to try Nokia's Comes With Music on the 5310 XpressMusic phone, Nokia announced on Tuesday. The phone is expected to ship next month. The service, announced last December, packages mobile phones with a year ... [... more]
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Intel to Unveil OLPC Chips in Shanghai Next April
Intel plans to unveil a new microprocessor for the One Laptop Per Child notebook and other ultra-low cost laptop PCs at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai next April, an executive said Monday. No current Intel microprocessors fit the ... [... more]
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Can Google Apps Crack the Fortune 500 and Large Enterprises?
Yesterday's announcement that Salesforce.com would provide Google Apps for free to its customers sparked off a debate among analysts about whether Google's web-based software can make inroads with large businesses, and specifically the Fortune ... [... more]
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How to Get Real About Strategic Planning
Oh, it must be nice to be the CIO of a FedEx or a GE or a Credit Suisse. MORE ON STRATEGIC PLANNING Anatomy of an IT Strategic Plan Four Strategic Planning Myths Debunked Eight Mistakes to Avoid In IT Strategic Planning Places where IT and the ... [... more]
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