Proposals typically focus on building public computer centers and educating people about the value of broadband.
Insight's sales have been climbing 50% a year -- faster than larger rivals CDW Computer Centers, Micro Warehouse or Global DirectMail.
Phoenix, Minneapolis, Kansas City and Philadelphia are just a few of the places that are home to the new computer centers.
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Most major Japanese banks store duplicate sets of data in computer centers 600 km apart in Osaka and Tokyo, in case a major quake hits one city.
Other options, including building computer centers, teaching the basics of web functionality and running broadband awareness campaigns were much less popular, garnering the approval of 5% or fewer respondents.
The Texas State Library Archives Commission is using BTOP funding to add and upgrade computer centers in libraries, community colleges, schools, recreation centers and other public buildings around the state.
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The 20 computer centers, which are equipped with 359 new machines paid for by BTOP, provide bilingual digital literacy training and adult education classes, as well as assistance with resume writing and job searches.
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Analysts say that Chinese scientists have benefited from training at top computer centers in the U.S. and Europe and the availability of computer chips and other parts from abroad, as well as consistent Chinese government funding and support.
TheTechnology Expertise, Access and Learning for all Texans (TEAL) project is working through 38 local library systems across Texas to install 2, 100 new workstations and upgrade 580 existing machines in more than 150 existing and new computer centers.
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So NTIA BTOP program is supporting a number of projects specifically intended to benefit Latinos by funding computer centers in neighborhoods with large immigrant communities, by offering computer training and digital literacy classes in Spanish, and by helping Latino entrepreneurs and Latino-owned small businesses get established online.
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Just look at how fast information technology departments swung to servers connecting to PCs, shutting down mainframe and mini-computer data centers and wiping out thousands of green-screen terminals.
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But the sizzle can enliven its musty mainline business of running computer systems, call centers and data-entry operations.
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But the sizzle can enliven its musty mainline business of running computer systems, call centers and data-entry operations for the likes of ChevronTexaco and Blue Cross Blue Shield.
IBM, which already sells some Brocade storage products, is gearing up for more intense competition with Cisco, which has said it will begin selling computer servers to data centers.
One thing is clear: Centers that use computer-aided mammography bring many more women back for more studies, with a 31 percent increase in the patient recall rate.
Grimsson says new data centers -- the computer warehouses that essentially house the Internet -- are coming to Iceland because they can be powered by clean energy, and because the country is a smart linking point between North America and Europe.
In contrast, Google is a recognized a leader in Silicon Valley at devising new ways to store and generate data more efficiently, to operate massive data centers with thousands of computer servers more cheaply, and to utilize the power of digital technology to pioneer disruptive, cost-reducing changes in traditional markets, from email to travel booking services.
If a computer can do something new, Google data centers can be doing it this afternoon.
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This team is leading the Walk Again Project, an international consortium of research centers dedicated to creating brain-computer interfaces to restore movement.
But as the U.S. economy sputters and companies transfer their IT needs from the desktop to virtualized data centers and to the Web, one computer giant is moving its enterprise products in a new direction: slimmer and cheaper.
For example, the United States is working closely with Russia to reach an agreement that would establish links between our computer emergency response teams and our nuclear risk reduction centers to build cooperation and to set up lines of communication in the event of an alarming incident.
The new money will open TeraGrid up to more researchers, in part by adding a Web-services dimension that will let institutions tap the computer without a direct connection to the eight major data centers, which are sprinkled from San Diego to Pittsburgh.
The American Institute of Architects has found that renovation projects are increasingly spanning nontraditional features like computer stations or recharging areas for electronic devices, built-in recycling centers and wine storage areas as well.
Elmore says women should ask whether their hospital or mammography center uses computer-aided detection, as about 40 percent of U.S. centers do.
They collected data from 43 mammography centers in three states to see if those that had adopted the computer technology did better.
After a vigorous campaign by Greenpeace to highlight the carbon-spewing computer halls of the cloud giants, Apple has announced it is feeding its data centers entirely with renewable energy.
In Europe, the computer security company Sophos reported the worm hit all 19 of Britain's Coastguard control centers.
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