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Digital Surveillance System Ups the Ante on System Availability; Liebert Delivers the Solution: Prior to opening, Tuscany Casino made the decision to become the first casino in Nevada to implement an all-digital surveillance system. Going digital would pay big dividends for the casino by eliminating the tedious manual process of swapping tapes for each security camera every eight hours, and the bulky seven-day...; Tags: casino, Liebert Corp., Nevada, ante, security camera, dividend, information technology, IT infrastructure, camera, game; Case studies
Cell Phone Virus Threats: Why They Shouldn't Be Dismissed: Several viruses have threatened mobile devices. The Cabir strain has spread across mobile phones using Bluetooth. Another virus called Mosquito landed as part of a downloadable game. It compels mobile phones to send texts to premium-rate numbers without the user's approval or knowledge. There's Brador, which can delete files, reset...; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Microsoft Corp., cell phone virus, cell phone, Cabir virus, phone, mobile, virus, mobile device, Bluetooth, IM, e-mail, knowledge, photograph, game; White papers
Argosy Gaming Company: Argosy Gaming Company, based in Alton, Ill., is the fifth-largest gaming company in the country. To obtain its growth goals, the company knew it had to update its current HR/payroll system and sought a solution that would cause little employee disruption so that it could focus full attention where it...; Tags: Games, Recruitment & Selection, Ultimate Software, game company, payroll, workforce management, workforce, Human Resources; Case studies
Case Study: Freeserve Christmas Game: The main objectives of the 'Freeserve Christmas Shopping Game' were to increase awareness and depth of the product range on the portal, and communicate the convenience of online shopping. It was hoped that a fun light hearted game that made fun of the stresses of Christmas shopping would encourage visitors...; Tags: Portals, Games, portal, game; Case studies
Xicon at Work: As one of the UK's longest established gaming companies, Littlewoods Leisure provides football pools, sports betting and lotteries. To launch games as quickly as possible for new media, Littlewoods Leisure needed a common back-end to serve many different delivery protocols. This meant finding a cost-effective in-house development tool. A vigorous...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Games, Development tools, development tool, game, tool, database; Case studies

Columbia TriStar Films UK: Spider-Man and MSN: Columbia TriStar, part of the Sony Pictures group is one of the UK's foremost motion pictures distributors. In October 2003, Columbia wanted to raise awareness of the Bad Boys 2 film release, particularly amongst their key target audience, 15-24 year old males. The challenge was to match the effectiveness of...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., MSN, U.K., TV, marketing, advertisement; Case studies
Orange County Conventional Center: The new Orange County Convention Center boasts an impressive 2.1 million square feet of exhibition and meeting space making it the second largest convention center in the United States. Panasonic Systems was there, playing a significant role in the development of the project providing surveillance, facility-wide audio and an internal...; Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Orange PCS, Panasonic, digital television, cable television, programming, monitor, cable, TV; Case studies
Lake Erie Harbors - Global Positioning System (GPS) Surveys: Erdman Anthony provided US Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District Buffalo, NY new aerial photographs, Global Positioning System GPS control surveys, and digital photogrammetric base mapping for seven harbors along the Lake Erie coastline to support the Buffalo District's ongoing dredging and coastal engineering efforts. Erdman then established secondary photo...; Tags: Marketing research, Erdman Anthony, harbor, GPS, survey, photograph; Case studies
Defend Your Rights to Digital Music: The U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property has requested public comment on digital music & copyright issues. Let people's voice be heard on the "management" of their rights to digital music. It is crucial that Congress hear from them on these important issues in order...; Tags: Digital media, Electronic Frontier Foundation, digital music, intellectual property, Internet; White papers
Video Game Violence and Public Policy: Video games will turn 30 years old in 2002. The industry that started with Pong has become a multi-billion dollar worldwide industry. The growth of electronic games has not been without controversy, however. The subset of games that feature violence, gore, and antisocial behavior has raised concern among parents, educators,...; Tags: Games, violence, video game, game, First Amendment, video, industry, marketing; White papers
Exploration Games - A Formal Foundation for UML Design Tools: This paper extends the two-player games as used in verification to exploration games to fill this gap. An exploration game can be specified on the basis of a model which contains informally defined conditions as it is often the case with UML models. During a play the game may be...; Tags: Games, UML, game; White papers
In-Store Marketing in the Consumer Electronics Industry: Consumer electronic companies have had no shortage of new product introductions. These new products are spurred from new or emerging technological advancements, improvements to existing technologies, or spin-offs from other brands, among others. In any of these cases, today's consumers are becoming more and more confused with all of the...; Tags: Interbrand, consumer electronics, brand, advertisement, marketing, industry; White papers
Self Care.com Case Study: SelfCare.com was close to maximizing customer acquisition from its catalog mailing program and needed to expand its marketing channels beyond direct mail. MAK Direct also put together a TV direct response marketing opportunity plan so company management could make an empirically based decision concerning the risk of testing spot and...; Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, direct mail, marketing, advertisement; Case studies
SCORE Helps Educational Entrepreneur With A Doggone Good Idea For A Learning Game: If you're looking for a fun new way to help kids learn, a new interactive board game called Diploma Dogs, developed by elementary school principal Clay McAllester, is a real teacher's pet. Children ages 8-12 play the innovative game using stuffed dogs instead of conventional game pieces. By correctly answering...; Tags: Games, game, board, financial; Case studies
Electronic Preview for Theatrical Films: The Preview process for Theatrical Motion Pictures is a critical event for both the filmmakers and the Studios. In the past the studios used a print composed of a beat up 35mm-work picture. These protocols make use of the latest in HDTV online and projection technologies. Studios can provide Original...; Tags: HDTV; White papers
The Effect of Billboards Within the Gaming Environment: Players from all demographic groups are spending more and more of their leisure time playing multiplayer online games. As such, the gaming environment may be a more suitable vehicle to reach target markets. This study assessed whether advertising in the form of embedded billboards has an impact on the online...; Tags: Games, University of London, billboard, game, brand, advertisement, environment; White papers
Playing Games with Broadband: The fascination for video games, some call it addiction, is no mystery to the businesses that make these games and the devices on which they are played. Companies such as Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sega, and Sony?among many others have parlayed the consumer passion for computer and video games into...; Tags: Games, Corporate communications, Broadband Internet, McKinsey & Co., broadband, video game, game, industry, video, computer; White papers
Cheat-Proof Playout for Centralized and Distributed Online Games: This paper explores possibility for cheating in real-time, multiplayer games for both client-server and distributed serverless architectures. The paper offers the first formalization of cheating in online games and proposes an initial set of strong solutions. The paper then develops an extended version of this protocol, called asynchronous synchronization, which...; Tags: Games, PRODUCTIVITY, University of British Columbia, online game, game, technique, client-server, clustering, analysis, performance; White papers
UK Film, Television and Video: Overview 2002: This paper gives information about Film Production and the film industry. Depending on your point of view, it is easy to give two interpretations on the current state of film, television and interactive multi-media in Britain. The optimists are thrilled by the boom in the British film industry and look...; Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Consumer electronics, Broadband Internet, British Film Institute, TV, DVD player, industry, entertainment, Internet, broadband, DVD, video; White papers
Garden East Apartments: South Australia: The Hon. John Olsen, Minister for Industry and Manufacturing for the South Australian Government, announced to radio and television audiences the beginning of the Garden East Project in to Adelaide, South Australia. The project is the largest GeoExchange installation anywhere in Australia. The goal is reducing the expense establishing new...; Tags: Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium, Garden, Australia, manufacturing, radio, TV, industry; Case studies