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UK education Agency nixes OOXML: Office Open XML – the open standard with a trademark in its name – might be good enough for the International Standards Organization but it's not acceptable to British schools, InfoWeek reports. "In the context of the education system," lack of truly open standards in Office 2007 "can result...; Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Agency, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Government IT failures: "Room for improvement" [interview and podcast]: Given the size, scope and frequency of government IT failures, it's important to understand the dynamics underlying these projects. To learn more about federal IT, I interviewed two federal systems experts from CA, developer of the Clarity project portfolio management PPM solution. Gil...; Tags: Project, Podcast, Agency, Information Technology, OMB, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Government, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Marketing, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Why are reformers destroying Veterans' health computer system?: Roger Maduro right doesn't look like a hero. Like most heroes he never sought the status, just tried to do right and shine a light on what works. What works, he thinks is VistA, and the Veterans Administration system that computer code supports. In shining the light...; Tags: Agency, Hero, U.S. Congress, Microsoft Windows Vista, Health Care, Computer, Roger Maduro, VA, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-18
Attacks escalate on critical U.S. government networks: Will a Manhattan Project work?: Last week Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff outlined plans for a federal Manhattan Project to bolster cyber security. The big question is whether this project will bolster cyber security defenses as attacks on U.S. infrastructure escalate. In a nutshell, Chertoff says federal agencies will cut the...; Tags: China, BusinessWeek, Network, Agency, U.S. Government, Cybersecurity, Attack, Security, Aerospace & Defense, Networking, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-13
Government Agency Delivers Mobility, Improves Security With New Operating System: The Ministry of Justice and the Police is responsible for law enforcement in Norway. In order to enable its 400 employees to deliver on its mission, the Ministry wanted to improve productivity by providing users with flexible mobility options. At the same time, the Ministry wanted to enhance security. The...; Tags: Security, Agency, Operating System, Government, Mobility, Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Software; Case studies 2008-04-01

Non-Profit Agency Consolidates Servers and Increases Performance by 300%: The 138 employees of the social service agency Cincinnati Union Bethel provide support and education programs that assist urban women, children, families, and communities in Cincinnati, Ohio. The organization needed a solution that would allow them to use more of the inexpensive thin clients to access network applications from off-site...; Tags: Performance, Agency, Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Advertising & Promotion, Gender And Diversity, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing, Human Resources; Case studies 2008-03-12
FBI has more plans for criminal datasharing: Are you ready for the "one-stop shop" of nationwide local, state and federal criminal records? Cops around the country are salivating for the Justice Department's National Data Exchange or N-DEx, says the Washington Post. Federal authorities have high hopes for the N-DEx system, which is to begin...; Tags: Agency, Suspect, FBI, Federal Government, Advertising & Promotion, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Databases, Government, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-03-06
You can keep on asking...: But you have to ask the right questions. Two senators have sent a letter to 24 US agencies asking them to report on their progress in data protection. This article at Federal Computer Week highlights the woeful state of security compliance at most US agencies. This...; Tags: Agency, General Accounting Office, Authentication, Advertising & Promotion, Firewalls, Telnet, Security, Marketing, Networking, Richard Stiennon; Blog posts 2008-02-26
Vonage customer cancels, then gets call from collection Agency, and then...: Wayne Anderson, from the south Chicago suburb of Antoich, was frustrated that - how shall we say this- his efforts to cancel his Vonage service wasn't handled with the smoothest business process best practices. Wayne was so p.o.'ed that he wrote into Stephanie...; Tags: Agency, Vonage Holdings Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2008-02-20
HP Partner Cnetics Helps Fast-Growing Georgia Government Agency Save Time and Money Using HP Bladesystem: Cnetics Technologies wanted to provide server consolidation and security management services at an affordable price and build a scalable easy-to-manage IT infrastructure. The company installed a cost-effective, scalable, reliable server infrastructure using HP BladeSystems with ProLiant server blades, HP Insight Control infrastructure management tools and VMware virtualization software. As a...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Agency, Government, Servers, Server Consolidation, Security, Hardware; Case studies 2008-02-01
NSA coordinates cyberattack response: The Washington Post reports: President Bush signed a directive this month that expands the intelligence community's role in monitoring Internet traffic to protect against a rising number of attacks on federal agencies' computer systems. The directive, whose content is classified, authorizes the...; Tags: Agency, Monitoring, Needle, Cyberattack, Computer, NSA, Government, Internet, Hacking, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-01-27
Government turns to SaaS to salvage IT failures: The senior White House IT official, Karen Evans, said she believes software as a service SaaS can improve government IT projects and systems. Evans made her remarks during a talk at the Saas/GOV 2008 conference. From InfoWorld: "Our track record is clear -- we ...; Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Agency, Information Technology, Karen Evans, Software As A Service (SaaS), Government, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management, Marketing, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-01-21
Photos: Library of Congress uploads to Flickr: The agency is making thousands of images available for public tagging in hopes that people will add metadata to shots that previously had little. by CNET News.com; Tags: The Library Of Congress, Agency, Flickr, Photograph, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-01-17
Agency Cuts Time to Process Home Loans by 67 Percent, Boosts Quality 300 Percent: The Colorado Housing and Finance Authority CHFA was using an aging, inflexible IBM System i-based (AS400) solution to manage the process of financing affordable home loans for low-income Coloradans. As a result, the process was time-consuming and expensive. To better achieve its mission, the Agency moved to a custom solution...; Tags: Solution, Agency, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance; Case studies 2008-01-01
Craig of craigslist: Bush phone surveillance requests pre-date 9/11: Craig Newmark, who of course is the craig in craigslist, comments in essence that while the Reagan administration obeyed the law to gather intelligence information on Communists, the current Administration in Washington has been attempting to persuade telephone companies to allow warrantless intercepts of possible terrorist phone calls even...; Tags: Phone, Agency, 9/11 Commission, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-12-17
UK Rural Payments Agency (RPA): IT failure and gross incompetence screws farmers: A combination of IT failures and management incompetence have prevented the Rural Payments Agency RPA, which administers UK farm subsidy payments, from successfully executing its core mission despite years of effort. This extremely negative assessment is based on a new report issued by National Audit Office NAO. Accenture is implementing...; Tags: Payment, Agency, Information Technology, Accenture Ltd., U.K., Operational Accounting, Finance, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2007-12-16
Guns Girls Lawyers Spies (exe): Build your own private spy agency. Travel around the world, trade with state secrets, weapon systems, spy codes, WMD, hire secretaries, agents, lawyers, helicopters and soldiers, establish agency stations, cells and bases and search for criminals and politicians. Game contains more than 30 missions including CIA Unlimited, General Noriega, USAF,...; Tags: Game, Strategy, Agency, Lawyer, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing; Software downloads 2007-12-11
Google, CDT call for more searchable government: It's time -- high time -- for government agencies to make their websites much more friendly to web search engines. That's what Google and Wikipedia plan to tell a homeland security Senate committee Tuesday, according to the Washington Post. The Center for Democracy and Technology and...; Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Agency, Privacy, Center For Democracy And Technology, Wikipedia, OMB, Advertising & Promotion, Government, Wiki, Marketing, Online Communications, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2007-12-10
POBITS (exe): Peace Officer Background Investigation Tracking System POBITS is designed to assist public and private sector agencies and industries to track the progress of background investigations being performed on candidates for employment positions which require higher standards of personal character and integrity. POBITS is particularly well suited for agencies that hire...; Tags: Agency, POBITS, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing; Software downloads 2007-12-03
State Attorney General's Office Uses New Technology to Improve Constituent Service: The Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General manages a broad range of law and public safety responsibilities, including conducting criminal investigations and prosecutions, handling civil litigation on behalf of Commonwealth agencies, and dealing with consumer protection issues. For years, the agency relied on an outdated system for constituent communication, which...; Tags: Agency, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing; Case studies 2007-12-01