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- Snowe and enemies push health reform forward
- Of course . . ."But the story is not yet told, and the trolls below will have their day."Of course. Your way is so right and everybody else is so wrong.at this point If they SO against the health reform let them have it there way since they...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- The T-Mobile-Microsoft Sidekick data disaster: Poor IT management going mainstream
- Always have local copies of your dataThe above is why it is a bad idea to put your fate in someone else's hands when you have a choice. By default, keep your data processing and data stores local, and then use cloud services when they suit you. All these kiddies...
- Tags: Federal government, Advertising & Promotion, Recruitment & Selection, agency, FDA, job
- Discussion threads 2009-10-11
- Is keeping big media alive good for the future of journalism?
- All old media companies need to die off...They are too constrained reliving memories of past glory to change in any meaningful way. What we need are modern 21st century media companies who understand the digital world. If Amazon, Google, or Facebook were to start new media companies, you can bet...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, media, media company, big media, First Amendment
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- If JFK's doing it, you should too
- As I was browsing News.com, I stumbled upon an article from a couple years back talking about a 10-year project to digitize the complete collection of papers, photographs, documents, and audio records of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Awesomely enough, this collection will be made available to people around the...
- Tags: Paper, Document Management, Managerial Accounting, Corporate Communications, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Marketing, Doc
- Sponsored content 2009-09-19
- Open source can save your life
- don't mix OSS with socialized medicineOSS is for the all the people, socialized medicine is demanded only by a small minority of craizy liberals.VA health careSince 2001, the VA has had remarkable bipartisan support for just about all the funding they needed or could handle. When the gravy train...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Walter Reed, Walter Reed hospital, open source, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- Apple: 'Continues to study' Google Voice apps; AT&T: We played no part
- Uh, no."Simply put, Apple considers that takeover one helluva bug." Did you read the same letter I did? Because the words [i]I[/i] saw said that Apple hadn't approved GV because it duplicated iPhone functions and did some iffy stuff with Contacts. Apple doesn't consider that a bug, they consider it...
- Tags: Smart phones, iPhone Users, Google Inc., Apple Inc., AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- Rule change will bring Web 2.0 to federal sites
- There's Internet time. And then there's government time. In the case of cookies, the two are wildly divergent. Back in 2000 (that was the year of IE 5 and Netscape 6 and we were four years from Firefox 1.0), regulations were passed that banned government websites from using cookies. That...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Privacy, Web Site, Cookie, Government, Web Site Development, Vertical Industries, Web Technology, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Has government red-tape and politics hurt cybersecurity efforts?
- Governmental red tape - and probably some Washington politics, as well - has prompted the White House's senior cybersecurity aide to resign, according to reports. Her reason: delays in appointing a national cybersecurity czar. Melissa E. Hathaway, who was also a cybersecurity aide during the Bush years,...
- Tags: Government, Cybersecurity, Security, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Apple claims jailbreaking will destroy cell towers
- It's good to know not every scare tactic from the Bush Administration has been eradicated. Things like companies yelling "terrorism" to protect their bottom lines are still in good stead. Everyone who still gets warm fuzzies when they think of Steve Jobs should take a good long read of David...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Kravets, Smart Phones, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Will Google's Chrome OS look rusty by late 2010?
- Will Google's Chrome OS look rusty by late 2010?This is a thin client for webappsAs I read the press release, this is just a thin client for webapps. It looks like the only things that will run will run in a browser. They might be able to pull it off...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, operating system, Google Inc., Google Chrome OS, netbook, Google Chrome, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2009-07-08
- WSJ: Justice Dept. "reviewing" large telecoms
- The U.S. Department of Justice wants to know if the large telecoms, notably AT&T and Verizon, have abused their market power and has launched "an initial review" for a more in-depth look, according to a Wall Street Journal report posted this afternoon. The Journal's unnamed sources say that this is...
- Tags: Wall Street Journal, AT&T Corp., U.S. Department Of Justice, Journal, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Corporate Law, Telecommunications, Networking, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Poll: Is Microsoft's Windows 7 E a stroke of genius?
- Poll: Is Microsoft's Windows 7 E a stroke of genius?I think you need more options.I think it's a brilliant move on Microsoft's part. But I wouldn't be surprised to see the EU reject it. I think they want to force MS to install other browsers (one who's name shall not...
- Tags: Web browsers, MS obviously, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, Microsoft Windows 7 E, Microsoft Windows 7, stroke, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-06-11
- Virtual desktop services gain TCO boost with HP clients, Desktone cloud-based 'DaaS' advances
- HP and Desktone have made strong market moves into the fast-growing desktops as a service Daas space, also know as desktop virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure VDI. These new products and services show an aggressive ramp-up and sophistication to deliver a fast-track to DaaS. HP and Desktone,...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtual Desktop, TCO, Desktone, DaaS, Virtual-D Service Center, Fisher, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- A Real ROI from Twitter? The Start of Social Medical Networks
- There may not be a big enough return on tweeting yet to report it to your CFO. But it won’t be long before there’s a clear, return on tweeting to report it to your doctor. Let’s say your daughter is suffering from autism, as is Sophie Nelson,...
- Tags: Web, Zoho, Condition, Network, NetSuite Inc., ROI, Twitter, ChARMTracker, Development Platform, Storage, Social Networking, Channel Management, Databases, Hardware, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Nine worst social media fails of 2009... thus far
- Social media has taken the marketing world by storm. Major agencies and internal divisions are hosting think tank sessions to try and come up with witty ideas to market their products and drive customer loyalty. Some of the ideas they come up with are great. But others, let's face it,...
- Tags: Pizza Hut, Brand, Stunt, Social Media, Twitter, Motrin, Nannerpuss, Jack, Skittles Home Page, Ashton Kutcher, Branding, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- FTC investigating Google-Apple ties
- It was back in 2006 that Google CEO Eric Schmidt joined Apple's board at Steve Jobs' behest. At the time, the pundits were full of speculation about the meaning of this appointment. The speculation ranged from some sort of integration between advertising and iTunes to Apple...
- Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Antitrust, Apple Inc., FTC, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Grid spyware: Deregulation bites us again
- The news that Chinese and Russian spies have infiltrated the U.S. electrical grid comes just as the Obama Administration is winding down its cybersecurity review. Some interesting data points: A few weeks back, I posted that Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton...
- Tags: Network, Deregulation, Spyware, Cybersecurity, Internet, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Defense Department makes more open source moves
- Your Department of Defense made some major moves on open source this week. It announced it will work with the Open Source Software Institute to bring over 50 administration applications under open source licenses, starting with its Corporate Management Information System. DoD signed a Blanket Purchase Agreement...
- Tags: U.S. Department Of Defense, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Would you replace your email system with a social network?
- Would you replace your email system with a social network?I don't think soTrying to understand why a lecturer would want to use it. Also "Facebook" is proprietary, so I would want a system totally under the control of the University, rather than farmed out to a third-party.Students can sometimes say...
- Tags: e-mail, Facebook, social networking, email system, network
- Discussion threads 2009-03-12
- Frustration at broadband stimulus sessions
- Entrepreneurs are chomping at the bit to understand how the federal government plans to distribute that $7.2 billion in broadband funding. BusinessWeek report that Commerce Dept. officials held the first of several public meetings on the new programs. There were plenty of questions but few hard answers. ...
- Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
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