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- Audit
- An examination of systems, programming and datacenter procedures in order to determine the efficiency of computer operations.
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- MD Senate, House vote to scrap $65m e-voting system
- Maryland moved a step closer to scrapping its $65 million e-voting system and switching to machines that produces a paper audit trail. The state Senate unanimously approved a bill to do just that. But even if the bill is ultimately signed into law, the change wouldnt happen until the 2010...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Elections, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Panel says voting systems need paper audits
- A federal tech committee acted to herald the end of paperless electronic voting yesterday. The Technical Guidelines Development Committee voted to start work on a national standard for voting machines - and that standard includes independent verification of ballot choices, The Washington Post reports. "This seems to mark...
- Tags: Elections, State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- Initial audit of FL machines finds no problems
- Florida state election officials in Sarasota County conducted a simulated election on five e-voting machines not used in the countys problematic election, as the state proceeds with an audit to explain why 18,000 cast ballots didnt include a vote for the hotly contested Congressional race, AP reports. The workers...
- Tags: audit, Elections, Government technology, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2006-11-29
- Mounting pressure for a paper trail in FL and Washington
- In Florida and Washington, pressure is mounting to do something about the state of voting in the country. After problems with e-voting in a Florida county - and with Democrats in control of Congress - the odds are good that state and federal legislation will be passed to address the...
- Tags: paper trail, trail, audit
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
- FL county muddles through the paper trail
- In Sarasota County, FL, where 18,000 ballots registered no votes for Floridas 13th Congressional District House race, dozens of recount volunteers are scrutinizing pieces of paper, seeking mathematical errors in the computerized tabulation of votes, The Miami Herald reports. Its a meaningless ritual, said David Dill, a Stanford University...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Elections, ballot
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
Additional Resources
- Paradox Lite (msi)
- Paradox Lite has been designed to vastly speed up the process of cycle counting or stock auditing by utilising existing items barcodes, the resulting audit files could then be uploaded in to a higher level in-house system, or spreadsheet apllication such as calc or excel for manipulation. This creates more...
- Tags: Audit, Stock, Paradox Software, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- iPrez: Obama releases app grassroots organizing app
- Get-out-the-vote campaigns have been cellphone-based for some time now. So what makes more sense than leveraging iPhone cool to put a calling app right on people's phones? That's what the Obama campaign did today, News.com reports,with an iPhone app that "organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, App, Obama, Congress+, Corporate Communications, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Obama launches iPhone app; US election good for Twitter
- Obama launches iPhone app; US election good for Twittermore reasons to dump the iPhoneAny true American will ignore this liberal application, and even drop the iPhone for a Blackberry.I’ll take a device that was created with McCain’s help over the Gore’s iPhone any day!RE: Obama launches iPhone app; US election...
- Tags: Obama, Apple iPhone, iPhone App, Twitter
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Accellion Secure File Transfer
- Paula Skokowski, VP of Marketing for Accellion, and I had a lovely debate, err, conversation over the need for her company's product, a file transfer "virtualization" product. In the end, she won me over and I was forced through gritted teeth to agree that Accellion's managed file transfer solution could...
- Tags: File, Accellion, E-mail, Storage, Online Communications, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Video: Tech leaders for Obama?
- It's true: Even Craig Newmark says so. (Although, for a bunch of tech guys, their website sure ain't ready.) Agree? Disagree? Tell us in TalkBack. UPDATE: Related article, "How the Obama campaign is...
- Tags: Leader, Video, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Leadership, Web Technology, Marketing, Internet, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Accounting vs. Technology - Who's At Fault
- Did technology play a role in the financial services meltdown? A columnist for a major IT publication documented his positions on the role of IT in the current financial services meltdown. He asked questions such as "Were the internal IT groups in these firms working on...
- Tags: Accounting, Financial, Accounting Industry, Financial Accounting, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Should our President be computer literate?
- Normally I don't like to talk about my political and socio-economic opinions, particularly because as a matter of experience once people discover my true leanings, they sometimes find my completely unrelated opinions on technology, food, or whatever it else we have in common to be less...
- Tags: President, Computer, McCain, Palin, Productivity, E-mail, Internet, Government, Online Communications, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Best platforms for book on "tape"
- Best platforms for book on "tape"They could use their ownAs an example, in our ninth grade the students study four novels. Three of the four are available through the Central Mass Regional Library System in a format that allows storage/playback on MP3 players including the iPod as well as burning...
- Tags: Digital music, Branding, Digital media, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- TruVu (exe)
- TruVu is an easy-to-use personal shortcut manager to launch an unlimited number of files, Web links, and programs. Additional features include: hourly chime, automatic PC shutdown, system usage tracker, 1-click access to several control panel applets, screen saver, audit log, and online connection notification. This version is the first release...
- Tags: PerkNet, TruVu, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-09-29
- Recap: Information warfare and the 2008 presidential election
- Mudslinging in presidential elections is as old as the American political system. The Internet has increased both the rate as well as the quantity of attack strains. The low cost and accessibility of Internet technology has placed the power to disrupt a presidential campaign in the hands of...
- Tags: Presidential Election, Campaign, Internet, Phishing, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-09-28
- With someone in charge change can be fast
- Germany is using smart cards to handle the chores of data privacy, tasks assigned in America to the HIPAA law. Patients and providers each have their own identity cards, and the entire system features an audit trail. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, Health Care Inflation, E-health, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- EXCLUSIVE: C-SPAN launches gadget-fueled 'Debate Hub' as social, political destination
- If you love using your gadgets -- and you're fired up about this year's election -- have I got a site for you. Less than 24 hours before the first debate, C-SPAN, the cable network known for airing non-stop, unfiltered coverage of government proceedings, has unveiled its...
- Tags: Site, Twitter, C-SPAN, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Marketing, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Have an idea that can change the world?
- Have an idea that can change the world?Trust this contest for what it isJust keep in mind that a company called Apple Computer held their "I Changed the World" contest back in '92 for the same reason. I know of one acknowledged/awarded idea that changed their entire platform to...
- Tags: Google Inc., RFID
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- EFF sues NSA over warrantless wiretaps
- EFF sues NSA over warrantless wiretapsCounter: two words"State Secret." The plaintiffs can't prove standing, thus no subject matter jurisdiction, thus dismissed.RE: EFF sues NSA over warrantless wiretapsWhats the point? Bush stole the last 2 elections, free elections no longer exist in the US, its all a sham orchestrated...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF Sues NSA, warrantless wiretap, wiretap
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
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