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- Aviation Agency Streamlines Business Processes With Human Resource Management Solution
- An aircraft takes off or lands every other second every single day, and each year more than 20 million passengers travel to and from Danish airports. The Danish Civil Aviation Administration (CAA-DK) oversees the safety of these passengers. Along with a major restructuring of the organization, CAA-DK wanted to streamline...
- Tags: Business Process, HRM, Aircraft, Microsoft Corp., Aviation Agency, Human Resource Management (HRM), Organizational Structure, Operational Planning, Human Resources, Business Operations
- Case studies 2005-06-01
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- FCC: Free wireless spectrum won't harm T-Mobile
- Back in May, the FCC was to vote on rules for a national free wireless spectrum along the lines of a proposal by M2Z Networks. But rather than handing over 25MHz of spectrum to the Kleiner Perkins-based company, the FCC decided to auction the spectrum off to...
- Tags: FCC, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Federal Government, Wireless, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatment
- Thirteen percent of petitions for H-1B visas filed on behalf of employers are fraudulent. That's the conclusion of a report by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security, BusinessWeek reports. A key part of the fraud is loopholes that allow...
- Tags: Visa, Loophole, Worker, Fraud, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Techies choose Obama - by a landslide
- If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...
- Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Apple wins royalty rate showdown
- Apple wins royalty rate showdownhigher Rate?the Real price for a song should about 25 cents (this will make it more competive agains "free") but guess the RIAA's members just want more money no matter what. that is why the RIAA must be shutdown as it is the most anti-consumer criminal...
- Tags: Apple wins royalty rate showdown, RIAA, royalty rate showdown, piracy, Apple Wins, music, showdown, MPAA, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Schwarzenegger terminates new data breach bill (again)
- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed data breach notification legislation for the second time in the last year. The bill, dubbed the Consumer Data Protection Act, would have required retailers that take card transactions to disclose more detail about any data breach. Schwarzenegger's veto comes after the...
- Tags: Bill, Payment, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Agency, Schwarzenegger, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- California governor: Silicon Valley should go to Germany
- After more than a hundred years of talk about the Pacific Rim economic opportunities for California, Silicon Valley and other California businesses are firmly focused on the west rather than the east. But Thursday morning California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be at Intel's HQ in the heart of Silicon Valley...
- Tags: California, CeBit, Transportation, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Management, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- How to read your FBI file
- As part of the occasional series Life in post-Constitutional America I'm pleased to offer a brief primer on How to read your FBI file. It isn't as easy as you'd think, since the FBI has failed several times to create a modern data management system - which may not be...
- Tags: FBI, File, Mistakes, Federal Government, Government, Data Management, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- The 'Social Media' Conundrum
- I'm fascinated by '30's depression era attempts to foster business innovation, not least because of the financial challenges that seem likely to dominate our coming years. Surprisingly I've found The Rotary International Club is in many ways a precursor to the looser social media movement which has been a feature...
- Tags: Marketing, Social Media, Brian, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Toxic Mac Pro's emitting benzene?
- Mac Pro owners, listen up. A french newspaper Liberation.fr has published a report English translation stating that Mac Pro owners run the risk of getting diseases as dangerous as leukemia blood cancer simply by using their computer. The newspaper was warned by a national agency scientist...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Benzene, Mac Pro, Libération, Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Hole in Adobe software allows free movie downloads
- Hole in Adobe software allows free movie downloadsWho wrote this?!?Because whoever did needs to take a quick look at their article and proofread it.This article makes it sound like this vulnerability will mean certain death to content providers' business model and no one is going to pay for it unless...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Fair Use, Adobe Software, movie download, movie, Adobe Systems Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- PR blunders or "mystery meetings"
- PR blunders or "mystery meetings"It sounds like the new SOP for PRPublic relations and "press releases" seem to be in need of some sort of help. Perhaps a consultation with Jennifer Leggio? I read more and more about companies and websites being inundated with press releases that they have specifically...
- Tags: public relations
- Discussion threads 2008-09-27
- Congress: Open-source for U.S. military
- Congress: Open-source for U.S. militaryPosting to an open source forumThis is the President of the United States. The telephone operators at the White House's best known number have been instructed to confirm for anyone who calls that this post is not a hoax.Currently our missile defenses rely on open...
- Tags: open source, NSA, Red Hat Inc., Novell Inc., agency, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-09-26
- In tight times, FCC pushes forward with emergency network
- With the greatest credit crunch since the 1930s in full swing, this is perhaps not the greatest time to sell your house. Or your airwaves. But the FCC is not dissuaded. The agency is pushing ahead with an attempt to get private investors to foot the bill on a public...
- Tags: FCC, Network, Chairman, Emergency Network, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girl
- McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girlEnough already!We get it! Anybody that is supporting John McCain is bad and anybody supporting Barrack Obama is good. You have sufficiently established your liberal credentials.RE: McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girlMcCain wants something acutally ONLINE?...
- Tags: John McCain, Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- India's government: At last, we've cracked Blackberry's encryption
- Following India's threat to shut down the Blackberry network in the country unless Research in Motion allows the government to snoop on Blackberry users made earlier this year, the country seems to have found a more pragmatic solution, and in a surprising move has publicly announced that they have finally...
- Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Encryption, Government, Handhelds, Hardware, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Ford to run ad using film from Web contest
- Ford on Wednesday will run an ad featuring a short film that won an online competition, reflecting how companies are seeking to cut costs while boosting their brand awareness. LOS ANGELES--Ford on Wednesday will run an ad featuring a short film that won an online competition, reflecting how companies...
- Tags: Web, Advertisement, Brand, Ford Motor Co., Filmaka, Branding, Marketing, Reuters, Ford, autos, advertising
- News items 2008-09-24
- Americans Hate Flying - Consultants Must Really Loathe It
- Americans Hate Flying - Consultants Must Really Loathe ItDelta doesn't seem all that bad......but maybe it's just in comparison with US Airways which held the franchise at the local airport just before them. They'll even let you bring food on the plane, and they have a real live flight...
- Tags: Benefits, Food & Beverage, Americans Hate Flying
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Imabas (exe)
- Imabas is a network database to manage large picture stocks. The range extends from photographers to picture agency with a SQL database. Supported are formats such as JPG, BMP, PNG, PSD, TIFF, and RAW formats of popular digital cameras. You can, for example, catalogue your images based on topics, locations,...
- Tags: PixAndMore, Imabas, GPS, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Storage, Databases, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-09-23
- Robot gas stations in the sky
- According to Aviation Week, U.S. engineers will soon demonstrate the first in-flight docking of two unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs while continuing the development of an autonomous aerial refueling system. Two specially designed UAVs, a tanker and a receiver, will perform their first test flights next month. 'One of the six-foot...
- Tags: Basket, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Robots, GPS, Aerospace & Defense, Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Manufacturing, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-20
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