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- Jump the connection revisited (Cracking Open the IBM PC Jr.)
- Jump the connection revisited (Cracking Open the IBM PC Jr.)Here is a modern solutionSimply gut the JR and put an Intel Mac mini inside it.You will then have a modern computer that can run the superior MacOS X or the malware sucking Windows.IBM PC Jr.The IBM PC Jr. was...
- Tags: Desktops, IBM PC, Cracking Open, PC, IBM Corp., computer
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Is Congress looking at the right VA scandal?
- The U.S. Senate is finally getting on the Veterans Administration's VA case. Spurred by a class action suit which is now going to trial, Sen. Patty Murray has demanded the resignation of Dr. Ira Katz, the head of the agency's mental health wing. As...
- Tags: Sen., U.S. Congress, Health Care, John McCain, VA, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- VistA dieing of starvation and neglect
- The Veterans Administration VA is starving its world-class VistA medical records software to death. At a time when organizations around the world are switching from proprietary to open source models of support, an agency which created such a model from scratch is going the other way. ...
- Tags: Electronic Health Record, Microsoft Windows Vista, U.S. Department Of Defense, Veterans Administration, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), E-health, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Social networking, IBM, Microsoft etc: the Twitterverse debates
- Charles Cooper's article noting the rise of Twitter as part of the media fabric is a cue for surfacing a long conversation I had yesterday with some of my 800 Twitter followers. The pretext was my post about the end of software and the number of thanks folk posted on...
- Tags: Social Networking, Consultant, Network, Information Technology, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., E-mail, Knowledge Management, Groupware, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Data Management, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- 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
- Intel agency considers cracking down on sat images
- The intelligence community is concerned about the widespread availability of satellite images on sites like Google Earth. The little-known National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency says the government may act to restrict distribution, the Associated Press reports. "If there was a situation where any imagery products were being used by adversaries to...
- Tags: Intelligence, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- House looks into 'bad' Chinese attacks on State, Commerce systems
- A House subcommittee is holding a hearing tomorrow to try to understand "how deeply" US government computers have been penetrated by foreign forces and whether the governments IT response so far is adequate, ComputerWorld reports. "The purpose of this hearing is to afford [House members] the opportunity...
- Tags: Security, International, Government technology, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Serious gaming may change the face of education
- Serious gaming may change the face of educationSerious gaming may change the face of educationThanks for your coverage of the Serious Games Summit, but you picked up errors that appeared in the original USA Today story. Here's what we told them. Your 10/30 story on the Serious Games...
- Tags: Games, BreakAway Games, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Pulse!, Serious Games Summit, game
- Discussion threads 2006-11-10
- Serious gaming may change the face of education
- The line between entertainment and education gest blurrier all the time. That was clearly the case during the two-day Serious Games Summit in Arlington, Va., which featured video games on subjects such as gerrymandering, medical education and military operations, reports USA Today. "You read about science in a book...
- Tags: Education Technology, Gaming, game
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- Training workers on voting machines a key problem
- Electronic voting machines and optical vote-counters are getting all the headlines in the pre-election week but an underreported story is the disconnect between the high-tech equipment and the less than tech-savvy poll workers, or judges, who have to follow the procedures and deal with machine failure. Typically, they are...
- Tags: Samuel Goodman, training, Goodman
- Blog posts 2006-11-02
- Schools slow to adopt online courses, even as state agencies approve them
- The lack of online options for tech ed classes required by the Maryland Department of Education for graduation is "just crazy," one student told the department recently and others provided further evidence of how slow-moving boards of education are hurting their educational options. In a hearing at a...
- Tags: board, school board
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- From primary to college, kids are grabbing up electronics
- It's Christmas in August for retailers who sell school back-to-school gadgets and gizmos. This year they are making the most of the digital craze, especially with a drop in prices making many digital essentials more affordable, reports The New York Times. "Tech-based products are so much less expensive that...
- Tags: laptop computer, digitaL
- Blog posts 2006-08-18
- When scripts become programs
- In thinking about the general issue of scripting versus programming I decided to look for some examples of early BASIC to see how close that really was to what we would now consider a simple scripting tool -i.e. an interpreted language without a requirement for static typing. To my surprise...
- Tags: BASIC, programming
- Blog posts 2006-07-21
- The case of the missing assistant secretary
- A year ago Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced the creation of an assistant secretary for cybersecurity. A year later, the agency has not even identified a candidate for the job, the Washington Post reports. "What this tells me is that ... [Chertoff] still hasn't made this...
- Tags: Paul Kurtz, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Blog posts 2006-07-12
- My Mac diagnostic tool belt
- I keep a special folder of Mac OS X diagnostic and repair applications on my Mac's hard drive in case of emergency and there are a couple tools that every self-respecting mobile Mac user should have in their arsenal. This is a short list of some of my essential selections:The...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh
- Blog posts 2006-04-12
- NIH cuts endanger biotech breakthroughs
- NIH will receive $35 million less in 2006 than it did last year. Those cuts will be especially painful for biomedicine, Techology Review reports today. The budget effectively moves the agency back to 2003 funding levels, with the result that only one out of 10 grant proposals will be funded,...
- Tags: NIH
- Blog posts 2006-01-30
- Cardiac patch for a broken heart
- People who suffered from heart attacks or other heart failures often need transplants because their hearts are essentially non-functioning. But imagine what will happen if it was possible to engineer living heart tissues to fix these broken hearts. This is what bioengineers at Columbia University Medical Center in New York...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Patches, SECURITY, cardiac
- Blog posts 2006-01-22
- IBM to modernize Justice systems
- IBM won a seven-year contract worth as much as $150 million to modernize and consolidate the Justice Department's financial management and procurement systems, the Washington Post reports. Under the United Financial Management System contract, which has a base year and six one-year options, the company will combine six systems into...
- Tags: IBM Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-01-17
- EU to review Microsoft's ContentGuard deal
- EU to review Microsoft's ContentGuard dealAny bets......on whether now that a French company has been brought in as a partner, the EU's attitude will change somewhat? :)Carl RapsonAs per usual, if Microsoft can'tbeat 'em, they buy 'em.EU blowsHey - the EU should also force bill into donating more than the...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Digital media, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., ContentGuard Inc., U.S. Department of Justice
- Discussion threads 2005-02-11
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