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- UPDATE: $3 billion Census Bureau IT failure
- The Census Bureau's $600 million custom-handheld initiative has finally been scrapped. The upshot: the 2010 census will now cost $3 billion more than planned. Guess those pesky handheld computers are a bit too complicated, so it's back to paper and pencil methods. Â Â Â Â Â Â ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Translation, Census Bureau, Strategy, Handhelds, Management, Hardware, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-05
- Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau
- Â The US Census Bureau faces cost overruns up to $2 billion on an IT initiative replacing paper-based data collection methods with specialized handheld devices for the upcoming 2010 census. The Bureau has not implemented longstanding Government Accountability Office GAO recommendations and may therefore be forced to...
- Tags: Harris Corp., Government Accountability Office, Census Bureau, Bureau, Handhelds, Hardware, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Census Bureau posted personal info of 63,000 people
- Census Bureau posted personal info of 63,000 peopleBusiness as usualJust another inept move by a regime which has apparently made great strides in disconnecting itself from any consideration for the individual.The only cure for this, if indeed it might be one is for un-tainted elections in 2008, by that I...
- Tags: Census Bureau
- Discussion threads 2007-04-24
- Census employees inadvertantly post citizen data
- The Census Bureau posted personal information from 302 households on a public Internet site multiple times over a five-month period, the bureau said today, the AP reports. Names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and family income ranges, but not Social Security numbers, said spokeswoman Ruth Cymber. "A...
- Tags: Government technology, Privacy
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Top US states by PC penetration: Utah, Alaska, New Hampshire, Washington
- US Census Bureau listed Utah and Alaska among the top US states by PC penetration.Top US states by PC and Internet penetrationStatePCInternetUtah74.1%62.6%Alaska73.4%68.5%New Hampshire71.7%65.5%Washington71.4%62.3%Colorado70.3%63.4%Source: US Census Bureau
- Tags: PC, Census Bureau
- Blog posts 2005-10-31
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- OK, I lied...I have to point out Google Public Data
- OK, I lied...I have to point out Google Public DataBetter with Google?I have worked with a lot of this data to write my PhD. The issue is not the organization of data - if you actually visit the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census Bureau or the Nataion Bureau...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-01
- OK, I lied...I have to point out Google Public Data
- I know I said I wouldn't be posting anything to speak of today, but one of our history teachers mentioned Google Public Data to me and I just had to write a quick note about it. It's been features in a few spots, but the Washington Post has a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data, Productivity, Government, Channel Management, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- Weather report: Slow-moving cloud for government IT
- With federal spending advancing far beyond the trillion-dollar level although a huge amount of that is going to the states, government purchasers have no shortage of friends hailing from Silicon Valley. Chief among them are locally based Google reps, who are keen on getting the federal...
- Tags: Google Inc., Agency, Information Technology, Government, Vertical Industries, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-01
- Want a tech gadget bargain? Get it now, or you'll be too late
- Bargains on new technology, gadgets and gizmos -- from laptops and desktops to HDTVs and Blu-ray players and even digital cameras and camcorders -- have been plentiful in the shadow of the global downturn. For example: A 10-inch Acer Aspire One netbook, just $320!...
- Tags: Smart Phone, HDTV, Price, Component Price, Smart Phones, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Software engineer, systems analyst 'least stressful' jobs in America
- If you're a software engineer or computer systems analyst, relax -- you have one of the least stressful jobs in America. But you were already relaxed, weren't you? Job search portal CareerCast today announced its list of the most and least stressful jobs in...
- Tags: Software, Job, Actuary, Analyst, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Uncalculated Risk: The Fall Of Housing Prices. What Goldman Saw.
- This is the U.S. Census Bureau's graphing of housing values from 1940-2000. Nationally, housing prices march upward for six uninterrupted decades. This kept up for another six years. But as the S&P/Case-Shiller Index, below, shows housing prices --...
- Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Security, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Data: Names List 1.0.4 (Windows)
- Complete US Census Bureau names list data. Can be used in your programs for a variety of purposes, including name spell checker and card verification. Format: Line 1 = Male, Line 2 = Female. User community support is freely available at the website. CSV usability, multi-platform format, instant use. ...
- Tags: Frequency, Web Site Development, Microsoft Windows, Web Technology, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-12-28
- Amazon puts human genome, other data sets in the cloud
- Amazon Web Services AWS on Thursday said it will publish data sets such as the Human Genome, U.S. Census and labor statistics to its cloud to make the information easier to access for researchers. For starters, Amazon will publish various U.S. Census databases from the U.S. Census...
- Tags: Genome, Amazon.com Inc., Data Set, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- 45.7 mln Americans uninsured in 2007
- The US Census Bureau released a report that estimates that 45.7 mln Americans were uninsured in 2007 compared to 47 mln in 2006. The US Census report found that more people were covered by government health insurance programs - increasing from 27% in 2006 to 27.8% in 2007. During this...
- Tags: Health Insurance, Health Care, Benefits, Healthcare, Insurance, Payroll Solutions, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, AM
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- X-Box (and Cell Phone) Nation: Election Rests In Digital Hands
- The Democratic convention gets started tonight and in the constant quest for the unconventional technological means of getting out the youth vote, the X-Box is today’s “in†device. By itself, this may not be a big deal. There are about 12 million X-Box members around...
- Tags: Presidential Election, Phone, Election, Cell Phone, X-Box, Democratic Convention, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- How a lack of insurance kills
- How a lack of insurance killsNot everyone can get insuranceAnd not everyone can afford it when they can be accepted.The insurance companies focus on excluding people that might have an existing condition cuts out a large group of people. My wife is a good example - she had breast...
- Tags: Financial Planning, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- The next generation will deal with global warming, we promise
- The next generation will deal with global warming, we promiseEmission cuts promised unfeasible without clean coalWithout clean coal, the emission cuts promised by the G8 puny though they are are unfeasible: "The vast majority of new power stations in China and India will be coal-fired; not "may be coal-fired"; will...
- Tags: global warming, emission cut
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- diversITy: can being gay hold your career back?
- Edit: Just a couple of grammatical tweaks. This series of entries, called diversITy, continues from the previous topic, all concerning the diversity of people within the IT industry. This time, I'd like to put forward: sexual orientation in the workplace, can it set you back? ...
- Tags: Workplace, Career, Diversity, U.K., IT Industry, LGBT, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Why is Microsoft sponsoring the Open Source Census?
- Why is Microsoft sponsoring the Open Source Census?Microsoft sees RedHat and Novell making...money with open source. They are looking to see if it is a market they can tap into as well. Microsoft would rather make money from Open Source than try to kill it - something they have found...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., open source, Winux
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- BIT: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- This is the 3rd excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: T Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots part One Herman Hollerith, then a statistician with the US bureau of the Census formed a company called...
- Tags: Card, IBM Mainframe, Data-processing, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
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