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China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'

China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'Learn from M$, Google and YahooThey cooperated with the local bully, they were allowed to run business over there. Don't p*ss of their government, that's the key in China. Yahoo went so far they handed in evidence to China government to help...

Tags: Tibetan family, Han, census, Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

US Census: The future is paper

US Census: The future is paperThis is a simple database app requirementHow hard is it to transfer a paper fill-in the blank to a database form, put it on a laptop and done. They still have to transfer the paper document to a database at some point to do...

Tags: Storage, Census

Discussion threads 2008-04-04

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

Canadian census counts on online responses

Canadian census counts on online responsesyeah right!I've refused do the census on 3 different occasions and I've never been fined or sent to jail. Sure they threaten you but nothing ever happens.Like they are going to waste there time on that sort of thing. All they do is get angry...

Tags: Free trade, SECURITY, Census, Canadian Softwood, Lockheed Martin Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-05-02

Census Small Business 6.0 (Windows)

Census is a Web-based bug and defect tracking. Implement an effective tracking process for any type of issue, whether you want to track bugs, defects, support calls, or weekly timesheets. Census features: e-mail notifications, version control integration SourceSafe, workflow automation, security control, power customization, import/export, user friendly and intuitive user...

Tags: Bug, MetaQuest Software, Census, E-mail, Microsoft Windows, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2004-12-21

Additional Resources

Population Counter 4.0 (Mac)

This widget simply calculates the population of the world. It takes into consideration death rates and birth rates. Its a fun widget to watch the population of the earth increase! There is, of course, no totally accurate account of total world population. No one is continually recording every single birth...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Population, Jon Brown Designs, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-09-14

Moving Data.gov towards the Semantic Web

RE: Moving Data.gov towards the Semantic WebIndeed the point is "how to make this work at Government scale" ?Data visualisation certainly helps. In fact this is the key in explaining what open data is all about. These are the flowers in TBL ted presentation. People don't care about boxes, they...

Tags: Moving Data.gov, Semantic Web

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

GenRes 3.0 (Mobile)

GenRes is a Palm application that lets you keep track of 'Genealogy Resources' that you have found during your Genealogy research.Each 'folder' of the application is entered by tapping on the folder tab.In the 'Resource' folder you can enter the 'Name' of your resource (person, place, item), the 'Event' (census,...

Tags: Mobile, Resource

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Modern threats to American liberty

Modern threats to American libertyFreedom ain't free after all...That is why it is important to defend all of our freedoms, from the first to the last. Remember, the second amendment is the one that gives you the freedom to keep the others. It is all part of a pattern...Alexander Hamilton...

Tags: Vertical industries, Taxes, government, socialist society, tax

Discussion threads 2009-07-04

McAfee: Welcome to the United States of Zombie PCs

McAfee on Tuesday released its quarterly report on Internet security. The results? Cybercriminals have taken control of 12 million new IP addresses since January.  Add it up and the U.S. contributes 18 percent of the IP addresses controlled by botnets. These zombie PCs appear to be lining...

Tags: McAfee Inc., PC, Spammer, IP, Zombie, Network Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-05

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

Swine flu? What it means for IT professionals

Swine flu? What it means for IT professionalsSwine Flu is not Bird FluOur company's plan for bird flu is *wildly* different than for this one. We used the 1918 Spanish Flu as our bird flu model, which has a 1% fatality rate for healthy 20-40 year olds.If something like that...

Tags: fatality, H1N1 flu, VPN, What it means

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

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

HollerID Nametones (Mobile)

Put your phone to work so that when a contact calls you, your phone will literally announce the first name of the caller. An incoming call from a nametone-enhanced contact will no longer require that you grab the phone and read the display. Just listen for the nametone and decide...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Voice, Terratial Technologies, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities

Software downloads 2009-04-01

Growing the Linked Data pool, with the Talis Connected Commons

Back in December of 2008, I wrote about a new initiative from Amazon to make large sets of public data more accessible. Amazon offered to mount the data for free, and for developers writing applications elsewhere in the Amazon Web Services ecosystem even the bandwidth cost of communicating with GenBank,...

Tags: Data, Amazon.com Inc., Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-03-30

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

Parameter Driven Data Integration Using SAS Stored Processes

The data warehouse at this large, metropolitan, state university consists of term and annual census data. Loading data into the warehouse is a Data Integration DI process that cannot be scheduled to run at a particular time each day as it requires human intervention to specify the appropriate time period...

Tags: SAS Institute, Data Integration

White papers 2009-02-27

Using Formats, MP Connect, and Other SAS Efficiency Techniques to Save Time and Disk Space

Working with historic household Census data can be quite challenging. Semi-annual data sets can exceed 50 gigabytes and when working with multi-year data it is often necessary to extract information from yearly clusters of data sets exceeding 300 gigabytes. These yearly clusters, until recently, have been processed sequencally, each independent...

Tags: Technique, Disk, SAS Institute, Data Set

White papers 2009-02-27

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