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- Chartered to protect the henhouse, has the FTC turned into a fox?
- Chartered to protect the henhouse, has the FTC turned into a fox?You tell me and we'll both know."The question is, what will be that next evolutionary step that resets things so that we have the final word on such sensitive information."You tell me and we'll both know.It's the golden rule...Those...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, henhouse, Chartered, FTC, fox, telemarketing, ZIP code
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- AMD starts getting chips out of Chartered
- AMD starts getting chips out of CharteredToo much, too late!AMD looks like their clock is ganna be cleaned by Intell for the next few years with the upcoming release of the conroe chips. Good news though, in that more chips with less demand will mean lower prices!Poor analysis..."AMD's manufacturing, though,...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., chip, manufacturing, Chartered
- Discussion threads 2006-07-13
- Source: AMD orders Chartered chips
- Source: AMD orders Chartered chipsJust hope AMD doesn't get bit by this deal...Seems like eons ago, Intel did pretty much the same sort of thing - with AMD. They had them build 286 era chips for them - and look at how that contract spawned the "monster" that AMD became...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chartered, chip
- Discussion threads 2006-05-23
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- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Google's secret project turns out to be Second Life
- Niniane Wang, the person behind Google's new service called Lively, has been working on this "confidential" project since November 2005 according to her resume. There have been hints throughout the years that this might be coming, but it turns out that the rumors were true -- Google made Second...
- Tags: Second Life, Google Inc., Service, C/C++, Programming Languages, Web Site Development, Team Management, Productivity, Strategy, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Internet, Management, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Michael Dell's 2008 compensation almost halved, but security tab remains
- Dell CEO Michael Dell saw his total compensation in fiscal 2008 fall to $2.33 million from $4.5 million in 2007 as his stock option awards fell. However, Dell's security bill topped $1 million for the second year in a row. According to Dell's proxy statement filed with the SEC...
- Tags: Security, Compensation, Dell Computer Corp., Benefits, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- A brief summary
- A brief summaryCompare with CFOIn many parts of the world, the CFO must be a chartered/certified accountant. In the US, this is now also essentially the case, due to SOx, and SOx is there as a result of accounting scandals.IT continues to disregard formal qualifications and licencing. Maybe the CIO...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Databases, IBM AIX, SOx, shareholder, AIX 5.3, Schwartz, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Google's proxy: Internet censorship; Schmidt's security detail
- Google filed its proxy statement with the SEC on Tuesday and detailed an attempt to get the search giant to stand up to Internet censorship abroad. Google recommended shareholders vote against the effort. The Internet censorship proposal was raised by the Office of the Comptroller of New...
- Tags: Shareholder, Security, Google Inc., Censorship, Internet, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and you
- Here's a simple rule for preventing totalitarian rule in any nation: Don't build the systems for monitoring people's daily lives closely in the first place, and you will not be at risk of totalitarian rulers using those systems to overwhelm individual choice. The Wall Street Journal today has a long...
- Tags: Monitoring, Terrorism, NSA, Government, Homeland Security, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- In the mind's eye, it's now Marissa versus Monkeyboy
- Funny how the mind works. Sometimes it just makes associations whether you want it to or not. And now that I've read the feature article on Google's Marissa Mayer in San Francisco magazine, the images from that profile are etched into my mind whenever I think of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Image, Cat, Ray, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- A great day for Larry Ellison
- A great day for Larry EllisonA great day for HumanityNow that heading should spark some interest - A great day for humanity. But I speak as an auditor would speak.Oracle 10 has a feature where data can be requested as it would have been viewed at a set point of...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Oracle Corp., great day, Larry Ellison, Oracle 10
- Discussion threads 2007-12-21
- Samba is beneficiary of Microsoft-EU deal
- Samba will be a direct beneficiary of Microsoft's agreement to cooperate with the European Union, which was announced today. The agreement is that Samba will get assured compatibility with Microsoft Workgroup protocols through a group called the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation, which is chartered in Delaware. ...
- Tags: Samba, Agreement, Microsoft Corp., PFIF, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- How Cisco IT Trained Users for Migration to Global Voicemail System
- For some users, voice messaging is simply a way to capture missed phone calls, but for others it is a business-critical application. Major employee training was in order when Cisco began migration from a transitional, service-based messaging system to feature-rich Cisco Unity, an IP-based desktop messaging solution. The training team...
- Tags: Information Technology, Migration, Messaging, Training, Cisco Systems Inc., Workforce Management, Human Resources
- Case studies 2007-12-19
- Chartered to protect the henhouse, has the FTC turned into a fox?
- I rarely get e-mail from the USA Today's Byron Acohido who from time to time interviews me for my opinions on tech. But today, Acohido drew my attention to a story that he has co-authored with Jon Swartz under the headline FTC under fire as credit bureaus sell consumers'...
- Tags: ZIP Code, Bureau, Database Company, FTC, E-mail, Government, Databases, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- AMD: Is the glass half full--or empty?
- AMD CFO Bob Rivet said Thursday that the chipmaker will cut capital expenditures, hold the line on R&D costs and turn a profit in 2008. It was a part of an overall AMD theme today. The message: Focus on the future, not the quad-core missteps of 2007. "We will...
- Tags: Quad-core, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- With tech titan support, Green Grid to help datacenters go green with measurement standards
- With so many tech vendors claiming their solutions to be green and looking for a leg up with customers wanting to be more power efficient with everything from their servers right up to their entire datacenters, one big problem in the industry is a lack of standards on how "green"...
- Tags: Data Center, Consortium, Grid, Standards, Organization, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- New research: "inept" IT management in UK
- New research: "inept" IT management in UKThree things to consider re prioritisationHi Mike,The above makes depressing reading. You might be interested in a recent blog I wrote called ‘Rolling Rocks and Landing the Catch’, where I touched on ‘prioritisation’.Here is a snippet:“…Working in IT, we're all rolling the rock...
- Tags: information technology, IT administration, NEW RESEARCH
- Discussion threads 2007-11-27
- New research: "inept" IT management in UK
- Research conducted by the Chartered Management Institute, a UK-based professional body dedicated to management and leadership, suggests that IT leaders in the UK are notoriously poor managers: [A]n overwhelming majority (84 per cent) grapple with the challenge of ‘prioritising work'. Two-thirds (63 per cent) claim to have ‘little...
- Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, U.K., ComputerWeekly, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- Charter School Deploys Cost-Effective Foundation for Learning
- Horizon is a fully WASC accredited tuition-free public school that is chartered under California's Western Placer Unified School District. Until recently, the school maintained an old network and servers that had reached the end of their lives. Administrative employees were using peer-to-peer LANs that delivered poor application performance and incorporated...
- Tags: Security, School, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Case studies 2007-11-05
- Portugal Creates Interoperability Framework to Simplify Citizen/Government Interaction
- The Portuguese government is working to make Portugal one of the world's leading information societies. The Agency for the Modernization of the Public Administration AMA is chartered with leading digital initiatives across Portuguese society, including introducing e-government services. The agency worked with Microsoft, Accenture, and Siemens IT Solutions and Services...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Framework, Portugal, E-government, Government, Vertical Industries, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- Case studies 2007-10-09
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