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- No access to code in eVoting case
- A district court of appeals has upheld a lower court ruling that denied access to the source code of he iVotronic touch-screen systems made by Elections Systems & Software in a contested election for a Florida U.S. House seat.Christine Jennings, who lost the race by 369 votes claims that the...
- Tags: Security, Government, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Supreme Court rejects appeal of FL voting machines
- The U.S. Supreme Court will not consider whether Floridas touch-screen voting machines need to have a paper trail in case of a recount, The Orlando Sentinel reports. U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler appealled a lower-court ruling that the states touch-screen voting machines dont need to leave a paper ballot trail....
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Courts, Elections, Christine Jennings
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- In FL, Jennings appeals to see e-voting source code
- After losing an election in which 18,000 voters mysteriously failed to cast a vote in a hotly contested House race, Florida Democrat Christine Jennings sued to force the e-voting manufacturer to turn over the machines source code. Circuit Judge William Gary refused to grant that request last week, ruling her...
- Tags: Christine Jennings, Elections, State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- FL legislature contends with problems with e-voting machines
- When the Florida Legislature convenes in March, the future of electronic voting machines will be one of the top items of business. While much of the country is registering fears about the ways votes are handled with the machines, Florida once again is in the limelight with an ongoing controversy...
- Tags: paper ballot, ballot, e-voting, Christine Jennings, E-Voting Machine
- Blog posts 2006-12-26
- Jennings brings e-voting claim to Congress
- Christine Jennings, the presumptive loser in Florida’s 13th Congressional District, is officially contesting the race results in Congress, alleging widespread voting machine irregularities, Congressional Quarterly reports. The House Administration Committee will decide whether to proceed with an investigation of the complaint. Since the 109th Congress is over, the...
- Tags: Jennings&rsquo, Christine Jennings, Elections, Congress, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- In FL, missing e-votes cast doubt on House race
- A Florida Democrat who lost his House race is seeking a recount after dozens of people reported problems using Sarasota County’s touch-screen voting machines and a significant number of ballots had no recorded votes in the high-profile race, The New York Times reports. Christine Jennings lost to...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Elections, Christine Jennings
- Blog posts 2006-11-10
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- How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?
- How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?It took Mother Nature...millions of years to lock up the carbon into fossil fuels that we have managed to release in a hundred.Nature can not fix it as fast as we are polluting it. That is the issue. Take a...
- Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Views from VMware's Analyst Day
- Yesterday I attended a VMware analyst briefing in good ol' Beantown, a.k.a. Boston, Massachusetts. Having had the opportunity to speak with the executives of well over 120 companies offering something in the realm of virtualization technology, I came to the event with a fairly neutral viewpoint. Although I was ready...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- IT Service Management: A Top Priority for 2008
- IBM recently commissioned the Butler Group to discover the priorities of more than 100 senior IT professionals working in large organisations and enterprises. The results of the survey show what role ITSM will play in 2008, what the priorities will be and how capabilities are deployed. It also provides...
- Tags: Butler Group, Priority, Information Technology, IT Professional, IBM Corp., Research Finding, Service Level Management, It Services, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2008-06-13
- Breaking away from ERP as bookkeeping
- Most traditional business software revolves around transactions — the movements recorded in purchase orders, stock movements, bills of materials, invoices, journals and every other document that has evolved to record business operations over the past several centuries. But this is a roundabout way of representing reality that has evolved through...
- Tags: Asset, Payroll, ERP, Procurement, Workday, Operational Accounting, Purchasing & Procurement, Asset Management, Finance, Business Operations, Operational Planning, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Sports Network hit by drive-by Chinese hack
- Poor SportsNetwork, a privately owned Hatboro, PA sports site. Chinese hackers brought the site down possibly thinking it was owned by CNN, which is targeted for attacks. The poor folks at SportsNetwork right have the following posted after a denial of service drive by attack Techmeme:...
- Tags: Network, Site, Hacker, CNN, Hacking, Security, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Google App Engine: When will Microsoft field a competitor?
- On April 7, Google took the wraps off of more than many had expected: Not just a hosted database platform, but an entire hosted Web app platform, known as Google App Engine. Google App Engine, which Google announced at its CampFire One developer event on April...
- Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., RDBMS, BigTable, SimpleDB, SSDS, Databases, Web Services, Storage, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Washington State First to Provide a U.S. Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) - Compliant Enhanced Driver License
- With the implementation of the U.S. Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative WHTI program, U.S. citizens ultimately will need to provide WHTI-compliant proof of identity upon returning to the U.S. from western hemisphere nations. With Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire's sponsorship, and anticipating increased border crossings in 2010 with the upcoming Winter...
- Tags: U.S., Washington, Microsoft Corp.
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Office 14 to add more online document sharing
- Microsoft won't be turning Office 14 into a completely Web-ified productivity suite, a la Google Docs. But it's practically a given that Microsoft will add more online collaboration/sharing capabilities to the individual point products that will comprise the client-based Office 14. Microsoft execs are beginning to drop...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Cisco to Combine Google's Android, UC and Enterprise 2.0
- I met with Cisco's distinguished engineer Cullen Jennings for unified communications last week, where he showed me a new concept demo that lays out where Cisco is going with mobility and Unified Communications UC. Think Google's Android pro ject for the enterprise and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- SocGen: it's worse, they knew.
- The French finance ministry has slammed Société Génerale, saying they knew there were deficiencies in their approach to controlling risk prior to rogue trader Jérome Kerviel's disastrous run. Finextra reports that: French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde told reporters that SocGen failed to apply appropriate controls over Jérome Kerviel, who...
- Tags: Bank, Risk Management, Finance Ministry, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Security, Finance, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- What Microsoft's Yahoo Bid Means for IT
- In case you missed it, Steve Ballmer mailed Yahoo's board of directors on Friday a love letter proposing an acquisition to the tune of $44.6 billion or $31 per share. You can read it here. Larry Dignan thinks that Yahoo should take the deal noting that ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-02-03
- Text messages bust mayor for adultery, perjury
- If this was not already clear, the message is coming through loud and clear today. If you're the mayor of a major American city or, say, his chief of staff ... if you're a public employee using government-supplied computers, pagers, cellphones, cybersex is just a bad idea. In...
- Tags: Message, City, Kirkpatrick, Gender And Diversity, Instant Messaging, Human Resources, Internet, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Lawyers circle Sears over privacy
- Sears may have taken down a feature that allowed you to see anyone's purchase history, but not fast enough to keep the lawyers at bay. On Friday, KamberEdelson filed a class action complaint alleging that Sears ManageMyHome.com site violates the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act. The suit, first...
- Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Privacy, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- Technology Voters' Guide: Hillary Clinton
- Technology Voters' Guide: Hillary ClintonHmmmm....I only see Clinton responding! But the questions are mostly the same spew on the major media coverage. I'd like to see some critical questions answered. Such as... 1) Since you know that the Bush Administration has lied about the war, tortured prisoners,...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Clintons, Hillary Clinton, Technology Voters, Barack Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-01-02
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