citizenship

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Does suing customers make business sense?

Does suing customers make business sense?Victory for crime!This so called victory by the RIAA is only one more proof that there is only on kind of justice in the good old USA: the one you buy yourself! When obvious criminal cartel proven more then once guilty of countless crimes win...

Tags: greed, BEST THING, RIAA, citizenship

Discussion threads 2007-10-05

If everyone had a BlackBerry, that might not be a good thing

Jeffrey Roy, who is an associate professor in the School of Public Administration at Canada's Dalhousie University, muses on what a democracy would be like if almost every citizen (and by implication, voter) had a BlackBerry.In fact, Roy seems to be wondering if BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion might not...

Tags: News

Blog posts 2007-06-04

Gates urges federal data privacy law

Gates urges federal data privacy lawWe agree on one thingOnly I'd go one farther: I would let people decide who gets to keep their information on file. Maybe you like the idea of instant credit, maybe you don't care. If you don't you should have the ability to...

Tags: SECURITY, citizenship, Microsoft Corp., EULA, privacy

Discussion threads 2007-03-08

U.S. wins appeal against alleged pirate

U.S. wins appeal against alleged pirateAnd so it is perpetuatedthe American arrogance that the world has come to despise. Yeah I can see the right and the wrong of the whole thing. But the world will not focus on the fact that justice was served should he be convicted of...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, citizenship, software

Discussion threads 2004-07-08

Additional Resources

Civics Flash Cards 2.1 (Mac)

Civics Flash Cards is the computer version of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS Civics Flash Cards that were recently updated for the new naturalization test that all immigrants will now have to face when becoming a U.S. Citizen. NOTE: When USCIS updates their Civics Flash Cards, I will...

Tags: Card, Apple Macintosh, SeaScape Software, Civics Flash Cards, Workforce Management, Productivity, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-09-30

U.S. willing to let go of Icann

Obama is selling us outonly a peace monger like Obama could cede US sovereignty to UN.It's time to elect a real American in 2012!Huge MistakeThis is a very bad idea. Whenever we cede control to the 'world,' the worlds tin horn disctators make a mess of it.This should have...

Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Personal finance, Obama, salary, ICANN, job

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Facebook, Wrong Again!

There was a book and movieabout assassinating Bushmaybe the secret service has a pointbut both sides of the aisle should have more respect for the presidency Come on....I don't care for the guy myself, but all you need is the results to be over 50% and some whack job will...

Tags: Free-speech, Facebook, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Windows SMB2 exploit now public; Expect in-the-wild attacks soon

Another "researcher" makes a name for himself.So, just why was it necessary for for this Bozo to actually "create and release the code" for the exploit? Let me guess. His company makes money by hyping up the level of fear. See their web page where they say...

Tags: Firewalls, SECURITY, Network security, Patches, Microsoft Windows, Windows SMB2, attack, firewall, antivirus

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Canadian Citizenship Test 1.2 (Mobile)

Canadian Citizenship Test allows you to choose your province and tests are presented according to your province. The user interface allows you to choose from possible answers. Shake your iPhone or iPod to skip a question. You can mail test results to yourself. It features over 200 multiple-choice questions for...

Tags: Mobile, Question, Eknath Kadam, Canadian Citizenship Test, E-mail, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-07

UK Citizenship Test 1.2 (Mobile)

With UK Citizenship Test pass the UK test or UK Citizenship test. This app prepares you for your test with over 175 possible multi choice questions based on life in the UK book. The slick user interface allows you to choose from possible answers. You can mail test results to...

Tags: Mobile, U.K., Eknath Kadam, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-08-25

Condemning what the market does worse

Agree, but unfair comparisonI do agree with most of what you are saying, but feel compelled to take issue with the following:You said "Few deny the Obama Administration has mangled the health care debate. On my personal blog I have compared this to how the Bush Administration handled Hurricane Katrina."The...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, government, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Are Enterprise Content Management failures destroying the American system of justice?

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="160" caption="photo: plu.edu"][/caption] As if dying trees and disgruntled employees aren’t bad enough consequences of poor enterprise content management systems, according to Michael Hickins, lousy Enterprise Content Management ECM could be chipping away at the very heart of American justice. This talk of justice...

Tags: Enterprise Content Management, Michael Hickins, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Doc

Sponsored content 2009-07-27

Death of the Principle of Voluntarism?

Much of the corporate sustainability and responsibility agenda has been propelled since the '90s by the idea that voluntary action on the part of corporations is more effective than regulation. It has been a celebration of market dynamism over moribund regulation, the latter of which would provide only for the lowest common denominator. At...

Tags: Initiative, Diamond, Kimberly Process, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Building a vision for Government 2.0

Government 2.0 isn't waiting for a federal mandate. Earlier this week, the nation's first ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, urged the use of Web 2.0 approaches to address the needs of government and citizens at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Kundra outlined several important areas where he...

Tags: Web, Citizen, Web 2.0, Vision, Vivek Kundra, Government, Vertical Industries, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-03

EU wants MSFT to put other browsers in Windows

EU wants MSFT to put other browsers in WindowsThis is war against MSIt is more and more clear, that EU commision is waging undeclared war against US companies, MS and Intel specifically. I think US government should retaliate demanding that for example BMW car must offer customer a choice of...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Windows User, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, Microsoft Windows, MSFT

Discussion threads 2009-06-01

IT Services Company Helps Customers Cut Costs, Ease Management With Online Services

PointBridge, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, develops and deploys software solutions based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and other Microsoft technologies. The organization was a 2008 Microsoft Citizenship Partner of the Year global finalist and was recognized as the 2007 Microsoft U.S. Central Region Partner of the Year. PointBridge wanted...

Tags: Customers Ltd., IT Services, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Document Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Content Management, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Office Suites

Case studies 2009-06-01

Sun & Symantec: A New Breed of Sustainability Leadership?

The passage of the Waxman Markey Bill through the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee this week has left behind it some hard feelings and a split in the business lobby. The US Chamber of Commerce came under severe pressure for lobbying against the...

Tags: Sustainability, Symantec Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Duke Energy Corp., Climate, Chamber, Bjorn Lomborg, Globalization, Security, Strategy, Management, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-05-24

US Congress Ready to Act on Human Rights Crisis in Tech Industry Supply Chains

Following on from yesterday's riff on traceability technology for Vietnamese fisheries, it turns out Silicon Valley may yet be its own best customer. Despite common knowledge of serious human rights abuses relating to the mining of cassiterite in the Democratic Republic of Congo the industry has not gone far enough to guarantee...

Tags: Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Accounting, James Farrar, Mineral, Software, Supply Chain Management (SCM), U.S. Congress

Blog posts 2009-05-21

AT&T's First (well not quite first) Chief Sustainability Officer

The AT&T PR luvvies pushed out a tweet today announcing they had freshly minted their first Chief Sustainability Officer CSO. I took a closer look and it turns out the newly appointed Charlene Lake has been in situ since last year albeit with the slightly more modest title of VP Public Affairs Corporate Citizenship and...

Tags: Sustainability, AT&T Corp., James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Obama's 100-day tech review

Obama's 100-day tech reviewWaiting on ....Well, I know one thing wait till the 2010 elections, we will see how wonderful it is when auto-makers are producing Yugo's and electricity has a 25% tax on it to pay for the 'free' healthcare for people WHO don't work...IF the country is around...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, NOW IT, Obama, tax

Discussion threads 2009-04-29