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Nonprofit Organization Increases Productivity and Operational Efficiency

Committee for Children CfC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping keep children safe. Its award-winning classroom programs focused on youth violence, bullying, child abuse, and personal safety reach millions of children and educators every year. CfC wanted to improve customer service and increase operational efficiency while devoting more resources...

Tags: Accounting, Nonprofit Organization, Customer Service, Microsoft Corp., Committee For Children, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Financial Services, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

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NPR feature on OLPC - what went wrong?

Since tomorrow is the first day of school and I'm going completely out of my mind, I figured I'd just give you a quick link to an NPR feature on the One Laptop Per Child program that aired on Morning Edition today. As the piece points out, ...

Tags: NPR, One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Dems: Broadband policy crucial but so-far nonexistent

John McCain can't get online without his wife's help, but the storyline is that doesn't matter because as former chair of the Commerce Committee, McCain is intimately familiar with tech policy issues. At panels at the Demo Convention today, Democrats assailed that argument, saying that, ""On McCain's...

Tags: Broadband, John McCain, Government, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Amazon eyeing up the textbook market? About time

Amazon eyeing up the textbook market? About timeKindle for TextbooksI think it's a GREAT idea, it will not just save money but save on students' backs and space. If the memory would be enough to hold 4 or 5 textbooks at a time, maybe more, then it would be...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, textbook, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

X-Box (and Cell Phone) Nation: Election Rests In Digital Hands

X-Box and Cell Phone Nation: Election Rests In Digital HandsGood for MSI read about this last Thursday on cnet http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10021981-52.html And I'll share the same opionion. I think it would be awesome if they could do electronic voting on xbox live.Considering the text message fiascoThe use of high-tech tools remains...

Tags: Game players, Operational accounting, cell phone, phone, X-Box, X-Box Voting, Internal Revenue Service, Social Security

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Get those ToS sorted

The spat between WidgetLaboratory and Ning highlights one of the running sores in the current rush to all things 2.0: no-one and I mean no-one has given enough thought to how Terms of Service ToS are going to operate in the real world once cloud based services start to scale...

Tags: Terms Of Service, Ning, E-mail, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-25

London DK Eyewitness Travel Guide & Map (Palm) (exe)

From the top 10 ways to experience Royal London to the top 10 shops, pubs and hotels - this guide features the insider knowledge that every visitor needs, plus London maps and metro maps. Capture the essence of London, from shopping in Harrods to the Changing of the Guard at...

Tags: Mobile, Palm Inc., Mobile System, London

Software downloads 2008-08-25

Paris DK Eyewitness Travel Guide & Map (Palm) (exe)

From the Sacre Coeur to the Arc de Triomphe, your holiday to Paris starts from the moment you open your guide, plus you get Paris maps and trasport maps. Discover the best cafe terraces, unmissable museums and galleries, loveliest parks and gardens, best areas to shop or browse, unforgettable shows...

Tags: Paris, Palm Inc., Mobile System

Software downloads 2008-08-25

Google finally ready to launch Jaiku on their platform

Google finally ready to launch Jaiku on their platformLIVESEARCH Has had this forever!Gaggle copying MS again!Ballmer told me:http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comRE: Google finally ready to launch Jaiku on their platformCopying is human nature. Children copy their parents. Students copy their teachers. Adults copy their peers. And businesses copy each...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Jaiku, Google Inc., LiveSearch

Discussion threads 2008-08-23

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

2012 Olympics: Give Us Webcams On the Wall

2012 Olympics: Give Us Webcams On the WallInteresting proposalI like your idea. some thoughts:First: two separate approaches 1) a media center PC to output to the TV & 2) use consolesSecond: Allow for user created chat rooms (audio/text) like IRC channels with audio. That allows the end user...

Tags: Olympic Games, Webcam, Phelp

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

Suit over baby vid with Prince song goes forward

Suit over baby vid with Prince song goes forwardA waste of her time and money.Is this video so important to her that she can't just repost it every time it gets taken down but has to have it up there forever?She's wasting her time and money, and the court's time...

Tags: Corporate communications, Prince, video, Lenz

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

Back to school special: Big thanks to our green tech kids

I have no children so I really can't appreciate the end of August, when the parents I know count down the hours until their offspring heads back to the classroom. But I do remember mourning the bittersweet end of summer in the northeast, when crickets chirp of a summer evening...

Tags: Green Technology, Canon Inc., Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Get your young virgins vaccinated against HPV and cancer

Get your young virgins vaccinated against HPV and cancerStick To Technology and Leave The Virgins AloneDAna, you could not be more off base than with your misinformed call to vaccinate. How much research have you done regarding Gardasil? I would venture that the answer is NONE. You base your recommendation...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Gardasil, HPV, vaccine

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

Zac Browser (exe)

ZAC Browser is the first Web browser developed specifically for children with autism, and autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger syndrome, pervasive developmental disorders PDD, and PDD-NOS. Zac Browser is for children - for their enjoyment, enrichment, and freedom. Children touch it, use it, play it, interact with it, and...

Tags: Children, People CD, Zac Browser, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2008-08-21

New touch screen Classmates unveiled today

Intel unveiled a new iteration of its Classmate PC today, featuring a touch screen with tablet mode, a new wedge design, and motion-sensing internal hardware. According to Intel's press release, "Our ethnographic research has shown us that students responded well to tablet and touch screen...

Tags: Touch Screen, OEM, Intel Corp., Classmate, Accelerometer, Keyboards, Tablets, Monitors & Displays, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, Semiconductors, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ring

Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ringI have many waysthere are many ways of dealing with these peoplewithout death being the punishment, they'd wish they were dead.RE: Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ringThey should take everyone of them out and hang them. Don't let their neck snap but let them down...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

WSUS users get a surprise: Windows 7 client

WSUS users get a surprise: Windows 7 clientThis is the evidence that Windows 7 is the code name for Vista SP2if WSUS shown Windows7, this is the evidence that Windows 7 is the code name for Vista SP2, and so each Vista user will have it for free! Thank you...

Tags: Blogging, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Microsoft Windows, blog, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Compromise on the drinking age debate

Compromise on the drinking age debateThe Land of Misfit toysA brief conpendium of former Rice people would have to include Howard Hughes, Carrie Bradshaw and Matt Wilson, all of whom left after their freshman year.Among our graduates are John Doerr, writers William Broyles and Bill Goyen, game designer Steve Jackson...

Tags: Food & Beverage, drinking age, beverage

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

OK, so the meeting wasn't so bad

Just a quick note on my first administrator's meeting: it wasn't too bad. I had a couple things going for me. We haven't had anyone looking at technology from a global level in a long time; we also have more money being dumped into technology than we have...

Tags: Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-20