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Let the file format hairsplitting begin: Now that Microsoft has issued a special covenant not to sue developers -- even open source developers -- that develop software that supports its XML-based Office file formats, the entire industry (OK, a goodly portion of it) is holding breath to see how the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will respond. ...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., XML, Commonwealth of Massachusett; Blog posts 2005-11-28
Did Microsoft send the wrong guy to Massachusetts' ODF hearing?: Microsoft called Massachusetts' bluff and lost. One of Microsoft's biggest mistakes in what will prove to be a critical turning point for the Redmond-based company is that it sent the wrong men to Massachusetts' last hearing before that state set a new IT policy into stone: one that essentially...; Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Intellectual property, Commonwealth of Massachusett, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format; Blog posts 2005-09-26
Microsoft vs Mass.: What ever happened to 'The customer is always right'?: Is it just me, or is there something highly unusual about the extremely hard time that Microsoft is giving to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts over its decision to move to Open Document Format ODF as the standard for storing files produced by productivity applications like word processors and spreadsheets? ...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Commonwealth of Massachusett; Blog posts 2005-09-22

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U.S. health care not getting better: In its second National Scorecard on Health System Performance the Commonwealth Fund gives the U.S. system 65 points out of 100. The New York Times kindly calls this a "D" but it doesn't read like a passing grade. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: U.S., Health Care, Commonwealth Fund, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-07-18
Fired up for new coal plant in Virginia: The Commonwealth of Virginia has given the green light for a large coal-burning plant to generate electricity. It's planned for the southwest corner of the state and is expected to require lots more Virginia coal. The utility has promised to burn only coal mined in Virginia Opponents...; Tags: Coal, Pollution, Plant, Virginia, Commonwealth Of Virginia, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-06-26

Commonwealth Fund finds wide disparities in kids' health care: The non-partisan Commonwealth Health Fund, founded 90 years ago by Standard Oil heiress Anna M. Harkness, has a new study out on childrens' health care which makes great reading. The fund ranked all the states, and the District of Columbia, based on how kids make out on...; Tags: Health Insurance, Health Care, Benefits, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Insurance, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-28
Expensive certification requirements hurt recruiting: Not everyone is cut out to be a teacher. It's a demanding job, summers off or not, and it helps to like kids. However, there are many instances when students can really benefit from teachers who have worked in private industry. This isn't the old adage, those...; Tags: Education, Recruiting, Teacher, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Simbabwe (gz): You have to burn a lot of houses to become one of the world's foremost tyrants. Welcome to Simbabwe, where the property is already owned and the houses built and you compete to burn and dispossess them. Plunder farms, deny grain silos to opposition supporters, rig elections, and taunt the...; Tags: House, Board, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law; Software downloads 2008-04-17
Oracle's president meets unhappy customers in Australia: The Financial Review reports that Charles Phillips, Oracle's president, traveled to Australia this week to meet with unhappy customers: In the case of the Commonwealth Bank, friction came after Oracle software code related to a database for the institution's CommSee customer service application was found to contain an abnormally...; Tags: Customer Service, Oracle Corp., Australia, Product Marketing, Tools & Techniques, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-03-07
'Server in the Sky': FBI international biometric db planned: Right around Christmas, I wrote about a new FBI program to build a massive, $1 billion database of biometric data. I quoted a WaPo story that said: Next month, the FBI intends to award a 10-year contract that would significantly expand the amount and kinds...; Tags: Database, FBI, Server, U.K., Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-01-14
OLPC America: PC World reported this weekend that OLPC will finally be offering its laptops in the States through "OLPC America." Negroponte explained that "For one thing, we are doing something patriotic, if you will, after all we are and there are poor children in America." ...; Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-01-13
Did the W3C acknowledge CDF's potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail?: Last week, after interviewing most of the players involved in a controversy regarding the future of the OpenDocument Format (a controversy mostly rooted in the confusion of two nearly identical but very different acronyms: ODf and ODF), I noted that some of those players -- IBM, the World Wide Web...; Tags: W3C, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., CDF, Edwards, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-12-04
State Attorney General's Office Uses New Technology to Improve Constituent Service: The Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General manages a broad range of law and public safety responsibilities, including conducting criminal investigations and prosecutions, handling civil litigation on behalf of Commonwealth agencies, and dealing with consumer protection issues. For years, the agency relied on an outdated system for constituent communication, which...; Tags: Agency, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing; Case studies 2007-12-01
Commonwealth Bank CIO: Michael Harte - Transcript: ZDNet Australia: Welcome to the CIO Vision Series, where we have with us as our guest Michael Harte of Commonwealth Bank. Thank you Michael, for joining us today. What technologies are you particularly excited about? Harte: We're a very diversified financial services group, and we cover...; Tags: Software, Bank, Financial, Information Technology, Banking, Customer, Business, Outsourcing, Technology, Tool, Productivity, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Management, Andrew Mager; Blog posts 2007-10-30
Commonwealth Bank CIO: Michael Harte: In a CIO Sessions interview, Michael Harte, CIO of Commonwealth Bank, speaks to ZDNet Australia about new customer support technologies his company is investing in and deploying inside the financial management organization, and shares his views on the latest IT trends including, security, open-source software and out-sourcing. by Andrew...; Tags: Bank, CIO, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Andrew Mager; Blog posts 2007-10-30
Plastic to help water and gas industries: Researchers have lots of imagination. After developing plastic as solid as steel, other scientists from in Australia, Korea and in the U.S. have created a plastic which could cut CO2 emissions and purify water. Their new material mimics pores found in plants and is exceptionally efficient. As said one of...; Tags: Membrane, Researcher, Carbon Dioxide, Separation, Industry, Polymer, Molecule, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-10-15
Europe's new 'monopoly' tariff on Microsoft bypasses WTO: Europe's new 'monopoly' tariff on Microsoft bypasses WTOSOX applies to all companies, not just targeted at Europe"Stick to the subjects you actually have knowledge about."I'll tell you what: We won't censor you and you don't get to silence me. You're getting a lot nastier these days behind the anonymity...; Tags: Free trade, Regulations, Now Let, Adobe PDF, World Trade Organization, tariff, Microsoft Corp., Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Discussion threads 2007-09-26
Analysts 'debate' to focus on SOA management issues and outlook: I'm really looking forward to this Friday, Sept. 14, in Boston when I join up on the podium at the Harvard Club with Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst with ZapThink, to dig into the current and future landscape of SOA management. [UPDATE: Here is the event as a...; Tags: SOA, Management, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2007-09-10
A telescope as big as the Earth: A week ago, seven telescopes around the world were linked together to watch a distant galaxy called 3C273 in real time and create a single world telescope. The data from these telescopes, which are located in Australia, China and Europe, was streamed around the world at a rate of 256...; Tags: Earth, Network, Europe, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-09-06
Ready for a virtual beer?: If you're attending SIGGRAPH 2007 next week in San Diego, don't miss a demonstration done by Australian and South Korean researchers. They will pour virtual beer during the conference. They say that 'the physics of bubble creation in carbonated drinks like beer is complex,' but add that their fluid special...; Tags: Fluid, Beer, Bubble, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-08-04