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Tech ed funds extended by Congress

Community colleges are heaving a sigh of relief now that Congress has extended through 2012 the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act. Inside Higher Ed reports that although President Bush has slashed funds for the law in last several budgets, Congress, in a rare bipartisan move, has...

Tags: U.S. Congress, Community College

Blog posts 2006-08-15

Community College Improves Enrollment Forecasting, Positions to Meet Growth Goal

With campuses located throughout Indiana, Ivy Tech Community College is the only community college in the state. The college receives state funding, and the staff works hard to ensure that Ivy Tech graduates contribute to Indiana's growing workforce. Wanting to boost student enrollment and retention, the Central Indiana region of...

Tags: College, Microsoft Corp., Enrollment, Microsoft CRM, Forecasting, Community College, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sales

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Microsoft renames its 'D' language 'M'

Microsoft is continuing to slowly trickle out details about its Oslo modeling strategy. The latest info with company has gone public are the names of the three Oslo components it will release in Community Technology Preview CTP form at the Professional Developers Conference PDC, by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Models, Research & Development, Microsoft Development Tools, Business Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Nobel Laureate is the father of Kevin Mitnick investigator

We tend to say that information security is a small world. Conferences quickly become real-life demonstrations of the principle of six-degrees-of-separation. After a few years working in this industry, you either meet all or are within one hop of all the major players in the space; there just...

Tags: Information Security, Kevin Mitnick, Nobel Laureate, Osamu Shimomura, Productivity, Security, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Facebook: Revenue plan by 2011; Growth is key for now.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's more focused on growing the social networking site than he is in finding a way to monetize it - at least for now. In a Q&A interview with German blog Netzökonom, Zuckerberg has basically given himself and the company three years to come up...

Tags: Revenue, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Networking, Operational Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Turning US News college rankings into 7-dimensional analytic geometry

Turning US News college rankings into 7-dimensional analytic geometrynot that hardWell, short of doing proper calculus, one can dump the data into an Excel spreadsheet and generate this sort of analysis, based on a system which weights the different factors :) Easy-peasy for any 8th grader who understands basic probability...

Tags: college ranking

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Where are all the programmers?

Where are all the programmers?It's worse than you think!I'm in SO CAL. The market for good communicating and highly technical developers vanished back in 2000 with the .com meltdown. The guys from India and China are bright, but come on, business rules that are highly complex are missed when you...

Tags: Development tools, programmer, software development

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Where are all the programmers?

I was at a conference Wednesday that covered an awful lot of ground. There were some good sandwiches, too, and the cookies were first-rate. One thing that stuck out in my mind, though, aside from the deserts, was one companies inability to hire good programmers domestically. This...

Tags: Recruiting, Programmer, Computer, Development Tools, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Turning US News college rankings into 7-dimensional analytic geometry

No really, I'm not kidding. Two researchers from UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon thought that the methods employed by US News and World Report to rank the nation's top universities was just a bit too arbitrary. As Science News reports in a great article to share with high...

Tags: Vector, Corporate Governance, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?

Justice is being served against the kid who allegedly hacked into Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, right? David Kernell, the 20-year-old son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell and a student at the University of Tennessee, was indicted on a charge of accessing...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Hacker, Computer, Kid, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Teaching telecommuting

Teaching telecommutingtelecommuting skills?I'm a fulltime telecommuter, though I do venture out to teach an IRL composition class a couple of days a week. I think the kids already have the skills they need to telecommute, and they value having the connection between the classroom and that new work environment made...

Tags: telecommuting

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate

Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debateSAP MaintenanceSAP is a large company that feels they are bulletproof. They make their money on large accounts, and increasing maintenance is just a money grab in lue of increasing market share in SMB where thay have no clue how to penetrate.RE: Forrester...

Tags: SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Open source in a time of recession

Open source in a time of recessionWhen the water hole shrinks,the kangaroo mice flourish.HistoryYes, the end of the dot-com bubble killed a number of illusions. The most prominent lesson was, Don't give away your main product. So at that time pure Linux and other open source plays disappeared.What was...

Tags: Rewriting History, recession, open source, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Apple dominates the teen vote, but...

Apple dominates the teen vote, but...But of courseit's a cultural thing that hasn't had a black eye yet to turn people off, and in retail, at least the MP3 category is labeled iPod then mp3 players. iPod is held up as that category. The iPhone was pimped out...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Games, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Forget the damn Linux netbooks. Can Windows replace Windows?

My esteemed ZDNet colleague Ed Bott, God bless him, wrote a very insightful piece in which he discusses Taiwanese PC mainboard and component manufacturer  MSI's challenges of selling Linux-based versions of their netbook, the Wind U90. Apparently, according to MSI, Linux-based versions of their netbook are...

Tags: MSI, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Zune 3.0

Photo gallery:Zune 3.0 softwareIn order for Microsoft's Zune MP3 player to compete against Apple's iPod, Microsoft not only had to create a great MP3 player; it also had to create a solid software client to compete against iTunes. In doing so,it's created an attractive, full-featured digital-media jukebox that some users...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Zune

Product reviews 2008-10-07

Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels

Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levelsWhose side are you on? ntnt = no textWhose side are you on? ntOn the objective one.Objective?I dunno, it sounds to me like you're:a) Giving them advice on what to do nextandb) Telling the rest of us how useless it is to fight them"objective"?Re: Objective?a)...

Tags: Atrivo/Intercage, spam level

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate

The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Google is your friend

Google is your friendThe underlying principles should determinewho is a freind, or who is not.There is nothing wrong with being a [b]for profit[/b] company, which is what Google is. It would be an entirely different issue should they hide their EULA agreements, or who they deal with, or what they...

Tags: Channel management, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Does the Semantic Web matter?

Does the Semantic Web matter?Semantic Web does matter, but ...Hi Paul,I agree to your post, Semantic Web does matter. Unquestionably, the Web is moving towards a stage that machines may understand our humans better and better. It is the future. In order to reach the future, one thing we must...

Tags: Semantic Web, business intelligence, Imindi, Web

Discussion threads 2008-10-07