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CBO News Reader 1.6.3 (Mobile)

Congressional Budget Office CBO News Reader grabs the top stories from the CBO and delivers them to your iPhone and iTouch. The news feeds covers latest 10 documents, publications, cost estimates, and director's blog. It features a landscape viewable mode and you can share stories with friends and coworkers.

Tags: Mobile, Congressional Budget Office, Splaysoft, Congressional Budget Office News Reader, Blogging, Smart Phones, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-26

Did Congressional Budget Office call health IT savings bunk?

The headline is the Congressional Budget Office says a claim by RAND Corp. the nation will save $77 billion through heavy use of IT in health care is bunk. But that's not the whole story. The CBO, a bipartisan body which helps Congress formulate...

Tags: Information Technology, Congressional Budget Office, Blog, Health Care, Automation, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-21

1.4 mln Americans unemployed for long-term in January 2007

The number of long-term unemployed stood at 1.4 mln in January 2007, up about 21% YTY and up 3% MTM. The full-year average for 2007 was 1.2 mln long-term unemployed, nearly double the reading for 2000. For all of 2007, about 17.6% of those who were unemployed had been out...

Tags: Congressional Budget Office, AM

Blog posts 2008-02-02

Defined-Benefit Pension Plans: Current Problems and Future Challenges

Lawmakers initially became concerned about workers' receipt of promised pension benefits after the failure of several large plans in the 1960s, which eventually led to the enactment in 1974 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ERISA. That law specified minimum standards that pension plans must meet regarding participation, accrual...

Tags: ERISA, Congressional Budget Office, Payroll Solutions, Regulations, Benefits, Quality, Government, Human Resources, Business Operations

White papers 2005-06-07

Additional Resources

Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?

Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?It's about money - not your healthThe health insurance industry had the highest median CEO compensation. Over $10 million and that's just the median. Half of those guys made more than that.One would be foolish to believe that those rather happy CEOs...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Healthcare reform, Insurance, health care

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

The LHC and the importance of pure research

The LHC and the importance of pure researchFair enoughMoral hazards litter the path walked by scientists and the governments who try to fund them. Pork barrel spending can apply to research as much as public infrastructure projects. I don't think that means, however, that there aren't benefits to...

Tags: government, private industry, pure research

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

News to know: Dell vs. Apple; Virtualization smackdown; Cisco patch; iCal; SAP

Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Could an OEM like Dell ever be as cool and as stylish as Apple? Next-generation Radeon GPUs to feature GDDR5 memory John Morris: Report: Nvidia GTX 200 series will be one big GPU EIC podcast: Microhoo; OLPC and...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Virtualization, Information Technology, SAP AG, Cell Phone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-22

White House, Congress squabble over missing emails

White House, Congress squabble over missing emailsRE: White House, Congress squabble over missing emailsThis is terrible. I think we will know what was in the emails very soon.Criminal intent or negligenceIt's one or the other. They should just pick one so we can get on with the prosecution of...

Tags: White House, e-mail, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2008-01-20

Will comparative effectiveness cut medical market?

For those expecting medical spending to ride out the coming recession, a new Congressional Budget Office study should give you pause. The study's conclusion sounds simple and non-controversial: Better information about the costs and benefits of different treatment optionsâ€"through research on the comparative effectiveness of those optionsâ€"could...

Tags: Insurance Company, Health Care, Children, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-16

The Internet must not be proprietary

The Internet must not be proprietaryMonopolies are bad.I agree. Unfortunately the trend in North America is that choices are decreasing. This need not be a bad thing as long as the 'remaining' market players do a good job. But history has shown that once competition decreases, quality of service goes...

Tags: Government, Govt, Internet

Discussion threads 2007-11-24

Obama outlines federal CTO position; Where's the power?

Barack Obama unveiled plans for a chief technology officer, support for Net neutrality, improving education, next-generation broadband networks and more research spending. Oh yeah, and there will be more open government and feds using wikis and blogs. This agenda, outlined in this PDF, makes for good fodder....

Tags: CIO, Agency, Information Technology, Chief Technology Officer, News, Reality, Barack Obama, Government, Vertical Industries, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-14

In DC, the air is thick with SOA

I frequently take my young daughters to Washington, DC, to see and learn about people and technology that made a difference in our world -- from the Lincoln Memorial to the National Air & Space Museum to the International Spy Museum. Lately, this town has also been the...

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2006-09-19

Vista's European battleground

Vista's European battlegroundI Can Kinda Sorta Almost Agree with MS on This OneUnlike the browser, I can actually see the argument that security IS a part of the operating system and hence they are not abusing their monopoly to leverage dominance in another market (unlike the upheld conviction with respect...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2006-09-18

Army Future Combat price tag rising

The Army's exciting new Future Combat Systems project - which would put video cameras on soldiers' helmets and display wirelessly transmitted data to their goggles - is in big trouble, GovExec.com reports. The Congressional Budget Office figure the program could eat up as much as half of the...

Tags: FCS, Army

Blog posts 2006-08-07

OMB: E-gov flailing as Congress withholds funding

Federal agencies are failing to make progress in e-government initiatives, and Congress' unwillingness to fund the programs is a chief reason why, the Office of Management and Budget said in its Executive Branch Management Scorecard for the quarter ending March 31, 2006. Federal Computer Week reports: OMB...

Tags: e-Gov, U.S. Congress

Blog posts 2006-05-05

Planning for the unthinkable

The following few paragraphs are excerpted from the 2005 UK Influenza Pandemic Contingency Plan: “Most experts believe that it is not a question of whether there will be another severe influenza pandemic, but when.” -- The Government’s Chief Medical Officer, 2002 The widespread occurrence – and continued spread...

Tags: pandemic

Blog posts 2006-03-27

Federal ID cards falling seriously behind schedule

According to plan, the federal government is supposed to convert all existing identification systems to a single, government-wide federal smartcard ID by October. The congressional Government Accounting Office finds serious problems in implemenation, though, the Post's Stephen Barr reports. The GAO reviewed the progress of six agencies in...

Tags: agency, smart card

Blog posts 2006-03-07

Coalition questions RFID in RealID cards

In a case of unlikely bedfellows, a coalition of conservative and civil libertarian groups have joined forces in a letter to DHS' Chertoff to complain that RFID is too expensive and too insecure to put into the national ID card that is RealID. The letter reads: ...

Tags: RealID Card, RFID, Citizens Against Government Waste

Blog posts 2006-01-20

Don't surprise OMB with a falsified EVM

The Office of Management and Budget, cow-towing to congressional pressure, gave agencies until Dec. 31 to create a mandatory plan for using earned value management EVM to assess major IT projects, reports GovExec.com.Project managers use EVMs to evaluate a project's progress measured against its estimated cost and schedule, and allows...

Tags: earned value management

Blog posts 2006-01-09

Prepare for more scrutiny after SEC's SOX failure, says Gartner

Earlier this week, CNet News.com reported that the Government Accountability Office GAO audit of the SEC found that the organization, ironically, did not have effective internal control over financial reporting, pointing to weaknesses in its information security and accountancy practices. The GAO also found that the SEC's financial statements for...

Tags: SEC, Government Accountability Office

Blog posts 2005-06-30