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Data Mining: An Overview

Data mining is emerging as one of the key features of many homeland security initiatives. Often used as a means for detecting fraud, assessing risk, and product retailing, data mining involves the use of data analysis tools to discover previously unknown, valid patterns and relationships in large data sets. In...

Tags: Congressional Research Service, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Homeland Security, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Government, Marketing

White papers 2004-12-16

Critical Infrastructure and Key Assets: Definition and Identification

This report reviews the concept and definition of "critical infrastructure" as it has appeared in federal reports, legislation and regulation since the early 1980s. The report highlights the changes and expansion of that definition as the focus of public policy debates shifted from infrastructure adequacy to infrastructure protection. Finally, the...

Tags: Asset, Report, Congressional Research Service, Asset Management, Regulations, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Government

White papers 2004-10-01

Additional Resources

Twitter: A fine 'pre-business' but un-monetizable and a deadly acquisition target

Dear Google, Yahoo and any other potential buyer of Twitter. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay says it's a bad idea. A really bad idea. In a research note, Lindsay delivers an interesting history lesson of Internet "pre-businesses." You know the ones: The companies with large user bases, a...

Tags: Monetization, Google Inc., Acquisition, Network, Twitter, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-16

A geek's trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management

I appeared before congressional and government staffers on Capitol Hill for a panel on Network Management sponsored by iGrowthGlobal.  This was my first time in Washington DC and while it was a little cold for my Californian bones, it was a beautiful city and seeing the capitol of the nation...

Tags: BitTorrent, Broadband Internet, Cable, Comcast Corp., Corporate Communications, DOCSIS, Geek, George Ou, Internet, Japan, Marketing, Network, Network Management, Networking, P2P, Peer To Peer (P2P), Personal Technology, Presentation, Richard Bennett, Telecommunications, Video, Wireless Network

Blog posts 2008-03-03

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

Week in review: Chasing iPhone

Apple turns in monster quarter, thanks to iPhone and iPod; Microsoft posts strong earnings, scores Facebook victory. Also: Saving muni Wi-Fi. For Apple, the iPhone is turning out to be the goose that laid the golden eggs, and the treasure isn't going unnoticed by Google and Microsoft. ...

Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Phone, Network, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Smart Phones, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Steven Musil, Week in Review, Player, Language, Wireless, Telecom & Utilities

News items 2007-10-26

Ban on monthly Net access taxes faces obstacles

Ban on monthly Net access taxes faces obstaclesPowerful LobbyistsSenator Wyden blames the possible demise of a no-tax solution on powerful allies (or lobbyists.) That is unfortunately very far from the truth. The real truth is the demise will come from the powerful apathy-ists.There's enough citizens out there that...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Sales strategy, Vertical industries, Internet shopping, tax, subsidy, government, sales tax, sales, Internet access

Discussion threads 2007-04-17

Jennings brings e-voting claim to Congress

Christine Jennings, the presumptive loser in Florida’s 13th Congressional District, is officially contesting the race results in Congress, alleging widespread voting machine irregularities, Congressional Quarterly reports. The House Administration Committee will decide whether to proceed with an investigation of the complaint. Since the 109th Congress is over, the...

Tags: Jennings&rsquo, Christine Jennings, Elections, Congress, Government technology

Blog posts 2006-12-22

Anti-HP hypocrisy in Congress?

Commentary--As Congress looks into "pretexting," CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh asks if politicos are really in favor of our privacy. Commentary--Hewlett-Packard's phone records scandal might be enough to spur Congress into approving federal legislation banning the practice that's been stuck in committee for most of the year. ...

Tags: Phone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Agency, FBI, Pretexting, U.S. Congress, Douglas, Federal Government, Government, Declan McCullagh, Technology News

News items 2006-09-18

Web 2.0 pay for play: payola, or transparency?

We live in a world propelled by “spin” and driven by opaque, financially motivated relationship webs.From corporations motivated by profits, to not-for-profits with missions to “do good,” and from governments serving citizens, to universities at the service of research, activities occuring at organizations of all types, including Web 2.0 Social...

Tags: hospital

Blog posts 2006-07-23

Tech the Pentagon doesn't want keeps getting funded

With congressional boosters eager to keep jobs in their districts and donors happy, speculative technologies that the military didn't ask for and doesn't want just keep getting funded, the Washington Post reports. Take for instance Project M, nifty magnetic levitation technology from VSSL, a small defense contractor....

Tags: VSSL, Navy, Project

Blog posts 2006-06-19

NSA said to be eyeing MySpace to pinpoint possible terrorists

New Scientist magazine reveals that the National Security Agency is funding research into how to add information from social networking site MySpace listings to profiles of individuals garnered from banking, retail and property records.As detailed in a footnote to a paper entitled Semantic Analytics on Social Networks, data from...

Tags: MySpace, NSA, social networking

Blog posts 2006-06-09

Open source, algorithm-based intelligence gaining ground

In the wake of massive intelligence failures, the Congressional Research Service finds that open source intelligent gathering OSINT and measurement and signatures analysis intelligence MASINT will become increasingly valuable, Washington Technology reports. “Intelligence Issues for Congress” click here for PDF identifies a growing dependence on open source intelligence. Intelligence...

Tags: MASINT, OSINT

Blog posts 2006-04-21

U.S. patrols border with unmanned plane

With huge protests in Los Angeles and around the country yesterday, stepped up immigration controls, California's Minutemen patrols and a proposal to build triple-fenced, militarized security zone stretching from San Ysidro to the Otay border—immigration issues are hot topics these days. The US Border Patrol has added another weapon into...

Tags: UAV

Blog posts 2006-03-27

Network Neutrality: The PR blitz is underway

The network neutrality war is just starting to heat up. A campaign to make new fees for existing Internet services palatable is underway. At stake is the ability of the Internet to scale from the edges or a surrender and return to a telco-dominated network like the one...

Tags: carrier

Blog posts 2006-02-27

Reducing the cost of health care

Reducing the cost of health careGreat... More personal information for someone to steal...NTThere's only one way to fix Health Care...And that's to fix the out-of-control pharmacutical companies.The first thing that needs to happen is to outright BAN advertising by the pharmacutical companies. We, the patients, are paying for all...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, patient

Discussion threads 2005-06-28

Broadcast flag debate shifts to Capitol Hill

Broadcast flag debate shifts to Capitol HillFair use?[b]and a Congressional Research Service report worries about the broadcast flag's impact on "fair use" rights[/b]There is no such thing as 'fair use' in the USA anymore thanks to Republicans.Re: Broadcast flag debate shifts to Capitol HillFrom the article:[i]"The only problem, though, is...

Tags: broadcasting industry, Broadcast Flag, broadcast flag

Discussion threads 2005-06-21

Homeland Security: Throwing money at technology (page 3)

Strategic conflicts, rampant confusion and election-year politics are slowing the war on terror. continued from previous page Homeland security projects can also avoid public scrutiny under a procurement category known as "OTA," or "Other Transaction Authority," which critics say has been used to skirt the regulatory...

Tags: Security, Knowledge, Procurement, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Tension, Government, Vertical Industries, Homeland Security, Mike Yamamoto

News items 2004-10-18

Why SP2 deserved every shred of the scrutiny

Microsoft's Service Pack 2 for Windows XP is a failure in so many ways that criticisms of the it and, more importantly, of the Trustworthy Computing Initiative itself, simply can't be dismissed. COMMENTARY -- Within the technology industry, there are such fervent supporters on both sides of...

Tags: Security, Firewall, TCI, Apple Macintosh, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Corp., Hardware-enforced DEP, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, David Berlind

News items 2004-09-02

Congressional panel to vote on bill to ban VoIP taxes

Congressional panel to vote on bill to ban VoIP taxesonly if calls terminate to a land lineotherwise taxes has already been covered in broadband tax - or charge a tax on monthly fee, free voip service, no taxtax it like my cell and I'll only keep the cellI dont see...

Tags: Taxes, Telephony, Free trade, Government, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Technologies, VoIP, govy, tax

Discussion threads 2004-07-13