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FBI's Sentinel will cost another $500m

Is the FBI finally going to get the modern computer system it needs? Not quite, the Justice Dept.'s inspector general reported yesterday. According to the NY Times, the IG found that replacing the system will cost as much as another $500 million to complete, and more cost overruns are possible....

Tags: cost overrun, Sentinel

Blog posts 2006-03-14

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Widespread BlackBerry data outage reported, is it time to move on?

umgotta say this sounds like a justification for an iffy iphone purchase or usage maybe? you make it sound like if BIS goes down you're dead in the water, but if BIS goes down all you lose is what you don't have with any other service anyway, you still get...

Tags: Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, BIS, outage, BlackBerry Data, RIM BlackBerry, phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Kids are changing their online habits, will adults change too?

You've made me curious.... with the last sentences of your blog post. What invite-only places do you mean? And why wouldn't we know that they existed?RE: Kids are changing their online habits, will adults change too? "Now, they seem overrun with marketeers and I?m visiting less."The same is true with...

Tags: online habit, advertisement, Facebook

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Out-Innovated by Management Practice Blowback - a Video Conversation with John Hagel

I had the opportunity to sit down for a discussion with John Hagel of Deloitte's Center for the Edge last week. My previous post about the 'Shift Index 2009' report is augmented by this video, and fellow ZDNet blogger Dennis Howlett attended the...

Tags: Innovation, Management Practice, Video, Motorcycle, Destination Point, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-29

Why U.S. Visa policies are like Microsoft Windows

Inventory of H-1B Visa Woes & What’s Needed for Positive Change U.S. immigration and visa policies are like the Windows operating system. After decades of usage and many repairs to its code/policies, they both still need more patching and enhancements. Both of these institutions start off with...

Tags: U.S., Visa Inc., Visa, H-1B Visa, Window, Arbitrage, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-18

Microsoft sued over Vista-to-XP downgrade policy

Microsoft sued over Vista-to-XP downgrade policySince XP was available at retailwhen she bought it, there should have been no extra fee.However, i have no idea how it will turn out. If I did, I'd take it to Vegas and bet big.What Lenovo does is not MS FaultMS will promote the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., OEM, Lenovo Group Ltd., Microsoft Windows XP, General Motors Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-02-13

Predictions for 2009

Predictions for 2009Rock on!Which CPU took longer to reach the market, Rock or Viking? Viking never actually made it to market, and in the meantime the slow@ss SPARC2's were overrun by the speedy first 100Mhz processor (HP735). Those 3 (5?) long years for Sun defined how inept it is at...

Tags: Linux, Strategy, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, information technology, General Motors Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Obama, Ford Motor Co.

Discussion threads 2008-12-31

Dolly doesn't want to share white space

Dolly doesn't want to share white spaceYou'd Think Ms. Parton Would Know!Ms. Parton's present stand appears to be based on specious understanding of the science available. There apparently is no disruption threatening her wireless mic use. You'd think she'd be all for it, as this is the major key to...

Tags: Wireless Microphone, white space, microphone, wireless

Discussion threads 2008-10-28

Open source and the shrinking waterhole

Open source and the shrinking waterhole?????I'm sorry dude, but you lost me. What on Earth are you talking about? I might be dumb, it might be the fact that English is my third language, or some other reason. But I didn't understand the point of your article.This is a tech...

Tags: Development tools, way open source, open source, advertisement, software development, software

Discussion threads 2008-03-27

Lowering the High Cost of High Availability

It's been a long-held notion that if one maintains sensitive data, one simply must have a workable Business Continuity plan in place - High Availability maximum uptime, and regular, reliable backup and recovery of data for Disaster Recovery. But to what degree? IT and business leaders are tasked to define...

Tags: High Availability, Abacus Solutions, Business Security, Business Operations

White papers 2008-02-28

Naked IT: Author Ed Yourdon on the IT / business divide (includes podcast)

The Naked IT interview series talks with innovators about the evolving relationship between IT and business. Please listen to the audio podcast and enjoy the additional information included in this blog post. In this segment, we meet Ed Yourdon, an internationally-recognized author and...

Tags: Podcast, Information Technology, Ed, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-01-17

Dueling punchlines: more effects as causes?

Last week Britain's Computerweekly ran a story about the impact their version of Sarbanes-Oxley's is likely to have: Companies Act 2006 will bring IT closer to business The better news, however, is that senior IT directors say they...

Tags: Contract, Information Technology, Strategy, Outsourcing, Sarbanes-Oxley, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-01-17

New research: IT cost overruns, delays and contract terminations

A report from the European Services Strategy Unit, an independent watchdog agency, summarizes the scope of major public sector IT failures over the last decade. The report is titled, Cost Overruns, delays and terminations in 105 outsourced public sector ICT contracts. Key findings presented in the...

Tags: Project, Termination, Information Technology, IT Cost, Strategy, Workforce Management, Software Development, Management, Human Resources, Software/Web Development, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-01-10

Striking writers and digital media

The members of the Writer's Guild of America WGA, a union that consists of most of the writers responsible for TV and movie content produced by the LA-based movie industry (a position defended by the fact that union contracts require most sets to use only union writers), continues unabated, thus putting...

Tags: Digital Media, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-01-03

Amazon's Kindle: Much needed revolution or book industry power play?

Amazon's Kindle: Much needed revolution or book industry power play?Good article. Kindle is a good idea, but too restrictiveI really like the Kindle idea. I do lots of reading on my large screen but want to take this with me. The Kindle, I thought, was the way to go.However, your...

Tags: E-books, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc., e-book, Much needed revolution, Much Needed, book industry, Books

Discussion threads 2007-12-06

Don't blame cost of security on the vendors

As evidenced by my post last week I spent several days at the Gartner Symposium and ITExpo in Orlando last week. I can't get one incident out of my mind. I was manning our booth as usual (my feet are still recovering from 4 days of standing, ouch) when a...

Tags: Network, Security, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2007-10-17

Spyware isn't the answer to creating better games

Spyware isn't the answer to creating better gamescompete with FREEI will not pay for a game full of ads, but i whould play a ads supported game, if its free. This whould be the best way to curb piracy! because ads supported games can easlu compete with FREE (P2P)Great....So...who is...

Tags: Games, spyware, game, advertisement

Discussion threads 2007-05-16

Lou Dobbs and illegal immigration

This is a technology blog where Im supposed to discuss technology topics. On occasion, I dive into economic issues that relate to technology, such as antitrust, or more relevant in the case of this blog, outsourcing and skilled immigration through the H-1B visa program. Illegal immigration from Mexico and H-1B...

Tags: Outsourcing, General, Economic Policy

Blog posts 2007-05-03

The value of the term Web 2.0 nearing zero

The Web 2.0 meme has reared its head again, this time spurred by Peter Rips post in which he described the second generation Web as a wave that is "now rather long in the tooth, as cycles go." He cites declines in Alexa reach number metrics for GigaOm, TechCrunch and...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Tim

Blog posts 2007-03-21

FCC approves AT&T-BellSouth merger

FCC approves AT&T-BellSouth mergerMore Net Neutrality BS?Gimme a break! Redirection and denial of content is NOT going to happen; there's already effective laws about this. Elimination of QoS is a bad idea; restricting (NOT eliminating, just capping bandwidth) certain types of traffic is necessary to keep the net from being...

Tags: FCC, QoS, USG

Discussion threads 2007-01-02