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UK Transportation Department IT failure: 'Stupendous incompetence'

The UK House of Commons attacked the Department for Transportation DfT for gross mismanagement of a shared services IT project. Here are the details of what happened. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Department For Transport, Human Resources, IBM Corp., Information Technology, Management, Michael Krigsman, Performance, Performance Management, Project, Shared Service Center, Strategy, Workforce Management

Blog posts 2008-12-19

Additional Resources

U.S. battery company tries to power up

We all know Micihigan leads the country in unemployment and in dinosaur car companies. Amidst the nostalgia for days go by, some entrepreneurs are pushing for a re-birth. An Ann Arbor start-up is wanting to a big in the world of batteries. Sakti3 has backing...

Tags: Battery, Department Of Energy, Sakti3, Sakti, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Amazon Kindle DX: The solution to a problem that doesn't exist

From the first moment I picked up Amazon's new large-format e-reader, the Kindle DX, I liked it. The plastic was smooth to the touch, the flat e-ink screen was easy on the eyes, and the large 9.7-in. screen only magnified just how thin the...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Magazine, Textbook, Amazon Kindle, Kindle DX, DX, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Why I am against pure net neutrality

Why I am against pure net neutrality100 per cent disagreeLet's compare this to cable TV. Originally all cable providers were supposed to provide a certain amount of channels/bandwidth to public access stations but once they sobbed for similar reasons -- having to monitor for inappropriate content and to keep costs...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Net Neutrality, pure net neutrality, Internet Service Provider

Discussion threads 2009-02-23

Are cheap flash drives a key to reducing paper?

Are cheap flash drives a key to reducing paper?Well . . ."That way, they won't have to print web pages to paper anymore."Well, truth be known most assignments are typed on a word processor. If an English assignment is printed from a web page, it usually means you've cheated.Thanks for...

Tags: Flash memory, USB flash drive, Adobe PDF, cheap flash drive

Discussion threads 2008-12-09

The WWII German Army was 80% Horse Drawn; Business Lessons from History

The bulk of the German Armyâ€"the dough feet of the normal infantry divisionsâ€"moved on shank's mare. The rifle companies' transport consisted of three-horse wagons, on which the troops loaded their packs, as did this outfit on campaign in Russia in the summer of 1941. Lone Sentry.com ...

Tags: Weapon, Machine, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-06

Logitech Harmony 510

The Logitech Harmony 510 is the replacement for the Harmony 520, which is being discontinued. Except for a slightly different color scheme silver on black instead of black on silver and the addition of four color-coded buttons below the keypad, it's essentially the identical unit. The catch: Logitech cut the...

Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, Logitech, Logitech Harmony, Logitech Harmony 510

Product reviews 2008-11-19

Better networked soldiers

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA has recently given a US$500K award to a computer scientist of the Washington University in St. Louis WUSTL. His research project is called 'Revolutionizing Defense Communications with a Diversified Internet Infrastructure.' Crowley will design a new kind of network for the U.S....

Tags: Network, DARPA, U.S. Department Of Defense, Computer, Productivity, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-22

iHome iP47BR (black)

SDI Technologies has released some of the better affordably priced clock radios in recent years under its iHome brand, but the iHC5S wasn't among them. It wasn't for the lack of trying, however. The 2007 product did double duty as a clock radio and a Bluetooth speaker/speakerphone. In other words,...

Tags: Wi-Fi, SDI Technologies, iHome iP47BR, iHC5S, Bluetooth, phone, iP47

Product reviews 2008-08-18

Government Agency Improves Service and Lowers Costs With Standardized CRM Solution

The Welsh Assembly Government, Department for the Economy and Transport, delivers more than 200 business-related products and services to its citizenry. A survey conducted by the Department for the Economy and Transport identified areas where it could improve upon its service delivery. To achieve this end, managers sought to consolidate...

Tags: Agency, CRM Solution, Government, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

Case studies 2008-06-05

Bank of NY "loses" 4.5M unencrypted customer records

Bank of NY "loses" 4.5M unencrypted customer recordsData lost AGAIN.............What has me curious is whether or not the information ON the tapes is encrypted, whether it be residing in database files, flat files or whatever? This "data at rest" all should be stored in encrypted formats.........http://whistlersear.wordpress.comLost? Yeah right!Its always...

Tags: Financial services, NetBackup, Bank of NY, bank

Discussion threads 2008-06-04

E-Service Vehicle Registration Certificate Process Cut From 15 Days to Three Days

The Dutch government's Department of Road Transport RDW aims to bring seamless, electronic services to citizens and businesses, and in 2007 won Computable Magazine's Innovation Award. With the help of Microsoft Services, the RDW built an electronic services framework using Microsoft Commerce Server 2007. Using this, it developed e-services, which...

Tags: Online Application, e-Service, Microsoft Corp., Application Service Providers (ASPs), Portals, Internet

Case studies 2008-06-01

RFID in Aviation: Airport Luggage Control

There is a strong potential for implementation of recent IT technologies in aviation, such as RFID Radio Frequency Identification. Major aviation industry players, such as IATA International Air transport Association, Boeing or Airbus have recognized the potential huge savings and benefits of such technology being incorporated on a large scale...

Tags: Aviation, AeroAssist, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2008-06-01

Urban food deserts in major cities

Canadian researchers at the University of Western Ontario have studied the evolution of food deserts in urban areas. Food deserts are areas where people have low or no access to food shops. In other words, they are neighburhoods with low average home incomes and poor access to healthy food. As...

Tags: Supermarket, Food, Food Desert, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-18

Cisco tweaks telepresence for the whiteboard

Cisco is taking its telepresence video codec and moving it to a virtual whiteboard. At the Gartner Emerging Technologies Conference Tuesday, Cisco's Guido Jouret outlined a virtual whiteboard technology that the networking giant has in its labs. The term telepresence refers to videoconferencing applications that feel like...

Tags: Health Care, Cisco Systems Inc., Telepresence, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Sun waits out Microsoft

Sun waits out MicrosoftBinary Compatibility? To even suggest it is folly"I pushed the envelope, just for giggles, calling for binary compatibility between Java and .NET/DCOM/COM"This isn't useful and the mere suggestion brings back memories of the Object Request Broker ORB wars of years ago (CORBA R.I.P) and it doesn't solve...

Tags: ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Middleware, RPC, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., COM, DCOM, COM Server

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

Separate charges in Chinese spying cases

A former Boeing engineer has been indicted on charges of economic espionage and international spying, Thompson Financial reports. The indictment alleges that Chung took and concealed Boeing trade secrets relating to the Space Shuttle, the C-17 military transport aircraft and the Delta IV rocket....

Tags: Aircraft, Boeing Co., Letter, Indictment, Chung, Aerospace & Defense, Government, Strategy, Manufacturing, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-11

Pharos Drive GPS 250

Sometimes less is more, and that seems to be the approach Pharos is taking with its Pharos Drive GPS 250. The entry-level in-car GPS offers simplicity and ease of use with a minimalist design and interface, and all the basic navigation features are there, with the bonus of text-to-speech functionality....

Tags: Keyboards, touch screen, points of interest database, Pharos, Pharos Drive GPS 250, GPS

Product reviews 2008-01-18

Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to swicthgrass?

Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to swicthgrass?Now that is totally cool!Thanks for the info on this. Whooda thunk? ]:)RE: Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to swicthgrass?Is this anything new? we have known about cellulose based ethanol and its potential for long time. The problem...

Tags: grass, corn, acre, gallon, Corn Grain

Discussion threads 2008-01-08

Boeing 787 at risk of in-flight hacking

The network architecture aboard Boeing's new 787 leaves the aircraft susceptible to infiltration by passengers during a flight. As reported by Wired: The computer network in the Dreamliner's passenger compartment, designed to give passengers in-flight internet access, is connected to the plane's control, ...

Tags: FAA, Hacking, Network, Boeing Co., Flight System, Networking, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-01-05