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OMB 'throwing out' current Core.gov, starting over

Core.gov - the federal government's repository of reusable components - is undergoing a major revamp, according to Dick Burk, the government's chief architect at OMB, Federal Computer Week reports. While Core.gov holds a lot of components, those applications that can be linked with others to complete business transactions,...

Tags: CORE.GOV, Dick Burk

Blog posts 2005-09-15

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At ease, Americans, your government is resting easy on global warming

At ease, Americans, your government is resting easy on global warmingMaybeGeorgie was confused and thought he was in China, . . the "from" was probably his nod to them, . . . though aren't they just second place? Oh well, pollution control is within each persons' grasp to impact...

Tags: global warming, government

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

At ease, Americans, your government is resting easy on global warming

It is going to be announced today (Friday, when the news cycle goes into snooze control) that the Environmental Procrastination Agency will take no further action on auto emissions or greenhouse gases during the George W. reign. In fact, they will seek much more comment and public input in...

Tags: President, Government, Greenhouse, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Healthcare, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-10

Blue Microphones Snowflake USB

To truly take advantage of computer-based communications such as VoIP and Skype, you'll eventually want to invest in a decent USB microphone. Unlike those cheap microphones that plug into your desktop computer's mic input, or the noisy microphone built into your laptop, a quality USB microphone like the Snowflake ($79)...

Tags: USB, Snowflake, microphone

Product reviews 2008-07-09

No reprieve: XP phase-out begins June 30

No reprieve: XP phase-out begins June 30But why?Surely if Microsoft remove Windows XP then lazy software developers who don't want to make their apps Vista compatible will be be forced to pull their fingers out!Windows Vista doesn't include many new changes to the software standards that Microsoft introduced with Windows...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Enterprise 2.0 Conference notebook

Ironically this week has probably been my most offline in months - Sprint failed the brand new Westin Hotel in Boston disastrously with terrible or non existent wifi service. It was a real shame because Jive Software had an instance of Clearspace for the conference attendee community and there was...

Tags: Security, Notebook, Collaboration, Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Wireless LANs, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-12

iPhone aims for pole position

iPhone aims for pole positionActually......that is not usually the Microsoft way. People key on the "Plays for Sure" situation like its evidence of a trend. It isn't.Historically, Microsoft has made platforms that were available to everybody. I'm not entirely sure why they went the path they did...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., hardware, pole position, Microsoft Corp., hardware division

Discussion threads 2008-06-10

Android will be 100% open source, says Google

Contrary to some reports, everything that makes Android "Android", including all the core platform components and libraries needed to port Android to new devices will be open sourced under commonly used, industry standard licenses, says Google. [ See also: Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform ]...

Tags: Google Inc., Apache Software Foundation, Android, Open Source, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-02

How was Comcast.net hijacked?

It's official, even a pothead can social engineer Network Solutions. In an in-depth interview with the hijackers, featuring some screenshots showing they had access to the complete portfolio of over 200 domain names controlled by Comcast, the details of how they did it, and why they did it are now...

Tags: Network Solutions Inc., Comcast Corp., Social Engineering, Attack, Domain Registrar, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-05-30

Comcast's DNS records hijacked, redirect to hacked page

For a couple of hours yesterday, Comcast's Internet Portal (comcast.net) had its DNS records hijacked and a defaced web page was loading from third-party domains. Further investigation into this incident reveals a connection between the group responsible for Comcast's DNS hijacking and previous incidents such as the  defacements of Justin...

Tags: DNS, Comcast Corp., Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-05-29

Apple's Mighty Mouse sued over name

Apple's Mighty Mouse sued over nameAnd what exactly makes Man and Machines an interested party in this?Do they own a piece of the trademark or do they simply want to use the name for one of their products?RE: Apple's Mighty Mouse sued over nameA chance for millions from Apple? That...

Tags: Mice, Apple Inc., mouse, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Apple Mighty Mouse, M&M, Mighty Mouse

Discussion threads 2008-05-21

Senate hearing refocuses on China

Well it's not nice to pick on China these days, what with the earthquake and all. But that didn't stop Dick Durbin from picking on Google, Cisco and Yahoo about their business dealings in China, as Anne Broache reports on News.com. In interesting part, the hearing focused...

Tags: China, Cisco Systems Inc., U.S. Senate, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-21

Florida going slowly solar?

FGCU's Library and caption as shown on the university's website. The "Sunshine State" is going to put some of that sunshine to use for something besides orange juice, tourism and melanoma. How about a little electricity? Or in the case of Florida Gulf...

Tags: Farm, Florida Gulf Coast University, Florida, FGCU, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-18

Introduction to BIT

This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...

Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Ideology and self interest won't win health care debate

The knives have already come out in the fight against health care reform in 2009. On the one hand we have ideology, represented by former Rep. Dick Armey, who complains that some Republicans are getting weak-kneed in their rejection of any but the most "market-oriented" (i.e., tilted...

Tags: Physician, Ideology, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Polar Bear Threatened, says U.S. Global warming acknowledged in public.

The U.S. Department of Interior has just listed the polar bear as a "threatened" species, that is legally and technically different than being listed as "endangered." The Feds based their announcement on studies by government scientists. Global warming is reducing Arctic sea ice off...

Tags: Bear, Global Warming, Bloomberg News, Wetzler, Kivalina, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-14

A professor deals with political climate around climate change

I am NOT a scientist but I have two brothers who are. My father was a phycsics professor. I even admit to knowing and liking folks who are in the sciences, regardless of their reputation among certain politico-business factions in America. In the interest of dialogue, I...

Tags: Food, Science, Humans, Trite, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-04-27

Spin patrol: Curious timing on AOL's 'we're growing like gangbusters' announcement

Spin patrol: Curious timing on AOL's 'we're growing like gangbusters' announcementYeah, a BIG surprise to me too!Esp. when you overhear last weekend conversations that they're 'hangin in there' at Sat. morning soccer games Moms will talk and talk in Ashburn... Leak, lose-lips or freedom of speech - whatever. Move...

Tags: America Online Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-25

RIP MSN Direct SPOT watches, so few of us knew thee well

I am probably one of the few who actually bought a SPOT watch and have been paying for the yearly service since they were launched back in 2004. I found the technology interesting, but it took a year or so for the watches to evolve into something smaller and more...

Tags: MSN, Watch, SPOT, GPS, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-04-24

PayPal no friend to online buyers

PayPal no friend to online buyersPayPal TipsI managed to have Paypal refund money I lost to a scammer ($24) who was listed as "PayPal Verified" on their website.It's interesting that PayPal arbitrarily decided late last year to change the default payment source account from credit card to bank account for...

Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, PayPal, online buyer

Discussion threads 2008-04-21