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- Plantedirektoratet Automates Business Processes, Advancing Communication With Partners
- Plantedirektoratet the Danish Plant Directorate is a state agency under the Department of the Food, Agriculture and Fisheries. The directorate's task is to help create a development-oriented industry for plants, seeds, fodder, and ecology. The directorate wanted to automate processes involving exchanges of data and services for better cross-agency integration...
- Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., Partnership, Directorate, Plantedirektoratet, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Structures, Operational Planning, Food & Beverage, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Finance, Business Operations, Manufacturing
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- CIA is upbeat on enterprise 2.0
- CIOs may not quite get the wiki thing, but the Central Intelligence Agency is pretty bullish on Web 2.0 techniques. According to CIO.com, part of the CIA's technology makeover relied on wiki software. Using a little enterprise 2.0 the CIA created something called Intellipedia, which was introduced...
- Tags: cia, enterprise 2.0, wiki, online communications, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Debunking yet another bogus malware study
- Here we go again, with yet another round of bogus reporting about the extent of malware infections in the United States. This morning I read a report by Nick Farrell of The Inquirer, which was accompanied by the screamer headline One in Four US computers infected. It links in turn to a much longer...
- Tags: Adware, OECD, Malware, Computer, Badware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Viruses And Worms, Productivity, Security, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- White House taps Wiki entrepreneur to fight cyberattacks
- Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rod A. Beckstrom has been tapped to join the Bush Administration to help secure federal networks against attack, the Post reported today. Beckstrom most recently founded Twiki.net, an enterprise Wiki support company, and previously created CATS Software and Mergent Systems. He's also coauthor of a...
- Tags: White House, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Cyberattack, Post Story, Hacking, Wiki, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- U.S. Army Enhances Security With Improved Identity and Access Software
- To securely manage information and communications, the Army wanted an identity and access solution that could integrate into its 14 separate domain forests. Users currently access protected information with a Common Access Card and PIN. The Advanced Technologies directorate tested Active Directory Rights Management Services AD RMS to safeguard information...
- Tags: Security, Advertisement, U.S. Army, Microsoft Access, Identity, Advanced Technologies, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Quit pickin' on Microsoft, EU
- Quit pickin' on Microsoft, EUMedia Player is the least interesting partIf you look at the ruling, Media player is the least interesting part of the ruling. What's more interesting is what this ruling means. Some legislation concerning competition was put on hold, but will be implemented in the next year....
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Media Player, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Bravo EU, WMP
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
- Dept of Homeland Security: inexcusable IT waste on ADVISE project
- Following its $30 billion virtual fence debacle, the Department of Homeland Security DHS has disclosed another failed IT-related project, this one costing $42 million. DHS has suspended, and will likely cancel, a massive data-mining initiative on grounds that it violated privacy standards. Significantly, the program has...
- Tags: Information Technology, Homeland Security, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Analysis, ADVISE, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Borexino, the Sun neutrino hunter
- An international team of more than 100 researchers has used the huge Borexino detector to detect low-energy solar neutrinos for the first time. These results confirm recent 'theories about the nature of neutrinos and the inner workings of the sun and other stars.' In particular, it's now almost certain that...
- Tags: National Science Foundation, Experiment, Sun Microsystems Inc., Italy, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-26
- Spy agencies look to Facebook for future of intel
- The Directorate of National Intelligence continues to push the social networking envelope for the intelligence community. The Financial Times reports that DNI will launch A-Space, which officials describe as "MySpace for spies." Thomas Fingar, the deputy director of national intelligence for analysis, believes the common workspace will generate better analysis...
- Tags: Social Networking, Facebook, Agency, Intelligence Community, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- EU charges Intel with anticompetitive behavior
- In an "enormously important" government action, the European Union has concluded a six-year investigation and concluded that Intel has abused its dominant position in an attempt to squeeze AMD out of the chip market, TopTechNews reports.The commission claims that Intel provided massive rebates to computer makers if they bought...
- Tags: International
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Amidst fears of email spies, French officials advised to drop BlackBerries
- Despite Research in Motion's insistence that messages traveling across its network are encrypted against snooping by intelligence agencies, French officials are being adviced to give their BlackBerries the boot. According to ComputerWorld's Peter Sayer:The smart phones, developed by Canadian company Research In Motion Ltd., send and receive e-mail through a...
- Tags: Wired &, Wireless, Telephony, Personal Technology, Mobile, Legal, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Growing metals on cotton
- Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL have created a new form of metal crystals grown on cotton. Theyve used acid-treated cellulose fibers from cotton to crystallize them. Then, they grew all kinds of metal nanocrystals measuring between 2 and 200 nanometers on what they call "a cotton assembly...
- Tags: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- SMBs get crack at DHS technology contracts
- Its not just mega businesses that get the big Homeland Security bucks. DHS science and technology directorate has selected 22 small businesses to receive tech contracts. Companies will get up to $100K each for up to six months, reports Government Computer News. “I am pleased to announced this...
- Tags: Companies, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, small and medium business
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Why does government hatch so many bad tech ideas?
- BBC Click reporter Chris Long offers a rant about government-initiated projects that DOA dumb on arrival. He offers a few examples from the UK, many of which have parallels in America. A national health database took too long to load, so now one shift leader logs on from...
- Tags: Government technology, IT Management, International
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Sgt. Star - the Army's virtual recruiter
- "Sgt. Star" is the perfect salesman. Hes strong, trustworthy and has all the answers, and you can meet Sgt. Star at the GoArmy website. Sgt. Star is the latest addition to the recruitment site and has been developed to appeal to the tech-savvy, reports Government Computer News. "Weve tested...
- Tags: Sgt, Defense, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- Cryptos gather for 30th anniversary of public-key cryptography
- Some of the world's top crypto minds shared the stage at the Thirty Years of Public-Key Cryptography anniversary event at the Computer History Museum last night. NYT reporter John Markoff, who has covered Silicon Valley for 30 years, was master of ceremonies, and started off by saying the no technology...
- Tags: NSA, cryptography, Dan Boneh, Snow
- Blog posts 2006-10-27
- Microsoft-sponsored lobbyist to the EU: It's a mistake to floss us
- TechWorlds Matthew Broersma writes:A leaked letter to the European Commission has revealed the extent of lobbying by proprietary software groups to prevent the widespread adoption of open-source software....Sent in response to a recent report on the role of open-source software in the European economy, Microsoft-funded pressure group, the Initiative for...
- Tags: software, FLOSS, ISC
- Blog posts 2006-10-19
- Thinking of Safety: Computer Based Training Makes for Safer Ammo Handling
- At the U.S. Army Defense Ammunition Center DAC in McAlester, Okla., Web-based training is helping instructors teach safe handling of ammunition, at much reduced risk and cost. In other words, fewer bangs for less bucks. The DAC is responsible for establishing, maintaining and teaching care standards for storage, transportation, handling,...
- Tags: Ammunition, Computer-based Training, Defense Ammunition Center, Computer-Based Training (CBT), Transportation
- White papers 2006-08-09
- Report: EU set to rap Microsoft on antitrust failures
- Report: EU set to rap Microsoft on antitrust failuresImagine that American companies go figure, mmm....The EU is totally Anti-American look at the fools who are protesting the streets, everything about the USA is detested over there in the wonderful EU Communist controled pretty much.....;)I bet you will never hear of...
- Tags: SECURITY, antitrust, Microsoft Corp., EC Commission
- Discussion threads 2006-06-27
- And then there's Mactel
- When I first started writing about Apple's need to change CPUs people thought I was nuts. Then Apple dropped the PowerPC in favor of Intel and I thought they were nuts. It's too early to tell who's righter, but enough of the other shoes have been falling for Apple fans...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple Computer Inc., PC, Apple Macintosh, hardware, Mactel
- Blog posts 2006-05-18
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