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- University rolls out PC-based emergency system - still far from perfect
- In the aftermath of Virginia Tech, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will soon unveil an alert system to warn students and parents of campus dangers, The Omaha World-Herald reports. Called "UNL Alert," the system will flash onto the screens of university computers, notifying the campus if theres a tornado...
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Push for full 911 access for VoIP providers
- Emergency dispatchers and Vonage urged senators this week to pass a bill that would ensure that all VoIP customers can dial 911, InfoWorld reports. The IP-Enabled Voice Communications and Public Safety Act was introduced in January by Sen. Bill Nelson to fix those problems. The bill would...
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Rural 911 not keeping up with technology - and results are life-threatening
- Most 911 calls come from cellphones. But in 40 percent of counties - mostly rural areas and small towns - dispatchers dont have the technology to pinpoint the location of the caller, The New York Times reports. Thats shocking because the technology has been available for at least five...
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- CT, VA use Reverse 911 for automated messages to public
- Cities, towns and counties in Connecticut and Virginia will be able to send recorded messages to thousands of people in the event of an emergency using Reverse 911 technology, Government Computer News reports. With the Connecticut and Virginia contracts, Reverse 911 is now the approved notification system provider in...
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Envisioning 911's version 2.0
- Writing in this weeks Science, two researchers at the University of Maryland argue that 911 services would benefit from a social networking treatment, Technology Review notes. Although dialing 911 is effective during health emergencies and home fires, when natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina strike, telephone operators are rapidly...
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- NYC wants a YouTube: 911
- Call it 911 2.0. Well, maybe thats a little awkward but the idea is right. New York City wants to change its 911 system so that citizens can upload digital photos and video, mostly from cellphones, Newsday reports. "If you see a crime in progress or a dangerous...
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- VA, MD responders get digital ID cards
- Virginia and Maryland will be the first states to deliver high-tech credentials to police, firefighters and emergency workers to carry in a regional crisis. The program is limited to counties surrounding Washington DC. In Northern Virginia, 4,000 cards with digital fingerprints will be delivered to first responders. In Maryland counties,...
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- FCC: Build wireless emergency broadband network
- The Federal Communications Commission is proposing a national wireless, IP-based, broadband emergency network to be built by private companies, the BBC reports. "Earlier this year, I had an opportunity to hear local public safety personnel recount their experiences on the ground during the tragic events of...
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
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- Behind the GOP revolt on health care
- ZDNET is not a LIBERAL soap box...Treat it like the TECH blog its supposed to be.You want to talk the merits of tech in medicine - I'm there.If you just use your position as a writer to spout your liberal views, you're doing the site a disservice.that's FUDThere is no...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- Open source can save your life
- Quick, if your life depended on it, which health care information system would you rather your hospital used: A proprietary system developed by software engineers based on marketing input, bug reports and customer requests? An open source system developed by thousands of health care practitioners including...
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
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- Software downloads 2009-08-02
- It's official: Microsoft-Yahoo ink 10-year search pact; Regulator scrum begins
- It's official: Microsoft-Yahoo ink 10-year search pact; Regulator scrum beginsPork Chop DateWe used to joke about a particular person being so ugly their parents would have to hang a pork chop around their neck to attract a date. That's kind of the same feeling I get about Bing. ...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
- ABC's "Impact": Oh No, Not Again!
- How much more of the "Apocalyptic meteoroid-comet-asteroid-moon gonna hit the Earth/need to save us with a daring suicide mission involving nuclear weapons or a secret government project" genre can we possibly take? Ah yes, Father's Day. Going over to see the relatives for...
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Building a vision for Government 2.0
- Government 2.0 isn't waiting for a federal mandate. Earlier this week, the nation's first ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, urged the use of Web 2.0 approaches to address the needs of government and citizens at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Kundra outlined several important areas where he...
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- EMC World: Companies that adopt new tools still need to manage the data
- How or why is your information important? Information in a business setting might include e-mails that need to be retained and archived for regulatory purposes. Or it might be the collaborative documents that employees have been working on for a product launch. At EMC World in Orlando...
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- How to make Government 2.0 a reality
- Today was the final day of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. This morning's mixed bag of keynotes included a fireside talk with the founders of Threadless.com and a great demo of chartbeat, a new real-time website monitoring tool. After the keynotes, I decided to let...
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- Data breach costs, customer churn up a bit; Repeat offenders abound
- Data breach costs, customer churn up a bit; Repeat offenders aboundPrevent most net breaches!!!Our system prevents a majority of Network Breaches while keeping the Networks "UP," Provides a Real Time Global Administrator that sits transparently over other OEM's Network Management systems (i.e., IBM Websphere, HP OPenview, SCADA, etc), the system...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-02
- Study: 68% of IT projects fail
- Study: 68% of IT projects failI used to work for the federal government......we never got anywhere near a 32% success rate. More like 10%.This is OK since IT in US is not a business but humanitarian aid to India.ntRE: Study: 68% of IT projects failIs this problem down to the...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-11
- The health IT archipelago
- The health IT archipelagoUniversal standards are the first needIf doctors are going to spend money on a computer based system then the first thing they need to be assured of is that there will be no problem interfacing with other doctor's systems when needed. Then there is the need...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Google is your friend
- Google is your friendThe underlying principles should determinewho is a freind, or who is not.There is nothing wrong with being a [b]for profit[/b] company, which is what Google is. It would be an entirely different issue should they hide their EULA agreements, or who they deal with, or what they...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
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