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- VA laptop recovered
- Law enforcement officials have recovered the laptop stolen from a VA employee's home, which contained personal information on 26.5 million vets, the Washington Post reports. he information appears intact. "A preliminary review of the equipment by computer forensic teams has determined that the data base remains intact and...
- Tags: veteran
- Blog posts 2006-06-29
- E-gov panel: Don't measure efforts by page views
- How does government evaluate if their Web efforts are hitting the mark? The metrics that are used for commercial sites - page views and unique visitors - are bound to prove inadequate, according to Karen Evans, administrator of e-government and IT for the Office of Management and Budget. Speaking at...
- Tags: GovBenefits, portal
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
- If Linux ruled the world how secure would it be?
- How secure would Linux be if everyone were using it?Given the popularity of Linux as a server OS, especially among Internet servers, I think it would be pretty secure.But would it really be more secure than Windows?The question occurs because of this story from ZDNet's Joris Evans, posted yesterday. It's...
- Tags: Linux, Evans
- Blog posts 2005-07-14
- The key to lowering transaction costs
- During a panel discussion about distributed business at SuperNova 2005, Philip Evans of the Boston Consulting Group BCG and author of "Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy," offered up some basic principles for business success, which he defined primarily as lowering transaction costs. He defines...
- Tags: Evans
- Blog posts 2005-06-22
- Dell Case Study: San Angelo, Independent School District
- The San Angelo, Texas, Independent School District operates as a traditional kindergarten-though-grade 12-school system. The San Angelo Independent School District wanted to migrate their 40 servers to a single platform. Evans' first step in migrating to a single Microsoft Exchange platform began with managing the installation of eight new Dell...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Evans, San Angelo ISD, Team Management, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Management, Hardware
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- CIOs not taking a shine to Chrome
- Most members of a silicon.com CIO jury say they're not even testing Google's Chrome--choosing to stay with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. In silicon.com's latest exclusive CIO Jury poll, the respondents revealed they were still steering clear of the application, with 10 out of 12 saying their IT teams are not...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Director Of Information Technology, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Google Chrome, Web Browsers, Strategy, Internet, Management, Chrome, Google, browser, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Firefox, CIO Jury, Julian Goldsmith, silicon.com
- News items 2008-09-30
- The iPhone 3G honeymoon seems to be over for some folks
- My buddy Joel Evans from Geek.com and I both waited in line for the original iPhone in 2007, but this year Joel jumped on the new iPhone 3G at launch while I waited 3 weeks. Actually, it was his positive experiences with the iPhone 3G that tipped me over the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G Honeymoon, Joel Evans, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- About Atom: Intel's big plans for its little chip
- One of the bolder goals Intel set at IDF this week is that within a decade it wants ship 1 billion Intel-based mobile computing devices each year. That's a big bet when you consider Intel estimates there will be a total of 163 million notebooks shipped this year. ...
- Tags: Mobile, Intel Corp., Chip, Menlow, Moorestown, Advertising & Promotion, Processors, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 2
- Again, sorry for the late updates. Vegas is the kind of place that demands a lot of a person. Too many parties make it difficult to find time to blog on the conference. Pictures of the even are a bit sparse, due to consistently forgetting to bring my camera, but...
- Tags: black hat, microsoft corp., applet, image, vegas, nathan mcfeters
- Blog posts 2008-08-09
- Apple iPhone 3G launch roundup
- "I have an iPhone... and you don't!" I decided (ok, my financial advisor, aka spouse, decided for me) to skip the iPhone 3G frenzy this morning and just sit back and watch the fun. For...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Apple's MobileMe experiences post-launch pain
- Apple's MobileMe experiences post-launch painnot impressedSo far I have been locked out with Opera 9.5 probably the most standards compliant browser around and the Mozilla based browser on my Nokia 810. Come on Apple, fix this please!!!The service has been up and down for a day now and is...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Web browsers, Apple MobileMe, SaaS provider, Apple Inc., Go Back
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- (Photos: A soft landing at Rocket Park)
- (Photos: A soft landing at Rocket Park)Apollo 17Hate to nitpick, but you guys should be better than this: "the penultimate moon mission, Apollo 16."Cernan, Evans, and Schmitt might beg to differ:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_17(Yes, I'm a bit of a space-nut, but we all need to have our hobbies. And yes, while I'm...
- Tags: Apollo, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- XP era ends: Will Vista step up?
- XP era ends: Will Vista step up?All software eventually expires and is upgraded.The operating system is no different.Personally, I think that this entire conversation has been missing the point.Most people, by which I mean consumers not IT staff, don't care what operating system is on their computer. They will use...
- Tags: Service Pack 1, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- Lori Drew arraigned today
- Lori Drew, the psycho mom who set up a fake MySpace identity to toy with a teenage neighbor, is being arraigned on federal charges in Los Angeles today. She's charged with accessing protected computers without authorization and conspiracy. After the fictional Josh Evans told 13-year-old Megan Meier...
- Tags: Internet, Web Site Development, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- XP era ends: Will Vista step up?
- The Windows XP era ends June 30 and soon hardware vendors will be shipping you all Vista all the time in most cases. The save XP effort failed. The whining should cease. And now it's time for Vista to sink or swim. Ina Fried has a good...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Mobile software Monday: SMS-Chat from VITO Technology
- While you have companies like HTC and Samsung pushing the limits of the hardware and operating system level software integration on Windows Mobile, there are also several companies providing software applications to enhance your Windows Mobile experience. As readers know, I have been testing out the HTC Touch Diamond and...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Text Messaging, SMS, Chat, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Software, Hardware, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Students to design, create and launch satellite
- Students at the University of Leicester have started a project working towards launching their very own satellite into Earth's orbit. Over twenty undergraduates from their Physics and Astronomy department at the university are working on the project, named "Plume", helped along by a neighbouring engineering company Magna Parva by donating...
- Tags: Orbit, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-14
- Who keeps failing their FISMA compliance?
- The recently released U.S Federal Computer Security Report Card for 2008, indicates that several critical to national security departments continue failing to implement the Federal Information Security Management Act FISMA. From a cyber espionage perspective, the lack of prioritization of departments that must...
- Tags: Compliance, FISMA, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Federal charges in MySpace suicide case
- Federal prosecutors have indicted Lori Drew for actions on MySpace that led 13-year-old Megan Meier right to kill herself, USA Today reports. She was charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of computer crimes. The grand jury charges that she accessed protected computers without authorization to...
- Tags: Count, Distress, Computer, MySpace, Mulford, Ron, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Mobius Seattle 2008: SE, MWg, and HTC show off their devices
- I was very pleased to be invited to the first Mobius event of 2008, that is actually being held here in the Seattle area. Thus, I had no travel to get to Mobius and that may have made the decision to invite me to this event...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobile, Mobius, XPERIA, SE, Panel Technology, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
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