State and local governments face numerous challenges when initiating and overseeing public works projects. These include the rising cost of administrative overhead, poor visibility into project operations, and inaccurate forecasting of project cost. Unaddressed, these challenges lead to runaway cost escalation and loss of control over project operations. Administrative overhead...
Jobs to take medical leave; Back in the summerRE: Jobs to take medical leave; Back in the summerHope he recovers quickly and is back to good health.unfortunately sounds seriousOr maybe not, but we have no choice but to try to read between the lines because obviously neither Steve nor Apple...
Gates' next act is to step into vaccine controversyGates Next ACTWhat's surprising about this?Carl Icahn thinks he knows how to run Yahoo!.The medical community has a pretty set way of choosing to adopt generalized treatments, and a lot of consideration goes to cost vs benefit. Bill will have to...
What+the+SCO+take-out+really+meansSuing your way to prosperityDidn't Americans come up with this concept first?SCO should have come up with products we care about rather than be patent nitpickers like Lucent.Boies, Schiller & Flexner... are prepaid and their fees are capped. SCOXQ.PK didn't need to file for bankruptcy to get out of...
Who gave SCO that $100 million lifeline?Actually......the lawsuits need to be settled and buried and current management must be removed (contracts bought out, if necessary) if SCO is to survive. The former and maybe the latter will take lots of money and this man appears to have it, but...
Moviegoing Chatty Cathys to face new deterrentThe best solution to cell phones in the theatreIs to install a jamming device so that a person inside the theater will get the "no service" message on their phone. Other than that, you could impose fines on people who use their phones...
The federal government is woefully behind private industry when it comes to enabling telework and the reasons have more to do with managerial intransigence than any realistic security concerns. That's the conclusion of a paper PDF released last month by the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, a group of security-focused...
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