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Rich DOJ database kept secret

Under the Foreign Agent Registration Act, the Justice Department maintains a database of foreign lobbyists - from both governments and overseas companies. Unfortanately, the database is largely unavailable to the public. The Center for Public Integrity charges that seems to be how Justice officials want to keep it. According to...

Tags: FARA, database, Center

Blog posts 2005-09-19

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Transition time at ZDNet

This will be my last post on Between the Lines and ZDNet for a while. I am moving over to head up our sister CNET Networks site News.com starting today. My talented, experienced, incisive and prolific BTL partner Larry Dignan will become Editor in Chief and Chief Blogger...

Tags: Team, Larry Dignan, CNET Networks Inc., Blogger, Blogging, Team Management, Internet, Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-02-19

Is it ethical to turn on wireless security for an open access point?

One of my readers sent me the following question and I thought it posed an interesting question on ethics.  I'll post his email and then I'll answer his questions. I helped a friend move, and re-established her wireless network working with a new ISP. While working, I encountered 7...

Tags: Password, Router, Network, WPA-PSK, Access Point, Wireless Security, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking, Wireless, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-11-19

Apple's boogeyman: Google phone

Everyone's crazy about iPhone and it's been good to Apple so far–as evidenced by their record earnings last quarter. The 800 pound Boogeyman known as Google may be prepping a phone that could spook even Apple. According to the WSJ: Google is in serious discussions with Verizon Wireless over...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Phone, Business Structures, Internet, Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Management

Blog posts 2007-10-31

Getting paid is key to medical success

Perhaps no area of medicine will change as much in the next five years as payment processing, according to a new McKinsey report. (Illustration from the cover of the report.)Right now a key difference between a practice's success or failure is having an assistant who can work the system and get...

Tags: Payment Processing, Networking, Medical Office IT, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-08-02

Friday Rant - Hey Microsoft! Where's the Windows Extras you promised me?

OK, today my rant is on a topic that others have been talking about for a few days now but which nonetheless bugs me and I feel I need to get it off my chest - Where are all the cool Windows Vista Extras we were promised?Windows Vista has been...

Tags: Microsoft, Thoughts, Vista

Blog posts 2007-06-15

Ubuntu Version 7.04 availble for download on April 19

Ubuntu Version 7.04 availble for download on April 19Ubuntu is the satan of open source communityand it'll hurt the open source in the long run. In fact there's little difference among the linux distributions from the technical standpoint, same kernel, same libs and so on. Ubuntu's only advantage is it...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Ubuntu, Edgy, hard drive

Discussion threads 2007-04-16

The Allchin Tax Cut

The Allchin Tax CutNice JobWell written Steve. I totally agree with you on "the allchin tax", but really its unfair to blame this entirely on Jim. This is really part of the culture at microsoft and virtually all vp's, pum's, gm's, partners share this view. Everyone pushing a product must...

Tags: Word processors, Allchin Tax Cut, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2006-03-24