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- Congress: Open-source for U.S. military
- If you thought you'd never see the phrase"open-source" in a federal funding bill, think again. The House’s proposed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (H.R. 5658) includes language that calls for military services to consider open-source software when procuring manned or unmanned aerial vehicles,...
- Tags: Software, Open-source Software, U.S. Congress, House, GCN, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Software Development, Management, Software/Web Development, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Global Communications Network 2.7.9 (Windows)
- GCN is a new online communications service, which allows you to see when your friends are online, communicate in private conversations, talk collectively in chat rooms, send files, post to and create message boards, send and receive E-mail, create your own profile, speak in voice chats, play games, draw in...
- Tags: Global Communications Network, GCN, Corporate Governance, Internet, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2003-09-01
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- Windows 7: An impressive upgrade
- Windows 7 review:Windows 7 review: 'New' OS is just Vista with small changesPerformance enhancements"We have already determined that W7 won't make your computer run any faster. And if you are upgrading from XP, it might run slightly slower, just as with Vista. ......But it's not really anything new. We hate...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, impressive upgrade, operating system, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora Linux updates prepped as Win7 release nears
- another nail in M$ coffinThe upcomming failure of windoze 7 and M$ going under will not leave the users exposed.Linux is here to save the day!Wrong Answerhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/windows-7-breaks-amazon-uk-pre-order-volume-record-ousts-harry/DesperationGuess it shows how desperate Vista users are to get onto Win7Windows 7 a failure?Didn't it already surpass Linux's market share? BEFORE it's GA?Failure...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, SuSE, Linux, Fedora Project, Microsoft Corp., Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Word ban threatens industry? Not mine
- Case in TexasIs an example of idiotic patent litigation. The case shouldn't even exist.-MChris, you need to get out of your bubble moreIt is very likely that the patent in question is also violated in other office suites that use XML.The issue isn't whether you can smugly say that you...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Word, Juggernaut, Microsoft Corp., XML, I4i, patent, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2009-08-19
- Opt Me Out! The United States Postal Service Needs an Overhaul
- They Can't Change ItThe ONLY people using the Postal System today are Direct Marketers, Billers and Magazines. That's why the only mail in your post box is catalogs, bills and magazines. 85% of current USPS revenue is from bulk mailers of which Direct Marketers are the largest share....
- Tags: U.S. Postal Service, mailer, revenue
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- Small IT Service Provider Cuts Down on Travel Costs Using Appliance-Based Remote Desktop Support Solution
- With four support reps providing IT services to approximately 1,000 customers in New Port Richey, FL and the surrounding area, GulfCoast Networking GCN has to be able to service its customers quickly in order to keep up with support requests. And because GCN's largest customer base is in the medical...
- Tags: Desktop, Remote Desktop, Information Technology, Bomgar
- Case studies 2008-08-20
- diversITy: can being gay hold your career back?
- Edit: Just a couple of grammatical tweaks. This series of entries, called diversITy, continues from the previous topic, all concerning the diversity of people within the IT industry. This time, I'd like to put forward: sexual orientation in the workplace, can it set you back? ...
- Tags: Workplace, Career, Diversity, U.K., IT Industry, LGBT, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- PocketStreamer: Live music and radio on the GO! (Mobile)
- Music of Your Choice Classical includes Classical KING FM, KCSN - Arts and Roots Radio, RadioioClassical, Millenium Bella Musica, Radio Panamerican etc. News/Talk/Comedy News/Talk includes 24 Hr LIVE News Coverage MSNBC, GCN / Money Talk, NPR Car Talk, ESPN 950 AM, Newstalk 810 KGO, San Francisco, Old Time Radio Mystery,...
- Tags: Mobile, Radio, Music, News/Talk/Comedy News/Talk, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-01-14
- Facial recognition technology shows improvement
- The National Institute of Standards says that facial recognition technology can be better than human identification with accuracy rates approaching 99 percent. Iris scanning, however, could improve. The report, dubbed the Face Recognition Vendor Test FRVT 2006 and the Iris Challenge Evaluation ICE 2006, evaluates...
- Tags: Security, Science, Innovation, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- What's wrong with fed IT? Lack of training
- What exactly is the problem with government IT? Why are so many millions of dollars wasted? Why do so many projects fail to see the light of day? The answer: inadequate training of federal project managers, according to a survey of 104 federal IT leaders conducted by Price...
- Tags: training, baseline, IT Management, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- IG launches in-depth review of DHS Advise program
- The Department of Homeland Security is rolling out a $40 million plan to datamine to find terrorist threat information. Called Advise - which of course stands for Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement - the program is now facing intense scrutiny from the departments inspector general, Government Computer News...
- Tags: Business intelligence, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, data mining
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- Sony's 20GB PS3 to feature HDMI port
- Sony's 20GB PS3 to feature HDMI portPretty niceI don't know if I am going to buy one, but I'd pick the PS3 over the xbox 360.http://opendomain.blogspot.com/For the moneysomebody else posted that the PS3 was the better value. Someone noted that to add on similar features to Xbox 360 you'd...
- Tags: HD DVD, Game players, Games, Wi-Fi, playstation, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony Corp., HDMI
- Discussion threads 2006-09-22
- Gasp! Military Cost Over-Runs
- Government Computer News reports that cost over-runs on software projects are a problem at the Department of Defense. Anyway, from the article:The problem is huge. In fiscal 2006, the Defense Department will spend as much as $12 billion on reworking softwareâ€"30 percent of its estimated budget of $40 billion...
- Tags: Project failures, Government projects
- Blog posts 2006-08-24
- Open source can be recycled
- Open source can be recycledGoogle Code Library and Code re-useI read an article suggesting that google may index all the open-source code ever written. I can't remember the derivation.This does prompt a very interesting application: that all the code on the internet could be via a service model be...
- Tags: Intellectual property, open source, Code Reuse
- Discussion threads 2006-08-01
- Open source can be recycled
- I was reading a GCN story about the Defense Department and open source today, and getting bored, when something jumped out at me. “The business model of purchasing physical goods and services has served DOD well in the past; but it falls short when applied to software acquisition,” the report...
- Tags: open source, software
- Blog posts 2006-08-01
- Google Notebook - the good, the bad, and the ugly
- Google Notebook - the good, the bad, and the uglyclipmarksI'd certainly be one of those who thinks clipmarks has been doing for longer and better than google's notebook. Ok, i might be seriously biased...but i really believe it. Thanks for the mention!notefishYou should take a look at notefish....
- Tags: Notebooks, notebook, Google Notebook, Google Inc., clipmark
- Discussion threads 2006-05-16
- Wi-Fi goes top gun
- You'd be suprised where Wi-Fi is going these days. Like inside a fighter. Wi-Fi it is being used extensively in the military. One vendor, Telos, has installed Wi-Fi in 85 of the 108 Air Force bases, Government Computer News reports. “Primarily, it’s for maintenance and logistics operations, so we...
- Tags: Wi-Fi
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
- Study: World's digital divide is narrowing
- Study: World's digital divide is narrowingE-Rate RipoffsOne need only look at the E-Rate program under the Bush Administration to see how these programs are used by criminals. The FCC has documented how nonprofit organizations are utilized by vendors to milk tax payers of money collected from phone bill charges. The...
- Tags: Litigation, E-Rate, E-Rate Program, FCC
- Discussion threads 2006-04-26
- DOD incubating IPv6 technologies
- The Internet as we know it is the result of commercial products and services build to open standards. But it took the Defense Dept. a little longer to see what was going on. "The DOD was taken by surprise by IPv4," Chris Gunderson, executive director of the World Wide...
- Tags: W2COG, U.S. Department of Defense
- Blog posts 2006-04-10
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