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Georgia State sued over electronic "course packs"

Georgia State sued over electronic "course packs"The Dodo AwaitsThe average yearly cost of books for students at my school equals to or exceeds the cost of an adequate notebook computer. I have no tears for textbook publishers or that industry as a whole. God speed and good luck to Georgia...

Tags: Notebooks, Georgia State

Discussion threads 2008-04-17

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GA Saltwater for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

GA Saltwater for iPhone provides a search-able list of saltwater fish for the State of Georgia. You can view illustrations of the fish, regulations, and fish identification data. It provides fish identification information, size limits, bag limits, state record, and habitat information.

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Verona Software, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-13

Republicans rail against FCC's new net rules

How They RollThis is just how the GOP rolls. When Bill Clinton left office we were number one or two in broadband. Now we're down around 17 behind some Eastern European countries. The GOP keeps saying they're about competition, but they keep passing bills to stifle real competition. Sort of...

Tags: Federal government, FCC, GOP, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

California's burning: greentech solution?

NatureI don't think it's human arrogance that we live on this planet - you can thank God or Evolution for us being here....take your choice. Your first paragraph was unnecessary and juvenile - name me a spot on earth that is not subject to the extreme forces of nature...

Tags: Liberalism

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

Russia cooperated with hackers in Georgian cyberattack

A report from the nonprofit US Cyber Consequences Unit confirms what only made sense about last year's cyber attack on Georgia. It was carried about by independent groups with a special relationship to the Russian government. As InfoWeek relates, the report concludes: "Many of the cyber attacks...

Tags: Cyberattack, Hacker, Attack, Hacking, Government, Viruses And Worms, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-17

The next oil crisis: is your state immune or addicted?

The NRDC has come out with a provocative ranking of American states. They say it's based on how independent or addicted the state's residents are to petroleum-dependent transportation. And which states are most or least vulnerable to the next oil price shock. The NRDC's ten most oil-vulnerable...

Tags: Mississippi, NRDC, Transportation, Regulations, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Federal forms themed blackhat SEO campaign serving scareware

An ongoing blackhat SEO search engine optimization campaign is actively hijacking a variety of U.S Federal Forms keywords in an attempt to serve the Personal Antivirus (Trojan.Win32.FakeXPA) scareware. Due to the automated and sophisticated PageRank boosting tools cybercriminals use in these campaigns, the hijacked keywords are always...

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Google Inc., HTTP, Malware, Cybercriminal, Keyword, Http Referrer, Search, Marketing Research, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Marketing, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-08-06

Georgia's State Personnel Administration Centralizes e-Performance to Meet State's Goals

The State Personnel Administration SPA wanted to support statewide initiative to standardize performance management processes and ultimately drive individual and organizational performance expectations and improvements and improve accountability and support the Governor's vision for Georgia being the "Best managed state". The challenge was to integrate smoothly with the statewide human...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Administration, Payroll, Georgia, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-07-01

Read 2000 American Newspapers 5.0 (Windows)

Read 2000 American Newspapers can read 2600+ U.S. newspapers by state. It can deliver you the news you want from all over the U.S. in just seconds, with effortless actions. Whether it's the Washington Post or your local newspaper. Content includes New York Newspaper (118), National Newspaper (66), Alabama Newspaper...

Tags: U.S., Newspaper, YiFei Software, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-06-08

Amazon now one-third of all U.S. e-commerce, analyst says

Amazon now one-third of all U.S. e-commerce, analyst saysWow..... 1/3 of all U.S. e-commerceNo wonder they are having problems with their website going down on occasion and especially during the holiday season.I don't know..... 1/3 of all U.S. e-commerce.... is that getting close to a monopoly? Or is there someone...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Web technology, Sales strategy, tax, Amazon.com Inc., sales tax, e-business, eBay Inc., sales

Discussion threads 2009-04-15

Eco-crooks and endangered rivers

Eco-fugitives are being actively sought by the E.P.A. Here's where you can find the list of the enforcement agency's Most Wanted Fugitives. Some of the crimes involved: issung phoney asbestos clean-up credentials, dumping oil-soaked grain in to the ocean, illegally piping industrial waste directly into a creek, killing...

Tags: River, Eco-fugitives, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Georgia Department of Human Resources Relies on McAfee to Protect Against Incoming Spam and Malware

The Georgia Department of Human Resources is the state's largest agency with 19,000 employees in 159 counties. It provides health and social services to the state's citizens. It needed to manage overwhelming volume of spam and malware, while freeing up IT resources and personnel. It deployed McAfee Email Gateway IronMail...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Human Resources Inc., Malware, Georgia Department Of Human Resource

Case studies 2009-04-01

A bureaucrat says study vaccines and mercury so panic

A bureaucrat says study vaccines and mercury so panicWhere to start?[i]Dr. Andrew Wakefield, whose study, trumpeted on 1,000 Web sites, claimed the preservative in MMR (Mumps, Measles and Rubella) vaccines given to infants contains mercury which causes autism.[/i]Wakefield never claimed that preservatives in MMR caused autism; this may be due...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, vaccine, mercury, MMR, autism

Discussion threads 2009-02-26

ZDNet's Ultimate Tax Software Guide for 2008

It's tax time in the U.S. once again, and short of actually doing your taxes (you've got until April 15, right?), it's time to choose just how you'll do them. Say hello to tax preparation software. Instead of taking last...

Tags: Software, Extra, Return, TurboTax, Service, TaxCut, E-file, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-06

Kyrgyzstan under cyberattack

Kyrgyzstan under cyberattackMe thinks russia thinks they are too small and need more terrirtoryThey are reclaiming what was theirs. I cant say that i wouldnt if i had the chance. They have the money now, so why not. I dont agree with it, these are soverign countries though.Now...

Tags: Hacking, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Kyrgyzstan, cyberattack, Putin

Discussion threads 2009-01-29

Raise taxes? On gasoline? How about mothers' milk?

Are these guys serious? A federal commission may urge the U.S. to raise the tax on gasoline. The commission's report is due out in late January after Dick Cheney has left town. None of these commissioners will ever get a free lunch in Washington or Houston, ever again....

Tags: Commission, Gasoline, Taxes, Transportation, Free Trade, Sales Force Management, Financial Planning, Finance, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-02

Should the state hold your PHR?

Why is, say, a Georgia health bank so inherently trustworthy if all those records are transferrable to New Jersey? Aren't we really talking about a government records bank? Isn't that state control of records? by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Bank, Google Inc., Patient, Billing, Electronic Health Record, Business Model, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Personal Health Record, E-health, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-12-19

Texas gov. intercedes in failing IBM project

Texas gov. intercedes in failing IBM projectCouldn't happen to two nicer parties ...As far as IBM is concerned, it's business as usual; the customer is to be told what they are going to get and how much they are going to pay for it, and they better learn to like...

Tags: Strategy, IT knowledge, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

Can Zimbra compete with Google Apps in education?

Information Week featured an article on Yahoo's Zimbra service for email and collaboration in use with educational institutions. While Zimbra, which "already provides e-mail through on-premises software at a number of marquee education accounts, including Stanford University, Georgia Tech, the University of California at Davis, Pennsylvania University, Northeastern, Carleton...

Tags: Education, Google Inc., Google Apps, Zimbra, E-mail, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-29

Microsoft vs. Apple: the multi-touch war

Because the Evil Queen of Numbers has kept the Windows branch so quiet about Windows 7, we've been relying entirely on speculation, the blogosphere, leaks and occasionally "that dreaded New Yorker" as Sinofsky would probably say. Multi-touch is the latest craze it seems. Once the technology was...

Tags: Multi-touch, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Voice Technology, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-23