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- Software in the Obama world
- Is it time for a changing of the software guard? A lot of material has crossed my desk lately regarding software sales in the Obama, crisis-cleanup world. There is some interesting material here and two vendors stand out in the midst. First, let’s discuss...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, OpenAir Inc., Entity, PBO, Government Contractor, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Project Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
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- Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?
- The Kleptocrats that feel entitled to your money...worry that us mushrooms now have other uncontrollable sources for the "truth" and won't eat the horse compost fed to them by the monopolistic crony Main-stream Media.RE: Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?There are two things tyrants and bureaucrats...
- Tags: Vertical industries, government, retraction, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- U.S. Ethics Committee staffer file-shares sensitive document
- So the answer will be change the technology, right??...I certainly hope not. The person responsible should be fired immediately, if this group is supposed to be so secretive and protective of their data. Putting ANY work-related material on your personal computer is not only a bad idea, it may be...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), U.S. Ethics Committee staffer, U.S. Ethics Committee, sensitive document, staffer, file-sharing
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Microsoft and PC makers introduce Windows 7 offers for consumers
- Can't wait to see theseThe local Best Buy is having a midnight launch. I'm probably going to go and geek out for a bit.RE: Microsoft and PC makers introduce Windows 7 offers for consumersWish I could afford the upgrades.Been laid off and on for 6 years now.Could not renew my...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), way thing, Linux, U.S. Department of Defense, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Win7, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players salivate
- Any bets on how long it takes someone to hack in and screw it up? nt...Why don't I feel good about this???Hmmm... Could it be that some government a55-clown could store sensitive data in the cloud... And that there are tons of other countries with extremely skilled hackers that would...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Virtualization, Apps.gov, agency, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- Packaged software, an accident of history
- "government engineered" ????"dysfunctional business model"Sounds like someone is looking for a new "revenue stream"!This sounds suspiciously like the "lease a car" vs "rent a car" debate. Change the looks of the same old clunker to "generate sales" without really improving anything.Feudal Europe had the royalty owning the land and...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Web Standard, software, accident
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- Deconstructing United Airlines: Where Customers are Transactions
- United Airlines: Customers are Merely Transactions If you're a loyalty marketer and look at my United profile, you find something that would make you 4.5 on a scale of 5.0 when it comes to warm and fuzzy.  You'd see hundreds of thousands of United Airlines frequent flier FF miles;...
- Tags: Customers Ltd., Mile, Customer, United Corp., United Airlines, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Marketing, Human Resources, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Use H-1B or L-1 workers? Prepare for a Federal audit!
- About timeThere are employers who have > 50% of their workforce as foreign workers. I can't imagine all of them are doing things according to the letter of the law.RE: Use H-1B or L-1 workers? Prepare for a Federal audit!this is probably the only good thing to come...
- Tags: Financial accounting, H1B, audit, Use H-1B, L-1 worker, Federal audit, L-1, H-1B
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- Intel vPro Plugged in to eGovernment
- The key objective of the eGovernment initiative in the Czech Republic is to make it easier for businesses and citizens to interact with the government. To ensure everybody has access to online government services, Autocont, as one of the systems integrators participating in the project, is putting 500 self-service terminals,...
- Tags: Intel vPro, Intel Corp., E-government, Government
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- To the Moon: The Integrators
- The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...
- Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Enterprise 2.0 2009 Conference: Aggregate and Organize
- I finally made it to Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference with my record intact. That record would be that I have NEVER in 15 years of flying to Boston a hundred times, NEVER, repeat again, NEVER been on time both ways. This one was resolved quickly because my flight...
- Tags: Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Iran, North Korea, China, Russia searching for U.S. secrets on P2P networks
- If you're a defense contractor, here's hoping you haven't shared anything at work via P2P. Computer systems located in Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia are scouring computer peer-to-peer file-sharing networks such asLimeWire, FrostWire, Shareaza, and Ares Galaxy for classified information that...
- Tags: U.S., Network, P2P, Peer To Peer (P2P), Aerospace & Defense, Internet, Manufacturing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Union: IBM layoffs accelerating as employees vent
- Union: IBM layoffs accelerating as employees ventSmiling Sam does it againIt seems to me that the government is overlooking one of the critical components of this economic meltdown - the offshoring of American jobs. IBM is one of the worst offenders in this regard. This one...
- Tags: Workforce management, Litigation, Financial accounting, Proskauer Rose, Madoff, IBM Corp., SEC, layoff
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- The Disintegrating BearingPoint
- More than bankruptcy to worry about BearingPoint, the consultancy that once was part of KPMG, has entered a very different era in its history. The firm’s U.S. operations filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week. Moreover, the company’s Asian operations may be sold off to another...
- Tags: Bankruptcy, BearingPoint Inc., Asia, BGPT, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Business Operations, It Operations, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-02-21
- Nuclear weapons lab loses 67 computers
- Nuclear weapons lab loses 67 computers Lost or StolenI like how this is one category.Stolen is stolen - a criminal matter.Lost - that's employee carelessness.Two completely different things with different actions being required to remedy the situation.The blackberry doesnt matter, they can just brick it.as for the PC's, vpns and...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, NETWORKING, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear weapons lab, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-02-17
- Military contractor "cyber-defense" gold rush begins
- Sensing a shift in upcoming defense priorities, Lockheed and Boeing are both launching information security product divisions. Bloomberg is reporting that both Lockheed Martin and Boeing are building security product groups to address the military's needs in defending cyberspace. I doubt that the military requires technology...
- Tags: Information Security, Lockheed Martin Corp., Boeing Co., Security, Adam O'Donnell
- Blog posts 2009-01-02
- Predictions for 2009
- Predictions for 2009Rock on!Which CPU took longer to reach the market, Rock or Viking? Viking never actually made it to market, and in the meantime the slow@ss SPARC2's were overrun by the speedy first 100Mhz processor (HP735). Those 3 (5?) long years for Sun defined how inept it is at...
- Tags: Linux, Strategy, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, information technology, General Motors Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Obama, Ford Motor Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-31
- RIAA/ISP deal on filesharing suggests content deals in the offing
- RIAA/ISP deal on filesharing suggests content deals in the offingThis Sounds BadAs someone who does not download content illegal, this worries me. How do they plan to distinguish content as bit torrent traffic or streaming internet radio, for example. Beyond that, how do you know what bit torrent traffic if...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), INTERNET, Advertising & Promotion, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2008-12-22
- Big telecom acquiring a Google fixation
- Big telecom acquiring a Google fixationPlease clarify.I don't understand your conclusion.Quoting:What Google, and all of us, most need to do is work that problem, finding business models through which content owners can profit while the end-to-end integrity of the search-and-find Internet is preserved.That will break the link between the content...
- Tags: Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, telecommunications, Google Inc., content delivery
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Open source and military procurement don't mix
- Open source and military procurement don't mixWhat's the alternative?Once an IT department with very elaborate and essential software decided to cancel the contract with the original supplier. In return, the department received a termination date for using the software. Someone had long ago decided to rent rather than...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
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