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- ZDNet Government version of Throw out the Trash Day
- More trash pleaseNice idea ... may I submit a similar one for the editor's consideration? Can we have 'trash of the week' by a ZDNET blogger. Serious ... with a touch of humour. Example follows.In Jason Perlow's 'The Vista is Dead' spoof mwagner@zdnet.com was moved to comment."Sounds like you didn't...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Performance management, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Welcome to the next version of ZDNet Government
- Oh sweet jesus lets the bloodbath :)This place will be sizzling from flame wars ... Hell will be colder that this blog Sir i wish you all the luck in the world and be sure that i try to put input along the ways .Information and Discussion...
- Tags: Government, Blogging, Znet
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Crime in Focus
- Crime mapping has become part of an official UK Government 'pledge'. This should provide the public, press and politicians with important insights into the crime profile of their neighbourhood. Crime mapping will also be an important channel through which to broadcast and exemplify law enforcement successes. However, there are a...
- Tags: Crime
- White papers 2009-08-24
- Beyond "Reinventing Government": Streamlining Government With Business Analytics
- In April 2009, BusinessWeek Research Services BWRS launched a research program to determine the attitudes and opinions of C-level executives with regard to the use and value of business analytics. The research program was designed to understand how companies can optimize business analytics to improve fact-based decision making. This white...
- Tags: Business Analytics, Government
- White papers 2009-08-01
- Enterprise architecture heads north: report from Open Group
- John Meyer of The Open Group sent some detailed dispatches from the group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, being held this week in Toronto. Thanks to John for a great job summarizing many of the key insights coming from the conference -- some highlights from day one are summarized below:...
- Tags: Open Group, Enterprise Architect, Electronic Arts Inc., Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom on the 'Three Pillars of Digital Britain'
- Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom from Dennis Howlett on Vimeo. From time to time, It is useful to bring to US readers' attention the way ICT receives attention from other countries' governments. On this occasion, Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom provided insights into the UK government's Three...
- Tags: Attention, Government, Vertical Industries, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Battling for the Mother Of All Monopolies...
- Battling for the Mother Of All Monopolies...RE: Battling for the Mother Of All Monopolies...This battle and the comments are reminiscent of the discussions when PCs first started showing up. IBM was dominant in a way that everyone agreed Microsoft did not have a chance. Corporation all agreed that...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-08
- Looking for a few good SOA case studies
- Are you part of a successful SOA deployment, and would like to share some details with the rest of the world? The world wants to hear from you. The SOA Consortium, in conjunction with CIO Magazine, is once again holding it's annual SOA case study competition, and...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Momentum Webcast: Government Contractors: How to Build a Successful Foundation for DCAA Compliance (Level 100)
- The organization must have an accounting system that is approved by the Defense Contract Audit Agency DCAA to do business with the U.S. Department of Defense. No such requirement exists. DCAA does not certify accounting systems - they accept accounting systems. The attendee will learn how to build a successful...
- Tags: Accounting, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Accounting System, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
- Webcasts 2009-05-12
- IT Sustainability Insights and Imperatives
- Going green is golden. From emerging government mandates and regulation to increased consumer and press attention, the environmental movement is upon people. Terms like carbon footprint, sustainability, environmentally friendly, and renewables are becoming common vernacular. And it's not just hype. Investors are putting their money where their mouth is, ponying...
- Tags: Information Technology, Rackable Systems, Government, Venture Capital, Finance, Financing Startups
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Is information technology management stuck in the 19th century?
- A couple of weeks back, I posted some thoughts over at my ebizQ blogsite on what constitutes a "service," since it seems to be the term at the center of every new innovation reshaping information technology. (See "We've Established What the 'A' in SOA Means, But What Does the 'S'...
- Tags: Information Technology, Service, Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- YouTube takes down thousands of fair-use videos
- YouTube takes down thousands of fair-use videosIts so sad...Its so sad that Youtube has removed the good works from the database. Even some of my posts in youtube were gone :-(Cheers,Kathiravan Manoharanhttp://kathyravan.blogspot.comhttp://paisamechanic.blogspot.comRE: YouTube takes down thousands of fair-use videosSo Warner Brothers and others don't want all this free advertsing?Morons!RE: YouTube...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Government, INTERNET, YouTube Inc., fair-use video, video
- Discussion threads 2009-03-23
- Increasing Cyber Security Readiness With Adaptive Threat Management: Essential Insights for Strengthening the Federal Response to Cyber Attacks
- The U.S. Federal Government depends on the vast array of systems and networks in cyberspace to support all aspects of their operations. Unfortunately, this dependence on cyberspace leaves agencies vulnerable to cyber attacks. Threats are growing in number and sophistication, originating from both domestic and foreign sources and encompassing intentional...
- Tags: Juniper Networks Inc., Cyberattack, Threat Management, Cybersecurity, U.S. Federal Government, Security, Hacking
- White papers 2009-03-01
- ETech 2009 Preview
- Next month, Silicon Valley welcomes ETech, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. In it's 8th year now, the hands-on confab brings together thinkers, doers and "alpha geeks" to demo and discuss disruptive technologies and business models. The overarching theme for the four-day event that'll kick-off March 9th is how the way...
- Tags: Technology, Cyberthreats, Manufacturing, Government, Viruses And Worms, Security, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- After the collapse: Tech insights provide the way forward
- After the collapse: Tech insights provide the way forwardArea of ResistanceI agree with the problem as you outline it and I agree that some areas of technology are heading in the right direction. The difficulty is not the lack of new structures but the unwillingness of the current landlords to...
- Tags: knowledge
- Discussion threads 2009-02-23
- After the collapse: Tech insights provide the way forward
- The structures of society are breaking down - banking, government, retail, housing - in as profound a way as they did in the Great Depression. What will our future world look like? The insights of technology - openness, networking, decentralization - provide the key. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Sustainability, Banking Industry, Obsoletism, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-02-22
- The WWII German Army was 80% Horse Drawn; Business Lessons from History
- The bulk of the German Armyâ€"the dough feet of the normal infantry divisionsâ€"moved on shank's mare. The rifle companies' transport consisted of three-horse wagons, on which the troops loaded their packs, as did this outfit on campaign in Russia in the summer of 1941. Lone Sentry.com ...
- Tags: Weapon, Machine, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-12-06
- BE (Bearingpoint) - Up for sale?
- Insights from a governmental filing Check out the Bearingpoint 8-K the company filed this week. I found this comment about Bearingpoint particularly interesting: "Given that the Company has, to date, been unable to reach agreement regarding a sale of all or a portion of...
- Tags: Debt, BearingPoint Inc., Company, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-01
- What the fight against cancer really needs
- What the fight against cancer really needsSadly this is where a problem existsCuring cancer would be great on the human level. But it doesn't make good business sense for doctors and pharmaceutical companies that rely on patients to make money. Much like many other diseases, it's more profitable to keep...
- Tags: cure, pharmaceutical company, patient, government
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Sometimes it takes a thousand words
- Sometimes it takes a thousand wordsA lot more often than "sometimes". NT.Oh, so true......but you need the diagrams...too many people get lost in the words. That being said, adhering too closely to any standard or methodology is a self defeating exercise.BLUE!I can't believe that you were allowed to do...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, parallel, software, real world, Bookkeeper
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
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