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Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?

On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...

Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?

On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...

Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-06

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Net Neutrality: Hit satire coming to a theatre near you

wow bravo again encore bravowhat what a introduction ... Come on Doug bring some more .... If this is the type of blog that you are planing ill by hook like a addict .... give us more dammit .Goverment should nationalize the infrastructure...

Tags: Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Merkel slams Google Books scanning

Reuters reports that German Chancellor Andrea Merkel took the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair to criticize Google's book scanning operation and the the Google Books deal. The German government has a clear position: copyrights have to be protected in the Internet," Merkel said, adding there are "considerable dangers"...

Tags: Google Inc., Government, Internet, Vertical Industries, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-10-11

P2P legislation is smart next step in piracy education

Honesty not intelligence"One of the things that has always bothered me about the Recording Industry Association of America and its file-sharing lawsuits is that, for many of those people, their biggest crime is being uninformed."One of the things that has always bothered me about ZDNET and its file-sharing posts: the...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P legislation, music, file-sharing, P2P

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Hacker ships tool to circumvent China's Green Dam filter

So any bets on how long before the U of M's IT system is attacked... ...from China?Was thinking the exact same thing.I applaud their effort especially after China pirated US software to create the Green Dam product.It won't be long before the retaliations begin.nobody saw that coming, did they?If hackers...

Tags: Vertical industries, SECURITY, tool, Green Dam, government

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Corporate open source is more vulnerable

RE: Corporate open source is more vulnerableI feel so much better now that the government is moving toward open source.'Nuff said.RE: Corporate open source is more vulnerableI feel the title of this article is misleading. Vulnerable how? When discussing computing vulnerability usually refers to the security of the...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Corporate open source, Linux, open source

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

'Anonymous' group attempts DDoS attack against Australian government

Following a threat posted on YouTube a month ago, the the well known malicious pattern of the "Anonymous group" failed to materialize earlier today when the group attempted to launch a distributed denial of service DDoS attack against the web sites of Australia's Prime Minister and the Australian Communications and...

Tags: Government, Crowdsourcing, Distributed Denial Of Service, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-09

Small signs of a health care deal forming

what deal?The New York Times is the least reliable source of information.If you want signs of a deal in the making just watch the conservatives talk shows: O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity, etc as real Americans do.They would tell us if there are any talks about it. RE: Small signs of a...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Nissan Leaf, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Why health care is not in the Constitution

Neither are food, clothing, and shelterThey're nowhere to be found in the constitution, yet are more important than healthcare. Without those 3 things you'll die real fast so you won't need healthcare. Those needs DID exist when the Constitution was written. There is no federal law making any...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Obama, health care, Constitution

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

UK caves to Hollywood, orders net cut-off for 'hardcore' downloaders

In June, the U.K.'s Digital Britain report rejected the Draconian demands of Hollywood to cut off "hardcore" downloaders from the Internet. Now the British government has changed its tune: Stephen Timms, the minister for Digital Britain, said that proposals previously considered by the Government to...

Tags: Watson Co., Mandelson, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-25

Condemning what the market does worse

Agree, but unfair comparisonI do agree with most of what you are saying, but feel compelled to take issue with the following:You said "Few deny the Obama Administration has mangled the health care debate. On my personal blog I have compared this to how the Bush Administration handled Hurricane Katrina."The...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, government, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Foundation of our green future

I recently got to speak with Steve Vassallo, an exec at Foundation Capital. They're an investment firm firmly in the greentech camp. They've been in the VC business for 14 years. They don't just talk the talk, Foundation's putting their money where the matter is. The firm's...

Tags: Foundation Capital, Florida Power & Light, Construction, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-10

IBM: re-training for our future

IBM and railroads. This is not a non sequitor. I recently spoke with Keith Dierkx who works for IBM in their expanding business providing services for planning, construction and operation of high-speed rail. Dierkx is in the process of relocating to Beijing where he and IBM will...

Tags: China, Beijing, Rail, IBM Corp., Dierkx, Government, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-09

Government is killing Silicon Valley innovation

Who cares?'m tired of this struggle for capitalism, I'm off to Galt's Gulch.Wah, wah, wah!Americans like Franklin, Westinghouse, Whitny, Kilby, didn't need fake "incentives"!Massengill Satchel"I don?t want to come across as a crying venture capitalist " but..............Sickening. Self-centered VC story. Complaining about access to talent, h1b's etc. No mention of...

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Regulations, innovation, H1B, government

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Comcast rakes in the dough; Continues to poach voice customers

Comcast rakes in the dough; Continues to poach voice customersWhy, just Why?Why would anyone willingly subject themselves to becoming Comcast customers? Where I live even DSL is not available so my only choice is Comcast and they are terrible, their customer service is terrible, their installers are unreliable and they...

Tags: INTERNET, Cable, Network technology, TVs, Broadband Internet, comcast, Comcast Corp., voice customer

Discussion threads 2009-08-06

Managing IT in desperate times

Managing IT in desperate timesSome good ideasBut your treatise on the economy is not. I have read much on the US economy, and the "experts" seem to agree that there is a danger of DEflation - as all those newly printed dollars tend not to circulate - banks don't lend...

Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Free trade, information technology, Murph, problem-I

Discussion threads 2009-07-18

Top 5 reasons healthcare in America is broken

Top 5 reasons healthcare in America is brokenMy top 5whats wrong with the current health care reform bill:1. Illegal aliens are not excluded2. Congressmen are excluded (remember all the rhetoric about every American deserving the same health coverage that they get?) Do as I say not as I do.3. It...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Food & Beverage, Illegal Aliens, health care, diabetes, Top 5 reasons healthcare, food

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

Web 2.5: Is it time we elected an Internet government?

As I watched the BBC News last night after getting in from London, I saw riots in China with death tolls surpassing those of the 1989 Tiananmen Square tragedy. Mobile phones have "stopped working" and Internet access is "limited" in the area, according to the news reports. ...

Tags: China, Web, Nation, Agreement, Internet, Channel Management, Government, Marketing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google

Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not GoogleBuy Buy Buy"The short answer is no. It?s not necessary to buy newspapers. Newspapers, like many other industries, need to rethink their business models. For now, Yahoo is happy to partner with them on advertising and content-sharing."I'd be looking to go...

Tags: Financial accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Bartz, Yahoo shareholder, shareholder

Discussion threads 2009-06-26