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- WI dumps two big IT projects within a month
- Wisconsin has scrapped two major computer systems in the last month, most recently a $28 million sales-tax tracking system, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Deputy Revenue Secretary Laura Engan defended the move. "We inherited a really not-great system from the prior administration. . . . Weve managed...
- Tags: Government technology, IT Management, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- 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
- Army settles with IT firms
- The Army awarded its Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2 Services (ITES-2S) contract in April to 11 companies. The multiple-award contract was worth $20 billion. But five companies - BAE Systems North America, Multimax, NCI Information Systems, Northrop Grumman and Pragmatics -- protested the award, claiming improper technical cost evaluations. ...
- Tags: Government technology, Contracting, Army
- Blog posts 2006-11-27
- TX union wants IT privatization slowed
- Two years into a massive and controversial privatization program of the Texas state governments computer systems, Texas largest state employee union called on the legislature to put off the deal, the Austin American-Statesman reports. Citing two troubled computer-services contracts at the Health and Human Services Commission as a reason...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Contracting
- Blog posts 2006-11-21
- Remote access scares fed IT officials
- What keeps you awake at night? If youre a federal technology leader, your biggest nightmare is about providing remote access to telecommuters, according to a survey of fedtech officials, reports the Washington Posts Stephen Barr. The survey was conducted in August, at the end of the summer of laptop...
- Tags: survey, agency, Government technology, IT Management, telecommuting
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
- All about ITIL
- Government Technology has a long piece explaining ITIL, the framework of IT best practices created in the UK, and why it's only just now catching on in the US. ITIL, or the IT Information Library, is a series of 10 volumes that address service delivery and support across...
- Tags: ITIL
- Blog posts 2005-08-09
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- Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?
- The first computer I ever bought had a whopping six-gigabyte hard drive inside - far more storage capacity than anyone might have ever dreamed of using some ten years ago. Back then, no one was really downloading music or uploading digital photos, let alone streaming video or placing VoIP phone...
- Tags: Innovation, Web, Bandwidth, Comcast Corp., Internet, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash
- On today's web, so many social sites never get off the ground because users don't easily migrate from their online communities. As much as I want MySpace to die, people will still be using it as long as their friends are using it. Yahoo's mashup social network...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Social Networking, Collaboration, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on eve of WiMax launch
- With the launch of its long-hyped WiMax service XOHM scheduled to debut in September in Baltimore, on Thursday Sprint announced a set of location-based personalization features that will enhance the user experience of WiMax subscribers by allowing them to, for example, quickly look up restaurants, check traffic and weather, and...
- Tags: Sprint Xohm, Privacy, Sprint Communications, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Next generation of business intelligence
- Data warehouses collect gigabytes of data everyday but the information is not always meaningful. Why? Angela Shen-Hsieh, President and CEO of Visual I/O, says it's because the tools are not user friendly. Find out how the next generation of business intelligence will move beyond the spreadsheet to let you...
- Tags: Generation, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management, whiteboard, visual, visualization, interactivity, information, database, time, intelligence, business
- Whiteboards 2008-08-28
- Public policy and open source
- What role should government have in moving open source forward? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Government, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Why does Safari stink?
- I started my day with several calls from our Special Ed folks who suddenly couldn't access their student information portal (e-Sped). I could access it without problem, our Special Education administrators could access it, but several teachers and counselors were discovering (since this was the first student day back...
- Tags: Apple Safari, Web Browsers, Portals, Desktops, Internet, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Smart grid player Trilliant closes $40 million in funding round
- Trilliant, a green tech company that's working with about 100 utilities on various smart grid deployments, has just closed a $40 million round of equity funding from a group of investors including affiliates of MissionPoint Capital Partners and zouk ventures. Trilliant CEO Bill Vogel characterizes the investment...
- Tags: Green Technology, Ontario, Trilliant, Vogel, Government, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- News to know: IE 8; iPhone password locks; SOA; Palm Treo Pro reviews
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download Ed Bott: Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover Gallery: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Password, Palm Inc., Palm Treo, SOA, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Datacore - nothing but storage
- Angie Gonzalez, of Datacore, and I had a conversation about how virtual storage complements any type of virtual processing solution. Nearly all virtual server-based solutions gain a great deal of benefit when a supporting virtual storage strategy is also deployed. Why is that? ...
- Tags: Datacore, Storage, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Live Webcast: Enterprise Search Architectures of the Future
- Businesses today increasingly recognize the benefits of universal search, the ability to search all corporate content sources from a single secure search box. Many enterprises have heavily invested in developing content management systems and their associated processes. These systems and portals hold valuable information; however, lack of quality search...
- Tags: Google Inc., Enterprise Search, Webcast, Benefits, Search, Human Resources
- Webcasts 2008-08-28
- How do we address the have-nots?
- I attended a leadership summit on Monday (it was actually pretty good stuff, with concrete plans, goals, and generally more than you get out of your average bit of professional development) and, not surprisingly, a serious focus was on technology. I think people are finally realizing that, while technology...
- Tags: Kid, Productivity, Business Structures, Wireless LANs, Transportation, Leadership, Wi-Fi, Finance, Wireless, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated
- The Irregulars draws its 'crew' from a wide and varied group of technology interests. One is Charlie Bess, an EDS Fellow. These are the brightest of the brightest among EDS thinkers and we are honored to have Charlie's insights. Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated, Charlie felt free...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Outsourcing, Investment, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Clean-tech gets political while China moves into first place
- Clean-tech is getting more and more political. With so much money and government subsidy, or not, at stake, it was inevitable. A leading greentech venture capitalist spoke at the Democratic Convention. And the governor of Montana spoke about declaring energy independence for America, and added we Americans...
- Tags: China, Medal, Clean Technology, Montana, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- It must be a rough day in Cupertino
- It must be a rough day in Cupertinonot having an issuesettings>general>passcode lock on>require passcode immediatelyRE: It must be a rough day in CupertinoThe lawsuit over Psystar has a precedent, in favor of Psystar.Remember that there was a lawsuit like this against Data General some years back, alleging illegal tying because...
- Tags: Apple Inc., RDOS, rough day, Psystar
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
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