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- Bush wants immunity for telcos that assisted in illegal searches
- With dozens of lawsuits against phone companies for cooperating with the Bush Adminisrations domestic spying operations, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundations suit against AT&T, President Bush is now asking Congress to give immunity to the phone companies, The Washington Post reports. Lots of luck getting that...
- Tags: Privacy, Justice, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- CA plan for campus-wide alert systems, in wake of Va. Tech shootings
- Could the Virginia Tech shootings have been avoided with better alerting systems? California Lt. Gov. John Garamendi thinks so, reports the AP. Garamendi is talking to cellular telephone companies about establishing a system to alert cell phone users to emergencies on college campuses in California. He said the...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- ME bill would require stores to accept phones for recycling
- 65,000 tons of cell phones is hard to imagine, but that is the amount of cellphones Americans dispose of each year. In an effort to keep some of them out of the landfill, the Maine legislature is considering a proposal to make it mandatory that all cellphones be recycled, reports...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Legislation, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- CA bill would require live operators at state agencies
- It often seems like government agencies are more interested in avoiding citizen contact than improving it. And for those purposes, automated phone answering system are a godsend. In California, at least, the sense is that the systems mostly serve to frustrate citizens and have them go away in frustration. ...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- State legislatures becoming cell-free zones
- Across the country, state legislatures are taking action to free the peoples chambers from cellphones, emails, pagers and PDAs, Stateline reports. Maine’s House of Representatives is the latest to join the legislative rebellion against the myriad intrusions of the Digital Age. It acted after a representative observed lobbyists...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- NYC wants a YouTube: 911
- Call it 911 2.0. Well, maybe thats a little awkward but the idea is right. New York City wants to change its 911 system so that citizens can upload digital photos and video, mostly from cellphones, Newsday reports. "If you see a crime in progress or a dangerous...
- Tags: Government technology, Law enforcement, Web, Emergency, cell phone
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- Pretexting bill to be fast-tracked through Senate
- There are a lot of things Senate wont get to before the end of the 109th Congress, but if Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has his way, the Senate will get to pass a bill making pretexting definitively illegal, News.com reports. Pretexting of course was the scheme used by...
- Tags: pretexting, U.S. Senate, Congress, Law enforcement, State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
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- Sun release claims Sun Ray shipments nearly double
- Sun just issued a press release claiming that its shipments of Sun Ray "thin client" systems nearly doubled. The most exciting part of the announcement was that the document was sent not as a text message, not as an HTML formatted document, but as a Sun Staroffice document. Since I...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Sun Ray Unit Shipment, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- OK, so the meeting wasn't so bad
- Just a quick note on my first administrator's meeting: it wasn't too bad. I had a couple things going for me. We haven't had anyone looking at technology from a global level in a long time; we also have more money being dumped into technology than we have...
- Tags: Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers
- Salesforce.com said Wednesday that it will acquire InStranet, which provides knowledge management software for call centers, and integrate its technology with its existing CRM customer service and support offering. Simply put, Salesforce.com is acquiring traditional enterprise software for $31.5 million and turning it into a service in an effort to...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., InStranet Inc., Software-as-a-service, Falcione, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Live from IDF: Entertainment, WiMax and a sense of security.
- When you're talking tech, it never hurts to have a convertible BMW on stage with you. The afternoon keynote speeches at the Intel Developer Forum covered a lot of ground and some eye candy to keep us focused on what a couple of hours of geek speak can morph into,...
- Tags: Security, Laptop Computer, Entertainment, Computer, Intel Corp., WiMAX, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Google.org invests in geothermal
- Google.org is investing $10 million in Enhanced Geothermal Systems, a technology that drills miles down into the earth to get that nice, hot granite under the surface, Tom Zeller reports on the dot-earth blog at the Times. As Zeller notes, $10 million ain't a lot in this...
- Tags: Geothermal Energy, Google.org, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Intel chairman highlights partnerships around the world
- At the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco, company Chairman Craig Barrett explains how, by collaborating with teachers and doctors around the world, technology can improve lives. Demonstrated are an inexpensive digital whiteboard created from a Wii, and a cell phone that can read bar codes on a health ID...
- Tags: Partnership, Intel Corp., Business Structures, Finance, Intel, IDF, Craig Barrett, Wii, cell phone, healthcare, education, chairman, johnny lee, wiimote
- Videos 2008-08-19
- Has Intel's Craig Barrett taken over Bill Gates' role as the chief ambassador of IT?
- At the Intel Developer Forum on Tuesday, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett launched the $400,000 Inspire-Empower Challenge for solving world problems with technology. Barrett is increasingly taking a leading role as a key ambassador of the IT industry to the United Nations and the rest of the world. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Information Technology, Craig Barrett, Bill Gates, Intel Corp., Leadership, Research & Development, Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Another way to ditch your gadgets the green way and earn some money in the process
- For about a year now, a Web site that started life as Second Rotation has been buying back electronic gadgets including cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, laptops, GPS devices, gaming consoles, camcorders, satellite radios and portable hard drives. No matter how old. During that time, the...
- Tags: Site, Gazelle, TechForward, GPS, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Satellite Radio, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Scammers caught backdooring chip and PIN terminals
- The U.K's Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit DCPU have recently uncovered state of the art social engineering scheme, where once backdoored, chip and PIN terminals were installed at retailers and petrol stations in an attempt to steal the credit card details passing through. Originally, before online banking took place...
- Tags: Bank, Terminal, Credit Card, Chip, U.K, PIN, Irish Payment Services Organisation, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- IDF Opening Keynote: Are you listening, Washington?
- Intel chairman Craig Barrett, introduced as the company's chief ambassador, delivered the opening keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum this morning, highlighting technological innovation and its impact on the globe - just as you'd expect him to do. But Barrett - with a quick apology for briefly jumping into...
- Tags: Education, Washington, Craig Barrett, Intel Corp., Intel Developer Forum, Brian, Telecom & Utilities, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- China busts hacking ring, managed to penetrate 10 gov't databases
- If you needed a university certificate in China during the last couple of months, there's a big chance that a group of ten people could have supplied with you such, going a step further and adding your details in more than ten government databases across different provinces in the country,...
- Tags: China, Cybercrime, Hacking, Certificate, Government Database, Shanghai Daily, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- I'm going to my first administrators' meeting!
- I guess I have a real job now...no more teaching unless you count teaching teachers, but plenty of meetings. Now that I'm the district's technology director, I get to go to the weekly "Administrators' Meeting" that our superintendent holds. Fortunately, I really like all of the building principals...
- Tags: Job, Administrator, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Overheated iPod nano blamed for three fires
- Japan's trade ministry said on Tuesday that three fires had been caused by overheating Apple iPod nanos, which it said could be due to a battery defect. TOKYO--Japan's trade ministry said on Tuesday that three fires had been caused by overheating Apple iPod nanos, which it said could be...
- Tags: Ministry, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Nano, Battery, Apple Inc., Engineering, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Reuters, iPod nano, Apple, fires, batteries, Japan
- News items 2008-08-19
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