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- IRS CIO holds out hope for modernization by holding onto COBOL systems
- 20 years and $5 billion later, the IRS is still unable to upgrade its computer system and continues to use mainframes running assembly code written in the 1960s, CNET News.com reports. The IRS long-term goal is to run its operations with the efficiency Americans expect of banks and...
- Tags: IT Management, IRS, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Feds get C- security grade but Defense fails, DHS gets a D
- The conventional wisdom is that the federal government deserves failing grades for computer security. After all, the big VA breach of a year ago has been followed by many more stories of agencies losing computers, suffering data breaches and failing to encrypt sensitive data. Today a House committee handed out...
- Tags: Congress, Security, IT Management, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Motor vehicles system failure just the latest in string of CO snafus
- Colorados new, $13.2 million motor vehicles computer system isnt looking so snazzy now that residents are finding their cars improperly impounded. Officials have shut down the system as they try to fix the bug, The Denver Post reports. "When we start to hear from folks that their...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, IT Management, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Why does government hatch so many bad tech ideas?
- BBC Click reporter Chris Long offers a rant about government-initiated projects that DOA dumb on arrival. He offers a few examples from the UK, many of which have parallels in America. A national health database took too long to load, so now one shift leader logs on from...
- Tags: Government technology, IT Management, International
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- 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
- After 10 years, MN's CriMNet looks like an 'expensive paperweight'
- Ten years - and $200 million - ago Minnesota started a comprehensive law enforcement technology program called CriMNet, which was to give judges and police immediate access to information from the criminal justice system. But the system is still not complete, filled with glitches and and, some say, far from...
- Tags: Law enforcement, State &, Local Govt, IT Management, Government technology, CriMNet vision, CriMNet
- Blog posts 2006-12-29
- VA agencies skewered over weak security measures
- The majority of Virginia government agencies are doing an unacceptable job of protecting the huge amounts of sensitive information entrusted to them, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports on a state report. Of 104 state agencies surveyed, 80 percent had inadequate security programs, the report said. "There are significant risks...
- Tags: Social Security, J. Kucharski, security, Virginia Information Technologies Agency, agency
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- 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
- Agencies fail to comply with FISMA
- Federal agencies are failing to test their IT security controls consistently, a new General Accounting Office report has found, Government Accounting News reports. “Federal agencies have not adequately designed and effectively implemented policies for periodically testing and evaluating information security controls,” the GAO concluded after surveying 24 major agencies...
- Tags: agency, FISMA, General Accounting Office
- Blog posts 2006-11-20
- 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
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- Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum
- Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water. The search giant filed for a patent in February that...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Computing Unit, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- News to know: Google; Green IT; Oracle; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before Beet.TV: Breaking News: Satellite to Gather Exclusive Images for Google Earth Blasts off in California...Larry...
- Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Dana Blankenhorn, Green IT, Apple Inc., Video, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Corporate Communications, Rootkits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Game Players, Marketing, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Fortisphere Virtual Essentials 2.0
- As I'm clearing my desk to prepare for Citrix's event this week, I thought it would be good to post about Fortisphere's recent move. Fortisphere, a Kusnetzky Group Client, recently launched version 2 of its Virtual Essentials. Virtual Essentials is a tool that provides agentless, policy-based mangement of virtual machines....
- Tags: Virtual Machine, Fortisphere, Virtual Essentials, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Samsung, Sony in Wi-Fi Photo Frame Shootout
- One of the big holiday gifts over the last couple of years, digital photo frames are a convenient way to show off photos that might otherwise languish on your hard drive. But a lot of them are sold by no-name companies at budget prices with limited feature sets. Other manufacturers...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Frame, Photograph, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
- 102 Minutes That Changed America: "Mesh" reporting comes of age
- This week, in commemoration of the 7th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the History Channel is releasing an unusual documentary, entitled "102 Minutes That Changed America". If you are a DIRECTV subscriber and have access to their On Demand service, you can actually download the...
- Tags: Event, Camera, Amateur, Documentary, Corporate Communications, 3G, Marketing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
- To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before
- Google's new Imaging Satellite aboard a Boeing Delta II Rocket. Source: GeoEye I don't know what it is about rockets, but I don't know a single man, hetero or gay, who isn't extremely turned on or even intimidated by them. I've never seen...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Imaging, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
- Canada adds another city to LED City list
- Welland, Ontario, is the latest municipal government to commit to the LED City initiative, under which cities from around the globe are converting lighting to light-emitting diodes. A retrofit of all streetlights is under way -- 50 have gone up so far and 50 more are...
- Tags: City, Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea
- Enterprise password management really isn't a good ideaLastpas password manager a new alternative to roboform et. alAs a user of the service, lastpass has been developed to conform to user behavior making web browsing easier, faster and safer. On the security side and control side, Lastpass does all the encryption...
- Tags: Enterprise Password Management, password, password management
- Discussion threads 2008-09-06
- Microsoft's Seinfeld ads: what's the real agenda?
- Microsoft's Seinfeld ads: what's the real agenda?Wow....What keen insight. What a great article.Oh. Not.Perdue, Ioccoca, Seinfeld 4?If Lee Iococca can do ads for Chrysler and have a positive effective on the brand, then maybe BG is launching a new career in advertising and media and selling the MS...
- Tags: MS Window, Seinfeld, advertisement, Seinfeld ad, real agenda, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-06
- BlueAnt V1
- We've grown to be pretty big fans of BlueAnt headsets over the past year, especially with the BlueAnt Z9 and the BlueAnt Z9i. Both Bluetooth headsets impressed us with excellent sound quality, while the Z9i improved upon the original with extra features like better audio and the addition of multipoint...
- Tags: earpiece, BlueAnt, headset, BlueAnt Z9
- Product reviews 2008-09-05
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