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- UK Police Authority Supports Investigations With Powerful Solution and Reduces Expenditure by 90 Per Cent
- The Kent Police Authority is one of 43 police authorities in England and Wales established by Parliament for the governance of policing at a local level. The Kent Police had IT infrastructure that was five years old running its serious crime database system. The authority needed a scalable and powerful...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Authority, Kent Police Authority, Linux, Servers, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-03-04
- Novell Case Study: Kent Police Authority
- The Kent Police Authority is one of 43 police authorities in England and Wales established by Parliament for the governance of policing at a local level. One of the biggest challenges for the Kent Police Authority is the sheer number of applications used to support diverse police activities. Kent Police...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Kent Police Authority, Servers, Open Source, Hardware
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- Google, open source and the need for governance
- Free competition is a good model for what we want, but competition almost always devolves to monopoly or shared monopoly. What the Bells want is the antitrust police to go after Google as they go after the Bells. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Google Inc., Open Source, Government, Internet, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Don't call me a 'mommyblogger' - the Motrin brouhaha
- * Jennifer Leggio is on vacation Guest editorial by Joanne Bamberger Things got a little heated in the blogosphere last week over a Motrin ad suggesting that babies were the new mommy accessory. I don't know what was going on the...
- Tags: Mother, Advertisement, Network, Blog, Insult, Joanne Bamberger, Blogging, Networking, Internet, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Is on-demand slowly killing traditional broadcasting?
- I'm not a big TV watcher to be honest. In the UK, we have the "licence fee" which you need to pay the government before you even connect the telly to the wall. If you don't, you can bet your arse you'll have armed police storming the windows to your...
- Tags: On-demand, Broadcasting, Cloud Computing, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Apple forced to drop deceptive television ad in UK
- Remember the kerfuffle over Apple's "3G" television ad for the iPhone? In it the company demonstrates the speed of the iPhone on AT&T's 3G network. As it turns out the ad was edited to exaggerate the speed of the iPhone 3G and the speed shown is impossible to replicate in...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Advertisement, Apple Inc., TV, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Facebook wins $873 million judgement against spammer
- Major news sources are reporting that Facebook has won a $873 million dollar judgement against a Canadian spammer. What this means for spam on social networks is not clear, however. Adam Guerbuez of Montreal, CA, had a judgement of $873 million dropped on him by a...
- Tags: Facebook, Judgement, Spammer, E-mail World, E-mail, Spam, Social Networking, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Go ahead...Hang out on MySpace. Wait, what?
- The MacArthur Foundation just released a study suggesting that, not surprisingly, given the integration of social media into business and modern culture, the time kids spend with so-called new media, is generally neither wasted nor particularly harmful. In fact, as one of the lead researchers points out in the...
- Tags: Youth, Media, Social Media, MySpace, Barack Obama, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- 'Fish' = 'Sex'? iPhone can't understand British accent
- The new voice-recognition search tool for the iPhone has problems understanding British accents, leading to some bizarre answers to spoken queries, according to a report by Agence France Presse. The free application, which allows iPhone owners to use the Google search engine with their voice, mistook the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Web Site, Accent, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Telecommunications, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Members of right-wing UK party exposed
- There's turmoil at the right-wing British National Party today after personal information on 10,000 members was published on the Web, The Times reports. Names, addresses, telephone numbers and professions were published. The members include teachers, scientists, a government employee and at least one...
- Tags: Officer, Member, Telecom & Utilities, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- More tidbits about electronics recycling and e-waste
- Goodness, they did it. As debate continues over nasty e-recycling behavior and the role of the government, businesses and the average U.S. citizen in fixing the situation, Massachusetts asset disposition company Converge has delivered on its promise to expand its international network with responsible partners. The company says it has...
- Tags: Asset, Recycling, Electronics, E-waste, TV, Alberta Recycling, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Are you being gouged on your cable bill?
- Are you being gouged on your cable bill?cableI was receiving the standard package about 50 channels, costing about 29.99 - in 8 months with no changes the cost escallated to 80.00, they lost a customer, there is no explaination for the cost increase, there is no one checking them either.COX...
- Tags: Network technology, DirectTV, cable, cable company, Cox Cable
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Big telecom acquiring a Google fixation
- Big telecom acquiring a Google fixationPlease clarify.I don't understand your conclusion.Quoting:What Google, and all of us, most need to do is work that problem, finding business models through which content owners can profit while the end-to-end integrity of the search-and-find Internet is preserved.That will break the link between the content...
- Tags: Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, telecommunications, Google Inc., content delivery
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Can the U.S. CTO avoid being steamrolled by bureaucracy?
- There has been a lot of chatter about President Elect Barack Obama's plan to name a U.S. chief technology officer and the biggest challenge for anyone who takes the job is this: How do you avoid being consumed by a bulky bureaucratic machine known as the government? ...
- Tags: Eric Schmidt, CTO, Bureaucracy, Government, Vertical Industries, Hardware Upgrade, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-09
- Bluetooth Mobile Marketer (Windows Mobile) (zip)
- Compatible with Windows Mobile clients, Bluetooth Mobile Marketer by bloo2.com places the world of Bluetooth Proximity Marketing in your pocket. From police forces delivering public safety content from smart phones to business executives sending information at breakfast meetings, Bluetooth Mobile Marketer is the perfect solution for mobile to mobile marketing.
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Bluetooth, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-11-07
- YouTube: Does your video ID system really work?
- YouTube: Does your video ID system really work?Repeated Two Times!"Meanwhile, the vice president of business development at The Copyright Clearance Center, Miles McNamee, is even less convinced of the efficacy of YouTube’s system, more than a year after it was introduced....Meanwhile, the vice president of business development at The Copyright...
- Tags: Corporate communications, YouTube Inc., video, Viacom Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- FCC agrees to free white-space spectrum
- FCC agrees to free white-space spectrumAccording to Richard Koman......this wasn't about Google. So does this mean what's good for Google is good for America? Does it also mean no more Garth Brooks and Britney Spears singing with wireless microphones?Carl RapsonRE: FCC agrees to free white-space spectrumWhat are the rules that...
- Tags: Federal government, spectrum, white-space spectrum, Google Inc., FCC
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- Will e-voting machines tilt the election?
- Will e-voting machines tilt the election?RE: Will e-voting machines tilt the election?First the reported problems are far more widespread than Tennessee and West Virginia. The e-voting systems are being reported as having the similar issues nationwide and even with different manufactures.See http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6616The behavior being reported is hardly the type of...
- Tags: Keyboards, e-voting system, e-voting, e-voting machine, touch screen
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Software and business method patents may still be valid
- Software and business method patents may still be validNot meaning to be picky, but...The real questions are:1. Was State Street rightly decided? In other words, are software and business method patents really valid, or did the Federal Circuit call it wrong? I think it's the latter.2. ...
- Tags: Wieder, patent, business method patent, software, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Enough already with the Luddite schools
- Enough already with the Luddite schoolsI think middle school is better for tech than primary.I would rather see hand written reports up to and including 4th grade. Technology is great but so far cognitive scientists have not created a device that rivals the human brain. If you don't develop all...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Recruitment & Selection, public school
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
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