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- Insurance industry renews offer to end underwriting
- The main sticking point is this. Insurers will not accept government competition. They fear the government would take the best risks and leave them holding the rest. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Dana Blankenhorn, Enterprise Software, Government, Insurance, Insurance Industry, Management, Mandate, Software, Strategy, Vertical Industries
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
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- A single search index would speed up the entire Internet
- Such cooperative efforts never work in the real worldIt's not like you can government-mandate this, because the internet is worldwide. And when you have this many groups involved that depend on this for making profits, you'll never get a consensus agreement on the finer details, and you'll never get everybody...
- Tags: Robots, crawler, search-index, robot, Google Inc., Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- The medical home is reform without objections, so far
- Medical HomeThis path is already being broken. At my company, the $56/paycheck credit for not taking a company medical insurance plan has been replaced with a $20 credit IF you participate in a company-sponsored "wellness" program. You have to have a screening on company time - weight, BP,...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Financial Planning, United HealthCare, DUI, public entity, insurance
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- California adopts tough new requirements on HDTV energy use: Visionary or draconian?
- For years, California has had the nation's toughest emissions standards to counter the pollution from its massive volume of cars and trucks. Now it's turned its sites on the energy consumption coming from its residents' HDTVs. The result? Earlier this week, the California Energy Commission unanimously passed new standards to...
- Tags: California, HDTV, Standards, Quality, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-11-21
- FAA hit with network glitch; Flight plans go manual
- Another glitch with a linux network? Its hard to believe people still use it for anything critical like the FAA and flight tracking. Its a toy OS and should not be used when the lives of people are dependent upon it.Cisco supplies the network backboneIt will be interesting to see...
- Tags: Operating systems, Sun Solaris, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, network, FAA, operating system, Flight Plan, network glitch, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- An interesting exchange on politics and IT
- Was just thinking about thisExcept I was thinking about what I've heard Linux advocates say in the past, that most consumers make dumb technology choices, and whether this squares with advocating for free markets? Yes, I think it does. People will buy products that they can relate to and feel...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, PRODUCTIVITY, information technology, Linux, computer, software
- Discussion threads 2009-11-14
- "Smart Archive for SAP and the Enterprise" a recorded Webcast
- Every day, 15 petabytes of new information are being generated. IDC estimates that by 2010, the amount of digital information will grow to 988 exabytes. The volume, variety and velocity of data and content growth in an organization means that archival is now a mandate. Listen...
- Tags: Webcast, Archiving, SAP AG, IBM Corp., Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2009-11-10
- 60 Minutes: We're not ready for a cyber war
- Just like 9/11 thousands will have to die Before we give a damn. It's really a shame.and everything workshow's that possible?Unfortuantely, it will take a disasterIn the US, until disater strikes no one will do anything. Once it does happen then there will be screaming for heads to role....
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Regulations, FERC, Obama, hacker, Bush
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform
- In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-08
- Developing government's human voice
- Yet another government bureacracy...[quote] We start with focusing on what is the mission of government and its various agencies. How can we meet these missions in a better way? How can we leverage technology to engage people we may not have had access to in the past? [/quote]The part of...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Advertising & Promotion, agency, government
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Headline 2010: e-Reader device failure
- The market knows best, right? Markets are bloody paths to progress. At this writing there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months. Fifty-two different devices coming to market (Here's what I wrote about Steve Jobs' approach to reader devices when there were just 45...
- Tags: E-reader, Sales, Hardware, Markets, E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Don't cry for me Joe Lieberman
- the patriots are rising against the socialist billThe Obamacare is gasping for air while the liberals are preparing to be booted out of the congress in 2010.The real Americans have risen again and upheld the values of the founding fathers against dangerous foreign socialist ideeas.End Socialism Now!Enough with the Commissar's...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Obamacare, patriot, socialist, socialism, reconciliation, Joe Lieberman
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- MI5, an ISP lawsuit and an e-petition: More opposition to piracy cut-off plans
- new world order is comingeveryone should boycott any measure imposed by the goverment.there is no piracy - information is free by it's definition.there is only total control over usersSee what can happenwhen one entity the government controls both the regulation and delivery of anything, be it the internet in...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Vertical industries, piracy, world order
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- CA amps up energy management, sustainability monitoring applications
- It makes sense that system management software provider CA is extending its reach as deep as possibility into what could very well be the next killer enterprise management software category: sustainability and environmental management software. The vendor has updated two modules in its broader ecoSoftware line. They...
- Tags: Sustainability, Monitoring, Computer Associates International Inc., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Global warming? No, no, no, it ain't me, babe
- Harry, cut the BS. Write about tech some time.or get a job.Stop Preaching...and writing in a condescending tone. You and Blanchenwhatshisname should start your own site and stop posting this junk to a TECH site. Throwing in a line at the end about Green Jobs doesn't mean your...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, global warming
- Discussion threads 2009-10-25
- KFC UNThinking at the UN
- Honestly, the professional PR brigade never cease to amaze me with some of the nuttiest ideas for brand enhancement that all too often turn out to be just the opposite. My ZDNet colleague Jason Perlow was spammed today by a top PR agency with...
- Tags: Brand, KFC Corp., UN General Assembly, Yum, Branding, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- New power management software targets "unused" servers
- 1E, the self-proclaimed market-share leader in power management software for client PCs with 4 million licenses deployed, is now targeting servers. 1E CEO Sumir Karayi figures, based on another independent study, that approximately 4.7 million of the servers in use today are wasting energy to the tune of about...
- Tags: Software, Power Management, Data Center, 1E Ltd., Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Why prefer open source
- "Mandates...are perceived as threatening"This is way off topic, but as the primary ZDNet health care writer you will recognize the problem here. It's the "buy insurance or else" mandate in most of the legislation being proposed and which certainly will be anything that gets passed. This may be...
- Tags: GPL, un-American, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Fender special edition T-Mobile myTouch 3G brings Strat love to smartphones
- So what you are saying basicallyis that we don't have to choose from only one style with only black and white as our color choices? I don't know, that might confuse people, all those choices.Rest assured that the EC will mandate a ballot screen..if they are to be sold within...
- Tags: Smart phones, smart phone
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- Uncle Sam: less wasteful?
- President Obama has just solidified his lasting credentials...as being hopeful. He actually is trying to push energy efficiency inside the federal government, America's largest energy consumer. Solar Humvees in Iraq? Fewer limos with their motors running at Dulles Airport? Shut down Washington D.C. in August and...
- Tags: President, Barack Obama, Real Estate, Construction, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
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